If two social circles connect, how can you tell?

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Messaging via twitter more often than by telephone and e-mail combined these days, I have been following the #Junto hashtag for a while, and more recently #Kaizenblog.

• #Junto is a discussion platform enabling open collaboration, concept courtesy of @VenessaMiemis. She wrote it up on 2010-03-22 and her inspiring blog post pulled 109 responses (as of this writing), following a  snowcrash with 102 responses.  We connected virtually on 2010-03-25 via skype. Does it matter when a stranger reads your blog? (Thanks, Seth)
• #Kaizenblog is a weekly Twitter event hosted by @ConversationAge and @3keyscoach, an hour of intensive exchange revolving around an announced business improvement topic. Last Friday it was about Design of Business Plan.

Contributing to emerging Junto I was up around 1 am local time and joined Kaizenblog a few minutes before it started. Suffice it for now that watching a hundred tweets fly by in a few minutes it felt like this group achieved in half an hour (then I dropped out) as much useful exchange as it takes people a week or more in a well-frequented forum. On the record for perusal until it vanishes from Twitter's search and needs to be retrieved in other ways (hints?).

Today, Twitter showed me a connection

@CASUDI RT @VenessaMiemis: @novaspivack been wanting to share this idea w/u http://bit.ly/axXgpA #junto

and it clicked in less than 140

@CASUDI @novaspivack @venessamiemis hey, thanks for this. #junto and #kaizenblog connect by at least two people now.

so I realized, putting on record

#junto principle of circles connecting: a person in two circles can see it first when finding one more person in the same two circles

visualized above.

Me in two circles is just me.

If I find you in A or if I find you in B it does not mean two circles connect.

If I find you in both A and B that attracts my attention and I realize we have more in common.

If we spread the connection we grow the potential attention of one circle for the other.

 

 

How does it feel to you? Do you get this jump of heart, OMG, how rare, did not know you were engaged in that, too? Is this banal, fundamentally simple, or worth noting?

Update 2010-08-07: moved image to top.