[pthread]

True story. I have about 300 people in my circles mostly engineers and the interaction is great. I'm talking about people involved in FOSS (system programmers, embedded developers, devops mostly).

I have no idea who R. Scoble is and just by peaking at his profile I have to say that I have no interest in following him. This is probably why most people that use Twitter don't fit in the G+ space. As far as I'm concerned most technical Twitter users are Web developers, the SEO (crap) crowd, designers, social media whores, guys posting about hipster bands. Not to generalize but that's how I see it and the reason Twitter is a ghost town for me, Facebook is useless and G+ is awesome. To each his own.

[eps]

There's plenty of technical people active on Twitter, but they don't tweet to start a conversation, because Twiiter was never actually menat for that. It's a one-to-many broadcast channel, there are producers and there are consumers. G+ on the other hand is more of an equal playing field, it's being positioned as an interaction platform, so it's better fit for discussions and what not.

[haberman]

> I'm talking about people involved in FOSS (system programmers, embedded developers, devops mostly).

I would love to get into this circle. Do these people share publicly? Where can a person hang out to meet the people who are in these circles?