This is the (ultimately fruitless) approach I used:
1. Find the people who were within SLJ's first few hundred followers (the API gives an account's followers in the reverse order they followed the account).
2. Assuming some of the early followers knew SLJ's real life identity, find which accounts many of them were following prior to following SLJ.
3. Accounts which are followed by relatively many of SLJ's early followers, but relatively few of SLJ's later followers, are candidates for SLJ's real identity.
Ultimately I couldn't make it work, although my guess is that SLJ has some connection to Pivotal (either is a former employee or has worked with them on projects).
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This is the (ultimately fruitless) approach I used:
1. Find the people who were within SLJ's first few hundred followers (the API gives an account's followers in the reverse order they followed the account).
2. Assuming some of the early followers knew SLJ's real life identity, find which accounts many of them were following prior to following SLJ.
3. Accounts which are followed by relatively many of SLJ's early followers, but relatively few of SLJ's later followers, are candidates for SLJ's real identity.
Ultimately I couldn't make it work, although my guess is that SLJ has some connection to Pivotal (either is a former employee or has worked with them on projects).