At Davos, the self-important get a leaderboard

For most of us, it's just Tuesday. But over in Davos, Switzerland, the elite of the elite are gathered at the annual World Economic Forum for several days of important talks, unbelievable networking, and presumably, heavy drinking.

The 'leaderboard' at Davos.

(Credit: Screen shot by CNET)

Not surprisingly, Twitter seems to be the organizing principle at the event, and in a bid -- perhaps unintentional -- to pit the attendees (who after all didn't make it to the top of the heap by being wallflowers) against each other, the folks running Davos are keeping track of who's tweeting the most.

The result? A leaderboard showing who's most active on Twitter over the previous four hours. And when NYU economist Nouriel Roubini tweeted (in jest?) that he had made it to number three on the "wonk board of fame," it was just the prompting that the perennially snarky needed to get going.

As Business Insider noted, Roubini's tweet generated a fair amount of derision, and not all of it from people in Davos. As Twitter user Epicurean Dealmaker ... [Read more]