As owner of the #7 top project, which has an industry-leading three watchers, I hereby deem his numbers as unimpeachable and demand lots of thousands of dollars added to my bank account in recognition of this feat.

I only queried for projects being shared in 2010. Looks like a Hacker News post actually drove a bunch of tweets for linenoise: http://www.backtype.com/page/github.com%2Fantirez%2Flinenois...