https://twitter.com/#!/fireattherocks/following
At the very least I'm not willing to believe your premise until someone can back it up with data.
"I'm not convinced that this is true. Here look at this random kid I picked. Nearly everyone he's following looks like a peer:"
This is the problem with inferring statistical properties from a sample size of 0 or 1. Here's some data on the subject: http://www.intmath.com/blog/twitter-follower-semi-log-graphs...
The sharp drop from having 0 to ~1000 followers on the graph on number of followers indicates that twitter is somewhat of a one-way medium.