I suspect this is the case. I just clicked on that Meetup - Nightowls link and there was a meetup for the town in which I work my day job. It'd be a pretty crazy coincidence for that to already exist and to be at the top of the list; this isn't exactly an area brimming with the culture typically associated with meetups.

That's why I was asking: Checking it out from home and my office showed two different meetups in my region. Either a coincidence or a clever technical trick to get people to participate.