Twitter quote

Some things aren’t meant to be measured. It’s bad enough that people read so much into their blog stats, follower numbers etc, but now we have more evil forces like Twitterank. The number of people willing to surrender their privacy to its password anti-pattern is even more astonishing given its payoff: a dimensionless, reference-free number. Can this really tell you anything of value? Every day, social networks are clogged with this kind of pointless egotism, not mentioning the high-end vanity apps like Qwitter, which just add more fuel to the flames.

I understand that people love hearing about themselves. But if you listen hard enough there’s plenty of real human feedback on a network like Twitter. You don’t need to run an algorithm to tell you how much you’re getting out of it.