13. Twitter Is Really Bad at Measuring Your Online Influence. Let's Keep It That Way

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/25/twitter_follower_count_founder_evan_williams_calls_for_better_metrics_but_why_.html

Slate staff writer Will Oremus writes an article about how twitter is very bad at measuring humans online influence, but the public should keep it that way. Throughout his article he emphasizes a lot on, how people do not think of twitter as another place for communication they think of it as a place for more competition. He goes on to show how objectively, these sites measure users' true influence on the site. Oremus shows his observations on twitter, when he says "Attaching a rating to each participant only reinforces the idea that it’s a contest rather than a discussion—and there are already too many people on the site who treat it that way." by saying this he shows, and impacts many of his readers, because he shows that not only is this true, but it impacts not only part of the society but also the whole world. Oremus analysis the online activity very close and confidential, showing not only each aspect but the small peeves that it happens to have.

Oremus writes a very well written article on hoe much Twitter has an influence on peoples online activity and don't even know, but its better to keep it that way. He also goes on to explain how many people see these sites as places for ore competition rather than having a discussion with other people and in todays society thats what everyone has in mind.