@silverwizard What a terrible idea. From the page you linked to:
In 2007, Joe Fernandez underwent a surgery that required him to wire his mouth shut. Because he could not speak for three months, he turned to Facebook and Twitter for social interaction. During this period, he became obsessed with the idea that "word of mouth was measurable." Pulling data from Twitter’s API, he created a prototype that would assign users a score out of 100 to measure their influence. Midway into 2008, he showed the prototype to some friends, who told him it was "the dumbest thing ever."
@Hypolite Petovan The funny part is that all of his friends were correct about it. But - yeah - it seems really strange to go from "I can't speak" to "we should rate everyone on a scale and give stuff to the people who use social media"
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•Yep, that's about it.
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•.... uhh how?
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Being silenced leading to ... Celebrity culture?
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•Nah, I think that tracks...
"I'm Being Cancelled!" - Some douchebag in a sold out amphitheater
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The past is always a perfect time - and the good part of it is often a quirk of memory, yeah