What are "share counts"? I guess that's my short answer. The only feeling I have about Twitter is mild irritation at the amount of attention it gets. It's not

What are "share counts"? I guess that's my short answer. The only feeling I have about Twitter is mild irritation at the amount of attention it gets. It's not very useful to the vast majority of its users. Twitter is extremely useful if you have some measure of celebrity, of course, which is why well-known journalists prattle on and on about it. I don't have unbridled hatred toward Twitter. It just gets tired constantly hearing the MSM blabbing hashtags, and wading through a bunch of "share" buttons (that nobody uses anyway) whenever I want to read an article. If these "share counts" are some means of letting users see how many people (didn't) retweet them, it's probably a healthy thing for Twitter. Since the average count for the average user will be either zero, or near zero, most of the time, it doesn't seem like it's good for customer retention.