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Public Stats: Twitter and YouTube make me care

12 points by rishi 16y ago

kadavy 16y ago
Checking stats on something (how many followers someone has, or how many views a video has) is definitely a useful heuristic for deciding if something is worthy of your ever-more-precious attention. They call this "social proof."
- rishi 16y ago
  Good point. It is pretty much equivalent to Customer Testimonials.
ish_ish 16y ago
There is a psychological factor to this that is used by games as well. People get addicted to collecting things whether they be tweets, comments, etc. I highly recommend Amy Jo Kim's video where she shows examples of this across several social apps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUt-163gZI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUt-163gZI