> the count is very useful in gauging how large the problem is. While I upmodded your comment, I disagree with this. There are a lot of problems with using soc

> the count is very useful in gauging how large the problem is. While I upmodded your comment, I disagree with this. There are a lot of problems with using social media as a metric for anything. For one thing, it suffers from information cascades. The presence of articles on a subject encourages others to write articles on the same subject and there is teh appearance of a snowball effect. But there may be absolutely no change in what people are doing, just a change in what people are discussing.