Due to a recent glitch on Twitter, many people (myself included) have found their tweet counts reduced in most cases by several thousand.
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I was somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000 tweets when I checked and now I am at less than 1,000.
Many people will argue that this is of no significance, as it is the quality and not the quantity of your tweets that matters. To these people I ask if you have ever visited a web forum, registered and tried to talk to an established user base only to be called a n00b/n00b/newb/newbie?
The simple fact remains that we attach a value to our counts as a way of quantifying our engagement.
When I follow new people, which I do (along with regularly unfollowing others). One of the things I consider is their tweet count. A low tweet count, I wonder if they use twitter or if they simply signed up because all their friends said it was cool.
With tweet counts having been reset, I must now find a new way to judge new people to my timeline at a glance.
Unless that is, the Fail Whale can become the Win Whale and give us back what we once had?
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