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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 12:20:32 JST silverwizard
   Just remembering all the Old Days of Good Social Media people are telling me about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 12:30:27 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard What a terrible idea. From the page your 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."

     
     Yep, that's about it.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 12:31:34 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite 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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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 12:42:32 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Have you never seen a middle aged white guy fail upwards? It is, unfortunately, fairly common in tech.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 12:43:19 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite I've seen a 34 year old white guy fail upward?
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 13:11:36 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Come on, don't be so hard with yourself, you aren't failing.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 13:12:02 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite Yeah - but I am wildly aware of the disconnect between action and money in tech
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 22:08:08 JST silverwizard

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     • Allan Haverholm
     @haverholm We should always remember the Phaedrus Lesson
     
     The past is always a perfect time - and the good part of it is often a quirk of memory, yeah
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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 22:08:09 JST Allan Haverholm

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     @silverwizard We don't talk about the Old Days of Shitty Social Media much, do we?

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