Public Stats: Twitter and YouTube make me care
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Public Stats: Twitter and YouTube make me care
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Re: Public Stats: Twitter and YouTube make me care
#2Checking 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."
Re: Public Stats: Twitter and YouTube make me care
#3Checking 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."
Good point. It is pretty much equivalent to Customer Testimonials.
Re: Public Stats: Twitter and YouTube make me care
#4There 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: