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brk on Aug 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Busine...

Which one is easier to make a short-attention span decision on:

1) This person has made 1000 tweets, let me read them all in order to gauge my opinion of them.

2) OH LOOK, 5,000 FOLLOWERS! Must follow popular person!

grabeh on Aug 12, 2012 [–]

Of course you are right but the suggestion was that the latter was the only visible indicator which is obviously not the case.

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