Time for a grumpy thought from me…
Today a friend on Facebook shared the fact that he’d just been ranked highly on a “Top 100 Social Media Influencers” list.
Now I’m sure many of you will have seen these lists, they’re generally a pretty simple calculation which equates influence to noisiness on social media (fatal flaw number one).
But there’s the flaw, just because I’ve had
So why don’t people call these lists what they are: “The Loudest People on Social Media” or, perhaps a little more charitably, “The Most Engaged People on Social Media.”
Is it just me or do others also feel a little queasy at these self-serving and cliquey lists?
And, just as an update, and to prove the point, the day after I posted this thought on LinkedIn, I received the following Tweet:
Congrats @benkepes you are ranked #36 on this week’s #Cloud Global Power 100 Influencer List. rise.global/the-cloud-soci… via @risedotglobal
Ironic, huh?