Replying to: JohnPhilpin @JohnPhilpin

@JohnPhilpin Sure, you can go hunting for it but it’s different to when it is easily displayed for all to see. Given that you’d like to have it displayed somewhere for you to see it, I assume you’d prefer to not go hunting.

The performative angle is most attached to most recent and total number statistics, in which people might make assumptions about people based entirely on numbers: “omg you tweet so much no wonder you’re a loser” etc.

With statistics in general, I think opt-in continues to be the best default, whether we’re talking about this type of display or whether people have analytics code in their blog.

Simon Woods @SimonWoods