
Twitter Demetricator by Ben Grosser
Twitter Demetricator hides all the metrics on Twitter. Follower, like, and retweet counts all disappear. The result lets you try out Twitter without the numbers, to see what happens when you can no longer judge yourself or others in metric terms.
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The Twitter interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity online, enumerating followers, likes, retweets, and more. But what are the effects of these numbers on who we follow, what we post, or how we feel when we use the site? Inviting us to consider these questions through our own experience, Twitter Demetricator is a web browser extension that hides the metrics. Follower, like, and notification counts disappear. “29.2K Tweets” under a trending hashtag becomes, simply, “Tweets”. Through changes like these, Demetricator lets us try out Twitter without the numbers, to see what happens when we can no longer judge ourselves and others in metric terms. With this work, I aim to disrupt our obsession with social media metrics, to reveal how they guide our behavior, and to ask who most benefits from a system that quantifies our public interactions online.
For more information, see the Twitter Demetricator project page.
For more information, see the Twitter Demetricator project page.
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This add-on needs to:
- Access browser tabs
- Access your data for sites in the twitter.com domain
- Add-on Links
- Version
- 1.3.0
- Size
- 83.27 KB
- Last updated
- 3 months ago (Nov 11, 2020)
- License
- GNU General Public License, version 3.0
- Version History
Bug fixes on the notifications page.
Added an option to turn off age metric hiding.
Added an option to turn off age metric hiding.
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