Twitter Demetricator

Hides all the metrics on Twitter.

What is Twitter Demetricator?

"Twitter Demetricator" is a browser extension intended to provide a new perspective of engagement on Twitter. It hides follower, like, retweet counts and more, challenging the impact of these numbers on user activity. The extension aims to distort our fixation with social media metrics, uncover how they steers our behavior, and encourage thought about the beneficiaries of this quantifying system.

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Extension stats

By: https://bengrosser.com

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Users: 4,000+

Rating: 4.50 (56) ▼ 0.07

Version: 1.6.1 (Last updated: 2023-01-17)

Creation date: 2019-07-25

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage

Size: 81.54K

Email: bg*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 15498 ▼ 51

Other rankings

#474 in Social Networking ▼ 1 #141 in like keyword 15 #184 in number keyword 31 ▼ 8 #280 in social media keyword 12 ▼ 8

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Twitter Demetricator (v1.6.1)

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

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 artwork, 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.

Works with https://twitter.com and https://tweetdeck.twitter.com.

100% support for many language versions of Twitter, including English, English (UK), German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Hungarian, and Sweedish; near full support for many other languages.

https://bengrosser.com/projects/twitter-demetricator/

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