THREAD So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts. Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor? Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES. 1/20 - ThreadSky

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So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts.

Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor?

Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES.
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msderohanes.bsky.social•82 days ago

@skyview.social unroll please!
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rassbariaw.bsky.social•82 days ago

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johncallahan.bsky.social•81 days ago

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altmetric.com•83 days ago

First let's spell out what the Attention Score is for.

Attention tends toward high and diverse volume. Social posts are usually brief, can be numerous and have a low barrier to entry. Anyone from you to the Emperor of Illusionland can post on socials and share work.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210261224009209
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rabidinsomnia.bsky.social•83 days ago

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altmetric.com•83 days ago

Because of this, social posts add low scores and top out after 200 reposts of a post. There's a lot ot it, individually scored low.

Blogs are longer, typically are longer than say an X post but still have a low bar to entry, it's just more effort to set up and maintain a blog. They score 5.

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altmetric.com•83 days ago

News is high barrier to entry. You can't write your own NYT story about your research, DAVE, WE SEE YOU TRYING DAVE, and so is worth up to a score of 8.

Cut it out, Dave. https://NYTNews.co/MyAwesomeResearch is not the official NYT site.

We see you, Dave.

Stop sending us that link.

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altmetric.com•83 days ago

Arguably the most IMPORTANT attention comes from low scoring sources because they aren't usually interacted with by the general public. Policy and Guidelines score 3 per SOURCE, and Wikipedia is equally light on scoring. Patents score by Jurisdiction that cites work.

https://www.altmetric.com/details/14470912
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altmetric.com•83 days ago

In other words the most impactful items can be covered mostly or exclusively by these lower scoring attention sources. That just means less online buzz. It does not mean less impact and it's certainly NOT ever the case that high scores = good and low = bad.

That is citation era logic.
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altmetric.com•83 days ago

Here's a random number. 78. Is that a lot? You have no idea. Why would you? Numbers by themselves don't do much.

Here's an article with a score of 78. Look at the massive impact on policy. The 171 documents from 29 different orgs tell a clear story of uptake and re-use

https://www.altmetric.com/details/14773033
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