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One of the interesting necessary conditions for wisdom of crowds to emerge is private knowledge. People must know something about X independently of others. Then sum can be greater than parts. Emergent wisdom. Apply that to people who follow you (> 100 is a crowd).
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If 100 people follow you because 99 others do and only 1 person has an independent reason, it’s much weaker emergent wisdom than from 100 independent reason followers. Would you want 200 new followers from 1 viral tweet or 100 from independent tweets each earning you 1?
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I suspect there’s precise math here. You probably need 500+ viral-tweet new follows to replicate wisdom boost of 100 independents.
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It’s actually pretty hard to deviate from the wisdom level of a crowd that’s allocated you an attention fraction. It can drag you down or lift you up to its level. Goethe’s Faust but for crowd egregores rather than devil 😆