Twitter Cofounder Suggests A Replacement For The Follower Count

Twitter cofounder Ev Williams — who remains on the company’s board — hinted Monday that follower counts may soon become the second most important number to users.

“The thing I think would be more interesting than followers is… retweets,” clarifying that a simple measure of followers “doesn’t capture your distribution.”

“The dream metric,” he said, “is how many people saw your tweet.”

(via BuzzFeed)