Huffington Post has come a novel way of tracking who’s in the doghouse this week: @ratiobot69.
Ashley Feinberg explains how it works in a post entitled “We Built A Twitter Ratio Bot That Tracks All Your Terrible Tweets”:
“In Twitter parlance, getting ‘ratioed’ means that the replies to a tweet have severely begun to outnumber that tweet’s favs, the heart button that is the site’s most basic indicator of approval. The exact definition of a ratioed tweet will vary depending on whom you ask, but it’s safe to assume that a non-question tweet that compels more people to type words than to click a button was ill-advised in some way.”
Ah, yes. Replies are an infallible metric for determining who to throw on the burn pile. Can’t see how this would ever go awry! THANK YOU HUFFPO for using your flawless brain power to make Twitter great again.
