You can have a million more Twitter followers than me.
You can have a million more dollars than me.
But you cannot drink a million more cups of coffee than me, because you cannot drink a million cups of coffee. Unless you drink 45 cups a day, every day, for 60 years.
Which means now matter how powerful you are in other arenas, you cannot use check-ins alone to elevate your favorite coffee shop into the stratosphere, leaving mine in the dust.
And I, in turn, can cast a vote for my favorite coffee shop every day, and no matter who you are I can probably keep pace with you.
That's not to say we are the same. Anytime tallies are taken there will be peaks and valleys. But with respect to location-based activity, those peaks and valleys are smoothed out. A hundred Foursquare check-ins means a lot more than a hundred Twitter followers.
I like that. All of us having a roughly equal vote about who makes the perfect cup of coffee.
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