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Besides the buzz about whether Twitter’s list function will make people feel left out (Chris Brogan; see also Robert Scoble’s rebuttal), there’s a lot of talk about how lists will be used to measure influence. Like so many things in the social sphere, most of these commentaries are shallow and don’t really consider all of the variables. But I can’t say I’m shocked.

The short-sighted claims

Skeptic Geek recently posted the following links as in intro to it’s analysis of present Twitter influence metrics (from Analyzing Twitter Lists-Follower Ratio As An Indicator of Influence):