@nyquildotorg I loved the Ripples feature that early #GooglePlus had!
It was very neat to see it ripple through communities with reshares, and occasionally was a great way to find and tap directly into new audiences.
It probably also could be a privacy nightmare 😂
Early introductory example video of Google Ripples in action on Google Plus
Being able to scrub through the timeline and watch the post spread out to other people, with the size of the circles representing how big an audience it reached, and then being able to click on them to see the other circles it reached through them, filtering down deeper and deeper recursively. Getting an overview of the biggest 'influencers', languages, and stats like longest chain length, average shares per hour, and longest chain; I don't think I've seen a similar set of features since.
RIP #GoogleRipples and #GPlus.