Yes, 'influence' is perhaps a questionable term. If we rewrite it as 'attention' or 'judging you', then it becomes true and something worth knowing: OP did not realize that ~80 people were clicking through to the articles he was recommending (to grab one random number), and that could well make him realize he was risking his reputation or angering people to an extent he didn't appreciate before and that he should be more careful.

It's almost an obvious application of the '1% rule', but the nature of this sort of thing is that it's hard to appreciate at a gut level until you generate some data yourself. The imbalances between actual audience and intuitively-observed audience is just too extreme.