Sphinn - Analyzing The Moment of Popping on Digg

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Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 8:51 am
Posted By: Skitzzo 493 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com)
Category: Other Social Media

Would you believe that more than 60% of stories that hit the front page do so with 2 or fewer comments? How about that the most common time for a story to become popular is 22 hours after it was first submitted?

That's what data from 1800 front page stories suggests when analyzed by Social Alerter!

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from BrickMarketing 491 days ago #

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Interesting! We figured the 24 hour limit but the low number of comments? Wouldn't have guessed it. Great article!

from Skitzzo 491 days ago #

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I believe the number of comments is skewed a bit by the image and video sections of digg. The traditional "News" section stories almost always have several comments before popping.

from earlpearl 491 days ago #

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Nice research Pierre. I'd like to learn more.

from eKstreme 491 days ago #

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More research is coming :) This is just the beginning.

The comments result was surprising to me too. Very much. I'm going to repeat the analysis again in a few weeks with a different data set. I can't wait to get enough data points.

Pierre