Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting.
Today, being a news junkie requires not just the ability to keep up with hundreds of breaking stories a day, but the ability to redistribute those stories to your followers and news sites.
Mrinal Desai shares with us how he screens the news through a guest post in TechCrunch.
Any truly hacker in Machine Learning and Data Mining here?
or lessons I’ve learned from interacting with strangers on the Internet all day…
Remember in high school when being mean to people made you more popular? Fortunately the internet was built by people who weren’t at all popular in high school so the same rules don’t apply. To build up your social media reputation you’ll need to be accountable, genuine and nice to people.
Twitter: tweets about the pop icon comprised 30 percent of total volume.
Yahoo News: property set an all-time record for traffic yesterday, registering 16.4 million unique visitors.
Wikipedia: Jackson’s page logged 1.8 million visitors yesterday, compared to its daily average of just 20,000. It also saw a whopping 650 edits as users updated the entry furiously as news broke.
Google News: initially mistook the search query for an automated attack.
Google Mobile Search: One of the largest mobile search spikes we’ve ever seen, with 5 of the top 20 searches about the Moonwalker.
This is the new web. It has changed from being a place that you visit, to a place where you are. And it is no longer relevant to measure traffic + referrers. Instead you want to measure influence + communication + reaction.