Thursday at noon is the best time to post (for social media)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

10,000 popular posts on del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, and Mixx compared by their AideRSS “Postrank”. AideRSS’s measurements are more or less the aggregate number of Diggs, del.icio.us bookmarks, and Google Blog Search activity for a specific post, which prompts some concern about homophilly within the data set. Either way we are always ecstatic to see people [...]

Selling a Twitter account: how much are my friends worth?

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Last weekend Andrew Baron put his Twitter account (and its 1600 followers) for sale on eBay. Account sales happens all the time in World of Warcraft. Selling customer lists is semi-standard practice among headhunters, and last year a Top 100 Digger attempted to sell his account. But Andrew’s Twitter account sale is stirring up a [...]

This week in Rickroll: Firefoxin, live rickrolling, mainstream press

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Update: Perez Hilton picks up that Rick Astley will be touring in the UK this year (!!) We smelled a rickroll revival 3 weeks ago… and a revival we’ve had. A roundup of the latest in rickrolling: Search trends for “rickroll” and “rick roll” circa March 3rd, 2008: vs. today, March 25th, 2008… Out of [...]

Reddit rickrolls themselves

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

#2 story on Reddit w/ 865 points as of press time is a rickroll! Yeah, I clicked it, but I didn’t see squat cuz I use RickrollDB. Help spread the blacklist gospel on reddit & Digg. We weren’t lying when we said Rickroll is Back…