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No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
by qjz 17y ago
No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
- mcantor 17y ago[citation needed]
- knome 17y agohttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching/index.html?eref=rss_us http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching...
- cookiecaper 17y agoRight, but you can't accurately gauge things just by its appearance on reddit et al. Reddit caters to a specific niche and only a very small percentage of internet users use reddit (or slashdot, or HN, or...). Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette. However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it. For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.