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Unlike certain kinds of lottery, there's no reason to assume that "somebody is going to win".
by naniwaduni 8y ago
Unlike certain kinds of lottery, there's no reason to assume that "somebody is going to win".
- wahern 8y agoFacebook? Slate? AFAIU, advertisement margins don't scale linearly with popularity, so viral content probably brings in more money even if the total number and exposure time of advertisement impressions remains constant in the aggregate.
- NikkiA 8y agoWhat? There has to be a 'most shared story', so something does have to win, unless you're going to get nitpicky about 2 stories that each had 49,994 shares or something.
- naniwaduni 8y agoIt is perfectly conceivable for no particular stories to have much nonlocal impact, with nothing going viral. Sure, there'll be a 'most shared story', but that doesn't need to be a meaningful position.