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While this is a pretty cool story, I share the author's reservations about what this actually means. First, Stumbleupon could get more traffic, but less actual
by meterplech 16y ago
While this is a pretty cool story, I share the author's reservations about what this actually means.
First, Stumbleupon could get more traffic, but less actual interaction. As an example, my personal blog posts recently got about the same number of page views from a post on HN and from a status on Facebook. But, the HN users were on my site for an average of 42 seconds, as opposed to 3.5 minutes for Facebook.
Second, the type of traffic could be different. I have no personal example of this- but it may be that Stumbleupon has more generalist viral content and Facebook could have more tailored content, possibly better for small businesses to monetize.
Either way, really cool for Stumbleupon, I totally did not realize how huge it was.
- BorisBomega 16y agoI have the same experience but then with pageviews and Twitter VS Facebook: Twitter users check an average of 1.2 pages on my website. Facebook users do 4.2. That means 1000 visitors from Facebook generate the same number of pageviews as 4000 from twitter.
- BahUnfair 16y agoThe increased interest from facebook might be due to a kind of social obligation. Whereas when you use HN or Twitter to find links you have no obligation and less reward to stay on the page an actually read the content. Someone who is reading a link that a friend has sent them is expected to read it, otherwise the friend may be unimpressed or you might not have anything to talk about. Plus, there is the added incentive of impressing or gaining a connect to the friend or appearing interested in your crush/gf's interests. On HN and reddit, my only interest is whether I want to learn something or make myself laugh.