>A LolCat page could get 250k likes on Facebook easily, but could it consistenly get 5,000 likes a week for a year? Maybe staying power should be more important

>A LolCat page could get 250k likes on Facebook easily, but could it consistenly get 5,000 likes a week for a year? Maybe staying power should be more important than overall popularity. Exhibit A: The Cheezburger Network. That said, if you change it to work such that it's personalized for every user, so that it only shows emails from people who are important to them, rather than emails from people the system considers to be important, then maybe people will appreciate seeing emails from the LolCat page of their choice. Also, a better way to measure importance would be to go through the user's sent items history and map out the people they email most frequently. I once wrote a classifier which classified email contacts as important or not important based on the sent items history of the user and it worked pretty well for me. You could also use Bayesian classification of the contents of the emails the user sends and the emails to which the user replies and use that data to determine if the user would like to see an email, based on it's contents (rather than the sender).