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Well, then I highly doubt a few TikTok videos with merely x100k views (according to TFA) are driving all those Guardian views. How many people search for the so
by oefrha 3y ago
Well, then I highly doubt a few TikTok videos with merely x100k views (according to TFA) are driving all those Guardian views. How many people search for the source material after watching a TikTok? 5%? But maybe I overestimate typical Guardian traffic.
- arp242 3y agoI would imagine that traffic is highly distributed over many articles, but I don't know. Does it matter? "Intelligence agencies monitoring the Internet picked up the blip" is certainly nonsense and that's the bit I wanted to address. And even if The Guardian didn't have that public list, of course they have some insight on which pages are doing well on any given day, because that's how they make money.
- oefrha 3y ago> they have some insight on which pages are doing well on any given day Obviously. I didn’t know it was on the most viewed list when I wrote my original comment, so I was just going by the numbers in TFA: a few videos with >100k views (plus a dozen or two with >10k) multiplied by a quite generous 5% source material lookup rate gives you maybe 50k views on the Guardian side, which seemed entirely too low to trigger a panic at Guardian.