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Funraising is very envy-inducing. Envy tends to be good for advertisers (look at womens print magazines, if you have any doubt). I'd be interested to see how th
by 001sky 12y ago
Funraising is very envy-inducing. Envy tends to be good for advertisers (look at womens print magazines, if you have any doubt). I'd be interested to see how this impacts their advertising business metrics.
- minimaxir 12y agoFor my TechCrunch scraper, I obtained the number of Facebook shares for each TechCrunch article to use as a proxy for popularity/page views. There appears to be a correlation, as Facebook social media shares of TechCrunch articles have doubled in the same months as the peak of fundraising announcements. http://i.imgur.com/Xqhahjs.png http://i.imgur.com/Xqhahjs.png EDIT: reduced unintentional financial verbiage.
- debacle 12y agoIt took me about five minutes to realize you weren't talking about stocks. For anyone equally confused, minimaxir means "Share this on Facebook" shares.
- nerfhammer 12y agoIn the same months? Can't you just at # of shares post by post and see it it correlates with whether it's a fundraising post?
- minimaxir 12y agoI had the chart+data on hand: doing that analysis would take a little more work.