My Facebook experiment: Part Deux
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 11:05AM I know the suspense is killing you.
Tuesday, I described my project to figure out if my Facebook Newsfeed was dominated by a handful of active and frequent posters, or if the traffic represented a good, more diverse cross-section of friends and colleagues. My hunch was the former; the truth proved to be the latter.
Of 518 friends in my network when the counting started, 320, or 62 percent, posted something on Facebook at least once during the week of July 13-19, a much higher percentage than I had expected.
So, how many posts do 320 people actually produce in a week. A few people ventured guesses: 1000, 900, 2100 and 650.
The grand total was 2087 (kudos to Dawn for her guess of 2100). That's an average of 6.5 posts per person.
Something else that maybe only I find interesting is that an almost equal number of people posted just once as posted more than 10 times. 64 people posted once; 72 people posted more than 10 times. Nine logged in with more than 25 posts. The lead poster reached the 77 mark and probably single-handedly skewed this entire experiment.
Friday was the busiest day with 362 posts. Then came Tuesday (322), Wednesday (316), Thursday (295), Monday (285)*, Saturday (273) and then Sunday (234).
I can report that by the end of Monday, 155 people had posted at least once. 65 more people joined by the end of Tuesday. 39 on Wednesday, 23 Thursday, another 23 on Friday, 6 new Saturday and 9 people posted for the first time in the week on Sunday.
There you have it. My experiment is over. People use Facebook. Who knew?
*Counting on Monday didn't start until 6 a.m., so that number would be a little higher if it represented a full 24 hours.
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Reader Comments (2)
I am positive...well, at least 90% positive...that I did not post 77 times last week. ;) LOL Thanks for the kudos!
So I guessed 750 (I think) which means that I completely underestimated the number of Facebook overusers. Either that or you have a collection of extremely verbose friends. :)
So what think you on the practice of connecting your Twitter updates and Facebook updates? I find it annoying...