Politics As Usual?
digg" POLITICS STORIES MEASURED FROM OCTOBER 4-NOVEMBER 4 2011 HOT TOPICS IN THE DIGG POLITICAL NEWSROOM I# OF STORIES AVG. # OF DIGGS Readers are more likely to Digg, Share and Like stories about crime than foreign policy, civil rights and immigration combined. 193 100 75 50 25 ANIMAL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS ECONOMY ENVIRONMENT IMMIGRATION RELIGION BUSINESS CRIME ELECTIONS OCCUPY WEED FOREIGN POLICY WALL STREET WHAT PEOPLE ARE READING AVERAGE # OF READS A look at some of the most popular categories within the Political Newsroom indicates what types of articles are being read the most, but also that the number of reads does not necessarily correlate to the number of Diggs each story receives on average. BUSINESS CIVIL RIGHTS CRIME DRUGS ECONOMY ELECTION 1,278.5 1,484 869 5,256 2,662 3,559.6 OCCUPY WALL FOREIGN POLICY IMMIGRATION STREET RELIGION WEED 4,946.8 892 4,378 2,593 1,224.5 DIGG & OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS I CORRELATION WITH DIGGS BY STORY I CORRELATION WITH DIGGS BY REFERRAL SITE (DOMAIN) Activity on Digg resembles activity on other social networks. Stories Dugg were most likely to be shared on Linkedin and Liked on Facebook. Site referrals had an even higher correlation. 24.4% LIKES 42.8% ยท..***** ..... -2.5% TWEETS 5.4% 16.9% LINKEDIN SHARES 41.4% 50 40 30 20 10 10 20 30 40 50 Our Methodology: Top 100 stories, ranked by the number of Diggs, promoted this past month in the Politics Newsroom. We researched how many times those stories were read, Dugg, Liked, Shared, Tweeted, and found some interesting correlations. MOST POPULAR REFERRAL SITES I DIGGS I DIGG VIEWS The strongest correlation between stories users Dugg from the Political Newswire was to the most popular referral sites to the newsroom. People get news from sites they trust. ALTERNET.ORG HUFFINGTONP0ST.COM L.IMGUR.COM NYTIMES.COM POLITICUSUSA.COM 6,304 / 137,411 3,216 / 54,992 2,576 / 137,002 4,211 / 84,410 11,097 / 250,115 RAWSTORY.COM THEWEEK.COM THINKPROGRESS.ORG WASHINGTONPOST.COM YOUTUBE.COM 6,678 / 158,381 2,351 / 72,752 2,672 / 44,859 4,775 / 80,801 3,858 / 69,260 SOURCE: DIGG INFOGRAPHIC BY COLUMN FIVE
Politics As Usual?
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