People Like Chicken Nuggets & Other Things We Learned From Facebook

PEOPLE LIKE CHICKEN NUGGETS & Other Things We Learned from Facebook January was a good month for Digg, with Facebook referral traffic up 67 percent in January over December, and a 35 percent increase in page views-the highest it's been since October of last year. It also marked the first month users could add their favorite stories to their Using our Digg Social Reader, we uncovered that people like technology, chicken nuggets, and MythBusters. Like a cocktail party, conversation on the Facebook Timeline includes mainly safe topics, leaving politics and religion at home. Facebook Timeline using our Digg Social Reader. At Digg, we strive to understand what it means when you Digg, Like, Tweet, and LinkedIn Share, so that we can determine what people are most interested in reading about. Most recently, we have found the most compelling data lies in a user's Facebook Timeline. Unaffected by optimization or online tricks that publishers use to drive traffic to their site, these stories are the most likely to represent popular sentiment. A scalable human curation is taking effect, and we're just getting started! TOP 10 STORIES PIPA #1 TECHNOLOGY PIPA SUPPORT COLLAPSES, WITH 13 NEW SENATORS OPPOSED Highlights: As opposition to the PIPA act intensifies in the media, 13 senators, five of whom were former cosponsors of the act, withdraw their support. #2 TECHNOLOGY HERE ARE THE BEST IPHONE AND IPAD APPS YOU MISSED THIS WEEK Highlights: These are the best iPhone and iPad apps of the week #3 OFFBEAT MYTHBUSTERS HOSTS JAMIE HYNEMAN AND ADAM SAVAGE AND THEIR MINI DOUBLES Highlights: Special effects experts Jamie and Adam test out their masterpiece double masks on two youngsters in the episode "Mission Impossible Masks." “We definitely see social as just one part of what people do on Twitter." #4 TECHNOLOGY JACK DORSEY: TWITTER'S NOT REALLY SOCIAL Highlights: "Ijust couldn't face even trying other foods. Mum gave up giving Twitter co-founder and Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey says social is only a piece of the Twitter pie. me anything else years ago." *5 LIFESTYLE 15 YEARS ON NOTHING BUT CHICKEN NUGGETS ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION Highlights: 17-year-old Stacey Irvine knew she loved chicken nuggets before she could even pronounce the words. Doctors warn her about her poor health, but a 15-year addiction is not easy to break! BROAD DEFINITIONS IMMUNITY JOB KILLER DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM BLOCKING #6 WORLD NEWS ТОР 5 ОВЈЕСTIONS TO SOPA, PIPA Highlights: another plea to stop the anti-piracy act comes as websites pledge to shut down their sites Tell Congress: Pease den't censor the web #7 TECHNOLOGY GOOGLE WILL PROTEST SOPA USING POPULAR HOME PAGE Highlights: Google shows loyalty to fellow tech giants fighting the anti-piracy bills by posting a link on their home page. #8 TECHNOLOGY APPLE LAUNCHES IBOOKS, 2 DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS "DON’T CENSOR Highlights: Apple introduces a service that will allow textbook makers to create fully interactive titles for Apple's iPad. THE WEB" #9 BUSINESS GOOGLE SAYS: "DON'T CENSOR THE WEB" Highlights: Google warns that if PIPA and SOPA bills are passed, the bills would censor the web, risk the industry's track record of innovation and job creation, and do nothing to actually stop piracy. ANONYMOUS #10 TECHNOLOGY TOP 10 STORIES PUBLISHED BROKEN DOWN BY CATEGORY HOW AND WHY ANONYMOUS TOOK DOWN THE FBI'S WEBSITE Highlights: After shutting down file sharing service MegaUpload.com, the FBI got a taste if its own medicine. TECHNOLOGY WORLD NEWS LIFESTYLE BUSINESS OFFBEAT 6,000 TOP 100 PUBLISHED READS BY CATEGORY (GRAND TOTAL 10,366) 5,086 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,060 2,000 951 1,000 785 474 368 326 244 72 Ys TECHNOLOGY OFFBEAT WORLD NEWS BUSINESS LIFESTYLE ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE POLITICS GAMING HIGH-LEVEL TRENDS (% OF READS BY TOPIC*) (TOTAL 100%) *ROUNDED TO NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER JACK DORSEY PHOTO BY FLICKR USER GOBIERNO DE CHILE digg Created By COLUMN FIVE %S %07 %OL %OL %OL %OL %09