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Ever wonder what kind of content is most popular on the various social news sites? Well wonder no more…
We analysed over 500 front-page stories for Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to try and determine what type of content is generally popular on each site (Note: this is 500+ stories for each site not the total).
Digg, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon and Propeller all seem to only include the popular stories in their feeds. Reddit may also include stories that get votes rapidly over a short period of time. The results are based on RSS feed data so some stories may have been buried after we included them.
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If you’ve spent any amount of time on Digg you’ll know how popular the “top (number)” lists are. Top 5, 10, 50 and 100 lists regularly reach the front page - but which number list is the most popular of all?
We analysed 766 list stories on Digg to find the most popular “top list”. To do this we searched for any story that reached the front page containing the word, “top” in the title.
Obviously, there were some stories that contain “top” in the title without a number, such as “Top Secret Pictures from Iran” and “Top Gear - Tiny Car Review” but only submissions that were in a numbered list format are included in the analysis regardless of whether the number was written as a word (ten) or as a number (10). Buried stories were not included.
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