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The reddit spike in 2014 September. Was that that the leaked celebs photos?
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=4chan%2C%20reddit%2C...
I never really understood what made these pictures so much more valuable than another official and unofficial nude images of celebrities. It had a profound effect on the sites linked above, though, from administration to the mentality of regulars.
Personal anecdote: I will google " Twitter" to get their Twitter feed so I wonder how many of those searches are not necessarily interest in the service rather interest in a specific person using the service.
I was wondering why you didn't include and so I plunked it in there and then realized why you didn't include facebook: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...
Ok, but let's not forget that half of internet is not there. E.g. Chinese people do not use Google. If we could agregate data qq.com could very well be above them all.
I went exploring the Chinese half of the internet for a while. It's amazing how different things are there, yet how similar they are. Baidu seems essentially equivalent to Google, AliPay to PayPal and Weibo to Facebook. As for differences, I noticed were how heavily integrated AliPay (and all the payment methods) were with the regular Chinese banking system, needing a local bank card to verify any account. Also inter…
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I went exploring the Chinese half of the internet for a while. It's amazing how different things are there, yet how similar they are. Baidu seems essentially equivalent to Google, AliPay to PayPal and Weibo to Facebook. As for differences, I noticed were how heavily integrated AliPay (and all the payment methods) were with the regular Chinese banking system, needing a local bank card to verify any account. Also inter…
Interesting, I'd love to read more about it! What's this Baidu Pan thing?
As much as we like to say bad things about Marissa Mayer (I don't know her in person so she might be truly awful in person I don't know) but she might have made the right call in buying Tumblr. I think Tumblr still has value. When the teens who use tumblr today become older, there might even be some emotional/sentimental value in Tumblr for them.
Would it not be in danger of becoming something like LiveJournal? Where the users are an ever narrower segment of a slightly older demographic group, with no growth.
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Tumblr got to where Twitter wanted to be before Twitter did. By the Twitter figured it out they've been on the decline since. But Tumblr is a really bad buy. Tumblr has three phases, the gen Y (25-35 yo) has already cycled out and the gen Z (15-25 yo) are on it because it's not Twitter and not Facebook. It will decline just like Myspace boomed then declined. Drop Instagram and WhatsApp in there and they're the best b…
I don't think you're right about Twitter. Twitter is a real time information company, more or less. No journalists or news savvy people to to Tumblr for content. There is value in having live content coming from "content creators" than in cases like Tumblr where most of the content is not original at all. Twitter doesn't know it's own value because it's poorly run, but I don't think they ever wanted to be like Tumblr…
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I did the same thing. It sort of takes one's breath away.
What I find interesting is that Twitter and Facebook have the same graph shape, both peaking in 2013. They should allow a log scale, then you could compare with Facebook more easily.
As even the least-tech-savvy becomes more aware of faster ways of accessing the websites, and browser software starts to pre-empt user intention more and more, this kind of convoluted search starts to drop off.
Not sure if that theory holds water, or is in any way necessary.
Interesting to see Snapchat and Instagram in there: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F05pdgbz%2C%20...
Snapchat don't really have a web client though