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user-inactivated  ·  3457 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I did an informal study about Hubski

    I should have discriminated between visibility (number of feeds it's in) and popularity (number of shares).

Is there a way for you to get those raw numbers?





jleopold  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I could go through each post, look at the tags and who shared it, then sum all the followers for both. So technically, yes, but it would take so long, no significant number of data could ve taken in a time frame small enough that it wouldn't change pretty significantly while I did the sum. Nor would I know how to account for overlap. I'm sure there is some sort of code that could do it, basically a web crawler, which are used on lots of social networks, but I couldn't make one.