Comments on: charting the real time web ORthe curious tale of how TechCrunch traffic inexplicably fell off a cliff in December

By: gucci boots

gucci boots — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:01:00 +0000

I think this is a great post. One thing that I find the most helpful is number five. Sometimes when I write, I just let the flow of the words and information come out so much that I loose the purpose. It’s only after editing when I realize what I’ve done. There’s defiantly a lot of great tips here I’m going to try to be more aware of.

By: big pony polo

big pony polo — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:47:00 +0000

much of it will be continuing to build out the real time web and learning about this fascinating shift taking place right under our feet

By: lacoste polo

lacoste polo — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:08:00 +0000

a weak tie/local bridge spreads it to another network component, and adoption cascades from there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:03:00 +0000

these new markets. At betaworks we spend a lot of time looking at and tracking this underlying data set. It’s our business and its fascinating.

By: lacoste polo

lacoste polo — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:00:00 +0000

What is the REAL story then, sounds like a knee jerk panic post.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:20:00 +0000

Very very nice article.Thanks for sharing with us. cursus timemanagement

By: File Cabinet Lock Bar

File Cabinet Lock Bar — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:35:51 +0000

Oh!…that's great helpful, it's so right to me! Million thanks for the article,

By: skiing goggles

skiing goggles — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:13:27 +0000

great stuff

By: skiing goggles

skiing goggles — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:13:27 +0000

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By: bonnwafer

bonnwafer — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:43:54 +0000

Your articles are very informative. Keep up the good work. We online users need more similar article like yours.

By: RickBullotta

RickBullotta — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:59:05 +0000

Interesting question: if Tweets could be 512 characters, how would the URL shortener traffic patterns change?

By: andrewparker

andrewparker — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:02:30 +0000

Yea, that is a mess, thanks for taking a stab at it.

However you end up deciding to visualize, perhaps you could publish
the .xls so others could take a cut at it. I don't know if certain
sources are proprietary or not…

By: Johnborthwick

Johnborthwick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:03:35 +0000

AP -- Running some new charts which I will push out shortly on a new post but we tried what you suggested (% change, month over month in 2009) and it is very hard to read -- see here: http://bit.ly/7NctaZ

By: peHUB » Why Invest in oneforty and the Real-Time Web?

peHUB » Why Invest in oneforty and the Real-Time Web? — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:10:36 +0000

[...] traffic volume (as played out in TechCrunch and betaworks’ John Borthwick’s blog, “Charting the Real-Time Web”), suggests that the real-time Web is continuing to explode, even though the standard tracking [...]

By: paramendra

paramendra — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:56:00 +0000

This is one fascinating blog post. I came here from a TechCrunch post that reported you were miffed. And I am glad I did because you give a panoramic view of stats on some hot web properties. I came for one thing, found something else entirely, and I am glad. Revealing. And the mention of Fred Wilson towards the end is an eyeful. TechCrunch seems to do the love-hate thing with some pretty accomplished people in tech. http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2010/01/anu-shukla-has-found-new-frontier-in.html I think it is business. The media people have to ignite controversies to do well in the page hits department. My first time on your blog, off you go on to my blogroll.

By: Johnborthwick

Johnborthwick — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:33:33 +0000

Lol — nope. What's KJPP — Google search says: Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology?!

By: georgeneuman

georgeneuman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:01:04 +0000

LOL, varying the scale on the XY is a great way to make your lines steep or shallow

By: georgeneuman

georgeneuman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:58:09 +0000

gadzooks. talk about touchy! Did you stay up all night to post this reposte to the TC posting. What is the REAL story then, sounds like a knee jerk panic post. Or as my guru says, a KJPP

By: Johnborthwick

Johnborthwick — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:52:45 +0000

AP thanks for the comment — let me clarify. All the data in the last chart is on the left hand Y axis with the exception of the bit.ly data and the Twitterfeed data. The bit.ly data is on the right hand Y axis. For the Twitterfeed data set yes I ran out of Y axes — what I did was use the left hand Y axes but I scaled it down by a factor of 10k to fit the scale. So its the same data as the blue line in the chart on top on Twitterfeed (showing # of feeds). On the chart up top the number of Twitterfeed feeds scales from 220k to approx 780k — over the period — in the chart below it runs from 22 –>78

By: andrewparker

andrewparker — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:50:08 +0000

John, great post, thanks for all the data. And, I love the title

One question, I'm a little bit lost in your final graph where you put it all together. I see two y-axes on that graph, but then you also mention that tweetmeme, meebo, etc are on different scale, so it sounds like the graph needs a couple more additional y-axes to be fully labeled… This matters because the graph is showing growth relative to each other. Without a consistent scale, I get lost in how the growth is relative.

One solution might be to show all the growths of the various services as %change since Jan-09. That way, all the data will be on the same scale, and it will be easier to determine visually what going on with the growth of the realtime web.

I really like the decode/encode data. I hope in a future post we can see a distribution of decode frequency for a random encoded link. I'm sure the number of decodes per encode is going to be a power curve (like everything on the net), but I imagine the shape of the power curve will be informative.

Keep up the great work.