The DNA of Viral via Wu Tang Clan
Friday, July 24th, 2009I came across something interesting today and it made me think about the nature of what “going viral” means and how something gets there. Almost every conference or event I have been to this year spends some time with this question. I am almost sick of the term, but alas I am here talking about it. It started for me like it has many times before….I got a link via email. This link was from a web developer in Portland and it shot me to the vid below.
Pretty dope right. A little long but still cool, especially if you are a fellow fan (This album changed everything for us in HS). What was even more interesting to me than the video was when I took a look at the stats. The views for the last three days read like this: 4, 1, 30, 13.9K. Today is only half over and it has 10.6K already. So what happened? That jump is crazy. What percentage growth in views is that? (first to tweet @masagatani or email chris@eroi.com the answer gets a beer on me). The real question to ask is not what happened but how it happened. The first thing I thought was to check digg…here are the results of my search there and the vimeo stats. I love the comment from the guy who made the vid:
So it got some love from digg. 40 or so comments so far. But that’s not enough right? (more…)
