Feb 142012
 

Started: Feb. 13, 2012 3:12 pm
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Comments are disabled. Now what did I learn? I'll be writing it up in a few minutes… first some math…

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I have been trying to get some idea of how many people are viewing an average post of mine. I see a ton (over 600k) people that have circled me, but I don't have a clue as to how many people are reading these posts.

I also don't know how many people are looking at the images and aren't reading the English stuff like this I write. So how to find out?

I figured I'd post this experiment with simple instructions in English. It's like a message in a bottle. If you see this bottle in the stream add a comment that simply has the word see in it. Don't comment on the image no matter how much you want to :)

As time goes by I should be able to have a better idea of what newspapers when they existed used to call circulation.

So just comment the word see and let's see what happens.

p.s. I'll be leaving this up and not posting this afternoon or tonight so as not to influence the count.

p.s.s. Uhm I don't think you should hit the 1+ as a way of saying that you are here as it may throw things off making the post more popular than it has any right to be.

p.s.s.s. Has anyone noticed how difficult it is to simply write see
I'm sure that the experiment seems silly to some and the temptation to be clever is just too much. I'm the last to complain. It's all been fascinating to me.

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  248 Responses to “G+ EXPERIMENT #1”

  1. I see what you did there.

  2. See

  3. I am very glad and waiting your next posting, Sory,… it is very difficult for me to make a comment becouse my English is too bad

  4. i see this…from Malaysia

  5. i see this…from Malaysia

  6. I see that you will be getting lots of notifications from this post!

  7. see. You should probably have led with that, though, a lot of people will stop reading at the point at which they have to expand the description (if on a browser). :)

  8. very beautiful and authentic shot, +Dave Beckerman !
    oh, and – see – haha

  9. It will be interesting to see the result.

  10. God bless you . this is indepntate church and poorchilderns home ,beggers street chlderns home and church so please prayer for me…. I.DON;KNOW..english very well.. so indian language… please use mails only.. I don’t know google plus very well I don,t know google posts so I cont read the posts http://church666.blogspot.com… India andhrapradesh India…. India inter netvery slow one day [24]hours only 30,minits avomble ..dear, brother nothing any body adding in my circles…. only some belivers [god] only… that face has god belivers

  11. And here are the results, so far from this experiment:
    https://plus.google.com/116247667398036716276/posts/LPtMJf3n1Np
    Thank you all for participating. Maybe it is helpful to you as well.

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