First of all, some disclaimers:
- the site didn't run correctly for a few days due to blocks by some sites - hello entertainment.ie and joe.ie - fortunately some volunteers helped me around this
- Due to the way some sites alter the way they share links, some articles have multiple entries on our database, one for each method (e.g. bit.ly or direct link) which skews the data a little. Fortunately these aberrations are rare so hopefully their influence on the final numbers is minimal
- DailyEdge and her.ie were not scanned from the site launch, so their total numbers are not exact, but the averages are still accurate
The data for each site is presented in the following format
Posts | Total number of posts for site |
Posts Per Day | Average number of posts per day for the site |
Total Links | Total links to articles posted by the site's twitter account |
Tweets Per Post | Average number of links posted to each article |
Most Linked Article | Article linked to the most by the site's twitter and the number of links |
Balls.ie
Posts | 833 |
Posts Per Day | 26.8 |
Total Links | 6166 |
Tweets Per Post | 7.41 |
Most Linked Article | Five College Football Studs Who'll Be Earning Millions In The NFL By 2020 - 32 |
Entertainment.ie
Posts | 557 |
Posts Per Day | 18 |
Total Links | 2546 |
Tweets Per Post | 4.57 |
Most Linked Article | 5 best things to watch on Netflix this week - 15 |
Her.ie
Posts | 541 |
Posts Per Day | 17 |
Total Links | 4969 |
Tweets Per Post | 9.18 |
Most Linked Article | A Celebration Of Irish Design At The Fashion Innovation Awards - 60 |
DailyEdge
Posts | 319 |
Posts Per Day | 10 |
Total Links | 2546 |
Tweets Per Post | 8 |
Most Linked Article | 13 H&M shopping truths every Irish gal and guy knows - 29 |
Joe.ie
Posts | 698 |
Posts Per Day | 22 |
Total Links | 8064 |
Tweets Per Post | 11.57 |
Most Linked Article | VIDEO: This drug-fuelled Peppa Pig sketch is absolutely hilarious (VNSFW) - 67 |
SportsJoe.ie
Posts | 1050 |
Posts Per Day | 33.8 |
Total Links | 10150 |
Tweets Per Post | 9.66 |
Most Linked Article | WATCH: Emotional scenes in Croke Park as rival fans come together to remember Buncrana tragedy - 51 |
Analysing the text in each article's title has provided the following thirty most used words (minor words like the, an, who, etc are ignored)
Word | Occurances | Word | Occurances |
watch | 741 | first | 87 |
video | 433 | pics | 83 |
irish | 250 | late | 80 |
new | 214 | ever | 75 |
pic | 209 | game | 72 |
ireland | 153 | night | 71 |
conor | 148 | tribute | 71 |
dublin | 145 | today | 69 |
fans | 144 | liverpool | 67 |
ufc | 137 | football | 66 |
mcgregor | 117 | manchester | 66 |
last | 102 | star | 66 |
people | 99 | rugby | 65 |
day | 97 | world | 65 |
most | 89 | him | 63 |
Just outside the top thirty are league(63), twitter(63), against(62), show(61), diaz(60)
So what does this all mean? Anyone who follows these accounts is being bombarded with links to the same post multiple times, and the linked article is more than likely going to contain a video, which will have something with Irish interest. This really isn't too surprising given the sites are Irish, and trying to attract an Irish audience. With the recent high profile UFC bouts, it's no wonder that UFC, and McGregor, rank so highly, both well ahead of football and rugby - would this trend be repeated if the same search was applied in June after the European Championships, or in October in the latter stages of the Rugby World Cup?
Does the NFL article linked to more than any other by Balls.ie point to an increase in its popularity in Ireland?
I have to admit to being a little uncomfortable with the 51 tweeted links posted by SportsJoe.ie to the video of fans in Croke Park marking the recent tragedy in Buncrana.
Finally, I'd like to thank the volunteers who helped me work around the sites who blocked the twitter account
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