In what may be the first of its kind in the social media world, the little used and subscribed /r/football subreddit of Reddit.com was overthrown by the /r/soccer subreddit. Though things seem to have died down, yesterday’s events can only be described as a social media coup.
If you’ve signed into Reddit recently, you may have noticed a new feature in your sidebar. Perhaps taking a note from Mixx, Redditors are now capable of being rewarded for their contributions to the community.
When signing into Reddit this morning and viewing a submission’s commentary, you may notice a slight change to their familiar sidebar. A percentage is now given detailing the proportion of voters who enjoyed the post, along with a few other changes.
With me today is a popular former Digg user, Diggboss. Thanks for joining me, Diggboss. Ok, let’s get right into it:
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. When did you start getting into social media in the first place, and which network did you like the most from the start?
2. [...]
This is a guest post by Dan Zarrella, social and viral marketing scientist. He has put together a viral content sharing report and below is an expansion and exploration of some of the data uncovered by that report.
The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, [...]
