First thread to hit one-million views?

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The Caption Competition thread is currently leading with over 733,000 views, making it a strong contender to reach one million views first. The Thread Killer Champions, despite having a high view count of 673,860, is unlikely to surpass this milestone due to its recent lock. Discussions highlight the surprising popularity of threads like "Really Expensive Cat Toy," which has garnered over 400,000 views, likely due to its appeal in Google searches. The forum members speculate on the reasons behind these view counts, including the influence of search engine results and the nature of the topics discussed. The ongoing competition among threads reflects the dynamic engagement of users and the potential for threads to go viral.
  • #51
Google "really expensive cat toy"

This video is what seems to be spawning the hits. It was linked in Zapper's thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-0wefMV_qk

Also
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2469928627183918026#

thread
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=167211
 
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  • #52
Meanwhile there is no stopping the advance of these cat toys.

Update (first table based on the average of 64 days; the second on the last 10 days)

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  • #53
Wow, I can't even imagine one million views. That is an incredible feat!
 
  • #54
It's been ten days again. Cat toys continuing to charge ahead and about to take over the lead.

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  • #55
It has been a while but I updated the spreadsheet today.

Hits slowed down a bit, but that's probably the season. Interestingly, the CC thread regained the lead, despite the total inactivity for a long while.

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  • #56
Do those mega hit models take into account forum population growth?
 
  • #57
no, neither do they account for the observed gradual decline in popularity. Of course we can put in the trend. Would be interesting to see how accurate it all is. But I'm not claiming anything.
 
  • #58
Evo said:
Second page. Apparently a lot of people want expensive cat toys. :rolleyes:

Best cat toy we ever owned was a laser pointer. $20.
 
  • #59
A graph of the highest hit rates/views per day. Notice the rise and fall of the cat toys.

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  • #60
foot thread? where? >_>
 
  • #61
Edible foot?
 
  • #62
Sounds less healthy

Anyway, it appears that Greg's cat toy promotion campaign has been effective, but some more effort would still be required to beat the caption competition.

The landmark game scores second in daily hits now.

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  • #63
Those dates on the bottom are backwards. :devil:
 
  • #64
That would seem so, however it's a Dutch spreadsheet and in Europe we have other habits.
 
  • #65
With again backward dates the ratings of the last 40 days

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I wondered too if it's worthwhile to keep putting effort in the landmark thread. As it leads currently in daily views, maybe it is.
 
  • #66
It looks to me like the thread about the nuclear accident in Japan will easily be the winner. After just six weeks it is past 500K!
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=480200

The views-to-posts ratio is only a little over 100:1, which is higher than normal for the time frame but not exceedingly high. We've had threads that fetched 1000 views per post at times, like my algae thread. :smile: But the activity level in the nuclear thread is a first.
 
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  • #67
Ivan Seeking said:
It looks to me like the thread about the nuclear accident in Japan will easily be the winner. After just six weeks it is past 500K!

This thread will sooner or later die when the situation gets stable.

Let's hope it will die well before 1M :-p
 
  • #68
Borek said:
This thread will sooner or later die when the situation gets stable.

Let's hope it will die well before 1M :-p

Even if this ended tomorrow, I would expect that there is enough momentum to carry the thread through to a million views. It is hard to know but there is typically a significant hit rate after the discussion ends, for monster threads. Also, I would imagine the discussion about this event will continue for decades to come. So as long as the thread remains open, it would be surprising if the posts stopped coming.

So far the thread is averaging ~100K hits per week.
 
  • #69
Ivan Seeking said:
Even if this ended tomorrow, I would expect that there is enough momentum to carry the thread through to a million views. It is hard to know but there is typically a significant hit rate after the discussion ends, for monster threads. Also, I would imagine the discussion about this event will continue for decades to come. So as long as the thread remains open, it would be surprising if the posts stopped coming.

Sure, but I am following the thread on the daily basis from the very beginning - and I can tell you iot already slowed won substantially. At the beginning of April when I got up in the morning I had to read up to 3 or even 4 pages on new posts, right now it is more like 1-2 pages.

And I still hope there will be no new events to fuel it up.
 
  • #70
Borek said:
Sure, but I am following the thread on the daily basis from the very beginning - and I can tell you iot already slowed won substantially. At the beginning of April when I got up in the morning I had to read up to 3 or even 4 pages on new posts, right now it is more like 1-2 pages.

No doubt it is slowing. But it still got as many hits in six weeks as the Cat Toy thread got in four years!

And I still hope there will be no new events to fuel it up.

Oh, I was hoping for another major disaster so the thread will hit a million! :rolleyes:
 
  • #71
The thread got ~7000 hits in about 24 hours, so the hit rate is currently about half of the average of 100K per week. It will be interesting to see how it proceeds.
 
  • #72
On the 22nd the nuclear thread was at 542K. Today it is at 631K. So for the week it accumulated just under 90K hits.
 
  • #73
687,191 - so a gain of 56K hits in a week

There was an issue with the post counter this week that likely cost about 20K hits. So the average appears to be 77K for the week.
 
  • #74
715,065 now - 28k in two days.
 
  • #75
792,993
 
  • #76
Last few days were hectic, I guess it will slow down a little bit now.
 
  • #77
Borek said:
Last few days were hectic, I guess it will slow down a little bit now.

It had slowed to about 50K hits per week but jumped up to about 100K again. I guess it depends on the latest news out of Japan. I haven't been following the story in detail, but it seems the news that reactor one melted down is what caused the increased activity.
 
  • #78
Ivan Seeking said:
It had slowed to about 50K hits per week but jumped up to about 100K again. I guess it depends on the latest news out of Japan. I haven't been following the story in detail, but it seems the news that reactor one melted down is what caused the increased activity.

Actually it more depends on new users registering to post in this thread.
 
  • #79
Borek said:
Actually it more depends on new users registering to post in this thread.

Which in turn depends on what? I would guess the news out of Japan.
 
  • #80
I fully expect to log on tomorrow morning and find the Japan nuke thread to have hit over 800K.
 
  • #81
At 852k Fukushima thread already passed caption competition thread.
 
  • #82
Borek said:
At 852k Fukushima thread already passed caption competition thread.

absolutely incredible!
 
  • #83
Borek said:
At 852k Fukushima thread already passed caption competition thread.

Suprising since the nuclear engineering section tends to have little traffic. I have seen it go days without a new post. But I suppose this is what happens when you combine a disaster that has worldwide implications with science and engineering.
 
  • #84
Sorry if this has already been asked, but is the column wide enough to show 1,000,000?
 
  • #85
We will see soon :smile:
 
  • #86
I'll put 20 dollars on the Fukushima thread being the first.
 
  • #87
lisab said:
Sorry if this has already been asked, but is the column wide enough to show 1,000,000?

The column width depends on the number of digits. The column for the title will shrink accordingly.

At least, that's my prediction based on the difference in column widths between the Quantum Physics subforum and the Nuclear Engineering subforum. The Quantum Physics subforum has no threads with 4 digit number of replies nor a 5 digit number of views.

Plus, as we've seen happen when people post pictures, the width of the entire screen is dynamic, as well.
 
  • #88
April 22nd - 542K.

April 30th - 631K

May 7th - 687,191 [There was an issue with the post counter that likely cost about 20K hits. So the average appears to be 77K for the week

May 14th - 792,993

Today - 885,860

Predictions?
 
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  • #89
Ivan Seeking said:
May 22nd - 542K.

May 14th - 792,993

Predictions?

Zero on June 8th?
 
  • #90
Borek said:
Zero on June 8th?

Whoops, I had "May" all the way through. Corrected.
 
  • #91
:biggrin:
 
  • #92
Ivan Seeking said:
April 22nd - 542K.

April 30th - 631K

May 7th - 687,191 [There was an issue with the post counter that likely cost about 20K hits. So the average appears to be 77K for the week

May 14th - 792,993

Today - 885,860

Predictions?
902 K this morning. Still about 8k-10k views per day.
 
  • #93
There may be more views than normal during the upcoming (US) holiday weekend, so I predict Memorial Day will get the 1 Millionth view.
 
  • #94
turbo-1 said:
There may be more views than normal during the upcoming (US) holiday weekend, so I predict Memorial Day will get the 1 Millionth view.

Holidays are usually low traffic times for PF especially if the weather is nice.
 
  • #95
Greg Bernhardt said:
Holidays are usually low traffic times for PF especially if the weather is nice.
Oops!

Pray for rain? Actually, I don't need any more rain. It has been raining her for part or most of every day for over a week.
 
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  • #96
950k

Well, at the moment 949951, but it will pass 950k with the next database update.
 
  • #97
960,527
 
  • #98
turbo-1 said:
There may be more views than normal during the upcoming (US) holiday weekend, so I predict Memorial Day will get the 1 Millionth view.
Close. It will probably hit 980 k this evening, and give it at least two day, perhaps 3, to hit one million.

There was a surge after TEPCO announced their view that the cores of units 1, 2 and 3 probably melted very early in the event after the loss of power.

News from Japan, or commentary elsewhere in the world regarding the effects of Fukushima on various national nuclear programs, are determining factors on the thread activity. Of course, we have a fair number of members analyzing various aspects of the event.
 
  • #99
I thought it only fitting, given that PF has attracted new members who have contributed greatly to this subject and others (I am not sure, I didn't check, hehe) to post the users with 100 + posts to this thread. Congratulations for your hard work, and for creating a living time capsule of this terrible event and aftermath and to Astronuc and Borek for your great job moderating and adding to thread content.

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Rhody... :biggrin: :bugeye:
 
  • #100
Astronuc said:
Close. It will probably hit 980 k this evening, and give it at least two day, perhaps 3, to hit one million.

Yep. Right now it is at 979,515.

It is still getting almost 10K a day.
 

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