{"id":919,"date":"2007-10-09T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T04:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=919"},"modified":"2007-10-09T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T04:23:47","slug":"techmemes_juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Techmeme’s juicelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name’s Nick, and I’m a Techmeme<\/a> junkie.<\/p>\n

Even so, I have to admit that the Guardian’s Bobbie Johnson is absolutely right when he says<\/a>, “for all that Valley-centric news junkies claim Techmeme as a crucial aggregator, it simply doesn’t refer much traffic<\/i>.” It’s true. I’ve had quite a few headlines sit fairly prominently on Techmeme for many hours, and at most they’ll push a few hundred visitors to the story on my site. That’s squat. On those rare occasions when one of my posts claws its way up the list at Digg, Stumbleupon, or Reddit, many thousands of visits result. Even some recent headlines modestly positioned on the Y Combinator news feed have generated more traffic than a prominent Techmeme headline will.<\/p>\n

So what gives?<\/p>\n

Writes Johnson:<\/p>\n

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There could be a number of reasons for this: firstly, maybe my numbers don’t match those of other people. But it could be that Techmeme’s important to a small number of technology industry influencers, but doesn’t really extend its reach beyond that. Perhaps a huge number of its readers are on RSS and can’t be bothered to click the links (it’s also worth noting that Techmeme’s RSS feed directs you not to the story you’re interested in reading, but back to Techmeme’s pages). Or perhaps it’s still just a product that’s still in the early stages of growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that Techmeme must have a fairly modest, if rabid, audience. The pageviews are probably pretty high, but the unique visitor count is probably much lower. Techmeme seems<\/i> a lot bigger than it really is, at least to some of us.<\/p>\n

Or maybe Bobbie Johnson and I just have cooties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name’s Nick, and I’m a Techmeme junkie. Even so, I have to admit that the Guardian’s Bobbie Johnson is absolutely right when he says, “for all that Valley-centric news junkies claim Techmeme as a crucial aggregator, it simply doesn’t refer much traffic.” It’s true. I’ve had quite a few headlines sit fairly prominently on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}