Fun! Current major news events (good, bad or in between) seem to do good for our readership stats in general. Happy to see this info here. Can you write up a brief for the upcoming Research Newsletter?
Pine On Oct 24, 2015 2:01 PM, "Jeff Elder" <[email protected]> wrote: > Friday morning I saw a tweet > <https://twitter.com/wxbrad/status/657533140756504576> from a TV > meteorologist exclaiming at the speed of edits to the Hurricane Patricia > article page on Wikipedia. That struck me, and we tweeted about the updates > several times as #Patricia went viral, including this tweet > <https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/657620646843707393> containing a > public domain GIF of the storm on satellite. > > The GIF tweet was #1 in media views, #3 in gaining new followers for our > account, and #5 in engagements over the past 12 months. (Fear not: I am > *very* conservative about tweeting GIFs. Thank you, Michael, for > encouraging the experiment.) > > Our Patricia tweets are roughly corollated to spikes on the article's page > views, but that's not due to a surge of clickthroughs. I'd like to think it > helped. (See attached.) The page went from nothing to 100K views in 24 > hours, as James noted > <https://twitter.com/jamesofur/status/657807415203729409> on Twitter. We > hopped on the page's back for a ride, not the other way around. > > But we got in that viral conversation, helped to demonstrate that news > unfolds on Wikipedia, and underscored our real-time relevance. (We're not > just waiting here for you to look weird stuff up.) > > The Twitter bot @wikipediatrends <https://twitter.com/WikipediaTrends> > tweets page view spikes. I've subscribed to notifications so we can > continue to be opportunistic. Zack mentioned perhaps becoming a stock tile > or recommended account in Twitter Moments or another social media starter > kit for media. I'm working on it. I'm also beginning to look into Snapchat > possibilities. > > Welcome any suggestions of real-time conversations to jump into, or ways > to do it better. > > Thanks much, > > Jeff Elder > Digital communications manager > Wikimedia Foundation > 704-650-4130 > @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> > @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> > The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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