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I think Trends is going to be very fun for people to play with. I knew these three bands were popular on Tumblr, but I’m fascinated to see that their mentions largely rise and fall together. I suppose some of it could be due to overall rises and falls in posting volumes from day to day, but I doubt that explains all of it.
Also, tumbleloggers certainly love themselves some Animal Collective.
Marc, it looks like the data is simply following a recurring weekly pattern (you’ll need to account for the Christmas/New Years holiday as well). If you overlaid a graph of total posts per day over this graph, I suspect you’d see a similar (though much smoother) cycle. When I was at Amazon.com, Monday’s were always the biggest days, since people are back at work but don’t feel like working.
As you can see from...post by matt, legal issues…...can’t...
Seems to fit: just going by eye, if you yank out the big concurrent spikes coming from joelaz’ last.fm top 5 Tumblr...
Marc, it looks like the big spikes in this graph coincide with the days that my automated Last.fm Tumblr feed...
Marc, it looks like the data...simply following a recurring weekly pattern (you’ll...