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    22/10/11

  1. Is tumblr a bot fest?

    I constantly get relatively high number of likes on a lot of my posts. Everytime I click on the profile of those likers I see either :

    1. Empty tumblr blog with a lot of likes and a lot of people that are followed
    2. Very active tumblr blog with insane number of reblogs (like every 10 mins) and no original posts.
    3. Spammers (most often porn)

    Also the names of those users are rediculous; always some weird words with numbers at the end. Wtf? Obviously my posts are not as good as I thought they are and most of those likers are bots.

    And than I see tumblr related news on sites like techcrunch:

    ”Tumblr does 250 million pageviews in one day”

    ”Tumblr is a pageview machine, now bigger than wikipedia”

    Their traffic also looks insane:

    I realise that not all that traffic is produced by bots. But exactly how much of these impressive statistics are bot-shinanigans?

    0.1 % ? 1 % ? 10 % ?! On my blog, the precentage of bot-visitors are, by my judgement, is as high as 2/3.

    This is a very serious question, especially considering that tumblr recently closed a 85 million $ funding round based on pageviews alone.

    All this is mind-boggling for me and if someone could explain this ‘bot’ thing to me I would very much appreciate.

    How much of total page traffic are bots? Do they even count? Whats google take on this? Do investors really know real visitor-bot ratio? Have you seen the similar trend on your tumblr blog? Am I the only real human on tumblr ? :)

    EDIT: This post has generated so much interest and sparked so many discussions even Techcrunch wrote an article about this. Hell yeah :P

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  1. tkeeney reblogged this from svenduplic
  2. itomek reblogged this from svenduplic and added:
    Ech też mnie to niesamowicie denerwuje :/ Aż musiałem wyłączyć na froncie pokazywanie
  3. edham-arief reblogged this from svenduplic and added:
    Been seeing these...other tumbler (technotalk)
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  6. picturestill said: same, it’s crazy!
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