A brief update on how our new (and somewhat unusual for us) project is doing.
The site was visited by 225,000 people, who viewed its pages 731,000 times and shared it on social media 3,059 times. At peak, there were as many as 6,500 visitors on the site at the same time.
Most importantly, the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. People are saying this is something they need and that they plan to use it.
There has been some negative feedback too, but most of it comes down to “why am I / why is this person not on the list?” Aside from one small mistake on our part (more on that below), this is because our rankings, for example the Twitter one, are not some ultimate list set in stone—they’re highly dynamic.
It’s a popularity ranking based on the last 30 days. That means it is very current and very much alive. It changes every day. Post a tweet tomorrow that thousands of people like, and you’ll immediately jump up in our ranking. Stop posting, and you’ll drop just as quickly.
A celebrity with 5 million followers simply because they’re famous has no advantage in our ranking if they’re just a celebrity and don’t actually post on Twitter.
We’ve received quite a lot of feedback, so here are answers to the most common questions and requests:
— Will you add other social networks (YouTube, Facebook, VKontakte)?
— We’re considering it, but adding each social network requires a lot of technical work and ranking calibration, so we’re not going to make any promises yet.
— Will there be a mobile app?
— For now, we can see that the mobile version of the site works just as well as the desktop version, and we invite everyone to use it.
— Many people have written to us about video playback issues on iPhones in Safari and on other devices in Chrome. We’re already working on it and will definitely fix it.
— Owners of various Telegram channels have been telling us that their channels are not appearing in the ranking, even though they have a lot of views. It’s worth clarifying that view count is not the only metric we use when building the ranking. Still, just to be safe, we’ll double-check that everyone who wrote to us is included in the ranking and will be taken into account going forward.
— It turned out that we were not indexing Twitter accounts that had “closed” their feeds to outside visitors at some point during the past year, and then opened them again later (for example, Katya Klep and Wylsacom). We’ve already fixed this—thanks to everyone who brought it to our attention.
We’ll keep improving our trrrending, and we promise it will always be fair. Enjoy!