Comments on: Liveblogging FF

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:38:41 +0000

I was following your live blogging via twitter and replying to your #ffaf.
Well done Gavin

By: Gavin Sheridan

Gavin Sheridan — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:25:59 +0000

Twitpic dont offer that breakdown Justin, so can’t answer.

@Simon They are much higher stats than I expected!

By: justinf

justinf — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:04:28 +0000

simon -> i didnt follow scribblelive to be honest. was a bit of memory hog , a bit slow…

twitter #ffaf search was a bit more lightweight.

By: Simon McGarr

Simon McGarr — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:01:50 +0000

Those are great figures to have. I admit I’m surprised. Thought ScribbleLive’s homepage aggregator suggested that the numbers watching there rarely went over 20-30 at any given moment, that doesn’t take account of people following the #ffaf tag on Twitter Search. From both the reaction since and your figures it seems as though cumulatively that was a reasonably significant audience.

By: justinf

justinf — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:59:58 +0000

and by the way – those photos. in my own case , i probably only hit them the once and moved on, as #ffaf and slugger livechat was pretty active and fast moving at times.

so the hit rates are pretty accurate versus actual people viewing – doubtful if folks were re-hitting the same photos over and over again.

By: justinf

justinf — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:56:35 +0000

would be interesting to get a breakdown by country Gavin, if possible.

it might go some way to answer some questions:

does internet technology speak to the wider diaspora outside of Ireland and engage them, or is this, for now, an exclusively irish-only phenomenon?

has the recession peaked interest amongst the irish abroad for all things political back home? if the figures are overwhelmingly “abroad” , might this be a sign of it. and if that is that case – how do we engage with the irish abroad in coming up with solutions to the problems ireland now faces.

if the figure is exclusively all irish , with little engagement abroad, the next question is therefore – how do we engage and promote ireland with the diaspora and get them engaged? how do we network with them?