With the year-end readership figures all but fiinalised and the rankings being very clear-cut, we are in a position to pose a little teaser: over the course of 2024 ...
... which are the top 5 countries-of-origin of the C@W readership?
(per blogger-stats provided by google). Answers in descending order, please.
If anyone gets this right, I shall suspect it's CU or BQ, both of whom still have admin access, much as we miss them. I couldn't have guessed myself. Clue: forget whatever you imagine to be C-O-O of the BTL commenter population, we ain't representative.
PS: someone might tell me I'm being naïve, but I can't imagine the answer is "actually they are all bots". If I'm wrong about that, it means (a) that's one helluva lot of bots out there - what are they all doing? (b) they must keep coming back a remarkable number of times - why would they do that? (c) they are quite discerning bots because they come in numbers relating to the subject-matter of individual posts, as far as I can judge.
Answers on New Year's Day.
ND
9 comments:
UK
USA
Russia
Germany
China
UK
France
Australia
USA
Italy
I'm puzzled: how could anyone know the "countries-of-origin"? Surely the best you can get is the country they are clicking from?
Because Google AI knows everything. Of course. (They've hacked the Chinese camera-transmitters hidden in all consumer electricals)
North Korea
Russia
Syria
Iran
Yemen
I’ll go for a left field set of suggestions - on the basis that these countries probably scour the internet to gather intelligence on their foes. Keep up the good work Nick - all the best!
Wait, when did CU and BQ stop contributing? 😆
I'm sure I still see them posting BTL, but it hasn't occured to me they'd not authored a post in a while 😆
UK
US
Oz
Dutch
NZ
A Merry Christmas to one and all !
I'll have a crack at:
China
USA
UK
Russia
Belarus
And there are a lot of bots out there - some building profiles, some scraping for "AI", some just people playing commentary warfare, some doing textual analysis in order to link anonymous and nom de interwebz comments with real names.
On the run-up to the Brexit vote, there were a lot of off-the-shelf bots being used to up/down vote comments on places like Mail Online. I knew someone running one, who was usually quite sensible, but was doing it because the other side were.
UK
India (I get lots of hits)
Indonesia (Guess there are a lot of Euro surfers (wave kind) keeping up with 'events')
US (Florida - maybe there are many VPN point of presence there ?
Nederlands (They like a smoke and a pancake)
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