The more a user shared links to the site, the more likely they were to win.
There was a time when we all shared links to the latest pronouncements from Ivy League econ departments.
Your actively shared links, photos, and status updates probably reach much higher than 16 percent of your friends, while more inane auto-generated posts about new friendships, wall posts, and articles you read may only be seen by your closest buddies.
The chart below shows average click-through rates on links shared on Facebook by hour and day of week.
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"Jose Nagbe, " like many of you, noted that a shared French heritage links Canada and the Ivory Coast.
She arrived in Cyprus from Georgia 15 years ago, attracted in part - she says - by the Orthodox religious links shared by Cypriots and Russians.
The app I created took statistics from the gazillions of bit.ly links shared on Twitter and figured out which news stories were most popular on the web at any given moment.
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In the last year, Digg has integrated its user accounts with Facebook and launched an effort called the "DiggBar" aimed at making it easier to take action on links shared through sites like Twitter.
As for the trend toward organizing content by both topics and the stuff your friends enjoy, you only need to look as far last year's hit news app: Flipboard, which turns the news into a more visual experience on your iPad, personalizing your experience by highlighting links shared by your online connections and topics you find interesting.
The chart below shows the volume of links being shared on Facebook by hour and day of week.
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The core concept is this: links of interest shared by one friend get clicked-though by others.
That Facebook is inferring Likes from the sharing of links, and, on top of that, not applying sentiment analysis to determine if those links are being shared for positive reasons, breaks these expectations.
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He insisted that the information he shared was publicly available, and that he had no links with weapons programmes.
Choosing iOS also means you can't make Axis your default browser, so any links you get from other apps can't be directly shared with Yahoo's mobile app.
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