Status Update

Basically, there is not much to update about. It all depends now on new people who may visit, and promote this site, so until it happens, there won’t be many new visitors. I’m still seeing a new visit here and there, but no new countries.

Day 10 Results

Today I won’t share a photo with you, as only 3 new visits were made. I hope I find a way to start the experiment again.

Day 9 Results

Here are the results for day 9:

No new countries added today.

Day 8 Results

Here are the results for today:

Not a lot of visits today, but France was added to the list.

About the Experiment – New Version

It seems my initial explanation of this experiment wasn’t good enough (perhaps not even to myself), so I will try to explain differently.

My experiment is about social networking.

Each one of us has a social network that consists of friends, family, etc. Each member of our social network has his own social network, and so on, and so on.

In this experiment, I wanted to see how my social network can connect me to people around the world. Let’s say that I live in France. My social network consists of people in France, and also some people in the UK. However, one of my friends has a friend in the US, and that friend has a friend in China, so theoretically, my social network can connect me to that person in China.

So basically, if I send a link to this site to my social network, and they send it to their social networks, I can theoretically reach most of the world, and that was my original goal.

However, I have found out that the limit here is of how people perceive the experiment, and if they don’t understand it, they won’t want to participate, and that’s what happened along the line. My social network did visit the site, and I got visits from their social network, but only up to a certain point, and now it has slowed down.

This is why I decided to expand the experiment. I will try to grab the interest of a blog, or web site, and try to get help from them, by publishing my experiment. You may claim that it will not test social networks, but rather how popular that web site is, but there is a way to work around it. I can have them ask people to send the direct link to the experiment site to their social networks. The analytics service that I use (Google Analytics) can show me how many people have arrived from the referring web site, and how many arrived by social networking. That could certainly work. Now I need to find volunteers.

Day 7 Results

Here are the results for Day 7:

A slow day, with one big country addition, as you can see, and that is Russia. Other than that, not much new. Still waiting for a breakthrough, but it looks like people don’t understand the experiment.

Day 6 Results

Finally, some improvement:

Visitors from four “new” countries have viewed the site: Finland, Germany, Colombia, and Brazil. It appears my experiment is circulating in South America, as well as in Scandinavia.

An interesting thing to note is that half of the countries have only 1 visit. I assume it means that while the first circle of people have sent a link of this site to their friends, the second circle is not that enthusiastic to forward a link to their friends, and a third circle, if exists, is probably even less enthusiastic. There are only two countries which have a significant number of visitors.

Regarding the US, still no Montana, but here is the current map:

Another interesting thing is a look at the unique visitors number throughout these six days (click to get a better view):

I’ve started the experiment on the night of the 26th (day 0). The majority of visitors came the first day, and that number declined over the next days. However, today saw an increase in numbers, and was shy just 6 visitors from the second day. Let’s see what tomorrow brings in.