Myspace + NY Times = lots of hits
So the NY Times apparently posted at 6 p.m. EDT a profile piece about Ashley Alexandra Dupre - the prostitute now famous for, um, working with Eliot Spitzer. That profile piece had a link to Dupre's MySpace page.
The "profile views" featuer on the page provides an interesting look at how the NY Times can send web traffic your way, in a hurry. An informed source who tracks these things tells me that when the story first went up, the MySpace page had about 20,000 views. At 8:30 p.m., it broke 500,000 views.
Now, at 9:41 p.m. EDT, it's over a million. More specifically, 1,265,422.
Normally, these MySpace links stop working once the media makes them public. They're disabled or made private. But since this page seems to promote Dupre's other business - the music industry - you can bet on it being up for a while. There will probably be more photos and songs uploaded to the page, too, but guess which of those two things is drawing the visitors?
(Thanks JD.)
The "profile views" featuer on the page provides an interesting look at how the NY Times can send web traffic your way, in a hurry. An informed source who tracks these things tells me that when the story first went up, the MySpace page had about 20,000 views. At 8:30 p.m., it broke 500,000 views.
Now, at 9:41 p.m. EDT, it's over a million. More specifically, 1,265,422.
Normally, these MySpace links stop working once the media makes them public. They're disabled or made private. But since this page seems to promote Dupre's other business - the music industry - you can bet on it being up for a while. There will probably be more photos and songs uploaded to the page, too, but guess which of those two things is drawing the visitors?
(Thanks JD.)
Labels: Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, media, myspace, spitzer, web traffic
posted by bp at
9:39 PM
2 Comments:
This also shows how Myspace has turned into another tool the media can use to get information on people. Since everyone is so willing to share freely about themselves, Myspace and other social networking sites are a treasure trove of personal information about someone involved in the news. You got to love the 21st Century.
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Anonymous, at 11:50 AM
Exactly! You notice that news agencies did not hesitate to use her MySpace photos. This is happening more and more, so hopefully people are cognizant of the photos of themselves online.
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bp, at 11:53 AM
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