Facebook Experiment Conclusion

The experiment didn't exactly go as planned, and I think the fact that I conceived, planned, and executed it within two hours could have contributed to its demise. The entire point of my exercise was to see how far and how quickly something can spread on Facebook. There is no other way (that I know of) to measure the note-sharing than to do what I did.

I like data and wanted to see the numbers grow. I expected more than 30 to respond, from all of Facebook. Turns out that my idea wasn't so well received as I'd hoped it would be.

Anyway, here are the final numbers, as the experiment is finished today with dwindling results:

30 Absolute Unique Visitors
All sourced from Facebook except for my own direct entry
Every visitor was from US or Canada (only one Canadian)

Overall result:



And by the way - if you want to shoot those numbers up, tell all your friends to go to http://fb.49times.com. There they can read all about it and continue the experiment, though I won't be watching or reporting on it unless it blows up as I had expected it to the first time.