Comments on: The Hype Machine’s New Twitter Music Chart Is Too Easy To RickRoll

By: The Machine is Just Hype. | Salacious Sound

The Machine is Just Hype. | Salacious Sound — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:47:49 +0000

[...] greater influence based on their number of followers. This makes it susceptible to the influence of those with a large twitter following. One tweet by Shaq and you are at the top of the charts? Quick, someone tell Shaq he can revive his [...]

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By: Busted Keys

Busted Keys — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:10 +0000

i like the recent conversations about charts and integrity. however we need to discern what these charts are for. Billboard for instance is based on units sold. The Hype Machine’s Twitter Music Chart seems to be based on views/readership. while We Are Hunted looks to be based on positive blogs/reviews out there. in effect, all my above mentioned charts are available to game and the debate to measure real popularity may be a cross-referenced search of them all.

By: Hype Machine lança Technorati musical do Twitter | Remixtures

Hype Machine lança Technorati musical do Twitter | Remixtures — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:13:06 +0000

[...] fácil alguém muito influente na Twittosfera desequilibrar a tabela. Foi o que Erick Schonfeld do TechCrunch fez. Ao usar a conta do blog de tecnologia no Twitter (com mais de um milhão de followers), [...]

By: Pinky

Pinky — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:13:57 +0000

Too easy to RickRoll?

Except for the little problem of trying to get 916,735 followers on your Twitter account.

By: TechCrunch rickrolls the Hype Machine « Music Machinery

TechCrunch rickrolls the Hype Machine « Music Machinery — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:17:14 +0000

[...] Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give you Up at the top of the Hype Machine Twitter chart. Erick writes “The Hype Machine’s formula is flawed. No single person should be able to affect the [...]

By: Tom Davenport

Tom Davenport — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:06:34 +0000

I had a conversation with @haynes_dave of Soundcloud about how it would be easy to game this twitter chart. He pointed out something I hadn’t realised:

This is a chart of how many potential readers have seen about the track. So in this case, more people potentially will have read about the rick astley song.

For The Hype Machine, this makes sense. It’s about measuring ‘hype’, or how much promotion a track has got. So it’s easy to game, but the chart is a measurement, not a means to itself.

Get me? It is a MEASUREMENT, so it is still valid for what it is.

By: alexander capoccia

alexander capoccia — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:58:26 +0000

It would seem the only way to correct this is by weighting the algorithm based on twitter’s median user metrics, imho.

http://en.wikip...l_curve_grading

Speaking of which, anyone know where to find updated averages of twitter’s user-base?

By: Tilipirke

Tilipirke — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:29:11 +0000

Shouldn’t a song’s popularity on Twitter be linked to how many times it gets retweeted?

By: igniguy

igniguy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:51:58 +0000

or any kind of taste for that matter

By: Clever Commenting Name

Clever Commenting Name — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:58:36 +0000

Better yet, we could let Rick rest in peace. Maybe then the RickRoll would become funny again.

…on second thought, it becoming funny again is as likely to happen as Michael Arrington professing his love for the former heads of Last.fm.

By: Raj

Raj — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:27:46 +0000

And just because one has many twitter followers is no indication of musical taste.

By: twitter luver

twitter luver — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:24:06 +0000

We Are Hunted has a much much cooler Twitter Music Chart. WAH rocks!

By: igniguy

igniguy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:24:01 +0000

hey erick, can you tweet a song for me?

By: Hans Kainz

Hans Kainz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:07:41 +0000

Forget about the hype machine. Take a look at tweet-tunes.com – The Top 20 Realtime Twitter Music Charts!

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:06:17 +0000

Geez, Astley never had this many fans when his music was actually new.

By: DaTruff

DaTruff — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:03:47 +0000

Great! Ashton Kutcher is now the arbiter of online music charts. I can’t wait until he games the charts with “Popo Zao” without a trace of irony…

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:01:36 +0000

Using your twitter account to tweet out links to crappy songs so you can push them up to the top of the charts is one way to lose followers.

By: Joe Dawson

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:49:54 +0000

We need to keep Rick Astley number one people

By: HardyHar

HardyHar — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:21:41 +0000

Nice “formula” that’s either the result of someone never attending a university and taking a single decent mathematics course with proofs or the marketing guy… I really really hope its the marketing guy.

so kids where does your 1/3…0.5…10…10 come from? if you marked D out of your arse you’d be correct!

By: Samuel Ryan

Samuel Ryan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:19:33 +0000

There’s typos everywhere Erick, get out your spell checker!

Also, it’s not rickrolling if they knowingly visit the video. Rickrolling is tricking someone into watching the video, not just mentioning the video somewhere. Learn your memes, Erick!

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:06:30 +0000

Exactly, this is going to be overrun by Twitter spammers.

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:05:47 +0000

Who reads comments?

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:05:18 +0000

I’ll say! That’s what four nights in a row with less than 4 hours sleep will do to ya.