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10am update: "London City Airport Approach" is now only my 16th least viewed photo.
Next, puffins!
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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The high number of hits for the new years fireworks on the eye is obvious.. The BBC published it!
But I often wonder the same on my flickr stream. I have no idea why some of mine with the highest view counts have that number of views!
Fimb | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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The BBC may have published it, but they never linked to it. Nobody arrived at the photo page via that route.
11am update: "Puffin edge" is now only my 5th least viewed photo. Next, a big tree!
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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Well the fireworks is a fab shot so I can see why it's been viewed so many times. I think it's a certainty that it ended up on Flickr's explore page, and once an image gets on there, things quickly get a bit manic.
Gerald | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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12 noon update: "Autumn leaves" is now only my 13th least viewed photo. Next, a dark 38!
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 12:02 p.m. | #
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1pm update: "Green Park" is now only my 8th least viewed photo. Next, a new station!
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 1:04 p.m. | #
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2pm update: My Langdon Park photos remain my least viewed (because I only uploaded them 2 hours ago, obviously).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 2:04 p.m. | #
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4pm update: It's only taken three hours to lift my three "Langdon Park DLR" photos out of the relegation zone.
My "London City Airport approach" photo, barely viewed at breakfast, has now topped 100 views.
And my "Elton John's house" photo has now overtaken the number of views that my "London Eye fireworks" photo had first thing this morning.
(Look, I care, even if you're not interested)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 4:02 p.m. | #
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Seeing as you care could I point out that although the time of the most viewed photo has been updated it is still billed as the fireworks entry.
dg writes: My most viewed photograph is still the firework one. Elton's catching up, but the London Eye has accelerated away.
And if you click on the Rupert Street entry you get the autumn leaves picture.
dg writes: Damn. Now fixed.
Pedantic of Purley | 09.12.07 - 4:41 p.m. | #
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How do you get the stats on which photos are the least popular? Sorting by the number of views will only give you, well, me looking at mine, the top 200.
dg writes: The slow way, by scanning through all 1920 photos, 18 at a time.
Mark | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 5:59 p.m. | #
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7pm update: My "Skegness seafront" photo has leapt out of my 20 least-viewed list.
Next, more Skeggy.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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I enjoyed the City airport runway view rather more than the Eye photo - perhaps given that I can see the latter from both my office and my house (though without fireworks)
NJB | 09.12.07 - 8:02 p.m. | #
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So what's the general idea? To even out the number of viewings by getting readers to add views to the lesser looked at pictures? Seems a strange way to render the stats even more meaningless just because the figures cannot easily be explained in the first place. After all just because a photo did not register a view does not mean it was not seen.
stroppycow | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 8:45 p.m. | #
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It's an experiment, that's all. So far it's been very interesting to see what I can persuade people to look at, and what I can't.
9pm update: "Under the Bridge" is no longer one of my 10 least-viewed photos.
Next, a photo from my least popular Flickr set.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 9:04 p.m. | #
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i dig the NYE 2006 photo. i'm a sucker for photos of fireworks. nice work.
minijonb | Homepage | 10.12.07 - 12:14 a.m. | #
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12 midnight update: A little persuasion and you lot will look at anything, even photos that nobody had looked at for weeks or even months previously. Good, because some of those photos had been sorely overlooked.
On my "least viewed" list you were most tempted by my City Airport and Langdon Park DLR photos - the most recent ones.
And the gap between my two most viewed photos (the Eye and Elton) has increased nearly threefold.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.12.07 - 12:28 a.m. | #
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A great article this DG. I am only seeing this on Monday morning, but it makes for quite interesting reading.
I too have often wondered why some of my photos don't get viewed, even though they are pretty decent/interesting. I did have one photo shooting up through the ranks from the first day I put it on. Billed as 'Naked Statue' (now Twins by Antony Gormley) this particular snap has had the third most views and is the second most recent photo of mine. Yet, my best photo on my flickr (IMO) is the Chicago Cloud Gate which no-one seems to want to view! Maybe I should call it 'Naked Cloud Gate'. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheyc/
SheyMouse | Homepage | 10.12.07 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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The best way to get people to view one'e flickr photos I've found is to join lots of groups and post relevant photos to the group.
My most viewed photo (218 views) was one I submitted to the group 24hours of flickr which has over 20,000 members.
I've seen some profiles of users who are members of literally hundreds of groups. Who has time for so many photos ?
DG: How about a followup on YouTube?
We'll watch anything of yours
Jon Allen | Homepage | 12.12.07 - 4:52 a.m. | #
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Typical.
Four days after I calculate my list of least-viewed photos by slogging through my entire photostream page by page, Flickr introduces a stats package that ranks all 2000-odd photos automatically.
And my least viewed photo is now an Olympic Park pylon.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.12.07 - 7:52 p.m. | #
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