So, here’s a recent self-portrait that I shot for 365 Days. I took this one on Friday night and posted it on Saturday morning sort of expecting it to get a couple hundred views and maybe a handful of favorites (my jump shots usually get decent responses). There usually isn’t much Flickr activity on the weekends, so I didn’t think much would happen with this photo.
I was wrong.
Within the first couple hours of posting it, I got nearly 100 views and 10 favorites with a few comments thrown in. I left to go to Oktoberfest, and a few hours later, when some Flickrites showed up, they told me it had hit #1 on Explore. Hitting #1 that quickly usually means that there was a sudden rush of activity on the photo, and that normally doesn’t last very long. I figure that by the time I got back home later that night, it wouldn’t be anywhere on Explore.
Again, I was wrong.
Just about 12 hours after I posted the image, it was at 770 views, 74 favorites, and 61 comments. It was sitting firmly at #3 on Explore at that time. However, I figured that it was a slow weekend what with all of the end-of-summer activities happening and that it would be off Explore by Sunday morning.
Way off.
Overnight, the views shot up past 2000, there were over 100 faves, and I lost track of the comments. I watched the numbers on it throughout the day, and views, faves, and comments just kept increasing. It bounced around the top 10 on Explore, peaking at #2 and usually sitting somewhere between #8-15.
As of this writing (almost 1am Monday morning), it’s at 4070 views, 142 comments (a few of those are my responses), 260 faves, and #11 on Explore. It’s also become my “most interesting” photo. So much for my theory about slow weekends on Flickr.
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