The Stumbleupon effect

Filed Under (Random!) by Monkee on 17-04-2008

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StumbleUpon?

Whats that?

Another social media group that you want me to join? I already have 12 to keep track of. What is so different about this one? Oh, it has a cool tool bar. That’s great. Look dude I’m drowning here as it is I don’t want a new site that’ll give me a few hits a day. Ok I’ll join, stop crying and throwing chairs at me.

That was the conversation that I had with a friend of mine. The day after I joined I installed the tool bar. I was amazed at how easy it was to share a website that I liked with a friend, kinda cool.

Then one of my pages was stumbled. 600 hits in 3 hours, I was hooked. I stumbled a few pages from a site that I usually go to and saw that they were reviewed dozens of times. Cool, there are people with some of the same interests. The I started stumbling posts that others submitted that’s when I was hooked. I can’t stop, there is so much out there on the compu-web that I have never seen. My new friends at SU have laid a digital buffet before me and who am I to resist.

So here I sit, writing this in the small breaks between stumbling. I haven’t showered or shaved in three days and the lower half of my body has fallen asleep. But I have to read Zoomer33’s profile and then stumble pages about Nigerian oil wells.

So, dear reader, if you don’t hear from me for a few days know that I’ll be on StumbleUpon. Out here in blog-o-dome.

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15 Responses to “The Stumbleupon effect”

  1. Janette Toral on 17 Apr 2008 at 3:31 pm #

    Hi there. I agree with you that StumbleUpon is one of the best sites out there that allows active users to submit interesting content and drive traffic. It feels great whenever people thank you for driving visitors to a site that is worthy of getting more attention. Cheers!

  2. Monkee on 17 Apr 2008 at 3:48 pm #

    Since I wrote that post SU sent me 100000 hits. It wasnt because of the post but I got excited over 600.

    If you really like SU, drop them a note and tell them. I did and they were very appreciative.

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/feedback.php

  3. UnknownReality on 17 Apr 2008 at 6:31 pm #

    First of all thanks for the thumbs up on my stumbles! I’m just getting started.
    I love Stumbleupon already, but I’m experiencing sensory overload because there are so many amazing things already stumbled by great stumblers like you.
    I just wish they would fix the Firefox toolbar already!!! I also think they could improve the video part of the site. So far Searchles.com has the best video mashup that I’ve seen.

  4. Nawor on 18 Apr 2008 at 1:20 am #

    My firedfox toolbar is a-ok?…I am pretty sure that I posted already…. Hmmmmm *curious*

  5. Top Stumbles - Best of StumbleUpon on 18 Apr 2008 at 9:03 am #

    The Stumbleupon effect | Monkeychapps…

    StumbleUpon? Whats that? Another social media group that you want me to join? I already have 12 to keep track of. What is so different about this one?…

  6. Geoserv on 18 Apr 2008 at 9:04 am #

    STUMBLED!

    Good post.

    VOTED for you at:
    http://www.newsdots.com/industrynews/the-stumbleupon-effect-monkeychapps/

  7. Monkee on 18 Apr 2008 at 9:23 am #

    Thanks!

  8. kisbagoly on 18 Apr 2008 at 1:38 pm #

    Anyone who has ever stumbled can relate. You turn on the computer….sit down in your chair….you think to yourself that you will just check your e-mail….(because you need to be up early the next day for work)….the next thing you know it is 4:00am and your eyes are dry and bleeding….yet you stumble on. You keep pushing that stumble button like a rat getting a shot of cocaine in an undergraduate science experiment. Sad…but true.

  9. Watch Weeds Free Online on 18 Apr 2008 at 2:39 pm #

    SU was my biggest traffic source when I used to blog before.

  10. Monkee on 18 Apr 2008 at 3:13 pm #

    They have sent me 267,000 in the last 4 months. I love it for that but mostly the realy cool people and sites that I have encountered.

  11. cvrle77 on 19 Apr 2008 at 1:18 am #

    Hi there. My record is 11.543 unique visits and 24.033 page views in 24h just from SU,and just on one of mine posts… I think it depends on who stumble your page, and how.And also how interesting your post is. It’s not enough just to click thumb up and review the page for true SU effect. For example that site attached on my name got 2000 yesterday,don’t know how or who stumbled it first.

    Hehe,i’m stalking you again :P.

  12. goose on 24 Apr 2008 at 4:19 pm #

    damn, man. youve really bumped up on the blog tree

  13. Monkee on 24 Apr 2008 at 4:52 pm #

    How do you mean?

  14. How Stumblupon changed the blog-o-dome | Monkeychapps on 4 May 2008 at 9:52 am #

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  15. WTJ on 10 Jul 2008 at 1:49 am #

    Yes, It’s my favourite social tool for years already!

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