#tumblr statistics

[just-a-blog-for-polls]

*Not asking if you know how to knit but if you do it or not

[ao3statistics]

Here you go! Date: 21.01.2024, 739 people voted (including me haha).

25 people had no idea what I was talking about in the poll... that's... a lot?

And YES, I'm aware that this blog is called "Ao3"statistics and not "Tumblr"statistics but the results are interesting, I think.

Personally I expected Jason or Dick to win.

And sorry for those whose favourite is Duke... I wasn't sure if I should include him or not.

Since the percentages added up result in 100,1% I assume that Tumblr rounded some of them up.

I assume no guarantee or liability for the completeness, correctness and accuracy of this chart despite my best efforts.

More charts will follow. :)

Want to have a chart for different pairings, headcanons etc. in your favourite fandom? Send me an ask!

[hollerite]

One of my favorite things about tumblr is that its literally impossible to tell how famous anyone is on it, since follower counts aren't visible and most people dont talk about their metrics much. Like, i just checked my tumblr statistics page, and apparently i got 4000 notes this month. Is that a good amount? Normal amount? Low? No way of knowing and i think thats beautiful.

[sailoreuterpe]

Tumblr Stats Game

Using this site, find your top ten posts.

From there, find and share your:

Favorite post:

Least-favorite post:

Post that haunts you (mentally):

Post that haunts you (notes-wise):

Post that blew up unexpectedly:

Post that people misunderstood entirely:

Post that you’re especially proud of:

Feel free to add comments or context!

[grieving-angel-hopeful-demon]

Hey!

For all the people who were sad that Tumblr didn't do a your year in review:

Have fun

[dracolupus628]

Ok, so I'm curious- do y'all like apple cider? I cannot live without it, but apparently my mother can't drink any apple juice or cider because it gives her a headache. Also, do you prefer it hot, cold, or both?

[electaaaaa]

poll 2 electric boogaloo

Reblog or whatever the fuck people say now about polls ig

[oregano-gremlin]

just curious

[tumbler-polls]

For USAmericans: height converter

[guiltyidealist]

On your MOST FOLLOWED blog on Tumblr,

[prokopetz]

I'm not gonna claim that most Tumblr polls are anything like rigorously structured, but I've seen a lot of folks rather smugly asserting that having a "not applicable" option that ends up dominating all other responses is evidence that the person who created the poll is incompetent, and y'all: under the specific circumstances in which these polls are constructed and distributed, that outcome is evidence of good poll design, not bad poll design. Yes, even when the "not applicable" responses outnumber all other responses ten to one. There are several reasons for that:

At the time of this posting, Tumblr polls have no "see response" button. The only ways to see a poll's distribution of responses are to wait for the poll to conclude, or to respond yourself – and not only are people on social media typically curious and impatient, many of them also know that there's no way they'll remember to check back later once the poll has concluded, so in practice, their opportunity to see the results is now or never. Adding a little note to the poll insisting that people who aren't part of the targeted demographic should refrain from voting isn't necessarily going to restrain that impulse. Indeed, it may end up encouraging folks who otherwise wouldn't have picked a random result-revealing response to do so, because fuck you, don't tell me what to do.

Many respondents genuinely won't realise they're not part of the targeted demographic until after they've voted. It doesn't matter how much text you add to contextualise the poll, because they'll read the poll first, and if they read the accompanying text at all, it's only after they've responded. Heck, a lot of folks don't even bother to read the question before responding to a poll; they just start going down the options and reflexively click the first one that seems like it might apply to them, then go back and read what was actually being asked (and complain in the notes if it turns out that they misunderstood). Even a well-meaning person can only comply with instructions they've actually read; for those folks, clicking the "not applicable" option is what compliance looks like.

Even folks who do fit your poll's targeted demographic can fall prey to the imp of the perverse. Giving the most accurate response rather than the most entertaining one can be a real struggle for a lot of folks; in scientific analysis of polling data, this is known as the "mischievous responder bias". In an informal setting like Tumblr, it's reasonable to suppose that the mischievous responder effect might be exaggerated compared to polls conducted in more formal contexts, and a well-designed poll is going to take that into account. A humorous "not applicable" option provides an escape by affording folks the freedom to screw around with the knowledge that they're not polluting useful data by doing so; in practice, the "I am a toaster" option is a mischievous response filter.

What this adds up to is that a poll where 90% of the responses hit the "not applicable" button is more likely to have yielded useful data than a poll with a narrow target audience where some unknown percentage of the responses represent folks not reading the instructions, clicking random options to see the results, and/or taking the piss.

[tmblrstatistics]

so given all the changes tumblr staff are making to the website based on how users interact with the site and how new users are predicted to interact with the site i wanted to know what those numbers are currently.

based on the data i've collected, reblogs make up about 32,65% of the total notes on any given post. these are very preliminary results however but they show a clear trend.

with the website going the way it does things like this will incentivise staff to think that tumblr should go the same way as other social media sites, meaning likes being more important than other interactions with posts.

i was looking for entirely randomised data for the information so it was taken indiscriminately from the trending page. 100 posts were sampled, the amount of notes on a post varied from 49 to 129k. all types of interactions with a post were sampled. likes made up about 67,26% of the notes and replies about 0,083%.

[sassydefendorflower]

AO3 Subscribers Poll

(please reblog and share for a bigger reach <3)

[hedgehog-moss]

That viral video from last month of a giraffe pushing a tortoise was interesting to me because I saw it in French & Spanish corners of the internet and everyone was referring to the animals in the video as 'she' since giraffe & tortoise are feminine words, meanwhile on the English-speaking internet I saw a minority of people referring to them as 'it' or 'they', an overwhelming majority using masculine words, and almost no one use 'she'

Similarly romance language speakers humanised these animals using women's names while English speakers used men's names:

And of course it would have been different had the giraffe been an elephant (masculine word) but yeah I find it interesting that when it comes to personifying animals and things, speakers of gendered languages will go 50% masculine 50% feminine due to grammatical gender, while speakers of a non-gendered language with a neutral pronoun will go like 80% masculine 18% neutral 2% feminine.

It must feel weird to learn a gendered language and have to accept that a door is 'she', but it also feels weird to learn a non-gendered language like English and then scroll down hundreds of comments under an animal video and all the animals are 'he'. I'm reminded of a cartoon I saw on tumblr once with a speaking lightbulb, and all the comments referred to it as 'he' and a 'guy' (in french & spanish, people would call it she.) I wonder how it affects the way you frame the world in your mind? you ask a French kid to personify a spoon or a mouse or a raindrop, it's going to be a female character by default. I feel like that's something English speakers rarely consider—that compared to languages that are 'visibly', officially gendered in a 50/50 way, English is less neutral, and more masculine-gendered. When anglophones learn about grammatical gender they tend to react like "why is a chair a 'she' that's absurd?", but when the context calls for it they'll call a lightbulb 'he' without thinking about it