Celebrating 90,000 more favorites
April 28th, 2008
"We now have a new reporting system," Xerpi's marketing director told me
last month. She crunched the numbers and made an amazing discovery.
Xerpi's users have saved over 90,000 favorites!!!
And there's a surprising amount of variety in there. When we dug a little deeper, we learned that over 35,906 different web sites now have a page that's somebody's favorite on Xerpi!
Take a deep breath and think about that number for a second. There are over 100 million web sites in the world (according to numbers reported on CNN a little over a year ago.) If that's true, then Xerpi's users have already pulled off an amazing feat. They've already amassed links to .035% of all the web sites in the world!
Plus, these favorites are scattered across over 12,554 different user-created blocks. And Xerpi's busy user community didn't stop there. They've even created a whopping 6,896 tags — just to describe all the favorites!
I say "Xerpi's user community," but of course I mean — you! These numbers are a reminder that whether you realize it or not, you're part of something larger.
A community — and an ongoing moment in internet history.