Virality on Facebook
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virality on facebook 0 to 1MM in 4 weeks
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virality on facebook 0 to 1MM in 4 weeks0 to 6MM in 9 weeks
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alexander lesiqi chen
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why virality matters
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numbers
6,000,000 pages / day
1,400,000 users
300,000 daily active
80,000 new users / day
2 people
10 days (part time)
2 months
$0 marketing
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why a platform?
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how ideas spread
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media social
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media distribution print
blogsbanners
televisionradio
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media distribution
expensiveuntargetted
untrusted
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social distributionreferrals
interactionsrecommendations
invitations
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social distributioncheaper
fastertrustedscalable
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what enablessocial distribution?
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the social graphenables social distribution
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facebook applicationsphotos
eventsgroups
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facebook photos
8.5MM photos per day (june 2006)more than next 3 sites combinedless features than the other guys
why?
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social graph > features
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your friends and their photos
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cool whiz bang feature x
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facebook’s stated mission is tomodel the social graph in digital form as
accurately and completely as possible.
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the facebook platform exposes
the social graph to everybodywith an idea, enabling rapid socialdistribution of new applications.
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facebook applicationsphotos
eventsgroups
your application here
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choosing the idea
is it social?
is it engaging?is it universal?
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is it social?
so that it’s viral
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is it engaging?
so that it’s ... uhengaging.
and monetizatable
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is it universal?
so that it has potential
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special considerations
“If you want to get rich, make aporn site. If you want to get reallyrich, make something that helps
people get laid in real life.”
- Paraphrased from Paul Graham
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new applicationfriends for sale
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friends for saleit’s
... hot or not with a market economy
... a dating app without ‘dating’
... kinda kinky
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social
buy and sell your friends
direct user to user interaction
every touch point is a viral channel
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engaging
virtual economy with a twist
low pressure social interactions... and flirting
makes for a great, cynical dating app
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universal
everybody is vain
everybody has a price
everybody wants to flirt with hotpeople
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metrics for virality
for every new user
how many new users do they convert?
> 1.4 is exponential growth
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virality in depth
for every new user,
track ...
# of invites # of notifications # of minifeed items
# of profile clicks # ... other channels
for every channel,...
% clicked% converted % uninstalls
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virality in depth
for every new user,
track ...
# of invites # of notifications # of minifeed items
# of profile clicks # ... other channels
for every channel,...
% clicked% converted % uninstalls
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scalability
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scalability
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scalability
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“... unless you’re onFacebook.”
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scaling is a requirement0 - 1 million pages / day in 4 weeks
... is pretty slow on Facebook
Don’t be this guy:
“We need servers. Anything you can spare, and we needthem NOW. We’ve doubled our servers and doubledagain and Facebook just eats them up.” - Ali Partovi (iLike’s CEO)
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scaling
memcached, memcached, MEMCACHED
good hardware, well configured
good host (Softlayer ROCKS)
you NEED an awesome MySQL DBA
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development
ruby on rails
(in the top 5 largest installations on the internet, by page views)
rfacebook
(good for getting started, but had to write our own for
maintainability and performance)
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does rails scale?dumb question, but I guess.
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architectures scale,
frameworks don’tanything scales on the right architecture.
focus on the architecture and operations.
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the future
the platform is six months old.
movement towards engaging, deep apps.
the landscape is wide open.
what did the web look like six months into it?
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the end.
questions?