The MyDD Top Twenty-Five

by Chris Bowers, Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 05:50:07 PM EST

For reasons that I can barely grasp, I just spent the last three hours going through the most popular tags on both MyDD and Dailykos. I have compiled the compelte results in a PDF which you can view here, sorted by most popular overall, most popular issues, and most popular people:

MyDD and Dailykos Tag Popularity

It is hardly a complete study, but I just don't have the time to go any further with this today. I did spend a lot of time determining which twenty-five people have been talked about most frequently on MyDD, and I think the rankings are quite fun. For every person, I added together all of the many tags that refer to that person. The number in parenthesis indicates who often a person is talked about in relation to the most talked about person:
  1. George Bush (100.0)
  2. Joe Lieberman (63.0)
  3. Ned Lamont (57.9)
  4. Hillary Clinton (35.9)
  5. Barack Obama (30.4)
  6. John Edwards (26.9)
  7. Nancy Peolosi (24.2)
  8. John McCain (19.2)
  9. Dick Cheney (17.4)
  10. Jim Webb (16.7)
  11. Howard Dean (16.5)
  12. Al Gore (15.2)
  13. Russ Feingold (13.9)
  14. Rahm Emanuel (12.6)
  15. George Allen (12.3)
  16. Mark Foley (12.2)
  17. Karl Rove (11.9)
  18. John Kerry (10.1)
  19. William Jefferson (9.9)
  20. Eric Massa (9.2)
  21. Tom DeLay (8.6)
  22. Patrick Murphy (7.7)
  23. Jon Tester (7.1)
  24. Bill Clinton (6.8)
  25. Mark Warner (6.5)
Keep in mind that MyDD only introduced the tagging system thirteen months ago, so these rankings only reflect that time frame. Maybe I will do more of this later on. Anyway, check out the full "study" here.

Update: Some shoddy work on my part. Harry Reid is actually 14th, with 117 stories for 12.7%, and Wesley Clark is actually just ahead of Mark Warner, with 62 stories for 6.7%. So I guess it is a top 27.




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Re: The MyDD top Twenty-Five (none / 0)

Any sense what portion of the DailyKos/MyDD universe uses tagging? It seems like the vast majority to me, but I'm just wondering if there might be more of one person or another that just isn't tagged.


by afertig on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 06:01:24 PM EST

Re: The MyDD top Twenty-Five (none / 0)

Daily Kos has an active "tag police," so diaries are pretty consistently tagged.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 06:05:11 PM EST
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Your obsession with numbers (none / 0)

and polls is phenomenal.


by saguaro on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 07:23:20 PM EST

Re: The MyDD Top Twenty-Five (none / 0)

Would be interesting to plot these by month.  Is the data available to cross reference tag totals by date?


by fwiffo on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 07:55:20 PM EST

Re: The MyDD Top Twenty-Five (none / 0)

No, not here, but maybe elsewhere.


by Jerome Armstrong on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 09:19:48 PM EST
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Re: The MyDD Top Twenty-Five (3.00 / 2)

What I find interesting is that Eric Massa shows up more than Wesley Clark. In fact, Wes isn't even on the list. I thought he had a great deal more support than that. Funny.


by sayhar on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 10:45:07 PM EST

Re: The MyDD Top Twenty-Five (3.00 / 1)

I agree that the absence of Wes Clark on this list is extremely odd.  Any explanation?


by mgmrochester on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 11:10:01 PM EST
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Re: The MyDD Top Twenty-Five (3.00 / 1)

There must be some kind of math error.  I see 5 diaries with the Eric Massa tag on dkos.  Wesley Clark has dozens and dozens of hits.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Fri Mar 02, 2007 at 01:12:05 AM EST
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Topic Swarms (none / 0)

What is really interesting is the extent to which people who are swarmed with tons of posts in a particular time frame can really swamp the list.

Mark Foley and William Jefferson are the prime examples of it. I wonder if you would need two hands to count the number of MyDD posts on Foley before the sex predation story broke. Likewise with Jefferson, pre-freezer o' money.

--Matt Browner-Hamlin


by PhiloTBG on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 11:01:21 PM EST


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