{"id":4769,"date":"2016-05-03T09:41:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2016-12-02T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:11:43","slug":"when-content-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2016\/05\/03\/when-content-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"When content goes viral: looking at the first 3 days of \u201cManly Health and Training\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review<\/a><\/em> (WWQR) published a previously unknown book-length work \u201cManly Health and Training,\u201d by Walt Whitman, recently discovered by Zachary Turpin. (Read more about it in a previous post<\/a>.) Minutes after it was published, The New York Times<\/em> broke the story. (We couldn\u2019t say anything until\u00a0their story launched at about 10AM, and the editors carefully timed publication to be minutes before the announcement.) From that point forward, we watched as the downloads of the content climbed. And yes, for some of us, this included watching over the weekend because it was very exciting!<\/p>\n

The use was obviously high for the journal itself, but the use for our entire repository<\/a> was massively spiked by this publication; over 91% of the traffic on our entire repository was for Walt Whitman Quarterly Review<\/em>. This illustrates the typical use of our site from April 1\u2013May 2WWQR<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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While the other items in the journal issue did not receive nearly as much use as the Whitman work and the introduction about the work, they received far more use than would be typical. Compare the first 3 days of use for a book review, bibliography, and back matter in this issue with similar items in the previous issue since being published.<\/p>\n

Downloads of current issue (29 April\u20131 May 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title<\/strong><\/td>\nTotal<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Whitman, Walt, Kinder Adams \/ Children of Adam; Iggy Pop, Alva Noto, and Tarwater, Leaves of Grass [review]<\/a><\/td>\n476<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter\/Spring 2016<\/a><\/td>\n277<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, v. 33, nos. 3\/4<\/a><\/td>\n340<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Downloads of previous issue (31 Dec 2015\u20132 May 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title<\/strong><\/td>\nTotal<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Schmidgall, Gary. Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition [review]<\/a><\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Fall 2015<\/a><\/td>\n109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, v. 33, no. 2<\/a><\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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People all over the world downloaded\u00a0this newly discovered Whitman work. The first image shows downloads of in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review<\/em> vol 33 issue 3 during\u00a0the first three days when\u00a0\u201cManly Health and Training\u201d was published.<\/p>\n

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This second map is interactive so you can see the counts by country. We will also periodically update this map with more recent data. [Update – The interactive map now shows the first 7 days of downloads.]<\/p>\n\n\n