Is Chatroulette great?
For 3 months, Habré publishes notes on a unique video chat service created by a 17 year old guy from Moscow. A lot was discussed: could a schoolboy create such a service, wasn’t it a PR?
I also decided to see what this site is. Frankly, delays: the first time with friends we spent a couple of hours. But during the first visit, the first doubts crept into the soul. Everywhere they wrote about millions of users, as well as the fact that about 20 thousand people are constantly online. We often came across some of the interlocutors again. Once managed to catch themselves as opponents!
These are all the facts and inspired me to a mini-study. An hour ago, I connected a webcam and plunged into the world of Chatroulette. I will say right away that the study was conducted at 6:00 p.m. Moscow time, in New York at this time at 10 am (they say that the majority of users are from the USA). Of course, this could tell on the results, but so that ...
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100 contacts were made, 21 of them I saw at least twice. Even without counting the probability of re-meeting, the conclusion is obvious: with 20 thousand users online, this is extremely unlikely. The version that the majority at the time of my search already chatted with each other disappears, because published information that the site average contact lasts 9 seconds. I do not know whether users are divided into groups, whether they show one user a certain set of interlocutors.
I want to say that Chatroulette is just another bubble, inflated by the press at the expense of precedent with the young age of the creator.
I also decided to see what this site is. Frankly, delays: the first time with friends we spent a couple of hours. But during the first visit, the first doubts crept into the soul. Everywhere they wrote about millions of users, as well as the fact that about 20 thousand people are constantly online. We often came across some of the interlocutors again. Once managed to catch themselves as opponents!
These are all the facts and inspired me to a mini-study. An hour ago, I connected a webcam and plunged into the world of Chatroulette. I will say right away that the study was conducted at 6:00 p.m. Moscow time, in New York at this time at 10 am (they say that the majority of users are from the USA). Of course, this could tell on the results, but so that ...
')
100 contacts were made, 21 of them I saw at least twice. Even without counting the probability of re-meeting, the conclusion is obvious: with 20 thousand users online, this is extremely unlikely. The version that the majority at the time of my search already chatted with each other disappears, because published information that the site average contact lasts 9 seconds. I do not know whether users are divided into groups, whether they show one user a certain set of interlocutors.
I want to say that Chatroulette is just another bubble, inflated by the press at the expense of precedent with the young age of the creator.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/93509/
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