Last night at the Oscars, our favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt posted this selfie with Daniel Radcliffe, and it’s currently the most popular Oscar-related Tumblr post from the day of the show!
With more than 90k notes and climbing, the reblog tree is especially impressive on this post. Look at how reblogs of this post have spread through Tumblr (and so fast!). JGL has received 7,800 direct reblogs and more than 43,600 amplified reblogs so far.
"Most Web pages can be connected in 19 clicks or less, thanks to search engines, large aggregators and social networking sites, according to a paper on network science by Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási. As the Smithsonian magazine reported, these sites act as hubs for the Web at large — or, as Smithsonian’s Joseph Stromberg puts it, the “Kevin Bacons” of the Web."
Google builds Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon into its search system
To use Google’s system, the user simply types in the words “Bacon number” followed by the name of the actor. By way of example, typing “Bacon number Simon Pegg” reveals that Bacon and the British actor are linked by Tom Cruise, because the latter appeared in 1992’s A Few Good Men with Bacon and in 2006’s Mission: Impossible III with Pegg. Pegg therefore has a Bacon number of two, indicating two degrees of separation.
"Justin Timberlake inched in at the No. 50 spot—just 16 names behind his Social Network character, Sean Parker."
- Vanity Fair’s 2011 ‘New Establishment’ List Dominated by Tech Titans
