About “The Whip”

Hello! Welcome to The Whip, the NewsWhip team blog.

So what do we write about here?

1/ Recipes for the most shared news stories in the world

NewsWhip tracks how fast news stories spread through social networks. We have a wealth of data on what gets shared, and our guesses as to why. We’ll be exploring “shareability” and giving some useful data-driven insights.

2/ Explaining major NewsWhip changes

NewsWhip is “in beta” – meaning we reserve the right to tweak and play with it, and even (occasionally) break it in an effort to make it better. In the coming months, we’ll be experimenting with how we score stories, how you navigate the site, and other tweaks. Please bear with us, and we’ll explain any big changes right here on the blog.

3/ Exploring technology and the sharing of ideas

We think the NewsWhip model – ranking stories in different ways based on their social popularity – is a great leveller. Pee Wee’s Baseball blog can go straight up against CNN World.

We’ll use the blog here to explore ideas worth sharing, new technology, and our some of our own learnings as a technology startup.