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The 10 most influential del.icio.us users

June 17th, 2008

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I recently noticed the same names popping up again and again on the del.icio.us popular feed. So I pulled the last 5k posts and these are the most influential del.icio.us users:

I imagine these users have a knack of finding good content as well as having a large del.icio.us network.

User	Count
ani625	124
pramodc84	35
gerd.storm	34
atul	17
angusf	10
CPops	9
randyzhang	9
fake_joshua	8
Blakovitch	8
speckyboy	8
refina	7

Here’s how I did this:

Google feed api to fetch the last 5k users (you need to be authenticated to get this so i saved it from my browser)
http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://del.icio.us/rss?r=n&n=5000I then cat’d the results into this perl script: script.pl < popular.rss

#!/usr/bin/perl

my %users;

while(<>){
        my ($user) = ($_ =~ /<name>([^<]+)/);
        next unless defined $user;

        $users{$user}++;
}

foreach my $user ( sort{ $users{$b} <=> $users{$a} } keys %users ){
      print "$user\t$users{$user}\n";
}

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