‘Voyeuristic’ website connecting strangers sees spike in Australian visitors
A website created by a Russian teenager allowing random strangers to talk face to face via webcam has attracted worldwide attention, and has this month seen a spike in visits from Australian internet users.
Chatroulette, which was created in November last year by 17 year old Andrey Ternovskiy, has been described by some observers as voyeuristic, frightening, and surreal.
According to Hitwise data, as of February 17 Chatroulette was ranked the 481th most visited website among Australian internet users. However, this was down from the peak of 356 the previous day. It is also the number two webcam website behind surfing site Coastal Watch.
The Omegle guys must be pissed
“…the novelty may already be wearing off as average visit times to the site dropped…”
Average visit times almost always drop when a site becomes popular. The proportion of engaged, regular users drops as more casual users swing by to see what the hype’s about. If visits stay at current levels but session times continue to drop, that would be a sign of decreased engagement.
(I currently run a forum where session time is around 16 minutes per user. It’s an important measure of how well my site is doing, so I’ve paid a bit of attention to that particular metric.)
It’s the funniest thing of 2010. See also http://www.bestofchatroulette.net
That’s so last passé. It’s all about CatRoulette, for at least the next six or even seven minutes…
http://catroulette.tumblr.com/
Yeah.
So passé it’s last passe.
*facepalm*
I think chartroulette should be for people 18 and up. I know the internet is here to stay but we have to stay ahead of the game and stop this before it starts. What ever happened to going online to read the news and your Daily Horoscope? http://www.psychikos.com
I don’t have a webcam at work
For some good CLEAN Chatroulette exhibitionism, visit http://showmeyourarmpit.blogspot.com/
chatroulete is the first global viral experience that shows the future of all of these will be driven by the chinese audience – upto 50% of all activity coming from the chinese online population
The audience distribution follows the global internet population with a skew to regions with younger internet population profiles
China
USA
UK
South Korea
Brazil
Absolutely wonderful site due to the openness of it. Many people visit for entertainment through pranks or explicit content while others are truly there for positive interaction. I’ve ran across many things I’ve never thought I’d see in my life (such as a puppet touching its fake genitals). You can view much of the shocking and humorous content Chatroulette has to offer on one of the best funny chatroulette screenshots sites such as http://chatroulettepictures.com
The chatroulette competitior has arrived, http://vtring.com/
Check it out!