There is an amazing amount of Interesting™ stuff you can do with social media. I've been actively looking for and following people in the "social media influencer" game to see just how they pull it off (things like getting apps to the top of the app store, building gigantic and legit Twitter and Instagram accounts, etc.)
On this particular story, doesn't Facebook let you create notifications in any way? I get instant notifications from certain best friends for some reason. Maybe you could create a burner FB account and make Zuckerberg the only friend. I'd also consider trying this on someone like Robert Scoble or a tech journalist - someone who has a gigantic following, but relatively low comment velocity.
Anecdotally, through ~2009/11 you could use keyword density as a significant ranking variable on the Google Play store. I was amazed when I discovered as web SEO had long left this behind. I had an app coming up 3rd in searches for things like FB and YT.
Great point. I was actually thinking to say something along those lines in the conclusion.
While I would say my approach was mostly useless with a celebrity of Mark's scale. It could work with less popular accounts that do not get as much attention.
On this particular story, doesn't Facebook let you create notifications in any way? I get instant notifications from certain best friends for some reason. Maybe you could create a burner FB account and make Zuckerberg the only friend. I'd also consider trying this on someone like Robert Scoble or a tech journalist - someone who has a gigantic following, but relatively low comment velocity.