{"id":14324,"date":"2013-01-04T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/01\/04\/14324.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:04:59","slug":"the-top-of-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/01\/04\/the-top-of-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top of the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. Does anybody know <I>why<\/i> there&#8217;s an airport and a mall in Bangkok at the top of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.instagram.com\/post\/38962824191\/2012s-most-popular-locations-on-instagram-what\">instagram&#8217;s most-popular locations for 2012<\/a>? I&#8217;ve seen a few news stories and blog posts that laughingly point out that those locations beat out Disneyland, the Eiffel Tower and the Phone Booth, but I haven&#8217;t seen anything that actually explains it. It&#8217;s not the busiest airport in the world (according to Wikipedia, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic\">sixteenth<\/a>, behind Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Dubai. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zocialinc.com\/thailand-instagram-2012-2\">something called zocialink<\/a>, there are a huge hundred and fifty thousand Thai users of instagram&#8212;wait, what? Only 150,000? Hm. On a different page at their site, they say 427,000. Still, that&#8217;s not a lot, compared to, say, Indonesia or even Holland. Although the zocialinc site shows only one hundred and eighty-one Indonesian instragrammers&#8230; you might not want to believe anything that site has to say, now that I think about it. \n<p>You know, if it had been the airport in Beijing at the top of the list, I would not have been particularly surprised. If it had been anywhere in Tokyo, I wouldn&#8217;t have been surprised at all. Jakarta, I would have been surprised, but then said <i>oh, that makes sense<\/i>. But Bangkok? And if Bangkok is the big site for instagram, why aren&#8217;t there other Thai sites in the top ten?\n<p>You know what I think? I think the list is crap.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is just perplexed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16740,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions\/16740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}