Ultimate iJustine fan

I was very excited to get my recent copy of WIRED magazine delivered to the house. It makes for some great reading about whats new, cool and trendy in the technology world. WIRED has always impressed me with their articles and insight about global issues and emerging technology. I’m also a fan of WIRED since they hosted the Sexiest Geek contest and Justine was in the top 10. One the cover of the August issue was a picture of a lady with the subheading of ‘How to get internet famous’. Innocent enough until I read the lengthy piece about Julia Allison which made her sound like the most influential females of the internet.

I have never heard of Julia Allison before so I did some quick research and started looking for information about how “famous” she really was. The article made reference to her online profiles and again made it seem like she was the talk of the internet. I had to investigate this further. I was had pressed to believe that Julia Allison was more popular than iJustine but I had to know for sure.

iJustine VS. Julia Allison Websites

Doing a quick search on Alexa profiling the two sites made it initially clear that iJusitine gets a whole hell of a lot more traffic than Julia Allison. Sure Julia gets some decent traffic but look at those gaps in the graph. iJustine is still reaching more people than Julia on a regular basis.

But that’s just their websites. I guess Julia could just have a bad PR person driving traffic to the site so I wanted to get some other metrics to see who was really more internet famous.

Julia Allison VS iJustine - on YouTube

One of the things WIRED made mention of was Julias exposure on YouTube. I’ll let you judge for yourself.

So I ran the search to identify her top videos by “Most Viewed”. As you can see, her #1 video on YouTube was uploaded a year ago and only has 225,638 views. That being said, Julia only has a total of 11 videos. Hell, thats more views than I have on any of my videos but I know for a fact iJustine can blow this out of the water so I did the same search for her.

Yes, it’s clear. iJustine owns this challenge with a total of 161 videos uploaded and the top video (the iPhone bill of course.) has over a MILLION views. Based on the search iJusine’s worst video still has a ton more views than Julia’s. Score iJustine: 2 - Julia Allison: 0

On page 111 of the WIRED Magazine issue, there is a blod section saying ‘…with every Twitter update adding dimension to her character”. Really?!? That’s funny WIRED because your information about her must be flawed. Using Twitterholic it’s very apparent that iJustine is light years ahead of Julia there too. Coming in at #14 on the list of the top 100 Twitter peeps and your famous internet cover girl comes in at….wait, she’s not even on the list. Funny thing is that Julia Allison only has 2,597 followers to iJustine’s 20,894. Bummer for Julia.

It’s actually not worth the effort to give more examples of this failure. I’m not trying to bring down Julia Allison, more power to her. Many of us wish to be an internet celebrity and we want to know who is in the scene. I wanted to bring to light who really was more famous on the internet. Maybe WIRED will have iJustine on their cover someday? Let’s be honest. iJustine would make for a much better article anyway. I guess I can only hope. But if that day comes, I’ll be framing it and putting it on my desk after iJustine is so gracious to autograph it.