Disclaimer: I'm about 2/3 through this thread. I figured I'd post this now, at the risk that it's redundant, just to get thoughts and ideas whilst I read the rest of the thread.
This has to do with the zenadia myspace page.
Here's the deal: it occurred to me that maybe the Myspace ID's correspond, sequentially, to account creation date. Also, I looked around, and noticed that there are timestamps on the myspace blog posts.
So, I searched google and yahoo for this:
site:blogs.myspace.com "signup date: 6/16/2008" "June 16, 2008"
This turned up pages wherein the signup was on June 16th 2008, AND there was a blog entry from June 16th 2008.
For the pages that turned up, I made a few assumptions:
Assumption 1: If the Myspace ID is GREATER that the zenadia ID (389838213), the person signed up AFTER "zenaida."
Assumption 2: The timestamp of any blog entry on June 16, 2008 can be no earlier than the time of signup on June 16, 2008. So we can call the time of the first blog post on June 16th, the
latest possible signup time.
Therefore, given the assumptions, the time that the zenaida page was created must be earlier than any
latest possible signup time for the pages with IDs greater than zenaida's.
I went through and these are the ones close to the zenadia ID (389838213), which is in
red in the table.
They're sorted by Myspace ID, increasing.
Important things:
- Each row corresponds to a myspace page with a signup date of 6/16/08.
- The first column corresponds to whether I found the page on yahoo or google. y = yahoo.
- The times are exactly what was listed on the page as the timestamp of the first 6/16/08 blog post. (These are the latest possible signup times.)
- Without exception, google's and yahoo's cache of the sites listed times that were 4 hours greater than the timestamps on the "current" page.
- My time zone is east coast US. (Just in case.)
- I don't know if any of these pages used any myspace hacks that you guys were talking about earlier.
So, here's the table of what I found.
site ID 1st Post Time City State Country
389716473 2:51 AM the hills of northwest / the coast of southeast Georgia US
389722494 12:45 PM Capital federal Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autónoma de) AR
y 389732053 9:38 AM USA Texas US
389739359 3:33 AM garden city Michigan
y 389746986 5:49 AM INDIANA Pennsylvania US
389753025 10:09 AM DE
Y 389753234 5:33 AM ENCINITAS California US
389759552 2:40 PM Subang Jaya Selangor MY
389768897 5:41 PM Reading/London/Northampton/Newbury UK
389771457 10:03 AM Groningen - Den Haag Groningen NL
389775669 9:37 AM Languedoc-Roussillon FR
y 389780091 4:00 PM Music City Tennessee US
389787299 10:42 AM DALLAS Texas US
y 389797079 7:19 AM CHICAGO Illinois US
389805372 1:21 PM SURPRISE Arizona US
389807043 1:15 PM Ile-de-France FR
389813816 4:16 PM Ile-de-France FR
389814334 1:15 PM Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul BR
389827687 2:22 PM TACOMA Washington US
y 389827902 7:03 PM GRAND RAPIDS Michigan US
389838213
MIAMI Florida US
y 389840621 3:50 PM LOS ANGELES California US
389849906 4:32 PM EUGENE Oregon US
389875570 4:56 PM Hawaii US
y 389878141 7:02 AM NEW YORK New York US
y 389878200 5:45 PM CALIFORNIA US
389887981 6:04 PM Ile-de-France FR
y 389888720 6:53 PM FREDERICKSBURG Virginia US
Y 389900897 11:08 AM SANDOWN New Hampshire US
Here are the profiles created after zenaida's, along with the timestamps converted to Miami time. (I assumed that the timestamps were local to the places listed in the profile. I used
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html , so it took into account whatever daylight savings craziness there might have been.)
site ID 1st Post Time City State Country Miami Time
389838213
MIAMI Florida US
y 389840621 3:50 PM LOS ANGELES California US 6:50 PM
389849906 4:32 PM EUGENE Oregon US 7:32 PM
389875570 4:56 PM Hawaii US 10:56 PM
y 389878141 7:02 AM NEW YORK New York US 7:02 AM
y 389878200 5:45 PM CALIFORNIA US 8:45 PM
389887981 6:04 PM Ile-de-France FR 12:04 PM
y 389888720 6:53 PM FREDERICKSBURG Virginia US 6:53 PM
Y 389900897 11:08 AM SANDOWN New Hampshire US 11:08 AM
So... does this tell us that since "NEW YORK, New York" signed up at 7:02 AM at the latest, and that zenaida had to sign up before "NEW YORK, New York" signed up, zenaida had to sign up before 7:02 AM? Or, does it tell us.... nothing at all? Hard to say...
Any other ideas about this? I have a feeling that my assumptions may have been faulty...
Again, sorry if this is old news; I'm a bit impulsive when it comes to information retrieval.