Fun with Instagram Story Polls

Having become fairly bored with Instagram I decided, in late December 2017, to play around with the “story” feature and especially the “POLL” sticker that allows story viewers to vote on your story posts.

61 days and 61 polls later, I dropped the data into Excel and came up with some interesting stats (as at 17/02/2018):

• Of my 886 followers, an average of 51 view each story poll (5.76%).
• Of the 51 that view my story an average of 16 vote on each poll (31.4%).
• The highest percentage of viewers that voted on a poll was 63.46% on “Do you vote on Polls?”. Very M E T A. This was followed by “Power Rangers vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” with 60.87%.
• The lowest percentage of viewers that voted on a poll was 14.29% on “VR38DETT vs RB26DETT”. Polls containing obscure Nissan engine codes are not popular!
• Largest Margin of Victory was 100% for Initial D in “Initial D vs Wangan Midnight” with Wangan Midnight not getting a single vote. I assumed someone would be contrarian and vote for it but nope.
• There were 3 50/50 ties with “RWB vs Liberty Walk”, “Raccoon Eyes vs Clown Blush” and “Eagles vs Patriots” all matching up equally.

Graphs

Fig1) View count on Polls

There was a marginal increase in poll views over time…

Fig2) Total Votes on Polls

…however the total votes increased by a larger amount. This could suggest that people became more comfortable with voting as they were exposed to more polls.

 

Fig3) Winning % on Polls

When choosing the polls, I tried as much as possible to choose ones that weren’t going to give results heavily skewed to one option. This graph shows that only one got 100% of the votes with the average % of the winners being 66%. I’d say objective achieved.

Now that I’ve exhausted my fun with Instagram Polls, I need to find another feature of Instagram to have fun with.

Data can be found in the (ugly) table below :

(DM on Instagram for the CSV/XLSX if you, for some reason, like looking at stuff like this)

 

Poll Number	Date	Option A	Option B	Notes	Views	Votes (A)	Votes (B)	Total Votes	%views voted	Winner	Winning %
1	18/12/2017	Yes	No	Is Starbucks Overrated?	47	9	4	13	27.66	Yes	69
2	20/12/2017	Yes	No	Bitcoin >R500k in 2018	42	4	5	9	21.43	No	56
3	21/12/2017	Cape Town	Durban	Cities	42	9	4	13	30.95	Cape Town	69
4	22/12/2017	AMG	M	In House Car Tuning Brands	43	7	4	11	25.58	AMG	64
5	23/12/2017	Nutella	Lindt	Chocolate Brands	40	7	10	17	42.5	Lindt	59
6	24/12/2017	Dynaudio	JL Audio	High End Audio	43	2	5	7	16.28	JL Audio	71
7	25/12/2017	Diwali	Christmas	Religious Festivals	41	5	3	8	19.51	Diwali	63
8	26/12/2017	Burfee	Bombay Crush	Sugarlicious Ice Cream Macaron Flavours	61	8	6	14	22.95	Burfee	57
9	27/12/2017	Baby One More Time	Genie In A Bottle	Songs	56	3	10	13	23.21	Genie In A Bottle	77
10	28/12/2017	VR38DETT	RB26DETT	Engines	49	3	4	7	14.29	RB26DETT	57
11	29/12/2017	Angel	It Wasn't Me	Shaggy Songs	46	1	8	9	19.57	It Wasn't Me	89
12	30/12/2017	Initial D	Wangan Midnight	Anime TV Series	38	6	0	6	15.79	Initial D	100
13	31/12/2017	Imax	Cine Prestige	Movie Theatres	39	1	6	7	17.95	Cine Prestige	86
14	01/01/2018	Albany	Blue Ribbon	Bread Manufacturers	39	9	4	13	33.33	Albany	69
15	02/01/2018	Kenmeri	Hakosuka	Vintage Nissan GTR Models	59	4	6	10	16.95	Hakosuka	60
16	03/01/2018	Puppies	Kittens	Baby Pets	53	14	5	19	35.85	Puppies	74
17	04/01/2018	Allan Gray	Coronation	Asset/Investment Managers	41	7	2	9	21.95	Allan Gray	78
18	05/01/2018	Polo (facing right)	Polo (facing left)	Premium Clothing Brand	53	3	8	11	20.75	Polo (facing left)	73
19	06/01/2018	R34 GTR	Supra	Popular Japanese Tuner/Sports Cars	47	10	5	15	31.91	R34 GTR	67
20	07/01/2018	Mixed Veg Pickle	Mango Pickle	Traditional SA Indian Food	47	8	7	15	31.91	Mixed Veg Pickle	53
21	08/01/2018	FNB	Capitec	SA Banks	37	10	4	14	37.84	FNB	71
22	09/01/2018	Mutton Curry	Kebabs and Roti	Traditional SA Indian Food	51	14	8	22	43.14	Mutton Curry	64
23	10/01/2018	Painted Nails	French Manicure	Beauty Treatments	61	9	8	17	27.87	Painted Nails	53
24	11/01/2018	Gobisiqolo	Omunye	SA Music	52	5	8	13	25	Omunye	62
25	12/01/2018	Burfi	Chana Magaj	Traditional SA Indian Food	48	10	5	15	31.25	Burfi	67
26	13/01/2018	Aviator	Wayfarer	Ray Ban Models	68	18	9	27	39.71	Aviator	67
27	14/01/2018	Day	Night	Time Periods	69	12	5	17	24.64	Day	71
28	15/01/2018	Rajinikanth	Amitabh Bachchan	Indian Film Stars	58	12	11	23	39.66	Rajinikanth	52
29	16/01/2018	RWB	Liberty Walk	Car Styling/Tuning	58	8	8	16	27.59	TIE	50
30	17/01/2018	Stefan	Damon	Vampire Diaries Actors	62	4	13	17	27.42	Damon	76
31	18/01/2018	Georgie Zamdela	Barker Haines	Isidingo Characters	66	8	7	15	22.73	Georgie Zamdela	53
32	19/01/2018	Alfaholics GTA-R	Singer 911	Reimagined Classic Cars	56	5	18	23	41.07	Singer 911	78
33	20/01/2018	PlayStation	Xbox	Gaming Platforms	44	10	7	17	38.64	PlayStation	59
34	21/01/2018	Old Ridge	Old Thorne	Bold and the Beautiful Characters	50	8	4	12	24	Old Ridge	67
35	22/01/2018	Vapormax	Ultraboost	Sneakers	53	7	11	18	33.96	Ultraboost	61
36	23/01/2018	Superman	Batman	DC Characters	54	19	9	28	51.85	Superman	68
37	24/01/2018	Programming Code	Armani Code	Random	62	7	8	15	24.19	Armani Code	53
38	25/01/2018	Matte Lips	Gloss Lips	Makeup	60	11	5	16	26.67	Matte Lips	69
39	26/01/2018	Powerpuff Girls	Dexters Lab	Cartoon Network Shows	46	8	11	19	41.3	Dexters Lab	58
40	27/01/2018	Stephen Curry	LeBron James	NBA Basketballers	57	7	12	19	33.33	LeBron James	63
41	28/01/2018	1 Horse Sized Duck	100 Duck Sized Horses	Battle	45	3	5	8	17.78	100 Duck Sized Horses	63
42	29/01/2018	Tyson in his prime	Ali in his prime	Hypothetical Sports	63	4	15	19	30.16	Ali in his prime	79
43	30/01/2018	Senna in his prime	Schumi in his prime	Hypothetical Sports	49	11	7	18	36.73	Senna in his prime	61
44	31/01/2018	Power Rangers	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Kids TV Shows	46	8	20	28	60.87	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	71
45	01/02/2018	Viceroy Research	The Stellenbosch Mafia	Financial News	50	3	8	11	22	The Stellenbosch Mafia	73
46	02/02/2018	Red Bull	Monster Energy	Energy Drinks	51	12	6	18	35.29	Red Bull	67
47	03/02/2018	Stud	Hoop	Earring Types	50	11	5	16	32	Stud	69
48	04/02/2018	Eagles	Patriots	Superbowl Teams	55	6	6	12	21.82	TIE	50
49	05/02/2018	GeForce	Radeon	Graphics Card Brands	47	11	2	13	27.66	GeForce	85
50	05/02/2018	*nsync	Backstreet Boys	Boy Bands	57	10	17	27	47.37	Backstreet Boys	63
51	07/02/2018	Roses	Marigolds	Flowers	56	14	10	24	42.86	Roses	58
52	08/02/2018	Climber Cuff	Ear Jacket	Earring Types	58	4	12	16	27.59	Ear Jacket	75
53	09/02/2018	F40	Enzo	Ferrari Models	55	16	12	28	50.91	F40	57
54	10/02/2018	Chevda	Sev and Nuts	Traditional SA Indian Food	57	16	10	26	45.61	Chevda	62
55	11/02/2018	Tennis Biscuit	Marie Biscuit	Biscuits	59	16	18	34	57.63	Marie Biscuit	53
56	12/02/2018	Yes	No	Do you vote on polls?	52	27	6	33	63.46	Yes	82
57	13/02/2018	Agent 47	Sam Fisher	Game Characters	45	12	5	17	37.78	Agent 47	71
58	14/02/2018	911 RSR	919 Hybrid	Porsche Racing Cars	49	12	4	16	32.65	911 RSR	75
59	15/02/2018	Foundation Mismatch	Black lipliner	Bad Makeup	57	7	8	15	26.32	Black lipliner	53
60	16/02/2018	E-Type	2000GT	Vintage Sports Cars	48	7	12	19	39.58	2000GT	63
61	17/02/2018	Raccoon Eyes	Clown Blush	Bad Makeup	51	6	6	12	23.53	TIE	50