Could this formula be the key to photo-sharing success?
A researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an algorithm which he says can predict how popular a photograph will be when it is posted online.
More than two million images posted to a photo-sharing site were studied by Aditya Khosla's software which analyses colour and recognises objects.
BBC Click's Spencer Kelly finds out more.
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