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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death

by Andrew Gray-3 :: Rate this Message:

2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>:

> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/News_of_Michael_Jackson%27s_death_overloads_Internet_sites_and_sparks_hoaxes
>
> Is there anything anywhere (apart from the long thread on ANI) about
> the effect on traffic for Wikipedia?
>
> Ah. Here we go:
>
> http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael_Jackson
>
> 6.4K hits to to 1.4M.
>
> That's a traffic spike right enough.

Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a
million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four.

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- Andrew Gray
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