Earlier this week I wrote an article about how I had switched to Linux. Later on I was cruising around digg looking at all the Linux posts, and decide that I should submit my article. To my surprise the article made the front page, and chaos ensued. I received 4,000 hits an hour for 3 straight hours. My tiny little website couldn’t handle this kind of traffic. It was up, and down, things were crashing, and the theme kept changing (I still haven’t figured out how that happened).
When the smoke cleared and the dust settled, the article had 762 diggs, over 40 comments, and my article had roughly 23,000 hits in two days. But, that’s not where this story ends. I was, and am still, getting roughly 500 hits a day over what I normally get.
When I began looking at my traffic stats it became clear to me that I severely underestimated the power of social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a new (Maybe not new, how about newer?) “Web 2.0″ term that describes a site that allows users to collect, share, and discuss links. After the traffic died down from digg I began to notice hits from stumbleupon, del.icio.us, and reddit. This led to other blogs/websites syndicating my article, such as LinuxToday.com.
Overall it was a pretty neat experience to watch an article that I wrote being spread all over the internet and touching nearly thirty thousand (as of right now) people. I think it made me realize how connected the internet really is and how much information people are actually soaking up.
Man that is so awesome for you, i think i even dugg the post myself, although I can’t be certain, ill have to check that.
nice to see what the aftermath was like for you, i mean its just staggering!
good stuff.
yea .. but your still gay .. haha