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Mon, Jan 31st 2000 12:02pm — Mike Masnick
Well, I usually don't spend too much time with Techdirt's traffic numbers, though I do check them on occasion. It's usually a pretty consistent increase. Two weeks ago there was an extra bump due to Inter@ctive Week's mention. What's odd is I just checked and there was a big bump (more than 20% over what I'd expect) last Wednesday as well. If you happened to discover Techdirt in the last week (especially Wednesday) anyone care to share where they found out about it? Just curious...
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    Thomas Royer, 31 Jan 2000 @ 1:38pm

    geekboys traffic?

    On Jan 18th or 19th, techdirt was added to the geekboys.org collection of portals. Could some of the traffic be due to that?

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    Jane, 31 Jan 2000 @ 1:56pm

    how about you let us know how many we are...?

    Mike, I wonder how much traffic the site gets at the moment. How big is our community?

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      Mike (profile), 31 Jan 2000 @ 4:49pm

      Re: how about you let us know how many we are...?

      To be honest, it's tough to know exactly how big it is. Which metrics to use and what they mean and when... We're working on a page that will show some of the data. But I can tell you that last week there were nearly 10,000 "visits" and over 50,000 "hits".

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    Mike (profile), 31 Jan 2000 @ 4:07pm

    One Potential Source

    Techdirt was mentioned in *today's* The Globe and Mail, which is a Canadian paper. Here's the link. Of course, this doesn't explain the bump from last week...

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    Carmen, 31 Jan 2000 @ 7:19pm

    Re: One Potential Source

    TechDirt is also available within A HREF=

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      Carmen, 31 Jan 2000 @ 7:22pm

      Re: One Potential Source

      Whoa, preview messed that up. TechDirt (and over 950 other news sources) can also be read using Headline Viewer (http://www.vertexdev.com/HeadlineViewer in case the HTML is messed up again on Submit).

      Headline Viewer is a Windows client for syndicated news headlines.

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    brett, 1 Feb 2000 @ 12:22am

    Where I heard about TD

    First heard about it actually via palm.net.
    This was some time ago. After hearing about
    it recently in Inter@ctive Week, it was added
    to a huge bookmark list.

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    Joel, 1 Feb 2000 @ 7:18pm

    I heard about techdirt on palm.net as well

    It's been listed in the web clipping apps in the News category. Someone wrote a PQA for clipping the news articles.

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