Tag: Visitors

51,000

TBP set a visitor record yesterday with 51,000 visitors. It seems Fourth Turning articles really draw a crowd. That means your comments are getting a much broader viewership. It seems TBP has made another leap to a new level. Up until November 4th the daily visitor count was about 23,000. This was up from 17,000 in the previous year and 13,000 in the year before that. Since November 4th the daily visitor count has surged to 36,000 per day.

Alexa is a service that ranks websites from around the world. TBP is now the 13,915 most popular site in the U.S. and 94,762 most popular site in the world. For some perspective, back in July TBP was around 60,000 in the U.S. and 180,000 in the world.

I think the election, TBP’s relentless search for the truth, great articles from contributors and great commentary from the regulars are the reason for the surge in visitors. Not bad for a half assed “fake news site”.

The previous all-time high in visitors for a month was 760,000. At the current pace we have a shot at 1,000,000 visitors in November. Let’s do this!!!!


TBP GOES OFF THE CHARTS

Until this week the highest daily visitor count in TBP history was about 34,000. Our average daily count is around 20,000. For some unexplained reason the article written by a black minister called What if Whites Strike Back? which was posted 8 days ago was picked up by someone on Facebook and proceeded to go viral. I don’t use Facebook, so I’m not sure how or why it went viral, but TBP visitor counts reached 35,000 last Thursday, then topped that on Friday at 44,000, and yesterday skyrocketed to 67,000.

This article has now had 115,000 views, eclipsing the next highest article in TBP history by 80,000 views. And it’s still going.

It now looks like TBP will break the 700,000 mark in a month for the first time. Hopefully, some of the people who have seen TBP for the first time will stick around. If someone who came here from Facebook can explain why this article went viral, I’d appreciate knowing. I’d like to replicate it with other articles.


SURPRISE RECORD

The stock market isn’t the only place making all-time highs.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. TBP ended up with the highest daily visitor count in its six year history yesterday. We had never broken the 30,000 mark. Yesterday we ended up with 31,800 visitors.

I can slave over an article for ten hours and get a lukewarm reception.

Yesterday, I wrote one paragraph, added some paragraphs from John Hussman’s weekly letter, gave the post a scary title – Panic Before Everyone Else Does – added a funny gif of a deer eating popcorn, and walla – I’ve got a viral article.

I guess I should give every post a scary title or put a cute gif in every post in order to become a huge success.

I’ll just keep running and see what happens next.