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.
