Comment on 4 Years of HN TrafficComments−andrewhillman14yI am curious to know what that huge spike in Dec was.−tom6a14yMSM links create traffic spikes. There is a (somewhat small) spike in August that pg attributed to a PC World article. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985 and the article here http://www.pcworld.com/article/237616/baseball_bat_sales_ris...Perhaps the Dec spike is from the Inquirer article which links to HN. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2130668/facebook-pr...−philco14ySOPA + Reddit blackout I think?−i_cannot_hack14yThe SOPA blackout was on January 18, more than a month after the traffic spike.
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I am curious to know what that huge spike in Dec was.
MSM links create traffic spikes. There is a (somewhat small) spike in August that pg attributed to a PC World article. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985 and the article here http://www.pcworld.com/article/237616/baseball_bat_sales_ris...
Perhaps the Dec spike is from the Inquirer article which links to HN. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2130668/facebook-pr...
SOPA + Reddit blackout I think?
The SOPA blackout was on January 18, more than a month after the traffic spike.