Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

Re:Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line by angersock on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:16PM (#5554417)

Would you say that your site traffic is blowing up in response to this event?

EDIT: Sorry, sorry--in a weird headspace from the news. In all seriousness, did you actually just launch a product in this thread?

EDIT2: Just remember, when launching a product--it's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

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Re:Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line by austenallred on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:22PM (#5554471)

150 visitors on the site right now, so I guess it depends on your definition of "blowing up." We're getting visits from YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc. but I haven't dug into where exactly.

Proof: http://d.pr/i/LDao

And as to "launching" in a thread, I don't really consider this a full "launch." Our product is needed, so even though it isn't ready we pushed it live.

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Re:Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line by angersock on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:26PM (#5554500)

I checked it out, and it's a cool product. I agree with somebody elses's comment--this is a useful thing to have in this day and age.

Out of curiosity, how are you picking which things to feed? Your ticker rate for tweets seems fixed, so you are discarding some things, right?

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Re:Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line by austenallred on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:33PM (#5554548)

Yeah, like I said the product is brand new. It discards everything with "RT" or "Retweet" as well as a few other things in it (if it weren't finals week it would discard everything with "pray," but we should be taking our exams right now). Soon it will split up different tweets and show them to different people.

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Re:Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line by scrumper on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:52PM (#5554657)

I don't really think your "EDIT2" is called for.

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