Facebook drives WiseAcre Looney
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Looney Tunes page views skyrocketed from 500 – 600 a day to 14,000 on Sat.
Amateur, zoom zoom is nothing compared to escape velocity. |
What would you think if you checked your stats and found a graph like this?
This is a graph of the Looney Tunes page views over the last 30 days. The norm is around 500. Seeing the first rise to 1,600 I thought ‘cool’. When it went over 7,000 the next day I thought ‘What?. The next day when it spiked over 15,000 I had to remove the brick from my pants.
Over a year the graph looks like it was drawn with a right angle square. Oh come on, at least pretend it was a shaky old geezer like me that did it.
Other stats were telling me that nearly all the traffic was coming from search engines and overwhelmingly from Google. That explained squat. I’ve had good rankings for a number of Looney Tunes character names. It wasn’t likely any change in my rankings would amount to that much traffic.
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Too many questions and not enough knowledge to ask them.
Why are so many people suddenly searching for Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote and Foghorn Leghorn? Whats causing so many people to go Looney all at once? What’s Up Doc? Want to sing along with me and Daffy? She was an acrobats daughter |
I didn’t know what to do. Run before it blew or start pointing fingers at suspicious wabbits.
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On Sunday night we let an old Navy man into the house and shared coffee with him. In exchange he passed on information key to unlocking the mystery. I was seeing a diabolical plot to turn millions of socialable web citizens into cartoon characters unfold before me.
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Facebook threw the water.
What I was seeing was just a small ripple in the massive flood of people searching for a more realistic profile pic than the one they were using. |
It was some awareness thing that caught me totally unaware. If I had known you were coming I would have spruced the place up a bit and baked a cake.
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December 7th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
I have no clue. I understand all the words and the graphs, but it’s still “huh?”
December 8th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Ah, now it makes sense. Of course, in the quest for FBers to toonify themselves this last weekend, it seems many weren’t loony enough. Fun graph…and somewhat scary too…that FB did all that!
December 8th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Only now do I think about WHERE they found the Instant Martians! Now you can play ‘Remember when – the blog stats S P I K E D?
December 9th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Haa ha that’s funny, isn’t facebook quite an amazing thing. I have to admit that even I took part in this thing, don’t know that it served any real purpose but it was a fun game. I got a message sent to me telling me to turn my profile picture into a cartoon charter from my childhood, to raise awareness to child abuse. You should check out this sarcastic article someone made in response to it, had me in stitches.
http://imgur.com/7kgZW
December 9th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Yeah, when I’m retired I’ll go on Facebook and MySpace, and I’ll twitter and make lots of YouTube videos of myself. Until then, the blog is just about all I can handle…
December 10th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Looney Tunes to end child abuse? I work in Social Services and yet never heard of this, how is that possible? Then again someone suggested recently I send them a text, honestly, it would be easier if I could just pass you a note…Obviously I need to brush up on my social networking skills.