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We saw an increase in traffic in all of our portfolio's mobile games so instead of "News sites saw more traffic because of Facebook was down" it was "People did
by asutekku 5y ago
We saw an increase in traffic in all of our portfolio's mobile games so instead of "News sites saw more traffic because of Facebook was down" it was "People did something else than browse Facebook while Facebook was down".
- 3np 5y agoI'd wager so did HN and Pornhub. I don't think there's that much to news specifically, even if some love to push a certain narrative there.
- inanutshellus 5y agoFor sure HN did; it was struggling to stay up from the load. Several threads were suggesting logging out -- which would let HN load static content -- to help it load, for example.
- a-dub 5y agothis seems right to me. would love to see a real analysis of what sort of traffic news sites saw. my hunch is, yeah, maybe people had a look to see if the news confirmed their suspicions... but then maybe stayed a while and/or sought out alternatives for the ultimate distraction contraption.
- nothis 5y agoStill a good thing.
- breakfastduck 5y agoIts not a 'good' thing or a 'bad' thing, its just basic logic. Same as saying people who wanted to go to the park did something else instead because the park was closed. Its not good or bad. It just 'is'.
- tyingq 5y agoWell, and also, people probably googled "is facebook down", and clicked on the various carousel news stories.
- if_by_whisky 5y agoYeah the story that Facebook was down went viral. I don't think there's much deeper meaning to this beyond that.
- pessimizer 5y agoHow does that relate to mobile game traffic?