Happy Tuesday, Modern Philosophers!
I wanted to write a quick post because it’s always fun when a post goes viral. My blog, which has been struggling to get to views all Summer, had 2,986 views yesterday. Between 9:00 and 10:00 last night, the blog was viewed 734 times!
This morning, it’s already had over 700 views. What’s the secret? It’s that old favorite, the Survivor: Maine post (feel free to click on that link and add to the total!).
I wrote that post in January of 2013, and it was the first viral post of my blogging career. It always gets a bump in views when Survivor has its Season Premiere or Finale, but over 3,000 hits in a day and a half in August is totally unexpected. Not that I’m complaining.
Last night, my friend Kori, who knows I wrote this post, messaged me to say that a bunch of her friends were posting and sharing it on Facebook. Once again, Facebook has been my ally in spreading the word about my writing. We have a very tight alliance, and we’ve agreed to never vote for each other at Tribal Council.
Have you ever had a post go viral, Modern Philosophers? Maybe I’m a total writer geek (maybe???), but I get a kick out of checking my dashboard every few minutes and watching the numbers climb. It’s a total rush for me to know that people are actually reading what I write.
I just love that the internet is into recycling. This blog post is over a year and a half old, but it’s still out there, spreading the Modern Philosopher love.
Maybe some day, the Survivor: Maine post will overtake my Walking Dead Live post as the most popular one on the blog.
For now, though, it seems content with being a Blogging All-Star and popping up out of the blue to remind the world that it was the first of my posts to go viral.
It’s moments like this when it’s really fun to be a writer. Thanks again, Modern Philosophers for all your support. Happy Tuesday!
The Return of the Modern Philosopher 
Congrats Austin! Your blog is great and you thoroughly deserve it! Facebook is responsible for the same sort of thing for me – one of my posts about teaching had 90,000 Facebook views in a week, and every so often there is one post, 23 Things, that is picked up and shared randomly in different countries… It’s always such a buzz!
90,000? The counter on my Survivor post stopped at 10,000+. I’ve always been curious as to what the actual number is.
Congrats on your success. 90,000 hits tops Survivor and The Walking Dead posts…
When I purchased my domain name it completely set all my counters for my social media links which I was gutted about, so it only says 2K+ on there now. I followed it like a hawk all week!
So that post has over 90,000 hits? I think the Walking Dead one has 78,000.
Yeah, and it’s still seen about thirty times a day which is quite cool…
I just checked. The Walking Dead post has 78,800 hits, and the Survivor one just cracked 65,000. I’ll catch you… 😉
Haha! I’m sure you will! 😉
Have a great day! 🙂
And you my lovely!
glad you are having fun again, austin )
Thanks, Beth. I needed it!
Congrats! Recycling is good. 🙂
My blog is going green!
Okay, color my face green. Never been ‘viralsized.’ I just made up that word, but it felt like the right one. If I get 90 hits on a day that I post (regularly, every Friday) I grin ear to ear. Same feeling as with 78,000 hits, I imagine. Just to share my words and thoughts, and to have others read them, is a high like no other. Congrats to you!
Thanks. It’s just dumb luck. It’s a silly post that people seem to think is real. Lucky for me I guess… 🙂
Just found your blog recently and I love it! You’re a great writer and so fun to read. I look forward to your posts every day. Thanks for keeping me entertained, and thanks for letting me read! 🙂
Feel free to drop by any time. I’m glad you enjoy it. Always looking for more Modern Philosophers!
Congratulations. Awesome to know the world is paying attention! 🙂
Again, though. This has already gone viral once. It’s had over 6,000 views since Sunday afternoon. Just crazy!
Crazy maybe, but good for you.
Very good. Makes me a happy Modern Philosopher.
😀 😀
ONLY TIME….my blog came close to going viral was when I mistakenly copped somebody’s copyrighted picture…and many of her countrymen just had to check it out!—before I deleted it!
I’m sure you’ll get there. Just keep writing! Almost 5000 views today!
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
GOING VIRAL….IS GREAT!!!!!
I have one post that’s been getting about half the hits on my blog daily for almost a year. It was a compilation comparing the divorce statistics of two different religions. I think it was picked up by some blog digests or something. Not exactly viral, but then I have low expectations. : )
Well, have higher expectations! Anyone can do it with a little luck. 🙂
I’m over 5,000 views for the day…
Show off 😛 The highest I ever got was 187 or something like that.
That’s almost as many as this when you convert to metrics. 🙂
I think it’s less. I never was good at converting into metric. Yet another child left behind.
Come to America. You won’t be left behind here…
Too late for me
It’s never too late to save a Canadian. I’m sure that’s an America motto somewhere…
heh, You can start the movement
Mine is just a bad cough, Austin, but since it’s just mid-August, there’s still a chance for viral.
http://markbialczak.com/2014/01/18/those-of-us-born-in-1957-will-turn-57-this-year/ stands at 9,000 views, with a range of 50 to 100 a day lately. Thank you Google and the spreading concept of the Beddian Birthday. What’s that, you ask? It’s when you turn the age of the last two digits of the year you were born. Click to discover why (and help me go viral).
Good luck with that, Mark! I’ll check it out!
Thanks, Austin. You’ll have to wait a lot longer for your Beddian Birthday to arrive, young man, the way the math works.
Yes, I will.