UPDATE: Anyone who can get the screencap showing the counter at 100,000,000 on the right sidebar will get a free 100 million coffee cup with a special cartoon from Josh – Anthony
Hilary Ostrov writes via email:
Not sure where else to post this so that you will see it, but as I write, your blogstats are sitting at 99,965,942 views … so your blog is rapidly approaching a very significant milestone – which I anticipate will probably be reached within the next day or so (if not sooner!)
May I suggest that you start a Countup thread, so that lurkers and fans may express their thoughts as this milestone approaches … This will build excitement and traffic – and confound the “powers that wannabe”, I’m sure 😉
On one hand it thought to myself “it’s just a number, no big deal” on the other hand I thought “this only comes once, and a number of people have emailed me about it, so there must be some excitement going on”.
So, who am I to argue with the lady? Sound off below.
Blog Stats
99,999,962 views
99,999,962 views been that way for about 10 minutes now. So close, 38 away. Cannot get it to update, must have passed by now.
99,999,962 is the closest I could get. It’s been stuck there for a while. Well done Anthony and team. It is fully deserved.
yeah like it has already happened! The counter aint caught up yet…Congrats! We did it…I mean they are our views!
Thanks Anthony
11:02am Eastern. 8:02am on the West Coast.
100 Million Served! Well, 100,004,397 views to be exact. (It actually occurred sometime before 11:00am EST. There were no updates for at least 12 minutes that I could see).
Congratulations to Anthony Watts (and to the moderators of course) for their insanely tireless work!
ERRATA in last post: ‘About 48 to go’ should have been ‘About 38 to go’. doh! LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2bc75_m6A&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL40B4E34FA83B9D8B
It’s official! Congratulations Anthony et al !
100,004,397 views at 11:02 AM EST
An then it jumped in seconds by thousands !!!
At last!
Congratulations to Anthony and all!
Blog Stats
100,004,397 views
It went from 99,999,962 to the above figure without ever showing 100,000,000.
Hooray, Hooray – congratulations Anthony and all the team from the UK. His Lordships eulogy was very timely.
Kind regards
JJ and Rossa
Congratulations Anthony and keep upp the fantastic work you and all who contributes.
PS. JWC icehockey gold medal won by Sweden! 😀
Blog Stats
■100,004,397 views
Doh! Just missed it!
I pointed out the missus that if was 99,999,962 – but a refresh took it to 100,004,65! That was quick.
Blog Stats
100,004,397 views
We all missed it… incremented in bunches.
At 10:05 am CST, it has been stuck at 99,999,962 views. I’ve hit it at least 38 times since it became stuck there.
Is there a conspiracy here to win the precious coffee cup?
I think the 8,331 visits WUWT got in the last hour have confused the hit counter.
I managed to get screen captures at 99,999,962 and then it jumped to 100,004,397
Did anyone get anything closer?
But 4435 in one go is one hell of a jump!
100,004,397 views
How do I post my screen cap?
Oh well, photoshop is your friend 🙂
REPLY: No, it isn’t. Never fake a number for vanity – Anthony
It jumped from 99,999,962 to 100,004,397 views.
I also have 100,004,397. I guess it is a tie then and we all get free coffee cups!
Congratulations Anthony.
100,004,397
Damn – it did go up in a big jump just like someone suggested. Still I was one of theones to see it a mere 38 short of 10^8!
Rich.