On second thoughts, yes, no single website could flick that many people across, and why would anyone do that? And the number of hits are so remarkably even over such a long period. News stories cause a peak, but this is sustained.
It does indeed look like somebody is up to no good, a botnet or a worm or something.
It could be wise to lock the page, it might be being used for communication of some kind; somebody may make an edit and trigger something, but probably not.
On 23/04/2009, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/23 geni geniice@gmail.com:
2009/4/23 Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com:
It looks like it might be related to "The Beatles: Rock Band" which seems to be by far the worlds most expensive video game or something. It was announced last September or so and there were more news stories about it on the 20th/21st this month.
It is a bit suspicious that the interest is staying so high though, usually the peaks die away more quickly, but I think that's it.
No. It's not just high but in the daily top few for months. The Beatles have got more views this year than Barack Obama or in fact any article other than "wiki". Its getting double the views of Watchmen which probably had far more geek and general internet appeal. 100K views week in week out is simply not possible for well anything conventional.
Even Barack Obama doesn't manage that most months.
And it moved instantly from Beatles to The Beatles, that requires some kind of central organisation. Either all the hits come from one place, or it's people all following the same link. I've asked on IRC if someone can check the logs and see what is going on, but there were no volunteers. Only anonymised logs are made public, and that is no good for this.
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