Twitter Effect is here

Posted by Tom Blue on February 3, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

Pingdom is calling that the “twitter effect” has now been created. Pete Cashmore from Mashable posted a tweet about this blog post. The traffic generated from twitter brought the site down. There have been a handful of websites that have caused sites to crash just by being mentioned in their blog posts; Digg, TechCrunch, etc. I assume the twitter effect will outgrow all other previous effects because A) twitter is so much more viral and B) its growth has been quite fast and I expect it will continue, and C) twitter’s target market is not just the tech community.

I noticed today – 02/04 – that CNET did a post on this too. How come they got the Techmeme front page?