Hitwise: How the Sun capitalised on the Alfie Patten story
February 19th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Traffic
The Sun’s online coverage of ‘baby father’ Alfie Patten broke traffic records for the site. Hitwise’s Robin Goad analyses how search and social media played a part in this.
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February 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Yes, the traffic also took ALL of News Internationals websites off line for more than an hour due to the volume of requests for the content.