That Time I Had Fifteen Seconds of Fame with My Newsletter

A story about going viral. (sort of)

I don’t know what prompted me to check the stats for this newsletter, because I know very few read it and that’s okay because I would rather connect with my few regulars than 10,000 bots

But by chance, I decided to check the stats for this newsletter and lo and behold this happened after I wrote the post where BW and I dressed up as the world’s richest couple

This chart could also double as my EKG results.

I had something like 900+ visitors yesterday. That’s almost a thousand in ONE DAY. Had I known I was going to be seen by so many eyeballs I would have brushed my hair before I went out ¹ and had my photo taken.

I wondered what the heck could be the source of this traffic so I went digging and it seems to be coming from a site called NewsBreak. From what I can figure out this site is a news aggregator that pulls from different sources and I guess for one day we were worthy of the algorithm’s blessing.

This fame went straight to my head and this got me thinking - what would happen if I searched Google for Jeff Bezos Halloween Costume

And will you look at that! My little pumpkin is about the fourth result on the first page for that particular search term:

All this fame went right to my head and made me giddy with the hope of being able to quit the day job and write full time here with all the money I’m making from my writing skills.

The stats told me otherwise and to buy a lottery ticket instead, because all this success resulted in one new reader.²

I guess I won’t quit the day job just yet, but maybe the child has a future in cardboard box modeling.

Dreaming of Yachts and Rockets,

TH and Co.

1. Oh, wait. Nevermind.

2. Welcome!