The world record attempt started at 6am on Thursday 5th Feb and ended at 6am the following day. There are three stories to tell here. The first is the charity fundraising aspect that was covered on Friday.
Second is the social media story. This was an event largely promoted using the #comment24 hashtag on twitter but the story was also posted on Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. The effort also caught the imagination of a good number of friendly journalists as the list of names in the table of top referrers for 5th Jan illustrates.
|
referring site |
# visits |
pages/visit |
time on site |
|
|
1 |
t.co (Twitter) |
2,012 |
2.73 |
00:04:08 |
|
2 |
facebook.com |
903 |
4.44 |
00:04:56 |
|
3 |
gizmodo.co.uk |
310 |
2.38 |
00:02:19 |
|
4 |
thinkbroadband.com |
291 |
4.38 |
00:04:36 |
|
5 |
forums.moneysavingexpert.com |
265 |
3.24 |
00:02:58 |
|
6 |
m.facebook.com |
240 |
2.2 |
00:01:53 |
|
7 |
guardian.co.uk |
233 |
3.07 |
00:03:50 |
|
8 |
thenextweb.com |
221 |
2.83 |
00:02:47 |
|
9 |
telegraph.co.uk |
207 |
3.6 |
00:04:47 |
|
10 |
hootsuite.com |
67 |
2.88 |
00:04:10 |
|
11 |
community.plus.net |
63 |
2.84 |
00:02:43 |
|
12 |
plus.url.google.com |
59 |
4.05 |
00:05:45 |
|
13 |
linkedin.com |
57 |
4.84 |
00:07:03 |
|
14 |
thelincolnite.co.uk |
51 |
2.25 |
00:02:07 |
|
15 |
celticquicknews.co.uk |
50 |
1.36 |
00:00:23 |
In all according to Google Analytics there were 162 referring sites over the 5th and 6th January. A Google search for