Refugees SG (Update 4)
3.39am, 3 hrs 45 min after first publicity email is sent out:
For some perspective, the 240 hit leap I wrote about yesterday just got dwarfed by 600 visitors coming at an unearthly hour. Not sure whether there will be more tomorrow… but according to my hunch about viral emails, it should double. Will it?
The theory is that one person will inevitably forward it to say 100+ people, who will view the site. Each of these people will forward it to another 100+, and so on. Granted that most of the 100+ people will overlap (very highly likely, rating that our social groups are largely defined by school), it should just about double or triple in the initial stage till the “social group” is saturated.
But out of those 100+ people, one will forward to a whole new social group, which will trigger a whole new flood of visitors.
On a side note, the visit count to petition signing ratio offers very interesting observations that yield to analysis; I’ve made some interesting ones while watching the different responses between RJC and TJC. RJC, at first glance, seems to yield less petition signatures, but very enthusiastic email forwarders; TJC on the other hand doesn’t seem to yield many email forwarders but many petition signatures. This offers interesting insight into the mentality of the different schools…
