The Boston Globe Is Still Getting Insane Web Traffic
Exclusive: The Boston Globe’s web traffic across its two main websites continued to skyrocket a day after the bombing at the Boston Marathon, according to traffic numbers obtained by FishbowlNY.
To boot, the Globe’s main Twitter accounts more than doubled in followers on Tuesday and the paper’s coverage went viral across social networks like Facebook, deputy managing editor Bennie DiNardo wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday afternoon.
“One post alone on the Boston Globe account, Adrienne’s post about Martin Richard, the boy who was killed, has now been ‘liked’ 796,000 times, and appeared on more than 23 million feeds of Facebook members,” he wrote.
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