Here is an update to my previous post! Traffic has been down to 20k visits per day for the last two days but the buzz is still alive! I actually heard my fake news story on the radio (102.1 The Edge) on the way to work this morning!!
It seems this story has gone viral WORLD-WIDE! The smoking gun has called it out as fake after some research (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
One story even called my web site sketchy but hey, it was all in good fun and it will be interesting to see how these new links effect the long-term growth of my website. Here is a short list of websites carrying this story, from Germany, Mexico, Italy, China, Nigeria and across North America!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/
http://perezhilton.com/2011-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/
http://globalgrind.com/news/
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/
http://urbanlegends.about.com/
http://www.northwestohio.com/
http://noticias.terra.es/2011/
http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/
http://www.cnbc.com/id/
http://world.huanqiu.com/roll/
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/
http://dunya.milliyet.com.tr/
http://www.sigmalive.com/news/
http://www.nownews.com/2011/
http://www.net1news.org/ex-
http://www.fakt.pl/Zrobil-
http://noticias.r7.com/
http://www.bellenews.com/2011/
http://www.nollywoodgossip.
http://kissfm969.com/the-girl-
http://www.deceptology.com/
http://www.examiner.com/culture-events-in-chicago/a-tattoo-revenge-saga
I was told by a friend this evening that he heard about this news story on The Howard Stern Show Thursday morning, I just confirmed it by looking it up at http://www.marksfriggin.com/news11/11-28.htm#thu – it seems Howard and Robin talked about this on her news feature at 8:50am and then then Howard mentioned that the news was a hoax at 9:35am.
December 7, 2011 update – As you can see below the news story is still going strong but it has spread so far that I am no longer being noticed as the original source. Traffic on my site is down to just a couple of thousand a day.
