Seems like I’m a bit late, but I’ll post even if it’s just for providing a larger picture.
As I read on Farce News the night before that an article on France 24 – about Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at the UN – had drawn 2.2 billion comments, I thought “kudos”. Kudos, not to Ahmadinejad because the report doesn’t make it clear if the comments were favorable to him or not, but to France 24’s operations department for setting up and maintaining a beast that handles billions of comments in a few hours. Anyone else’s network would have been toast.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for France 24 to confess to receiving a measly 31 comments, immediately reducing their web and database servers’ status to boring, and the kudos went to Farce News instead for thinking, and for entertainment value. They were only off by 2.2 billion.
Sadly, Farce News has removed the entry on their website, and I don’t know which direction to point my kudos to anymore. I’ll just post this screenshot here in case Farce News still wants to take credit.
“Echoes of Ahmadinejad NY speech: 2.2 billion comments on France 24.”
PS: Looking forward to the day they have to take this off their website too:
“Ahmadinejad votes reach 24 million.”
A Cheeky Mistake
October 6, 2010 in Reports by P. Umpire
Seems like I’m a bit late, but I’ll post even if it’s just for providing a larger picture.
As I read on Farce News the night before that an article on France 24 – about Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at the UN – had drawn 2.2 billion comments, I thought “kudos”. Kudos, not to Ahmadinejad because the report doesn’t make it clear if the comments were favorable to him or not, but to France 24’s operations department for setting up and maintaining a beast that handles billions of comments in a few hours. Anyone else’s network would have been toast.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for France 24 to confess to receiving a measly 31 comments, immediately reducing their web and database servers’ status to boring, and the kudos went to Farce News instead for thinking, and for entertainment value. They were only off by 2.2 billion.
Sadly, Farce News has removed the entry on their website, and I don’t know which direction to point my kudos to anymore. I’ll just post this screenshot here in case Farce News still wants to take credit.
PS: Looking forward to the day they have to take this off their website too:
Tags: comments, Fars News, France 24, integrity, operations