DISQUS

JolieODell · 5 months ago

Are we sure that those numbers can be verified? And are subscriber and registered WP users the same thing?

The site that originally reported this nonsense did a terrible job of it, and it's more vindictive than investigative, in the opinion of a lot of tech bloggers I know.

ouch · 5 months ago

Yes, mommy Brusilovsky, these numbers are verified. Big bad hackers have proof that your little boy was caught with his nose growing 10,000 feet long: http://netnewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009...

JolieODell · 5 months ago

Mommy?

That's just retarded.

The updated posts on other sites are much more fair.

ouch · 5 months ago

there's a big difference between 10,000 pageviews and 10,000 users. If you don't consider this article by the Inquisitr fair, then there is no hope for you. I would mind your language too, throwing around the word retard doesn't give you much credence.

Robert Safuto · 5 months ago

Look, there's nothing special about Teens In Tech. It's just another internet pump and dump scheme. There's no good content over there. It's a WordPress MU install like thousands of other ones floating around the web. And I think that calling the young man who is the webmaster over there a "wunderkind" is really setting the bar low for wunderkinds.

The right (and responsible) thing for the (so called) advisors of Teens In Tech to do is teach Daniel how to build a community organically, with lots of sweat equity and personal outreach. Exaggerating the numbers doesn't help a low traffic site like that get larger. Better content and superior technology will help but those are only two pieces of the pie. Daniel has a lot to learn so his advisors should teach him the proper fundamentals rather than enabling him to continue on with the fantasy that Teens In Tech is anything more than run of the mill WordPress blog.

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins · 5 months ago

SiliconANGLE recently switched to a Wordpress MU install, due mainly to the fact that the standard wordpress isn't built to accommodate a growing community of 80+ contributors very well.

One of the first things that started happening (started just this week, actually) was that sploggers got a hold of us and started creating fake accounts.

It took me a couple of days to first of all realize what was going on (they let the accounts incubate a few days before they start splogging and spamming users, usually with separate accounts) ... and then another day or so to research the best ways to prevent it from happening.

I *suppose* it's possible that at the time when Daniel gave out that number, his user count was inflated by sploggers (10k isn't an unreasonable number if you count sploggers - it's all automated), and then later got a handle on what was going on, but didn't want to come out and revise the number and look bad.

Vinny · 5 months ago

Mark, that isn't totally impossible, but we're not talking 10k versus 8k or 7k. We're talking 10k versus 400. That's not explainable as anything but number inflation.