The iPhone 5 News Blog was started on August 22nd, 2012. From that day until the iPhone 5′s September 12, 2012 announcement, this little tech rumor blog has had almost 11 million visits. Thank you for time and participation into making the blog a fun, interesting online community of readers and commenters!
It’s amazing to think that a blog theme that cost $35 bucks turned into such a burgeoning community of tech enthusiasts, but it sure has. Yesterday, in the midst of Tim Cook’s presentation of the iPhone 5, the blog had 725 people on it. Take a look at the stats from Google Analytics’ real-time visitor data:
Typically, the blog has anywhere from 40 to 60 people “sitting” on it at one time. When big websites like The Drudge Report pick up our stories, we typically have upwards of 400 on the blog at one time. But having 725 was an incredible sight to behold (and the reason why the blog got really slow).
Yesterday wasn’t the biggest traffic day we ever had — that came on May 2nd, when we had 153,203 visits in just one day (the day of the “UPS” story), and the iPhone 4S announcement day broke 100,000 as well. But we had a ton of visitors yesterday, to be sure.
The reason why I wanted to share these stats with you is that it shows how the readers and commenters of this blog really made it into what it became — a kind of “iPhone 5 hangout.” We didn’t break a whole lot of news here, and the blog itself never had the features and breadth of other tech blogs. But what it did — and hopefully will continue to have — is a dynamic interchange of passion, excitement, criticism, and conjecture about how technology impacts our culture. I think that’s why following tech rumors has become a kind of hobby unto itself — prognosticating about future technology is nothing new, and it’s a pastime that implicitly reveals more about the people themselves who use the technology than the technology itself.
So, that’s why we’re going to continue the prognosticating of the next iPhone over at the iPhone 6 News Blog. It’ll be a new chapter for Apple, and for us all.
The iPhone 5 News Blog still has work yet to do. We’ll be reporting on post-announcement iPhone 5 news here — there’s bound to be plenty more made in the months to come.
On behalf of myself, Charles, Sven, and Erik who helped immensely in the tech side of the side, we thank you for reading and commenting daily. We never take it for granted.
By Michael Nace
Source : iphone5newsblog[dot]com
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