Yeah, checked the counter this morning, and it had four zeros.
The round number came both sooner and later than expected. Sooner than it would have looked last November/December when this was all new and some days went by with zero views.
Later than expected in April/May, when we had seen steady growth and comfortably hovered between 100 and 200 views a day. The 8 hours of being blocked by Twitter, probably for the "Bollocks to Scrotum ratio" were followed by a dip when we stopped doing Twitter and Facebook for a few weeks in stubborn protest against algorithms. Eventually, we let Facebook go completely during the surveillance shitstorm.
This was precipitated by a German blog post that described how a friend of the post's author had been screened by US immigration and found that the border person could access her detailed Facebook account without so much as a password. An email exchange with the post's author convinced us that we were not dealing with some wingnut who made up crap and stuck it on the web.
Other than ups and downs and some spam comments that we deleted, you, our readers, have been nice folks. We hope to have been able to help a couple of you with the Facebook email addresses on the German data protection commission site and the newly updated pointer to the Irish commissioner.
Above all, we hope some of the posts made you laugh.
Have fun on the web, learn, and be safe.
Thank you.
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