A Different Drummer: 10,000 people who probably won't let me into their houses anymore

10,000 people who probably won't let me into their houses anymore

6 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Sunday, March 6 at Sunday, March 06, 2005.

Its bottle of non-alcoholic champagne time here in the office in Cairo after I log on this morning and see that Shisha and Shawerma has has its 10,000th hit! According to my user logs, someone in Madison, Wisconsin (Trent - was it you??) pushed me over the edge at about 9:25PM US time last night. Huzzah!

Of course some of the more prominent weblogs are scoring 100,000 hits per hour on a good day, but then why benchmark myself against the best?

Speaking of not benchmarking against anyone good, I'm still trailing Digs (just kidding Digs we all love you) who hit 11,000 last week and is probably pushing 12,000 by now, but I'm happy with the growth in readers. Just the fact that there is a few people who don't know me who actually read this is really really awesome. Now give me all your money.

Also I had my best day ever last Thursday, with 260 unique visitors, meaning 260 different people (or at least different computers) loading up this page in 24 hours. Stoked. All I have to do now is start expressing my excessive right wing anti immigration views and posting pictures of my gun collection and I can enter the major league of bloggers.

6 Responses to “10,000 people who probably won't let me into their houses anymore”

# T-rent 7:00 PM

Madison has a lot of blog-addicted members who are avid readers of Shisha and Shawarma, so I can't take the credit with any certainty.

But we do have a half dozen people applying for Salaam, so, you can maybe think of that 10,000th hit as baksheesh...
# Tom Gara 7:12 PM

Momken.
# Holly 7:41 AM

I think I might start to ignore your blog from now on...
don't want to add to the big head

;)
# Jesse 8:38 AM

since i have no counter i can assume i have more hits than you
# Tom Gara 9:35 AM

Jesse,

I think thats a pretty fair assumption to make.

T
# Jesse 9:37 AM

i just put a counter on and i got my first hit from Karachi. the FBI will surely note this