Thought this was interesting. If the 32,000 people attending his recent rally aren't enough to show the momentum, take a look at this.
"Crashing the Internet"
Monday morning we published a story about our poll results showing Bernie Sanders was leading the Democratic field in Utah.
Interesting? Yes.
World shattering? Probably not.
That is until sometime between 11 am and noon Mountain time on Monday. During that timeframe, someone posted the story to Reddit. If you're unfamiliar with Reddit, it's a heavily trafficked crowdsourced website. Users post articles, pictures or whatever directly to the site. Content and articles are either "upvoted" or "downvoted" by users. The posts with more "upvotes" get higher placement on the site, and more attention. Posts that are "downvoted" get less attention. It's all very democratic and amazing.
Did I mention there are a lot of Bernie Sanders fans on Reddit? That's kind of important to my story.
So, these Bernie Sanders fans started "upvoting" the post linking to our story. In fact, so many in such a short time that the story was automatically pulled to Reddit's "front page" which gets the most attention. That brought literally tens of thousands of readers to our site in a minuscule amount of time.
As Dan Rather would say, "Katie bar the door."
Traffic to UtahPolicy.com went off the charts. It was such a surge that we initially thought we were under a DDOS, or "denial of service" attack. That's when a number of compromised computers target a single website, flooding it with so much traffic that nobody can pull it up anywhere.
Go Redditors and go Bernie!