As you can see from the comScore chart below, Twitter.com saw a boost in traffic (to its web site, this doesn't include mobile or other clients) in October, with 3.7 billion page views in October, up from 3.3 billion in September.
The Super Bowl spot cost an estimated $2.5M, reached an audience of 500 million, and generated only one third of the boost in traffic to the Campaign for Real Beauty website of Evolution.
Mirror Group Digital enjoyed a huge boost in digital traffic to its network of sites – which includes Mirror.co.uk – in April, with a 30% surge in monthly users during a period that included Lady Thatcher's death.
For the specialist sites being linked to, the boost in traffic and credibility would only bring more targeted advertising revenue and more possibilities for spin off events, books and the rest, all of which contribute to the journalistic bottom line and their ability to hire from the army of recently unemployed journalists.
Similarly, to account for boosts in traffic, providers had to build in costly equipment to handle the capacity.
Bill Bishop, an independent internet analyst based in Beijing, said video-sharing sites hosting foreign reality shows may receive a boost in traffic, and suggested that authorities might seek to curb this.
And because users would be tweeting many items that are housed on Facebook — including photos, videos, and updates from applications — it could actually lead to a significant boost in traffic.
You'll get colleagues to help you out, a boost in traffic and a whole new potential audience.
Links shown in this feed will be directed back to LevelUp, so the site will likely see a big boost in traffic.
Not everyone has been satisfied with Wong's explanation, particularly since Reddit was willing to keep the Fappening up for a week (benefiting from a big boost in traffic), and because it hasn't taken down other subreddits, such as /r/SexWithDogs and /r/CuteGirlCorpses /r/CuteFemaleCorpses, that are pretty horrible but aren't drawing as much ire from celebrities or the media.
She was notorious enough in the nation that, in January 2015, a local brewery used her name and signature thick-rimmed black glasses to advertise, "we are both rated 18+." So in addition to the spike of interest driven by US controversy, she got a boost in traffic from Lebanon and countries nearby.
