Romenesko Memos
Traffic to David Cay Johnston‘s piece took Willamette Week’s site down for about three hours on Monday. || Editor Mark Zusman‘s memo is after the jump.
From: Mark Zusman
Date: April 18, 2011 4:47:45 PM PDT
To:
Subject: wweek.com crash
Staff,
As you know, our web site crashed today for about 3 hours. We are now back up and it appears that the culprit is the David Cay Johnston story on “9 Things The Rich Don’t Want You to Know about Taxes.” For a period of time, we were getting 12,000 page views request per minute!
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