StumbleUpon Gives Me Voice

I am really thankful for social media and especially SU those make it easier for almost anybody to spread the word and deliver their message to the world for free and in no time.

Few years ago, the best you can do for your story is to syndicate a press release and cross your fingers hoping that some news paper correspondent pick it and republish it, or may be one of those big news websites give it the exposure that you want. Social media provides us with very good chance to have at least hundreds of people reading any story we write, up to thousands if we are lucky enough to hit some big social media website’s home page.
Why SU should be your first social media website to start promoting your story?
- Assuming you use digg, the best you can get if you don’t have a big network of friends or don’t have enough digs for your story is to get less than ten visitors to your story.
- Delicious, is almost the same, for average stories.
- Redit is a little better with 30 visits sometimes

But with SU, for almost any new story you will have a chance to get from 100-500 visits, SU has really very good mechanism in promoting new stories for even new low popularity members. Unlike other social media websites those don’t give your story any initial boost (unless you ask some friends help), SU will show your story for stumblers those are interested in your story topic in the next few hours followed your submission, so if your story is good enough, you will get more and more thumbs up and may be you will hit the buzz page and get amassing exposure, even though the worst scenario is having average story and get few hundreds visits. SU I love you..

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StumbleUpon’s Servers So Slow These Days

I understand how much it is hard to handle millions of daily requests when you have a website with  massive traffic like StumbleUpone, what also makes it harder is getting millions of automated requests by bots, spammers and some DOS attack, however that doesn’t justify the low performance of SU servers in the last week.

If you want to be one of the big web players like;  “I wouldn’t say Google or Yahoo”,  at least the social medial players like Digg or Facebook you need to have fast servers.

I n the internet sphere the hard part to get some success is to get the good idea, then spread it and eventually get the audiences, hardware problems should not be a reason to lose your audiences, especially we are living now in a days these you can easily get hundreds of servers with powerful T1 lines connected with affordable prices, even for small to medium companies.

I hope SU IT team will figure out as soon as possible how to handle the increased daily requests, and be prepared for more, keeping in mind that Facebook is having 150 000 new users daily.

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