Traffic generated from Twitter
I was wondering how much traffic one Twitter post would generate,
and more importantly, I was wondering *who* would visit.. So I simply
created a text file, tweeted it and checked the access logs.
http://twitter.com/mauriez/statuses/2929340532
Message posted at 30/Jul/2009:14:43:02 +0200
(local time on box where I checked the logs)
Access log shows this: 66.249.68.198 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:48 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
174.129.91.213 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:57 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Python-urllib/2.5"
91.121.123.191 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:57 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128 SUSE/1.5-0.1 Firefox/1.5"
75.101.156.169 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:59 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "AideRSS 2.0 (postrank.com)"
174.129.89.199 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:08 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Python-urllib/2.5"
80.46.93.186 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:10 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "http://twitter.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12"
89.151.84.35 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:10 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot"
79.99.6.106 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:11 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "Twingly Recon"
174.129.111.78 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:11 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "PycURL/7.18.2"
89.151.84.35 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:12 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot"
208.74.66.43 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:13 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.0" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly.html) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
91.121.89.155 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:22 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "PycURL/7.19.3"
75.101.196.118 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:27 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Twitturly / v0.6"
91.121.53.183 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:56 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2009011817 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5"
I have cut out the requests that were not for tt.txt .. but its amazing
how many automated hits you get after a simple post!
