So while our loyal readers were getting a “server busy” error, we were tearing our hair out and contemplating the marketing power of 140 characters.

It all came from a late night news search, when our intrepid team of reporters discovered a potential story, while perusing the words of wisdom from our favourite Red Dwarf robot and Llewtube creator, Robert Llewellyn.

He’d got annoyed with BBC North West Tonight as they’d used one of his videos without permission and was Twittering his disappointment.

How-Do’s news senses tingled and we got in touch with the Beeb to find out more.

Having received a statement, we wrote a second story to say that the BBC had apologised.

Llewellyn: top twitterer

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Comments (2)

1  By David Towers , on 11-06-2009 13:51 Nice move! If you decide to do something like this again in the future, there are a few things you can do to make Joomla support surges in traffic better...     The easiest way to do this is if you create a static HTML version of the page, and upload it into the appropriate directory on the server (in this case /north-west-media-news/north-west-marketing-services/bbc-and-kryten-take-down-howdo-via-twitter-200906115590/ ) Doing this will ensure that there isn't an overload in DB queries... If you do this, you should be able to support having several thousand visitors without your server going down. Report

2  By Simon Wharton , on 11-06-2009 14:20 That's if you can predict the traffic surge arriving. If I predict a traffic surge on our site, does that mean we'll get thousands of hits? That would be lovely. Convert at 5%? Nice Report