Bollocks to Brexit

[Rocky]

Such is the magnitude of my comeback, I've managed to generate 2 likes from my 160-ish 'friends'. (One of them is probably also Swiss).

you've done better than me....my other two followers are my wife and younger son. My wife was the one who gave me the link in the first place and my son is getting seriously pissed in Kiev at the mo and I suspect looking at his father's twitter feed is the last thing on his mind.

[Rutabaga]

Perhaps people could stop trying to access the petition just to see how many sigs it's got? Might help to stop it crashing quite so often.

[Greg]

Perhaps people could stop trying to access the petition just to see how many sigs it's got? Might help to stop it crashing quite so often.

Using this...

https://brexit-petitions-count.now.sh/

[Greg]

Even that page is jamming up now. Should be at a million very shortly.

[Mister Paul]

Almost at a million...

[Greg]

^ In fact ALL of the internet is jamming up

[Mister Paul]

Million!

[Greg]

999,950

Any second now....










joking

[Joan]

It's going to be way more than that already. I signed it hours ago and still haven't got the confirmation email. There must be a huge backlog of emails.

[Greg]

It's going to be way more than that already. I signed it hours ago and still haven't got the confirmation email. There must be a huge backlog of emails.

You'll know better than me, but the rate of increase seemed to slow down after the crashes, so they could have slowed the flow to keep it up?

[Mister Paul]

Let's not hope that it's going to make the slightest bit of difference.

[Joan]

You'll know better than me, but the rate of increase seemed to slow down after the crashes, so they could have slowed the flow to keep it up?

Sending an email takes longer than serving a web page. It's natural that the emails would be taking a while to send.

Also, if they have to choose where to put resources, the web page is more important. If the emails take hours, that less of a problem than the website crashing.

I've worked with the company that provides the petition software. I dare say they are having a busy day.

[Rutabaga]

Until you've had the email, your signature isn't on the petition though?

[Joan]

"Your signature will not be counted until you click the link in the email"

[Regulator]

They're getting something like 900-1000 signatures a minute on the Revoke petition... I wouldn't be surprised if it tops 2 million tomorrow.