With its ever-growing team of writers and feeders, the Talking-up Scotland Collective had a dramatic increase in both views and visitors in March 2020. 247 211 views represented an 84% increase on the 134 365 in February.
As before, many thanks to the several contributors and to those who post often extended comments, which have added so much to the debate here. Jürgen Habermas would be proud of us.
The 56 576 views for just one story – ‘Why are only Channel 4 and local newspapers reporting ‘Scotland’s unique way to treat virus?’ on the 28th played a disproportionate part in this story.
The most read reports were:
Remember that 22 364 views of the Home page will have included cases where readers did take in headlines and parts of reports even though they did not open the full version.
Geographical coverage was in imperial pink:
Not forgetting:
I’m reminded of the English pub-dweller interviewed on the TV about Brexit who said: ‘We ‘ad an empire. Why don’t we ‘ave the Empire back?’
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I like that , keep it up ! .
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You are the only one, Prof Murphy is getting a big readership too, he says:
“I don’t especially go out of my way to make myself popular when writing here. Nor do I actively chase traffic. But I will be honest: like all writers I do like to be read. I think that goes with the territory.
Last month this blog was read more than half a million times. Usually 200,000 reads in a month is good. The blog had only exceeded 400,000 reads in a month once before. This level of readership was quite exceptional in that case.
I just wish it had happened for happier reason.”
I’ve noticed his and your increase in readership over the past couple of months. It’s very hard to analyse the reasons for this – might it be that more and more people realise that their usual news sources are inadequate and are looking elsewhere?
It would be really good to hear any new readers views on their reasons for visiting!
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You are NOT the only one!
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Oh, I wanted to be the only one! Sigh
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He is one of my favourites too. Deserves even more attention.
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AND the word ‘I’ only appears at the bottom with a joke.
We are the only ones?
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I liked the ‘in imperial pink’ reference 😀
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John, have we heard from Ludo recently? Dunno if I’ve just missed him commenting, or if he’s just busy doing other things?
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Realising that much of what is given out as info “pants”is why I’ve become an avid follower of TUS (and of TRUK ). It’s not just about unmasking the framing of MSM news , it’s about morale . TUS & TRUK make me feel better . I hope expanding readership gives John and Richard a huge lift in spirits , they’re working like dogs to expose distortions .
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Oh that’s good news Brian – that it makes you feel better; the original make-over change from ‘thoughtcontrolScotland’ to Talking Up Scotland was to try and capture more positivity – instead of always bemoaning how hard done by we are, to actually report things that are happening that the news never tells us about (and some moaning 😉 ) . John does do a lot of hard work find these things!
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Just wondered how the emails are calculated in the statistics. I get emails each day with your articles, if I read the email but don’t open the website presumably that counts as a view in your statistics.
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No idea, but I think you’d have to click on the article to be counted.
Also, only a few hundred have requested the email.
Leave my thunder alone!
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Maybe that is why Peter A Bell gives only a taster in his emails and a link to the website.
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Excellent news. People visit your site because it contrasts sharply and factually with the unremitting negativity of britnat propaganda sites.
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Cool. So the positive angle is a bit of a winner for attracting new readers? (so we can suck them in and then indoctrinate them with Scotland-good propaganda)
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To paraphrase a certain T. May – ‘Positive is Positive’. 😊
People come here for a dose of TRUTH.
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Ludo quiet. Will email him
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Yeah please do so John, Ludo’s not been around for ages, and you know how I worry – being shop steward AND compassion correspondent, and all.
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William, ‘truth’ is far too subjective for my tastes, and it’s bandied about so much these days as though it’s got some absolute status, like ‘fact’ in fact… Once you’ve learnt a bit of quantum mechanics, everything becomes uncertain again…
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Yes, Contrary. Heisenberg has much to answer for….
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