What happened on 7-15-2009?

[Juggity]

The recently-reached milestone of 2 million posts in this forum got me thinking about other milestones.

Obviously, I wasn't here on 7-15-2009. So just out of curiosity, was there any specific reason why it was the day that the most users were online at the same time?

[Gooshie]

RJ Trade I think.

[Mel_13]

Pretty sure that Google searches for something non-Spurs related were linking to a picture posted on ST.

[Mel_13]

RJ Trade I think.

That trade was in June.

[Gooshie]

That trade was in June.

Oh! You're right - it was right before the draft.

[++SaiNt TiAg0++]

what about the george hill wee wee picture floating around? haha

[Bukefal]

I think it had something to do with RJ who dumped his fiancee?

[CubanMustGo]

SR and its legion of supporters trying to crash the ST servers

[Mel_13]

I think it had something to do with RJ who dumped his fiancee?

Looks like you're right:

http://www.aolnews.com/2009/07/15/ri...-nichols-jilt/

[Juggity]

I think it had something to do with RJ who dumped his fiancee?

Could be...it's the right date and time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_232961.html

But that as opposed to, say, the spurs winning the championship in '07?

[duncan228]

It looks like the Jefferson story and Blair's contract were the hot threads around that time. Could be a combination of those.

[Mel_13]

Could be...it's the right date and time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_232961.html

But that as opposed to, say, the spurs winning the championship in '07?

The number counts guests. The RJ story was a pop culture event. People googling for info were linked to the ST thread

[Hooks]

Yeah it was that RJ thing, I remember a load of guests were on ST that day.

[Bukefal]

Could be...it's the right date and time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_232961.html

But that as opposed to, say, the spurs winning the championship in '07?

Well, a lot of people are looking for dirt All those people just got here because of that. They could care less about the Spurs and their championships, Spurs aren't popular.

I think it was the same thing with george hill when those pics leaked, so many visitors all of a sudden.

[TimmehC]

Blair and Hill were beasting at Vegas, RJ's wedding fiasco.

[SpursNextRomanEmpire]

I'm surprised it wasn't the Tony/Eva drama

[BlackSwordsMan]

it was is RJ gay thread

[Summers]

AND it's my anniversary. Everyone wanted to wish me and RG happy anni.

[Kori Ellis]

It was due to the Richard Jefferson/fiancee scandal breaking news. SpursTalk had a thread about it the week before it was in the press (on 07/09 I think), so it was high up in Google ranking when people started searching for it.

There was also a picture of RJ's ex-wife on SpursTalk that was first in Google images when you searched for her.

So between those two things, there was a ton of search engine traffic.