Interview Palin And Interview Biden Update

October 18, 2008

My little parody Web app of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin seems to have run its course now. The traffic has subsided to a pretty low level and I’ll probably shut the site down after the election. For the curious:

• 940,000 impressions according to Google Analytics
• $563 in AdSense revenue
• 1 day of coding

Twisted Web experienced only one minor problem when it ran out of file descriptors. After I increased the file descriptor limit and switched to the epoll reactor, Twisted Web handled all the traffic without ever breaking a sweat.

The funniest thing for me is that all the ad revenue seems to have come from John McCain’s presidential campaign based on the ad content. Who knew that I could get paid for poking fun at his running mate.

Thanks to:

• My Wife for the initial corpus research for Palin and general encouragement
• Christopher Zorn for assisting me with system administration
• Dandee Fleming and Ben Roberts for testing and Biden research
• Matt McInerney for the awesome site designs

I hope everyone got a nice laugh. For the curious, the code is available on Launchpad.

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