“More than 3 million people have signed a petition to cancel Brexit on the U.K. government’s official petitions website — so many that the website crashed multiple times,” reports Time:
The petition had received some 600,000 signatures at a rate of 1,500 every 60 seconds before the site crashed at about 9 a.m. U.K. time on Thursday, the Guardian reported. By mid afternoon, the site was back online but suffering intermittent outages. There were 2 million signatures by Thursday evening and 3 million by midday Friday…
The U.K. government must now allow a debate on the petition’s contents in parliament.
The Guardian notes that the CTO of company that built the petition site had bragged in a tweet Wednesday that the 1,000 signatures per minute was “Not too bad, but nowhere near crashing the site –you all need to try harder tomorrow.”
By the next morning he had tweeted âoeWell done everyone — the site crashed because calculating the trending count became too much of a load on the database.”
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