Lots of "direct" traffic
There's another thread about the same thing happening to a hubber and it had to do with bots visiting all of their hubs.
I think I'll go tweet something and get swarmed.
Well. Someone else must have tweeted one of my hubs today, then, because I sure didn't.
Bummer. I was dubious from the start, but I still held out with the faint hope that actual humans might be enjoying my rapier wit and fart jokes.
Yep, those fart jokes usually do the trick!
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