Acording to Crowdtilt blog a week ago on the
April fool’s Day they had lunched the CROWFUND THE DEBT web site. This is a
spoof splash page in which they claimed that the White House is asking everyday
Americans to chip in and help pay off our mounting national debt using
Crowdtilt. The team that created the site claims that they had 31k+ page views,
press mentioned their site in TechCrunch and other plus 3000+ Facebook likes
and tweets.
A week before the April Fool’s Day the team was
looking for a good prank and they hit upon U.S. National Debt. For them this
was the perfect combination of culturally relevant crisis, a match with Crowdtilt, and just fun concept.
So they have created CrowfundTheDebt.com in a few days and the site went live
at midnight on April 1st.
On this site you can see a national debt
counter that was counting down rather then up, and quote from the JFK. "Ask
not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your
country." Beside the quote from JFK there are also the quotes from: Paul
Ryan, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Warren Buffett. All in all the web page
seems real.
Their splashed page was linked to a fake
Crowdtilt campaign that was customized with a script that would trigger random
contributions from $100 to $10,000 throughout the day. When visitors actually
contribute, they got the custom popup with the fancy American flag in the
background.
Finally, if the visitor came through this far and logged in/created an
account, they were met with the slogan “You’re the hero America needs, but not
the one we deserve right now” and this swanky GIF:
From the frist day (April 1st) since the site is launched
the statistics are:
·
Unique Visitors: 24,853
·
Pageviews: 31,097
·
Average time on page: 3:08 min.
The before given statistics are from the Google Analytics
site and the screenshots for this are given below.
If you want to read more about the prank site please visit:
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