WordPress Headquarters, in Redwood City, CA, was the site of an angry mob scene that escalated into violence on Friday, April 1, 2011. Over 400,000 people, some carrying clubs and knives, stormed the building en mass. The crowd surrounded the building, blocked the exits, then swarmed inside, easily overwhelming Chuck the security guard and his dog Buffy at the entrance. Before police could arrive, the crowd had smashed computers, spilled soy lattes out onto the floor, pulled smart phones from the fists of WordPress staffers, and carried off Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress and Buffy, both of whom remain missing. By the time police had arrived, the crowd had dispersed, leaving behind WordPress “happiness engineers” cowering under their desks, whimpering and clutching their useless iPhones.
After questioning the surviving WordPress workers, police investigator Owen Hardiman briefed reporters on the situation. “It seems that an April Fool’s Day
CEO Matt Mullenweg
prank, perpetrated by WordPress staffers, enraged the users and caused the riot.” Tech savvy WP bloggers posted messages on their blogs on Friday to organize a flash mob, after discovering that WP had exaggerated their blog stats, in what was intended to be a humorous April Fool’s Day prank. WordPress statistics engineer Andy Skelton explained. “On Friday April 1, we changed our WP statistics software to display erroneous results. For instance, if a blogger had 40 views on his/her blog that day, the stats bar graph displayed 400 views. We meant it as harmless prank, but unfortunately we underestimated how much our bloggers love their stats. It seems that they don’t take kindly to anyone messing with their blog view numbers. Hindsight is 20/20 or course, and we wish we had realized this earlier.”
The crime remains under investigation, but police fear the perpetrators may never be found. “Unfortunately, most of these bloggers use code names like Huffygirl, AM333, Fantasyfic, and Coming east, so it’s difficult to discover their true identities,” reports Chief Hardiman.
Meanwhile, WordPress blogs remain operative, as the WP servers continue to operate at an undisclosed location. “We’re doing everything we can to keep our 400,000+ bloggers happy at this point.” reports Skelton. We wouldn’t want a repeat of the April Fool’s Day massacre.
(Touche’ WP. Happy April Fool’s Day)
© Huffygirl 2011
Hahahhahaha…too funny!! Love it
So were you one of those in the angry mob?
LMAO! I sure am glad I wore my idiot disguise!
Hope they didn’t see through your disguise or you’d be in big trouble right now.
lol I’m glad you didn’t use my real name
Wouldn’t want to get you in trouble.
I got a good laugh out of it last night.
Yeah, me too, but too bad it wasn’t real.
I’ve been out of town and not near my computer, so I just read this. My daughter still thinks it really happened! Uh, it didn’t, right?
Yes, Buffy the security dog is still missing
No, it did not happen, but if your daughter thinks it almost sounded plausible, then I guess I got the right amount of satire. I wrote this in response to WordPress’ April Fool’s trick on we bloggers – on Friday all the views for the day were multiplied by 100, oops I mean 1,000 – so if you had 40, it showed as 400.
BTW, I added the link to your blog in there hoping it would give you some traffic – you should be able to tell by your stats if it helped.
Yeah, I know. And I teleported there just to be part of the mob!
Great to see you there among all the other angry bloggers! BTW, thanks for subscribing.
Fabulous post!!!!! I saw those stats on April 1 and was just confused. I got that they were out of whack, but took me a minute to understand the reason. (check your math dear girl, 40 * 100 is not equal to 400)
…from your math major blog friend…
Oh, thanks. I’ll fix that math thing. No one else pointed out my math impairment, not even my math major husband!
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