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Milestones: 300, 500, 1,000…4,000?

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Speed Force has reached three milestones over the last few weeks:

  • 1,000 blog posts.
  • 500 followers on Twitter.
  • 300 Facebook fans.

Wow!

It seems like just a few months since I hit the 500th post, but it really was almost a year ago. For this post, I figured Ken Lashley’s cover to Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #5 would be appropriate, because documenting the Flash is what this site is all about. (Thanks, GCD!)

The 1,000th blog post was last week’s post on action figure updates by Devin “The Flash” Johnson. The 500th Twitter follower was @ImpulseDesigner, though I seem to have lost a few since then — it’s down to 498 now. I’m not sure who the 300th Facebook fan was, though.

Thanks to all the readers, and thanks especially to Devin for stepping in as Speed Force’s second major contributor!

Oh, and there are two more milestones coming up soon: We’re closing in on 4,000 comments sometime in the next few weeks…and two full years online in mid-June!

Vote it Up!

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If you’ve been wondering about those “Vote it up” buttons on the individual post pages, wonder no more! They’re for a link-sharing site called ComicsBlips. It’s similar to Digg: members submit stories and vote on them, and the top stories make it to the front page of the site. The really top stories also appear in an RSS feed and on Twitter @ComicsBlips. The site is tracking Speed Force, so new posts are automatically submitted, but they still need votes.

If you see a post here that you really like, I’d appreciate it if you’d click that “Vote it up” button…or submit it to any of the many link sharing services available through the “Share This” button.

Thanks!

Blogging Elite?

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When I launched this blog, I did several things in order to promote it. I added it to my forum signatures. I took blogs that I read occasionally and made them regular reads, and started using this URL when commenting. And I submitted the site to some relevant blog directories.

I found Comic Blog Elite through Collected Editions. Speed Force started off fairly low in rank (in part because it started late in the day, so the daily averages were pulled down by that first day with only 1 or 2 hours), but it’s been slowly climbing up the ranks. I figured it would eventually settle around #5 or so.

Amazingly, for the last few days, Speed Force and Collected Editions have been vying for the #3 spot.

Wow!

Here’s a big thank-you to everyone who’s been reading!