[Hooly One]

A spectacular Big Brother bust-up has provoked a surge of activity on the net as fans of the reality show look for the latest gossip online.


The official Channel 4 Big Brother website has been unavailable on and off this morning because of "huge demand" from fans.



According to a spokeswoman for the hit reality show, "so many people have been trying to access the site.. the sheer volume of traffic has left it unavailable".



Popular fans website Digital Spy has also been forced to temporarily close its discussion forums after hundreds logged in to chat about last night's ruckus.



Fans have speculated on the future of the show since the events, which left the house wrecked, the contestants locked in their rooms, and forced Channel 4 bosses to pull the programme from the air at 2am for more than an hour.



A message currently states: “Digital Spy's forums are currently under extremely heavy load. Please try again in a few minutes! We're working to ensure as many people as possible are able to use the forums.”


Before the forums closure, fans had discussed how the row had escalated following the return of the two "evicted" housemates Emma and Michelle from the "bedsit" they had been living in since Friday. Some viewers speculated that the show would not be able to continue.

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[Amy]

Originally posted by Hooly One
A spectacular Big Brother bust-up has provoked a surge of activity on the net as fans of the reality show look for the latest gossip online.

yes they have look at how many people have visited TiBB today The most online ever was 306 on 17-6-2004; 15:10.

[dustmite]

Does this mean I have to make 306 blueberry muffins?

[Amy]

get baking

[Hooly One]

Originally posted by dustmite
Does this mean I have to make 306 blueberry muffins?

You will have to 307, because i want two..

Sorry i'm Just Greedy

[Amy]

Originally posted by Hooly One

You will have to 307, because i want two..

Sorry i'm Just Greedy

trust you ......................... I want 3

[Hooly One]

[dustmite]

Grumble you make it all difficult. I'll bake a thousand, any left over we can sell as genuine TiBB muffins, or something.

It's quite nice to see the interest the 'fight' provoked, shame it took something of that magnitude, but certainly is proving interesting.

[LEE]

We could always donate any left over to the house, just incase Marco and Nadia run out of food to throw

[Amy]

That's very true LEE! or, perhaps we could have our very own TiBB food fight!

[dustmite]

Originally posted by LEE
We could always donate any left over to the house, just incase Marco and Nadia run out of food to throw

But they could always throw Victor over the wall... afterall, she made that table look like a piece of paper

[Sweetpea]

LOL Dustmite I agree

[Mark]

The day after the arguement in the house, TiBB had a record amount of hits/page impressions - 1,041,223 in 24 hours!

That's 43,384 an hour
Which is 723 a minute

A remarkable feat... it used up so much bandwidth and server load it isn't funny, but luckily our hosts are fine about it!

Below is a graph of the daily visits to TiBB, as you can see this one day ruined the trend!

[BusyBee]

Well BB has certainly done what it set out to do and made this year's series memorable (whether for the right reasons has yet to be seen).

How many of these new visitors are real BB fans though or just browsing out of nosiness?

Muffins for the real fans is what I say Preferably with cream on top. Blow the diet for one day!!!

BTW Mark any of these visitors actually become members?

[Sunny_01]

We are certainly going to win the BB world domination web site award Mark

[Dan_]

I wanna muffin

Nadia is the strongest person in that house!

[Hooly One]

BB fernzy

You can't have any muffins, there all mine.. Back off!!