I don't have the exact numbers right now. But from what the editor-in-chief told me, traffic hits to the website went up at least 10-fold from Thursday to Sunday and the paper's Twitter saw about 300-400 new followers.
The photo editor recapped his desk's G-20 experience here. It's an interesting post and really shows how much time the media, not just The Pitt News, really put into their covering of G20 and especially the protests.
A lot of the news was started on the streets by students and onlookers who would use Twitter to update events and was eventually picked up by media sources. There was a big push from independent media sources that helped show an even closer look at the protest/riots through the use of video on the streets.
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