Pirate Party UK received 100 members an hour after registration
The Pirate Party is off to a running start in the UK.
Days after officially registering and announcing it would be running in the next general election on a copyright and surveillance reform platform, the party confirmed online publicity had helped drive hundreds of members to sign up each hour.
“I’m trying to get hold of my web guys to confirm exact sign-up rates, but I believe we peaked at over 100 memberships an hour when Slashdot ran the story at the same time Stephen Fry twittered about us, and I’m sure we were over 100 forum sign-ups and hour,” party leader Andrew Robinson told IT PRO in an email.
Slashdot is a popular tech news aggregation site, while Stephen Fry is well-known for his Twitter power.
Robinson told the Register that “donations have been coming in so fast that PayPal were concerned we were a fraudulent site.”
The party’s treasurer Eric Priezkalns said the number of new members wasn’t yet confirmed, but would be made public over the weekend. “It is still very early days, and we have been overwhelmed by the response, which has exceeded all our expectations,” he told IT PRO.
The party was also up to 1,700 members on Facebook, topping even the Conservative party’s 1,200 fans – although the party itself has stressed it needs people to become members of the political party, not just follow it on social networking sites, in order to succeed.
For more on the Pirate Party’s plans for the UK, click here.
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