"techcrunch's traffic no doubt rose well above average during the whole affair"
Hmm, let's check:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com/
Nope, it was down that month.
Hmm, let's check:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com/
Nope, it was down that month.
besides if you wanted to check the stats it would need to be on a per article basis, theres too much traffic to try and extrapolate trends on a month by month basis.
to be fair it was a guess, but I would still be surprised if they werent among the most popular articles.