Weird Flickr stats

[Chris Kennedy]

I don't know what's going on here, but one of my photos shows over 4,000 views today. They're all direct Flickr views, not from search engines or "Unknown source." It's a shot of a C.A.P. Cessna. I think this must be some kind of bot thing.

[Joe Copalman]

Could be.  Could also be some national-level CAP guy found the shot, took a shine to it, and sent a link out to a bunch of people saying "HEY LOOK AT THIS NEAT PICTURE OF ONE OF OUR PLANES!" or somesuch.

Or a bot.

I had a Prowler shot that would get the same amount of hits (280) every day for a week.  That had to have been a bot.