Revoke A50 petition fastest growing of all time....

[SoloD]

... and just become the biggest on the gov.uk website

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

When I signed yesterday it had 25k, nearly 600k now.

Please sign for all our futures sake

It seems to be going up at an incredibly consistent rate; is that because that's all the website can handle, causing a bottleneck, or some other reason? 🤔

I am mesmerised.

I hope it gets past 4.5 million... I think that was the most ever signatures one of these got?

Have tried to sign but not getting an email.

I'm the same and it's been a few hours and I've checked spam folder as well- though it says anytime in next 24 hours to get it.

I think it's the bottleneck because people are getting their emails an hour or so later so I imagine loads of people will then be clicking at once every so often

I haven’t rtft but if you’ve already a ovned you should look at the below link for the tally instead of the main petition so as not to crash the site again...

petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=241584

It's a very good timing with the March on Saturday, it will keep going.

It’s lunchtime now too for most people so traffic just now will be huge after it was mentioned on bbc: will likely slow a bit when people get back to work so confirm emails will probably be sent out quicker later this afternoon.

That map is fantastic, it looks as though every constituency in the UK has signed! I really hope that this will mean something. Thank you for sharing Girlwhowearsglasses

I signed it but never got the email confirmation which I need for my signature to be counted. Hopefully it's just a delay?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584/count.json

The above link also works for giving updates on the signature count.

It took a while to get my email through. Servers, most likely.

No, under. We don’t want to Leave,that’s all.

Not sure if anyone’s said so up thread but massive shout out to Margaret Anne Georgiadou, btw!, who just got on and did it!
Thank you!

Any link that gives you an updated count will be getting that data from the same database and will be increasing the load on it - there is no magic link that will give you updated stats without asking the database for the numbers...
The best way is to watch whats being reported here, or one of the twitter feeds for it like @UltraButt since they can look once and then tell everyone from that.

I signed last night. Keep on rolling petition.

The Independent keeps updating the total. check there and lighten the load on the server.

I understand it can only cope with 1500 a minute. Can somebody with better maths tell me how long it would take to get to 17million?

Undertheseainabot
This is most definitely possible (more difficult now that most free-mail services have reasonable counter bot mechanisms (e.g. captcha)) but I suspect that the petitions site has a number of counter-measures. E.g. check geographic origin of IPs, exclusion of known proxies, exclusion Tor routed traffic, exclude known 1-off use email services (e.g. sharklasers), exclusion of known bot-net IPs, etc ...
Actually I think they should provide some reassurance to the public on this as it's easy to cast doubt about the validity of a petition. Have sent them some feedback.

‘Zacly @undertheseainabot