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what’s happening with santa

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As a last hurrah, The Santa Tracker's official Twitter account just posted a bunch of tweets at once that were definitely supposed to be scheduled for across the night.

Glad The Santa Tracker managed to find ways to be dysfunctional even after finishing tracking Santa.

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Good morning! Today's the Big Day, where all Santas across the world have completed their mission. Let's see how everyone turned out!

From "me briefly waking up at 3am," I saw that The Santa was the first to finish. Sadly, statistics were wiped from the website not too long after, so we can't tell how many houses he visited, cookies he ate, or glasses of milk he drank.

Of the remaining three, Fusible Santa acted as expected: worst present output, but best coverage. Granted, getting better coverage than the rest isn't exactly the trickiest task, but man is the bar low here. Despite this, somehow he managed to shoot his counts up to 3.14 billion presents and 410,365 cookies eaten.

Against all odds, Google Santa actually came in second place this year! Despite having an all-around more competent website, Google Santa delivered 7.7 billion presents exactly, same as last time. Is Google Santa stagnating...?

NORAD Santa, despite a second place finish last time, decided to put himself into gear and deliver a staggering 7,883,693,263 presents, actually beating out Google this time! Despite a generally less functional website, is NORAD ready to take back the crown...?

And that wraps up the Santa Tracker Showdown this year! Who knows if I'll be back for 2024. Santa Trackers only come around once a year, and perhaps so shall I. Hopefully that's long enough for me to figure out how to spice things up better next time.

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Meanwhile Fusible has eaten a truly pathetic 32,612 cookies, likely because The Santa has been hogging them all.

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Probably heading to rest before too long, but NORAD officially broke the 5 billion gift threshold! Will NORAD be able to overtake Google at some point tonight...? We'll just have to wait and see!

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8pm update! NORAD and The are both working their way through South America now. Fusible is working through Greenland, while Google is still working on Europe. Despite seemingly having made the least distance, Google has handed out the most presents, with over 5.75 billion distributed.

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Either this was all delivered while I wasn't looking, or lots of these present icons just didn't load in, but this looks a lot better. Probably even better than Google and NORAD, if we're being blunt. And I was worried Fusible Santa was making an exception with his thoroughness!

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Uhhhh hey Fusible Santa, it looks like you're missing a spot, buddy. A pretty big spot, buddy. Like, well over half of a whole continent big, buddy,

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Uhhhh hey Fusible Santa, it looks like you're missing a spot, buddy. A pretty big spot, buddy. Like, well over half of a whole continent big, buddy,

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And Google Santa HAS breached 5 billion now! Hooray !

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Fusible Santa has officially broken 1 billion presents! Still well behind NORAD, which has cracked 4 billion, and Google, which is bordering on 5 billion, but hey, sometimes you gotta take your time.

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It's kind of remarkable how much less thorough Fusible Santa has been over the past few hours, even in Europe. Like, it feels like earlier, it was hitting up basically every other city, but now entire countries have basically been passed over. It's weird.

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Been a while since our last update. Fusible still hasn't gotten past 845 million.

Yeah, not a lot has really been happening. Did I mention NORAD cracking 3 billion? It's getting decently close to 4 now.

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Fusible Santa has used his teleportation powers to go straight from Basra, Iraq, to Nairobi, Kenya. On most Santas, I'd question this routing, but on a Santa that can teleport, I'll allow it.

That being said, this does not leave me optimistic for Fusible's coverage of Africa.

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Man, I feel Fusible Santa Tracker has comfortably been around 844 million presents for a while now. Will it ever cross the billion present mark...? Maybe it needs a few more sudden drops of 50 million presents.

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What do you MEAN the wind is coming from NV? Northvest? Nevada???

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One of my favorite parts of The Santa Tracker is that they have a button for Frequently Asked Questions, but it just leads right back to the page for the tracker without providing any answers.

They DO have a FAQ, the link just doesn't work.