article_snippet.sent: Heidi, a nail technician, said her idea to provide encouragement with ‘likes’ on Facebook from family and friends exceeded her wildest expectations within just one hour. '
article_snippet.sent: It was only after putting their five-month-old son Rocco down for a morning nap just over an hour later that Heidi realised this time would be different. '
article_snippet.sent: I was expecting ten or maybe 20 views and likes, but saw there were over 4,000,' Heidi said. '
article_snippet.sent: I remember staring at the my phone thinking there must be some mistake, so I called my husband Chris, and my husband Chris was as shocked as Heidi. '
article_snippet.sent: By the time Heidi picked up Jesse’s from Heath Primary School, they had more than 12,000 views. '
article_snippet.sent: By the time Heidi and Chris went to bed that evening Heidi and Chris were up to 100,000, then 200,000 by the end Thursday. '
article_snippet.sent: Heidi and Chris made a poster each time Heidi and Chris hit another 100,000, but a poster was snowballing so fast by the time Heidi and Chris were finishing one poster,
article_snippet.sent: Heidi and Chris’d hit the next target
article_snippet.sent: it was crazy,' Heidi says. '
article_snippet.sent: Of course Jesse’s’s only six years old, so anything over 1,000 to Jesse’s is incomprehensible, but Jesse’s could tell by Heidi and Chris reaction how this had gone viral.'
article_snippet.sent: The video finally hit the one million mark exactly a week after Heidi posted the one million mark, first thing on Wednesday morning. '
article_snippet.sent: Since then I haven’t been able to tell how much more than one million Heidi and Chris’ve gone to, because my phone can’t show a bigger number than one million –