Where did they get the number 200k? Probably from thin air.
Well .. if there actually were 500 other “Coffee Parties”, then at least 400 people had to show up for EACH COFFEE PARTY - in order to get 200,000.
Hmmmm ..?? 400 is a lot of people. Since they were probably meeting at the local Starbucks, most probably the groups were 25-30 .. not 400 .. making the true total gatherings around a max of 12,500 for the 500 meeting groups.
It appears that it’s people who signed up on FaceBook as friends. Probably has connections to someone like MoveOn.org etc and put the message out that way and their rabid members signed up. No real effort. My guess is that they had something sent out to an email list of FaceBook members making it really easy to join just click link.