Posted on 11/22/2007 4:43:01 PM PST by kristinn
FreeRepublic.com, the eleven-year-old conservative granddaddy of political discussion websites, was rated the most popular political website by Hitwise, an Internet data tracking service, for the week ending November 17, 2007 with 5.14% market share.
The liberal site, HuffingtonPost.com, founded two-and-a-half years ago, was the only site that came close to Free Republic in interest from net users, with 4.51% market share. In a distant third place, the five-year-old liberal site DailyKos.com, was left in the dust by Free Republic and Huffington Post, garnering only 2.57% market share.
The others sites Hitwise listed were, in order, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com with 2.17%; townhall.com with 2.1%; buzzflash.com with 1.95%; politico.com with 1.9%; humanevents.com with 1.84%; realclearpolitics.com with 1.72% and democraticunderground.com with 1.69%.
Free Republic has received none of the fawning promotion in the mainstream media that its nearest competitors get. It takes no paid advertising, has no membership fees and relies solely on donations for its existence. Its founder and webmaster, Jim Robinson, is not touted as a political player like Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga are. The site has endured withering criticism this year by pundits from Bill O'Reilly to Patrick Ruffini. Yet, Free Republic survives and thrives as one of the most popular and influential political websites.
From leading the charge to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998, to the 2004 exposing of the fraudulent National Guard documents that led to Dan Rather's firing by CBS News, to the recent deep-sixing of expansion of the S-CHIP program, Freepers, as members at the site are known, have changed politics in America.
Liberals despise them, some conservatives seeth with envy, yet none can deny that more than a decade in to the online revolution, Free Republic is still a force to be reckoned with.
Thank you!
Congratulations Jim!
Way to “Roast them Turkeys!”
God Bless,
GB
Dan the Thinker..He thought HE was the most popular..............................MOMMY !
One of the livelier sources of amusement last summer was the self-congratulatory gushing with which the libs in the MSM awarded sole possession of the Internet to the "netroots" - i.e. themselves. Real grassroots organizations such as FR frighten them because they can't control us. It doesn't mean they won't try.
Don't post pictures!!! They take 28 minutes to load!!!!
Great News!!! and thanks to both of you from a lurker of the early Whitewater threads...
Well stated. Freerepublic is my favorite site, hence, my home page.
WOOT!
Grats to Jim and all those that make FR what it is! All Y’all ROCK!
Cool!
Thank you Jim.Happy Thanksgiving.
I turned my husband into a homosexual!
It takes no paid advertising, has no membership fees and relies solely on donations for its existence.
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Unlike Media MatTurds... and DUunnngh!
just a couple of many leftie sites&orgs under the influence of the HildeBeast and her supporters.
AFP
Top 10 Political Websites (Free Republic Number One,
HuffPo 2nd, Kos 3rd)
Congrats...and many, many thanks for the priviledge (Mr. R.) of posting here for the last eight years.
Not really.
She married a queer.
” I miss the days when we had to say “over””
Hey, light on the graphics please, I only have a 2600 BAUD modem!
It has now the same role as the theater was in Elizabethan times:
HAMLET
Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Free Republic: The abstract and brief chronicles of the time.
Ya reckon our Sunday meetings played a part?
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