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.
I miss the days when we had to say “over”.
out
HUffie/KOmmie/DUmmie Alert! The DUmmie FUnnies has got them covered!
Kristinn—thanks for this message—it was very encouraging.You have always been a very respectable spokeman for FR and your rules for the DC Chapter freeps have become a model for all of the other chapters.
Jim, thank you for this great site.
We have been a force to be reckoned with, and I feel we will have a role to play in the 2008 election, the most important election in our lifetimes.
FreeRepublic is a great forum for the sharing of ideas, and shrapening one’s intellect by being exposed to so many good minds and ex[erienced people. Post any subject, and resident experts appear like magic to guide and to inform.
I have fond memories of the 1998 March for Justice, the Saturday morning freeps at the White House in 1999-2000, the work of Florida freepers at the 2000 vote counting that was going to be behind closed doors until they got involved; the freeps at Dick Cheney’s house(!), the work with the Swiftboat Vets, the work Buckhead did in exposing Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and the fake National Guard letters in 2004, the work of doug from upland on chronicling the malevolent deeds of the Clintons,the weekly freeps supporting the troops at Walter Reed Hospital every Friday night.
We don’t a lot of press,but we do make any effect on the political landscape.
And there is more ahead for us to do.
God bless every one here and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
well, er, I did notice that this report came out AFTER I joined..(pats self on back).
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Once again, Jet Jaguar, thank you for your kindness.
Since we didn’t have the CLARITY of...
at our backs during the Vietnam War...
Anti-Freedom Activists like:
DIANE ‘Hillary’ RODHAM
WILLIAM Jefferson CLINTON
JOHN F. KERRY
TED KENNEDY
BARBARA BOXER
JANE FONDA
TOM HAYDEN
RAMSEY CLARK & all’s...
...support for Communist North Vietnam’s terrorist take over of a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War ...succeeded in horridly bringing down on the once Free South Vietnamese people:
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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/news/1806248/posts
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What price is left for us, the still Free, to pay now as this same Anti-Freedom Gang pushes hard to re-take control of our precious Oval Office one last time...
...in a new time of war with our own Freedom directly at stake right here at home..?
If we let them succeed this time like we did last around, that is..?
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NEVER FORGET
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Amen.......and we are NOT going away. I’ve been on this site for nine years and I’m in for the duration.
Woo hoo!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
Congratulations, FReepers!! You’re number one!!
Thank you all very much!!
I dont know about you folks, but this place has kept me sane over the past ten years.
I was here during the 2000 election, sept 11, 2001 and during the 04 elections. Sometimes its good to have a place to go when everything else is crazy.
BUMP!
The Truth Rules on the Net. Congratulations Jim.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
The loofa man is a joke! He attacked us so he seemed "fair and balanced" to radical liberals from hell.
No! Thank you sir... You’re #1!!!
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NEVER FORGET
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A true Voice of CLARITY =
The Man who predicted 9/11 =
9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P
(The Website)
http://www.RickRescorla.com
(The Pictures)
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
(The Rest of the Story)
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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NEVER FORGET
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Eagles Up! bttt
Mega mega bumparoo!
http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm
TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS
Country or Region
USA
Internet Users,
Latest Data (June 30th 2007)
210,575,287
Penetration
(% Population)
69.7 %
According to our February-March 2007 survey, 71% of American adults use the internet.
Here are some of the things they do online:
Percent of internet users who report this activity
Most recent survey date
- Look online for news or information about politics or the upcoming campaigns*
- 54%
- August 2006
- 72%
- February-March 2007
210,575,287 * 0.54 * 0.0514 = 5844727 unique visitors a month to FR.
210,575,287 * 0.72 * 0.0514 = 7792970 unique visitors a month to FR.
Are these numbers in the ballpark? Or alternatively, is John ever going to make public a snapshot of FR’s server stats again ...
Also, that’s a really big audience, think many need to deeply consider this and think more before they post...
NO MORE RINOS
wow! Note to self....if your going to have wine with your Thanksgiving dinner, make sure you proof read BEFORE you post.
I love this place!
Thank you Jim Robinson, and every FReeper and Lurker who make this Free Republic!
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