After I read this, I lit up a cigar.
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.
Fantastic!
BUMP
Next year is our 10th year here. We’re getting old Kristinn.
best news source in the world
best news analysis’ in the world
FRepublic is guilty of one thing............success
As of yesterday, gold was worth $797.20 per ounce. Be careful with your comparisons.
THANK YOU JIM!!!
Maybe in the bathtub too long?
Let them hate -- provided they fear.
yeah ?? but on FRepublic one can call Hillary a bitch because she is.
What’s THAT worth...................lololol
"It is better to be feared than to be loved."
----- Niccolo Macchiavelli, The Prince
You're last millenium, dude. (I shouldn't talk but couldn't resist. :))
10. www.democraticunderground. com 1.69%
After I read this, I lit up a cigar.
Man, you’re making me feel even older. (Time for that Viagra pill. Now if I just knew some women...)
That's around when I started lurking. Didn't register for about 8 months. pre-Monica Lewinsky.
Great news! Happy Thanksgiving!
***Don’t forget Freepers efforts in the Sore-Loserman fiasco of the 2000 election.**
Oh, that was a GREAT sign. I put one on my front door. A repairman arrived, and he burst out laughing. He also said his wife was waiting for him in the car and she was laughing too. He did a great repair job, also.
Free Republic is worth more than the Canadian dollar!
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