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.
A force to be reckon with.
Congratulations to all.
Hah!!!
It's also worth more than the euro and is even competitive with the Swiss franc.
best news source in the world
best news analysis’ in the world
FRepublic is guilty of one thing............success
Freepers Rock!
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Jim, the mods, and to everyone.
I’ve been proud to be a Freeper for seven years. Nobody had to tell us that you’d accomplished something wonderful, Jim, but it’s nice to see it in writing somewhere else. Congratulations.
Congrats and Happy Thanksgiving y’all!
Newbie
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I’m sure most of us are aware that the “unbiased” MSM gets lots of its’ “news” from the huffpost. A lot of their hits are probably MSM “reporters” doing “research”.
You left off the last part of that declaration....in actuality, the entire sentence is quoted: "Hi Mom - We're going to da Super Bo!"
Happy Thanksgiving to each Freeper and their families. This site is like coming home every day to friends, who don’t always hold the same opinions, however, still friends of the heart where our Country is concerned.
Happy Holidays to all.
Happy Thanksgiving, Y'all!
As the saying goes, "Getting old ain't for sissies"!
"Menage A Uno" Alert bump!
My oh my...the Kitties have reason to party tonight.
Super news!
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