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I believe I read somewhere on this forum that there were several thousand registered FReepers. Don't quote me yet. I will direct this question to Jim Robinson also and see if we can get an answer.

Hey, Mr. Robinson, can you tell us approximately how many Freepers exixt?

Thanx for putting in the request. I just want that number at my fingertips in case the publishers want to know. I do know the number is very large so that would be an even greater reason for Tom Wolfe to join the discussion. After all, it's not like he is showing up at some book store where there are only a hundred folks on hand to listen to him.

Approx 80,000 registered. But it's hard to say how many of those registrants are still with us. Deduct from the 80,000 the thousands of people who registered and made only one or two posts, the people who registered and made no posts, the people who registered and have not activated their accounts, the accounts that were duplicates, or thar have been banned, and the people who have come and gone for whatever reason. We receive posts from approx 2,500 people per day (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/weekday-report). We receive approx one and a half million hits per day from over 60,000 unique visitors. During big news cycles those numbers all go up considerably.