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Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media

Posted by samzenpus on from the nobody-cares-about-your-day dept.

tcd004 writes "A report released today by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that the Drudge Report is a far more important driver of online news traffic than Facebook or Twitter. In fact, for the top 25 news websites, Twitter barely registers as a source of traffic. The report hits on several other interesting findings about news behavior."

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  1. Re:Ugly by Moryath · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah. Everything to program the neanderthal Retardicans needs to be right at the front - they have a limited size buffer in those protohuman brains, if you overflow it everything else goes into the bit-bucket rather than into long-term storage.

  2. Re:Ugly by Moryath · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't have to be "smarter than everybody else."

    Just have to be smarter than the "tha sky iz fallin! Global warmin is a commie conspiracy! Obama iz a kenyan muzlim! Jebus wantz me to be rich and hatez tha poor! I gotz to have ma gunz in case tha guvmint tries to put troops in ma howze!" lunatic fringe.

    In other words - the Retardican fools who get their daily brainwashing from Rush, Hannity, Beck, and Drudge.