Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media

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Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 9, 2011 @03:15AM 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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Re:Ugly by Moryath · 2011-05-09 03:27 · 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.
Re:Uhm... by Moryath · 2011-05-09 03:29 · Score: -1, Flamebait

If you go to Sludge for "news", you're already too far gone to save.
Re:Ugly by MichaelKristopeit406 · 2011-05-09 04:10 · Score: -1, Flamebait

you are a failure. your efforts have been proven futile. you find wonder in such pointless and hypocritically ignorant endeavors?
why do you cower in my shadow? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
Re:Ugly by Moryath · 2011-05-09 06:09 · 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.