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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 tripleevenfall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would gripe that if you look at either CNN or Fox (or whomever's) website, it's so busy that it's offensive, even after you take out scripts, flash, videos, etc. Simplify. (Maybe just a personal preference)

    My bane lately is the trend toward these major news sites linking to "stories" that are only videos.

    I don't WANT to watch video unless I ask for it. I want to see text. I want to see a version of the information that is quiet and doesn't waste bandwidth or require flash. I want to be able to scan relevant details without clunking through some 3 minute clip just to get the one detail I'm after.

    (sorry. rant over)

  2. Re:Ugly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's really impressive when you consider that that code is comment out.