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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: 5, Insightful

    It beats the hell out of the network news sites, with their pervasive cookies, auto-start videos, and general unwanted flash-a-palooza.