Posted on 11/22/2007 4:43:01 PM PST by kristinn
FreeRepublic.com, the eleven-year-old conservative granddaddy of political discussion websites, was rated the most popular political website by Hitwise, an Internet data tracking service, for the week ending November 17, 2007 with 5.14% market share.
The liberal site, HuffingtonPost.com, founded two-and-a-half years ago, was the only site that came close to Free Republic in interest from net users, with 4.51% market share. In a distant third place, the five-year-old liberal site DailyKos.com, was left in the dust by Free Republic and Huffington Post, garnering only 2.57% market share.
The others sites Hitwise listed were, in order, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com with 2.17%; townhall.com with 2.1%; buzzflash.com with 1.95%; politico.com with 1.9%; humanevents.com with 1.84%; realclearpolitics.com with 1.72% and democraticunderground.com with 1.69%.
Free Republic has received none of the fawning promotion in the mainstream media that its nearest competitors get. It takes no paid advertising, has no membership fees and relies solely on donations for its existence. Its founder and webmaster, Jim Robinson, is not touted as a political player like Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga are. The site has endured withering criticism this year by pundits from Bill O'Reilly to Patrick Ruffini. Yet, Free Republic survives and thrives as one of the most popular and influential political websites.
From leading the charge to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998, to the 2004 exposing of the fraudulent National Guard documents that led to Dan Rather's firing by CBS News, to the recent deep-sixing of expansion of the S-CHIP program, Freepers, as members at the site are known, have changed politics in America.
Liberals despise them, some conservatives seeth with envy, yet none can deny that more than a decade in to the online revolution, Free Republic is still a force to be reckoned with.
Warm congratulations from Holland.. the latest news and interesting analysis can always be found here. FR is changing the way news is consumed and the way politics is done.
Woo Hoo!!
And they forgot to say that we serve as #1 show prep for all of talk radio!
Ironic! America was the first country founded on the principal that incomplete free men and women could co-exist and collectively compete with other nations. Sadly, the "Huffington Post" and "Daily Kos" are indicative of a pre-America world and an American political trend.
Kudos to this guy, Jim Robinson, who we rarely hear from, as we freely express our opinions on FREE REPUBLIC!
HuffingtonPost.com . . . with 4.51% market share. . . . DailyKos.com . . . 2.57% market share. . . . democraticunderground.com with 1.69%.
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If you’ve ever lurked at the bottom spots, you will already know this:
The nit-wits at kos and du are convinced the vast majority of everyone else in America thinks the same stupid things they do, exactly the same stupid way they do. Their battle cries are F*** BUSH and F*** this and F*** that.
Seems every time I go there I am more convinced most of them cannot form a socially acceptable sentence. And now I bet they are wondering why they are FR’s whipping posts.
It is also very clear they are convinced that all the mean OLD republicans at Freerepublic.com are are part of the VRWC and we are all out to get them.
It would seem they’re correct.
Congrats to JimRob, the Mods and all the freepers.
Great news!! Considering how much servile and fawning MSM assistance has been dedicated to promoting the Puffington Piffle and the DailyKosFreaks, it is truly impressive for FR to continue to stay ahead of both of them (and all other politically oriented sites) in traffic. The leftist sites should have to pay for all the MSM promotion they get....
re: “I turned my husband into a homosexual!
That’s one thing Arianna can claim as a unique accomplishment over Shrillery — Bill Clinton does not seem to have been quite so drastically affected, although maybe his compulsive womanizing and harassment, rape, etc. intensified from having to live with Shrillery.
Congrats to Jim, Kristinn, and all Freepers!
I found and joined Free Republic in 2000 during the election. I don’t think I’ve missed a day checking in here since. Free Republic is the best and I’m proud to be part of it.
I never thought that a web site could have such an impact on the political scene.
Just an observation, but everyone in your ping list above signed up to FR in a different century. We're not getting older, we're getting better.
8^)
5.56mm
“What about Wide Awakes? [grin]”
0.00012%
Thanks for all your work kristinn!
Congrats to the Robinsons for an enormous achievement in the pursuit of freedom, sovereignty and justice.
The tenth anniversary is tin. Please do not send me any tin foil hats as an anniversary gift. They don't breathe and therefore they spoil my hair-dos.
Leni
FR - the pro-freedom right wing Borg.
You will be assimilated.
Thanks Kristinn...love the shorts! ;*)
Sore/Loserman.....Get Out of Cheney’s House....Step Away from the Intern, Come Out With Your Pants UP!! LOL!!! They other sites have NO fun....we do!
Congratulations Jim.
An Early Christmas Present.
Now we know why Bill O’ despises us.
I think I beat you.
It’s the aroma of freedom here that stirs one’s blood!!
Hard to find elsewhere.
Wow! Congrats FR! I know I’ve done my share to get the hit count up there.
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