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.
hoping you & your lady had a happy & BLESSED ThanksGIVING Day.
free dixie, duckie & sw
"i NEVER had sex with that woman, Hillery Rodham Clinton. NOT a single time!!"(signed, wee willie klintoon)
free dixie,sw
Congrats and thank you!!
“yeah ?? but on FRepublic one can call Hillary a bitch because she is.
What’s THAT worth...................lololol”
That Sir, is priceless!!
correct............literally priceless
free dixie,sw (SC Chapter)
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.
and democraticunderground.com with [a paltry] 1.69%.
I’ve always thought FReepers err when putting ourselves into the same category as DU. There really is no comparison.
Ping. Freerepublic is a great site.
EAGLES UP !!! We’re number 1 - We’re number 1...
Thank you for pinging me, potlatch!
This is very GOOD news, indeed!
I am very thankful for Free Republic, too.
In fact, it’s existance is why I learned to use a computer. ;o)
LOLOL!
Good post, potlatch!
Excellent graphic, Phil!
Just excellent...
Good to see you DC. I never had a job typing through the years and forgot how. When I started here I was using one finger, lol.
Bought Mavis Becon [sp] typing program and retaught myself!
I took typing in school, but hadn’t done it in years.
To say I was rusty would be an understatement!
I heard about Drudge and Free Republic from Rush in late ‘97,
before the Monica story broke wide open in Jan.
As I was waiting for my grand baby to be born, CNN broke the story.
I knew then that I needed to learn how to use a computer so I wouldn’t
be so dependent on the DBM.
So, I started lurking here on my husband’s computer in January,
and got my own computer for Christmas in ‘98.
I type much better now. ;o)
[I type much better now. ;o)]
You certainly do, lol!
I can’t recall how I found Free Republic, maybe from Drudge links back then. But I got here in 2001 after 911!
PING!
Congressman Billybob
Proud to be a FReeper ping!
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