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Sinned wrote on 2012-08-30 00:52
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-08-30 00:55
yup.
All smart politicians go on Reddit
Romney's campaign is easy to shit on because... it's so bad.
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Chillax wrote on 2012-08-30 01:27
He crashed Reddit.
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Murasaki wrote on 2012-08-30 02:12
I saw that earlier.
"NOT BAD".
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Hiccup wrote on 2012-08-30 02:17
[Image: http://puu.sh/10dpA]
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-08-30 02:23
[Image: http://i.qkme.me/3qop0v.jpg]
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Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-30 02:55
The end is nigh.
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Minatou wrote on 2012-08-30 04:11
O_O...... Smart idea.
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Himeko wrote on 2012-08-30 04:15
[Image: http://puu.sh/109kB]
I laughed so hard at some of the comments.
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-08-30 04:30
lawl
That aside, Obama's being a cool guy as always. The Republican side has some catching up to do if they wanna win over the hearts of those who aren't really into politics and could otherwise vote either way.
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Claudia wrote on 2012-08-30 14:25
so that's why reddit was down
and here goes a greater part of my afternoon, thanks for the find
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-09-01 02:56
Reddit posted the usage stats. Cool stuff.
Without any fanfare ahead of time, The President of the United States spent 30 minutes answering questions from anonymous users with no mediation on a website run by 20 people, and in a forum that was organically created by volunteers. Tens of thousands of people actively participated by voting and/or commenting and millions watched, and The President even broke some news in the Q & A (by suggesting a new amendment for the first time). Did it go perfectly smooth? Nope. Is this the absolute perfect format for politicians to answer questions? Nope. But it worked, and it was a big step, not just for reddit, but for online communities everywhere. No matter how you feel about the IAMA, reddit, the President, or politics in general, we hope that what took place this past Wednesday will inspire other online communities and start-ups, and encourage other politicians to seek out more ways to talk directly with their constituents. We thank the President and his team for making this happen.
Key figures from the IAMA:
- 2,987,307 pageviews on the day of
- 5,280,441 pageviews so far in total (as of 9 AM PT 8/31 -- not accounting for stats lag).
In the first five minutes, there were 37 comments. By the ten minute mark, redditors had made 278 comments. Within half an hour that number jumped to 5,266 and was over 10,000 by the end of the first hour.
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moar here
Oh, and here's a rendering I took of the hits @ 5pm EDT:
[Image: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/128/trafficq.jpg]
NYC's traffic went through the roof.. literally! And I guess the Floridians were more interested in the Republican National Convention being hosted there instead. It's also interesting how there's a clean break in the traffic volume across the east and west of the US. Maybe it was due to time zones.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-09-01 11:06
This is why Obama will be popular with the young crowd. Hopefully there's enough intelligent young people to outvote the old angry white folk >.>
Heck, I'd classify my father as an old angry white man xD. Ya, he's a republican and listens to the likes of Bill O' Reilly and Rush Limbugh if that gives you any idea >.>
Anyways, we need progression and change. We need more gay rights, we need more tech savy politicians. Republicans offer none of that and will only fuck us over.
I no longer align myself with the Republican party :/
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Cucurbita wrote on 2012-09-01 13:06
>tech savy
Not to be a jerk, since I'm all for having Obama again over Romney, but Obama is pretty computer handicapped. He needed help from his staff for this little reddit project, he doesn't know how to use a wii, and he was for ACTA.