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I've never even heard of these guys. Alexa says they're significantly outranked by Digg (#165 vs #125), which is absolutely nowhere near a billion users and wou
by neworbit 16y ago
I've never even heard of these guys. Alexa says they're significantly outranked by Digg (#165 vs #125), which is absolutely nowhere near a billion users and would be really lucky to be 5% of that.
Unless they run a huge spam botnet, I can't see how they can have touched a billion people.
- willmeyer 16y agoFor folks curious about the number, AddThis is a widget that publishers use in their pages. So yes, the numbers are uniques, counted as accurately as it is possible to count such things given cookie deletion rates, etc. Here for example is builtwith's view of AddThis usage on pages relative to other third party widgets, like the FB Like button, to give you a sense: http://trends.builtwith.com/widgets http://trends.builtwith.com/widgets
- benologist 16y agoAlexa is probably very inaccurate for them because AddThis is a widget that wraps a number of social services into one little package. It's used on tons of websites. The 1b may or may not include repeat visitors, they say both things on their website. Either way though, when you're integrated in other people's properties rather than trying to guide traffic to your own 1b gets a lot more possible - I'm almost up to 200m/month already.
- stewartallen 16y agothe 1 billion number is de-duped 30-day viewers. the AddThis widget is seen billions of times each day on millions of domains.