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> the users are taste makers of the internet Funniest thing I've read this week, thanks. Redditors may be the tastemakers of a small incredibly self-referenti
by stephencanon 13y ago
> the users are taste makers of the internet
Funniest thing I've read this week, thanks.
Redditors may be the tastemakers of a small incredibly self-referential corner of the Internet, but have approximately zero influence on the Internet that everyone else uses.
Of course, if you're considering advertising on reddit, then I assume your target market has significant overlap with the reddit userbase (in which case the risk isn't that redditors are tastemakers, it's that they are prone to incredibly catchy herd cynicism).
- dmor 13y agoThat might have been the case 2 years ago, but it isn't anymore. 70M uniques is a huge portion of the U.S. population, they're doing more traffic than Fox News (which has a huge influence on another huge Internet population).
- spizzo 13y agofox news aims to influence the population, that's their goal. You're making an apples to oranges comparison there.
- tep 13y ago> Redditors may be the tastemakers of a small incredibly self-referential corner of the Internet, but have approximately zero influence on the Internet that everyone else uses. Some reddit topics/threads were featured on the frontpage of popular German news websites during the last months. (Spiegel Online, Yahoo News, Süddeutsche)
- GFischer 13y agoI've seen BBC articles referencing Reddit (and even Hacker News !! ).