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Social Media By the Numbers: reddit
- Tichy 19y agoInteresting that in the beginning most article submissions were by the founders themselves. I don't use reddit, but I wonder if the frequent bemoaning of "when Reddit still was cool" I read here really refers to that time in the beginning when submissions were primarily made by the founders?
- kn0thing 19y agoPity it's not true. Steve and I weren't anywhere near that good at finding interesting content. Here's the C&P'd response I left on his blog: Thorough writeup, Tom. I'm curious as to where you got all your data, though. Steve and I were indeed the only two people using the site when we started it (aside from a few friends we begged) but we were submitting&voting under multiple usernames only for a couple weeks. Once we got a link from a PG essay, we started seeing some traffic -- people who did a much better job than we ever could at finding interesting content. Your "80% for many months" figure is incorrect. If you could provide the source, I'd be happy to contact them to correct this inaccuracy. Otherwise, you've got a pretty spot on piece. Thanks for writing it.