Facebook may have the market cornered on social networking with their Timeline, but can theirs jump ahead to the future? I think not, but social news site Reddit has Facebook blown out of the water with the Reddit Timeline.
The Path to Posting the Perfect Pic (and possibly going viral)
January 7, 2012 By 3 Comments
For most people and most pictures, sharing it on Facebook or Twitter is enough. It may be a quick snapshot of you and your friends out on the town or a cool sunset from a mountaintop and sharing it with our friends and family is enough. Other times, we’re able to capture something amazing, stunning, hilarious, or otherwise important enough to want to expose it to the rest of the world.
With those, we want to go viral. Here’s a (relatively) quick way to maximize the exposure of your perfectly-timed, once-in-a-lifetime shot.
2011 Social Media Site of the Year: Reddit
December 29, 2011 By 17 Comments
Every year (for a whopping 3 years running!) we highlight who we believe is the top social media site of the year. It’s not a popularity contest. It’s not based on (much) empirical data. There’s no voting. The team sits down and argues for an hour on Skype and I write up the piece.
The One Thing GoDaddy can do to Avoid the Coming Mass-Exodus
December 26, 2011 By 14 Comments
Early signs of the mass exodus from GoDaddy are already starting to show up and the unofficial Leave GoDaddy Day is still later this week. First, they supported SOPA, the evil bill that would weaken the internet as we know it today. Then, due to a mass uprising by prominent GoDaddy users and attacks coming from prominent social media sites like Reddit, they dropped their support of SOPA and did what they could on Twitter to get the word out.
Everything’s better now, right?
Nope.
Did Neil deGrasse Tyson Break Reddit?
November 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
In the past, emergency outages at Reddit have been caused by an overload of comments. When astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hit Reddit yesterday with “I am Neil deGrasse Tyson — AMA“, the community responded. During the subsequent slow period on Reddit early this morning, the site went into emergency maintenance mode for over an hour. Coincidence?
Reddit: The World’s Most Powerful Social Media Site?
October 5, 2011 By 7 Comments
This should actually be a long, comprehensive piece detailing the recent meteoric rise, subsequent expansion of power, and reluctant emergence of the site into the same power category as Twitter and even (gulp!) Facebook. The numbers support it. The content is excellent (even though old-school users claim that it’s in decline). Mainstream media and average netizens are starting to take notice.
Behind the Numbers at Reddit
September 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
Calling Reddit “the best kept secret in social media” is no longer valid. The site is no longer a secret. Reddit is getting huge.
Reddit Graduates, Becomes Its Own Corporate Entity
September 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
When Condé Nast acquired Reddit 5 years ago, they were getting 700k page views daily.
Today, Reddit gets 700k page views in a less than an hour… at 3am. In peak times, it can get that much traffic in 15 minutes.
The Key to Reddit’s Success: Effort
August 27, 2011 By 5 Comments
For the last several days, I’ve been studying Reddit. I’ve been visiting the site daily for two years now but it was only recently that I actually started studying the site. What makes it tick? Why is it so successful in an arena that has eaten up so many for so long? Why does it continue to get stronger while others get weaker?
Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months
August 25, 2011 By 27 Comments
Whether they want to admit it or not, Reddit was once the ultimate “hipster” site. No, it wasn’t/isn’t populated by people who wearing horn-rim glasses and skinny jeans carrying around graphic novels in their hemp knapsacks. It was hipster because it was only cool to those lucky few who knew about it. The site normally broke EVERYTHING first to the point that when people saw something for the first time on Twitter or Facebook, Redditors could say, “Oh, I saw that on Reddit last week.”
Then, Digg V4 happened. Since then, the traffic has gone up tremendously.
