The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week
| Facebook: | 1 billion active users | via Facebook |
| Twitter: | over 500 million users | via Twopcharts |
| Qzone: | 599 million monthly active users | via TechCrunch |
| Sina Weibo: | over 400 million users | via Yahoo |
| Renren: | over 170 million users | via iResearch iUser Tracker |
| VK: | over 190 million users | via VK |
| LinkedIn: | 200 million active users | via LinkedIn |
| Google Plus: | 135 million monthly active users | via Google |
| Tumblr: | 112 million blogs | via Tumblr |
| Instagram: | 100 million users | via Instagram |
| Tagged: | 20 million unique monthly users | via Tagged |
| Foursquare: | nearly 30 million users | via Adweek |
| Pinterest: | over 25 million users | via AdWeek |
| Reddit: | nearly 70 million monthly unique visitors | via Reddit |
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News Site Referrals From Reddit Are On The Rise
Online editors say that social site Reddit has increased significantly as a referral source for news sites, according to Poynter.
At McClatchy Interactive, a particular story in Charlotte saw huge traffic on Reddit. Then, a monthly report revealed that Reddit had climbed from #22 all the way up to #10 as a referral site.
Referrals from Reddit doubled in 2013 (over the previous year), according to an online editor at the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Reddit is now #15 in referrals for the site.
The Denver Post has seen a 300% increase in referrals from Reddit in the first 5 months of 2013 (compared to the same period last year), a social media editor reports; that brings Reddit up to #11 in referrals (up from #21 last year).
Is your site seeing referrals from Reddit? Are you or your employees active users of the platform?
