Arianna beats Drudge!

[DeepModem Mom]

WSJ: Arianna Bests Drudge?
Kara Swisher
March 21, 2008

Could it be a digital indicator that the Blue states are taking back ground from the Red ones – at least in cyberspace?

In February, for the first time ever, Arianna Huffington’s liberal political mega-blog and news site, the Huffington Post, has apparently surpassed the longtime mighty blog leader, Matt Drudge of the conservative/populist-leaning Drudge Report, according to recent traffic data reports from both comScore (SCOR) and Nielsen Online.

According to data from Nielsen Online, for example, the Huffington Post’s traffic–as measured by monthly unique visitors in the U.S., at home and work–has more than tripled since February of 2007, when it had about 1.1 million unique visitors; by February of 2008, unique visitors had risen to 3.7 million.

In that same month, the Drudge Report had 3.4 million (it had 2.75 million in February of 2007).

Data from comScore is different, as measurement data often is, but shows the same trend (see chart below). The Huffington Post jumped from 457,000 unique visitors in the U.S. at all locations, but had risen to 2.3 million in February of 2008.

For Drudge, comScore reported that it had 1.2 million unique visitors in February of 2007 and 1.6 million in February of 2008....

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080321/arianna-bests-drudge

[edbermac]

1. Eat it, Matt!

:woohoo:

[JDPriestly]

2. This indicates a major shift in what politically sophisticated Americans

are reading and thinking.

[msongs]

3. arianna/drudge, 2 peas in the same pot - mud slingers nt

[OregonBlue]

4. Hope all DUers are visiting her site EVERY day!!

[madrchsod]

5. i like the site

i`m a regular poster

[RavensChick]

6. It's about damn time!

Let's keep the momentum going so we can finally send his ass packing back to hell where he belongs!!

HuffPo is on top of the cyber world right now, so let's support her every way we can!

[Dabinci]

7. Go Arianna!

Drudge is a gossip-monger with no professional background.

[wryter2000]

8. Welcome to DU

:hi: