Reddit traffic to President Barack Obama's "ask me anything" session spiked at about 9 a.m. PT.
(Credit: Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET)
President Barack Obama broke all the campaigning rules when he held an unmoderated Q&A session on one of the Internet's most infamous socially aggregated new sites -- and he also broke a Reddit record.
Obama's session on Reddit yesterday attracted more user activity than any other single submission to the forum, more than even the site's front page, Reddit revealed today in a stats breakdown of the virtual visit.
By the end of the day yesterday, the site had clocked nearly 3 million page views for the submission and the number kept growing by the tens of thousands. As of 9 a.m. PT today, that number was at nearly 5.3 million.
President Obama linked to this photo when asked for proof that he was really behind the posts from the Reddit handle PresidentObama during an "ask me anything" session.
(Credit: PresidentObama)
That's a whole lot of hearts and minds to win. And the number of people who heard about the campaign stunt must be even higher with social media and news ou... [Read more]
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