{"id":58787,"date":"2012-09-03T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=58787"},"modified":"2012-09-03T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T09:29:33","slug":"obama-reddit-visit-breaks-activity-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/58787-obama-reddit-visit-breaks-activity-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama Reddit visit breaks activity record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Community website, Reddit saw the most activity in the site\u2019s history thanks to US President Barack Obama holding an open Q&amp;A session on the message board.<\/p>\n<p>Held on the 29 August 2012, Obama\u2019s session attracted more activity than any other forum submission, and even more than the site\u2019s front page.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, the site had accumulated 3 million page views, with the overall views of the specific page growing to nearly 5.3 million (as of 9 AM PT 8\/31 &#8211; not accounting for stats lag).<\/p>\n<p>Reddit has even given Obama a unique handle, \u201cPresidentObama\u201d, which was taken, but the original user had deleted it. Reddit dusted it off and assigned it to the current head of state.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.reddit.com\/2012\/08\/potus-iama-stats.html?m=1\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit blog<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/58483-obama-personally-takes-to-reddit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama personally takes to Reddit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Your tweets can reveal you\u2019re a psychopath\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/58287-your-tweets-can-reveal-youre-a-psychopath.html\"><strong>Your tweets can reveal you\u2019re a psychopath<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58273-twitter-users-should-have-no-expectation-of-privacy.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter users should have no \u201cexpectation of privacy\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58161-is-twitter-killing-in-depth-journalism.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Is Twitter killing in-depth journalism?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s visit to Reddit sees the website experience the most activity ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":58487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1253,15013,15011,7979,8045],"class_list":["post-58787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-obama","tag-obama-reddit","tag-president-obama","tag-quicknews","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58801,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58787\/revisions\/58801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}