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Saturday
- August 26, 2000
Political Websites Get Average
Visitors During Conventions
Media Metrix, Inc., a Digital Media measurement company,
has released findings on Americans' usage of Democrat- and
Republican-affiliated Websites during the political conventions.
Key findings include:
* Online users are only marginally
interested in political Web sites. Collectively, Republican
sites received 392,000 unique visitors during the GOP convention,
while Democrat sites received 201,000 unique visitors during
that party's convention.
* While traffic to political-news
sites decreased during the week of the GOP convention,
traffic to these sites increased significantly during the
week of the Democratic convention. C-Span.org increased
from 40,000 unique visitors the week of August 13 to 106,000
unique visitors the week of August 20, a 165 percent increase.
During that same period, Voter.com increased from 58,000
to 117,000 unique visitors, a 102 percent increase. Other
major news sites, including Washingtonpost.com and Drudgereport.com,
had similar increases.
Analysts Debate Free Net Calls
According to CNBC columnist Hal Plotkin:
"I've been talking to my
old college buddy, David, who lives in New Zealand, a lot
these days. Since I live in California, that may sound
like good news for my long distance carrier, AT&T,
which charges $2.85 plus tax per minute for such calls.
But it isn't. In fact, some
experts say people like me may be the long distance carriers'
worst nightmare...I haven't paid a dime for any of my dozens
of calls to New Zealand in recent months. That's because
my friend David and I have been using Microsoft's NetMeeting
software, which is available for free at the Microsoft
web site.
The number of people taking
advantage of the Internet to make free phone calls is exploding..."
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