"When Obama first ran for president in 2008, he knew the impact the internet and social media sites, such as Reddit, Facebook, and YouTube, could have on the race. By the time of his Reddit appearance in 2012, the president had mastered the technology, posting nearly four times as much content as Romney and, according to the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism, "was active in nearly twice as many platforms."
Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receiv
"Before the turn of 2018, r/The_Donald had reached half a million subscribers. Brad Parscale, the Trump campaigns digital director, had claimed social media was the reason "we won this thing." He wrote on Reddit that "members here provided considerable growth and reach to our campaign." The_Donald again celebrated Trumps win with a thread cataloging its greatest hits of viral imagery and boasted, "Remember when we memed a man into the White House?"
Reddit"Political movement subreddits tend to be more active, particularly during the initial phase of excitement over a candidate. As then-US-presidential-candidate Donald Trump gained momentum in April of 2016, roughly 62% of r/The_Donalds 90,000 subscribers commented on the subreddit; by early 2019, after Trump had been elected President, 7% of subscribers were commenting. In mid-2015, 20% of SandersForPresidents 62,000 subscribers were commenting, rising to 32% by March 2016 before dipping to 13% by July of 2016."
Reddit"Its not our sites goal to be a completely free-speech platform. We want to be a safe platform and we want to be a platform that also protects privacy at the same time."
Reddit"Obama was re-elected for his second term in November 2012, defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2013. … This AMA was done while President Barack Obama was running for his second term. When asked for his opinion on the experience of the Reddit AMA, he gave it an enthusiastic "not bad." Presidential seal of approval achieved!"
Reddit"Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features "in the clear" (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing."
Reddit"Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done in one weekend. (Disclosure: We used my web.py library.) The others knew Lisp (they wrote their whole site in it) and they knew Python (they rewrote their whole site in it) and yet they decided liked Python better for this project. The Python version had less code that ran faster and was far easier to read and maintain."
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