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Comment by ckelly | Hacker News Reader

> In April of 2005, they tested their first upload. By October, they had posted their first one million-view hit: Brazilian soccer phenom Ronaldinho trying out a pair of gold cleats. Weeks later, Google paid an unprecedented $1.65 billion to buy the site.

This article misstates when Google acquired YouTube. It was October 2006, not October 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history

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They also mistake the traffic stats for /r/AskReddit as being traffic for all of Reddit:

> According to a source close to the moderation process at Reddit, the climate there is far worse. Despite the site’s size and influence — attracting some 4 to 5 million page views a day[1] — Reddit has a full-time staff of only around 75 people, leaving Redditors to largely police themselves

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic

> last month, reddit had 243,632,148 unique visitors hailing from over 212 different countries viewing a total of 8,137,128,592 pages

Which is about 270 million page views per day.

https://www.reddit.com/about/

Given that they don't have a large marketing team, 75 people would be a huge team to deal with 4 to 5 million page views

I'm glad you caught this too, I thought it was WAY too soon, I knew YouTube when it had relatively grown in popularity and quite a bit before Google's acquisition of it.

By the time I read it this had been corrected and acknowledged in the footnotes, so I guess it's good to know the system works

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