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This is a really weird article with sentences in it that don't make sense.
"the amount of time people spent on the Reddit website by close to 16% between June 12 and 13" - what does that mean?
"Web traffic of the platform also declined to about 52 million" - 52 million ?
With ChatGPT getting popular, I'm starting to wonder what I'm reading.
In the article, the full sentence is,
So basically the amount of time people spent on reddit dropped 16% between June 12 and June 13.
Yeah that could be worded better. No units. Resumably it's about the number of visits.
Again, the full sentence is,
So a 4 million drop in number of visits.
Looks like that number lines up with their reported DAU (daily active users) metric rather than site visits.
52 million DAU is about where Reddit was in the summer of 2021, per data on Statista. It also tends to vary up or down by a few million at each sample point, so we'd really have to see a long-term trend-line rather than a 2-week data snapshot to know whether the blackout had any real effect.