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Imgur Now Hitting 3.6 Billion Pageviews Per Month

Photo hosting website Imgur is now hitting over 3.6 billion page views and is hitting around 56 million visitors per month.  Not bad considering that around a year ago, they were hitting about 1 billion page views per month and it was run by just 3 people.  Now Imgur has 4 more engineers and they are still hiring more people.  Imgur founder Alan Schaaf launched the website from his dorm room in Ohio.  It first gained traction after writing a post on Reddit in 2009.  Schaaf wrote that he wanted to create “an image hosting service that doesn’t suck.”

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Facebook Engineer Matt Jones Apologizes On Reddit For Accidentally Blocking Imgur

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Facebook engineer Matt Jones accidentally blocked Imgur and the Internet community was about to go livid until he did some PR control by replying to a thread on Reddit.    Jones’ response hit over 3,000 up-votes on Reddit.  This is what Matt Jones (@Fisherrider) wrote on the Reddit post that was titled “Facebook has blocked imgur.com.”

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