Social bookmarking website Reddit.com has hit 2 billion pageviews in December 2011. They saw about 34 million unique visitors. Other stats include 12.97 pages/visit, 16 minutes average time spent on website, 100 million monthly pageviews per employee, 100,000+ subreddits, and 8,400+ subreddits with over 100 subscribers. Reddit’s traffic has more than doubled in less than a year. Reddit said that they do not get any traffic from ads or traffic trading. They do not integrate with Facebook and don’t know anything about SEO. These are very impressive stats and it further justifies Conde Nast’s acquisition. Reddit hit one billion monthly pageviews back in February 2011. [Reddit Blog]

The Reddit community has helped raise over $50,000 in charity that would go towards a bone marrow transplant for Lucas Gonzalez, a 3 year old buy that suffers from Hyper IgM Syndrome. The syndrome is a rare immunodeficiency disorder that makes him more susceptible to infections.

Amazon‘s Elastic Computer Cloud and Relational Database Service went down yesterday, interrupting service for Amazon Web Services users like Netflix, Reddit, Foursquare and Instagram. PC Mag reports that service was disrupted around 10pm but back online around 11pm. The service error occurred when network traffic was moved to a lower-capacity network instead of shifting to another router, which downed servers in Virginia.

Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz has been charged for data theft by Carmen M. Ortiz, the US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. He is charged with stealing more than 4 million documents from MIT and academic archive JSTOR. The charges could result in up to 35 years in prison and a fine of $1 million. Swartz’s charges include computer fraud, wire fraud, criminal forfeiture and obtaining information from a protected computer. [The New York Times]

Condé Nast acquired Reddit five years ago and now they are considering spinning them off again. Condé Nast would continue to own the website but they are talking to investors about selling a stake in the company with a $200 million valuation. Reddit saw tremendous growth after Digg released a new, less favorable version of their website. Reddit recently saw one billion page views in one month. “We love our Reddit asset, and it’s a core asset for us, and it’s getting more valuable every day,” stated Advance Publications digital operations head Steve Newhouse. [AllThingsD]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has poached Mike Schiraldi, an admin and engineering, from Reddit. Reddit receives a lot of traffic and has a small team of engineers so this is a big deal for them. Below is Schiraldi’s blog post he wrote about his time at the company and how Google approached him with a “dream offer.”

A lawsuit by the Council on America-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been filed on behalf of Yasir Afifi against the FBI. Afifi is a Muslim-American student that is of Egyptian descent. Last year Afifi found a strange gadget underneath his car when getting an oil change. He was scared that it was a pipe bomb so his friend posted photos of it on Reddit. The Reddit community confirmed that it was a GPS tracking device placed there by the FBI without a warrant. FBI agents learned that Afifi discovered the device and they demanded it back from him before he destroyed it since it is expensive. Below is a video discussing the lawsuit:

Reddit is a social news sharing website owned by Condé Nast. Now Reddit is hiring some additional engineers to keep the website up and running after they received a lot of complaints. Reddit doubled their sales and system administration team from one person each to two people each team.