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Donald Trump’s tantrums drive web traffic—helping him game the entire American media

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Curated: 01/02/2016 from qz.com/606340/donald-trumps-tantrums-drive-web-traffic-helping-him-game-the-entire-american-media/
Donald Trump’s tantrums drive web traffic—helping him game the entire American media

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We first noticed how Trump stories drove traffic—and thus revenue—at TheStreet.com last summer... if a website earns $20 for every thousand page views, it can make, say, $20,000 on a Trump story, but only $2,000 on an article about Cruz, Clinton, Sanders or Rubio... giving him even greater leverage over the media... even the smallest items of Trump-related news gets covered
The Trump effect is therefore further amplified by the algorithms Google, Facebook, and Yahoo use... if you clicked on a Trump story once, you’ll get delivered another one.

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