Bill O’Reilly may think he’s taking on DailyKos with his seemingly daily attacks on the liberal mega-site. But if you look at the numbers, he’s doing them a huge favor. According to Jotter, a Kos blogger who has made an art form of digesting and analyzing the site’s user data, in the last seven days, the site has gained 1,959 new registered members–483 in just the last day. Compare that to the 6,168 new members that joined the DailyKos community in the three months from April-June, and you’ve got a whopping boost in DailyKos’s popularity. It has a total of 131,738 registered members in all, making it the equivalent of a small city.
According to Alexa, traffic to DailyKos has also surged in the past two weeks. (Visits to BillOreilly.com are flat, by comparison). See below: