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r/theworldnews

News From Around The World. News from the 200+ countries around the world without any US related news, which would otherwise swamp it due to the US-centric nature the bulk of the reddit audience. Many of the submissions will be collected from the best of the worldnews, science, technology and environment subreddits and re-submitted so they're easily viewed in one place. Founded 2012 · 58.9K members · links only

58.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9K upvotes, which works out to 153 per 1,000 members.

153peak upvotes per 1,000 members
58.7Kmembers
9Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
859posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

99%
Link 99% Image 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

↑ 9K 💬 1.5K link 2023

Anti-porn lobbyists pressure Reddit to shut down its NSFW communities

↑ 5.8K 💬 2.1K link 2023

France: Muslims deface 58 graves with messages such as 'Submit to Allah' and 'France is already Allah's'

↑ 5.1K 💬 2K link 2024

Boy, 13, drew up hit list of classmates before killing nine in massacre with father's guns

↑ 3.4K 💬 695 link 2023

Scientists harvest electricity “from thin air”, Humidity could be a boundless source of energy, they say

↑ 2.8K 💬 476 link 2023

Putin urgently leaves Moscow for bunker in Valdai – Putin's special Il96-300PU (Control Point) aircraft departed Moscow for St Petersburg at 14:16 (M…

↑ 2.7K 💬 392 link 2023

Asteroid the size of 48 eggplants to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA

↑ 2.5K 💬 696 link 2023

Stephen Hawking warned AI could mean the 'end of the human race'

↑ 2.4K 💬 904 link 2023

Belarusian dictator Lukashenko very ill, confirms Russian official

↑ 2.4K 💬 330 link 2023

Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries killed each other in a shootout after blaming each other for their war failures, Ukrainian government says

↑ 2.3K 💬 284 link 2023

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/theworldnews, in numbers

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What is r/theworldnews?
r/theworldnews ("News From Around The World") describes itself this way: News from the 200+ countries around the world without any US related news, which would otherwise swamp it due to the US-centric nature the bulk of the reddit audience. Many of the submissions will be collected from the best of the worldnews, science, technology and environment subreddits and re-submitted so they're easily viewed in one place. It was founded in 2012 and has 58.9K members.
How many members does r/theworldnews have?
r/theworldnews has about 58.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 859 of its posts; the biggest reached 9K upvotes, which is 153 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/theworldnews?
"Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely" reached 9K upvotes and 1.5K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/theworldnews.
What subreddits are similar to r/theworldnews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/theworldnews?
Of the posts we hold, 99% are link posts and 1% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/theworldnews?
Across 859 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 11:00 UTC (834 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/theworldnews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/theworldnews has 1.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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