NYTimes.com traffic figures — exclusively here on my blog :)

Last week Comscore released some figures that indicated that NYTimes.com had roughly 1 million visitors on election day. That sounded low, since NYTimes.com had 1.1 million visitors on election day 2000. So I wrote the Times and asked (yes, bloggers can interview the press as well as vice versa.) Old media ain’t dead yet folks. Congratulations NYT. I got back this impressive chart: