{"id":1025371,"date":"2026-08-01T07:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025371"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:18:31","slug":"reddit-flags-volatile-search-referrals-as-us-user-growth-slows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/reddit-flags-volatile-search-referrals-as-us-user-growth-slows\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit flags volatile search referrals as US user growth slows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit said on Thursday that choppy search-engine traffic affected U.S. user growth in the second quarter, overshadowing an upbeat revenue forecast and sending its shares down about 12% in extended trading. <\/p>\n<p>The social media company operates in a highly competitive market. Bigger rival Meta through its Threads communities hub and new Forum app for Facebook Groups users appears to \u200cbe directly \u2060targeting Reddit&#8217;s \u2060core community model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit said on Thursday that choppy search-engine traffic affected U.S. user growth in the second quarter, overshadowing an upbeat revenue forecast and sending its shares down about 12% in extended trading. The social media company operates in a highly competitive market. Bigger rival Meta through its Threads communities hub and new Forum app for Facebook Groups users appears to \u200cbe directly \u2060targeting Reddit&#8217;s \u2060core community model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025394,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025371\/revisions\/1025394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}