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Imgur.com
Imgur.com acquire 11th position in the United States and this is an online image hosting service founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009 in Athens, Ohio,
United States. Imgur describes itself as “the home to the web’s most popular image content, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing.”
It offers free image hosting to millions of users a day, and a comment-based social community. The company supports itself with revenue generated from ad sales, Pro accounts, commercial hosting and merchandise.
According to Alexa as of 27/03/2015 daily page view 380 million hits per day and 34 million visitors visit this site per day.
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