News aggregator site Reddit's monthly users more than doubled in eight months and the site brought in 1.8 billion hits in October.

Reddit's co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced that the site now has 28 million unique visitors each month over Twitter this morning.

Reddit had around 14 million users and more than 1 billion monthly hits in February when it last opened up its traffic stats to the rest of the world. The site had around 429 million hits each month in July last year — and around 8 million monthly users.