The Post seems likely to emulate the metered model adopted last year by The New York Times, which permits users a limited number of free page views per month before requiring a subscription.

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By comparison, weekly visitors to the privacy settings page jumped by 600, 000 users per week immediately following Facebook's October announcement that user profiles would be open to public search engines.

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The result is that the site has over 20 million active users, with more than 1 billion mobile page views per month.

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