Craigslist is a classified advertisements website that hosts listings for housing, jobs, items for sale, services, and forums on various topics. It started as a local newsletter in San Francisco but now hosts classifieds for over 450 cities worldwide. Users can post listings in numerous categories and include photos. Craigslist has a large network of users, hosting over 25 million new ads, 1.5 million job postings, and 30 million visits per month. While it only has 25 employees, Craigslist generates millions in annual revenue from its classified listings.

1. How Craigslist Works?
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2. 1.Introduce of Craigslist
Craigslist.org, originally a San Francisco
community electronic news letter, is now
one of the most visited English language
Web sites, with local classifieds for
morethan 450 cities world wide.

3. 2.Craigslist’s Function
The site’s main function is to host classifed
ads that cove practically every category you
can think of, including housing, job postings,
item for sale, services and personals. There’
s also a forums seciton that allows users to
discuss topics on everything.

4. 3.The Craigslist network
Craigslist have very big network. Originally,
craigslist only listed classifieds and
announcements within San Francisco. But
now, more than 450 cities have a craigslist
community site.

5. Active in Craigslist
every month craigslist has:
● more than 25 million new classified ads
● more than 1.5 million job postings
● more than 75 million user postings in the forums section
● more than 10 million new photos uploaded (users can
include pictures in their advertisements as long as the
photos don't violate craigslist's terms of use)
● more than 30 million user visits, most of which are from
the United States
● more than 8 billion page views, putting craigslist in the
top 10 English-language sites

6. Financials of Craigslist
The site generates enough revenue to
support its entire staff of 25 people. The
company doesn't publicly release its
financial results, but estimations range
in the millions of dollars -- $7 million for
2003 and more than $20 million in
2005.

7. Craigslist Controversy
One of the biggest challenges for the craigslist community
is weeding out scam artists. The site has a section
describing common scam tactics and what users should do
if they come across them. Scams might involve fake money
orders or checks, bait-and-switch schemes (in which you
think you're getting one thing but end up with another),
phishing schemes designed to obtain personal information,
identity theft schemes and other unethical and illegal
activities.

8. Conclusion
Craigslist is site of a job offer , discussion
and so on.
User can get information of local.