Also, looking at alexa it seems as though the period of hyper fast growth is already a bit past:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/threewords.me
Still, it should fetch a pretty penny and to the right party it might be worth quite a lot of money.
Now having seen a wider window of stats on the site from quantcast, all arrows are pointing down and to the right. I agree that he's smart to try to sell it, but only because the longer he holds onto it the less opportunity there will be to capitalize on the original spike.
I didn't suggest that.
I did add this bit after writing that first sentence when I thought of checking to see if that was still the case, and it wasn't:
> Also, looking at alexa it seems as though the period of hyper fast growth is already a bit past:
It shot up, then it shot down... Agreed @ smart move. Best time to sell it, and I can't see it either being very monetizable long term, or 'sticky'.