According to this article from Fast Company, Internet sharing trends have shifted dramatically. While email still remains king with 55% of referrals, social networking sites saw a 10% jump. But out of that arena, who's winning? And how reliable is the source?
Simply put, Facebook is overwhelmingly the favorite for social network of choice with 78% of the market share. Twitter only accounts for 5%. Yet, the stats appear to lean towards Twitter rather than Facebook -- links shared through Facebook have a click-through rate of 287%, while Twitter boasts an astounding click-through rate of 1904%.
But what does this mean?
If the click-through rate is so high on Twitter, but it's not the social network of choice, how many clicks are really valuable? And what about spambots or spyders checking these links -- does that have an effect on the rates? And some savvy commenters argue that yes, the Twitter click-through rates will be inherently higher because that's all Twitter is. Facebook has more content than just links, therefore the rates are lower.
What do you think? Is there a simple answer for these statistics, or are the waters too muddied with other complications?
You can read the whole article and see the in-depth stats here.
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