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People Use Facebook 44% And Twitter 29% For Social Sharing

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The traffic is booming in the social networking site around the world. According to a survey result by Gigya, Facebook drives 44% social sharing, where Twitter drives 29%. their old rivals Yahoo and mySpace drive only 18% and 9% respectively. Now you can understand why Google is focusing Buzz. they are trying to get those social traffic. It has a great potential & day by day the people are more attracted by social network. This traffic comes from shared links, photos, and videos.

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Such social sharing is tied to different identity and authentication platforms across the Web. If you can log into a site easily using your Facebook or Twitter account, it is easier to broadcast links from that site to your friends.

Gigiya powered a stat for 30 days. They did it by sharing widgets on more than 5,000 content sites, including ABC.com. NBA.com, PGA.com, Answers.com, and Reuters. Consumers can click a share button on these sites and send an article link, photo, or video via a menu of different services including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and AOL. Over the past 30 days, people have shared almost a million items over the Gigya network.

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Here is how the services break down (note that these are relative numbers) :

Distribution of shared items
Facebook: 44%
Twitter: 29%
Yahoo:18%
MySpace:9%

It makes sense, people prefer to broadcast links rather than share them one at a time via email. Although Yahoo makes a strong third-place showing. When it comes to authentication, simply using your existing username and password to log into another site, Facebook is still the most popular via Facebook Connect, but only just barely. Google via Gmail and Yahoo are almost equally popular, at least on certain types of sites where people are just reading for themselves like news sites. On entertainment sites where people are more likely to share content, Facebook Connect makes up the majority of logins.

Here are the stats:

Share of Authentication By Platform:

News sites:
Facebook: 31%
Google: 30%
Yahoo: 25%
Twitter: 11%
AOL: 3%

Entertainment sites:
Facebook: 52%
Google: 17%
Yahoo: 12%
Twitter: 11%
MySpace: 7%
AOL: 1%

Facebook Chat is also a strong option, making up more than half of all live event chats measured by Gigya.

Live Event Chat:
Facebook: 56%
Twitter: 28%
Yahoo: 9%
MySpace: 7%

A broader view of sharing on the Web comes from Gigya competitor AddThis, which has its sharing buttons on more than 600,000 Websites. (Gigya tends to be on larger content sites). AddThis also shows Facebook on top when it comes to sharing on the Web, but with a smaller 33 percent share. Twitter is at 9 percent, but it gets beat by email and printing out content as options provided by AddThis. Even with these broader numbers, more than 40 percent of sharing is through Facebook and Twitter.

Top 10 Services, Overall

Facebook: 33%
Email: 13%
Print:9%
Twitter: 9%
Favorites: 8%
Google: 6%
MySpace: 6%
Digg: 3%
Live: 3%
Delicious: 3%

In its own review, Facebook said that 5 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every week.

Statistics [from Facebook]

Company Figures
  • More than 400 million active users
  • 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
  • More than 35 million users update their status each day
  • More than 60 million status updates posted each day
  • More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
  • More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
  • More than 3.5 million events created each month
  • More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook
  • More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
  • More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day
  • Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans
Average User Figures
  • Average user has 130 friends on the site
  • Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
  • Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
  • Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
  • Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
  • Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
  • Average user is invited to 3 events per month
  • Average user is a member of 13 groups
International Growth
  • More than 70 translations available on the site
  • About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
  • Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
  • More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
  • Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
  • More than 500,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
  • More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
  • More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
  • More than 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook Connect on external websites every month
  • Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have implemented Facebook Connect
Mobile
  • There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
  • People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
  • There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Source: Tech Crunch


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  On February 17, 2010(3 years, 3 months ago.)
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XOLNQIY43KHEZHSOMNQ53ZETT4 Angelique

    I don’t see why so many people like facebook, or for the matter, why so many people like social sites period. I mean why can’t society just go back to the way it was before social networking came along, that would be good. I mean why talk to and connect with people over a computer, why not just do it in the real world? It’s better that way anyway. Whats the point of sharing photos, or even videos online? The cyber world sucks because it’s boring and false. I will stick to my communicating with people in the real world and in person, where i actually know who i am talking to. Someday all these social sites will become an old fad anyway.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XOLNQIY43KHEZHSOMNQ53ZETT4 Angelique

    I don’t see why so many people like facebook, or for the matter, why so many people like social sites period. I mean why can’t society just go back to the way it was before social networking came along, that would be good. I mean why talk to and connect with people over a computer, why not just do it in the real world? It’s better that way anyway. Whats the point of sharing photos, or even videos online? The cyber world sucks because it’s boring and false. I will stick to my communicating with people in the real world and in person, where i actually know who i am talking to. Someday all these social sites will become an old fad anyway.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XOLNQIY43KHEZHSOMNQ53ZETT4 Angelique

    I don’t see why so many people like facebook, or for the matter, why so many people like social sites period. I mean why can’t society just go back to the way it was before social networking came along, that would be good. I mean why talk to and connect with people over a computer, why not just do it in the real world? It’s better that way anyway. Whats the point of sharing photos, or even videos online? The cyber world sucks because it’s boring and false. I will stick to my communicating with people in the real world and in person, where i actually know who i am talking to. Someday all these social sites will become an old fad anyway.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XOLNQIY43KHEZHSOMNQ53ZETT4 Angelique

    I don’t see why so many people like facebook, or for the matter, why so many people like social sites period. I mean why can’t society just go back to the way it was before social networking came along, that would be good. I mean why talk to and connect with people over a computer, why not just do it in the real world? It’s better that way anyway. Whats the point of sharing photos, or even videos online? The cyber world sucks because it’s boring and false. I will stick to my communicating with people in the real world and in person, where i actually know who i am talking to. Someday all these social sites will become an old fad anyway.

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  • Mr. Rogers

    I noticed there is no date on the article, and no date on the statistics. If you cannot qualify a date for the data, then it is a waste of time to read it.

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  • Jaja

    very reliable :-) )

  • http://twitter.com/OfficialJWillz Jason Williams

    And you’re saying this why?? Not to mention on a social site anyway?? Go back under your rock!


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