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Facebook Drives 350x More Traffic to News/Media Sites than Google Reader
According to a ReadWriteWeb analysis of Hitwise numbers, Facebook drives 350 times as much traffic to other websites in the “news and media” category (3.5%) as Google Reader does (.01%).
However, Facebook, Google News (1.4%). and Google Reader togetheraccount for less than 5% of news sites’ total traffic. The #1, 2 and 3 drivers of traffic to news sites? Google, Yahoo and MSN.
US visits to social networking sites have increased 62% year over year
U.S. visits to social networking sites have increased 62 percent year over year;
visits from 55 and older age group have increased 77 percent
New York, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2009 – Experian® Hitwise® …more…
Social media reaches all-time high; Facebook is tops
During the first week of September, Facebook captured nearly 58% of visits in the social networking custom category, according to new data from research firm Hitwise. MySpace — which was the …more…
