adage.com - 3/10/2009
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Marketers spend billions to attract search traffic from Google, but late last year Facebook started becoming a bigger source of traffic for some large websites, according to analytics firm Hitwise.
newteevee.com - 3/6/2009
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newteevee.com —
After Perez Hilton recorded a single-day high of
13.9 million page views on the day after the...
Oscars, web research firm Hitwise found that the celeb gossip site’s top traffic source is Facebook. That’s crazy — for nearly as long as ...
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Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter
nytimes.com - 3/7/2009
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nytimes.com —
FACEBOOK has a chief privacy officer, but I
doubt that the position will exist 10 years from...
now. That’s not because Facebook is hell-bent on stripping away privacy protections, but because the popularity of Facebook and other social networking sites ...
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Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is ...
gigaom.com - 3/5/2009
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gigaom.com —
Facebook today announced several (and somewhat big) changes
to their homepage/newsfeed, as well as the removal of...
most distinctions between public pages and profiles. These changes are an attempt to take on Twitter, which Facebook failed to acquire ...
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With Twitter Envy, Facebook Adds (Near) Real-time Web ...
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Facebook Becoming Major Traffic Driver; Will The Revenue Come Next?
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... And it's a trend to watch, since, as AdAge notes, Facebook now only gets about a third of Google.com's unique visitors, per comScore, and the traffic—both the clicks and the eyeballs—is what generates the revenues. Companies spent over $12 billion on search marketing last year. ...
If Facebook, Twitter gain on Google for referrals, will marketing dollars follow? [Poll]
Between the Lines —
March 11th, 2009 If Facebook, Twitter gain on Google for referrals, will marketing dollars follow? [Poll] Posted by Sam Diaz @ 6:30 am Categories: Facebook , General , Google , Links , Social networking , Twitter , Web Technology Tags: Google Inc. , Facebook , Twitter , AdAge , Marketing Research , Marketing , Sam Diaz Ironically, I came across this Advertising Age piece via a link posted on Facebook and this Mashable piece on Twitter. Armed with data ...
Facebook Can Drive More Traffic Than Google
WebProNews Feed —
... "It seems inevitable that, given Facebook's sheer scale (180 million registered users and counting), it would at some point start referring a lot of users to some sites, but the development is surprising," says AdAge's Michael Learmonth. "Web users go to Google to figure out where to go next; they go to Facebook to, well, hang out." ...
Facebook Can Drive More Traffic Than Google
WebProNews Feed —
... "It seems inevitable that, given Facebook's sheer scale (180 million registered users and counting), it would at some point start referring a lot of users to some sites, but the development is surprising," says AdAge's Michael Learmonth. "Web users go to Google to figure out where to go next; they go to Facebook to, well, hang out." ...
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