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- Stacy Straczynski NEW YORK So what links are Twitterers actually clicking on? Based on a user sample released Friday by Chitika, an online ad network, Twitter users most frequently accessed links directing to information about current events and news (28.49 percent). The sample consisted of ...
What Twitterers Want: News
What Twitterers Want: News
webpronews.com — Twitter can be a lot of things for a lot of different people. However, according to online... ad network Chitika , more of them want news than anything else. Chitika released results from a study of its users, looking at what Twitter users want.  ... (more) What Twitterers Want: News
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TechBlog — ... - Evan Smith may be "coy" about Twitter's business model because they don't really have a clue about what they'll do. Just guessing . . . • Twitterers Keep Current - Survey indicates Twitter users most often click on news, followed by movie information. • ...

Tweeple Like News, Diggers are Nerds, and Facebookers Aren’t All Stupid
901am — A new study by online ad network Chitika reveals two things we’ve suspected all along: Tweeple like news, and Diggers are nerds. 28% of all links clicked on Twitter go to news, while a whopping 57.38% of Digg clicks go to technology articles. “I think you get a bit of an insight into the psychology of the different users of social networks. Twitterers want to be the first to know,” said Daniel Ruby, research director, online insights, Chitika. “They want to be the ...

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