Study: Twitter Drives A Lot Of Traffic To Media Sites, But Doesn't Bring A Lot Of Customers To Online Retailers

Original Source: ReadWriteWeb, Jun 24 2009
Author: Frederic Lardinois

According to the latest data from Hitwise about Twitter users in the UK, Twitter has become an important source of traffic for entertainment sites, other social networks, and news and media sites, but compared to other social networks, Twitter only sends a small amount of traffic to online retailers. Hitwise's Robin Goad also points out that Twitter is now the 30th biggest source of traffic in the UK and accounts for 1 out of every 350 visits to a typical web site in the UK...

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