State of social sharing Summer 2011: people are still on Twitter. Solidly.
Posted: July 28th, 2011 | Author: Erica | Filed under: Social Media Platforms, Sociology of Social Networks | Tags: Google, Google Buzz, Mashable, reality check, sharing, Twitter | Comments Off
With the social media shakeup of recent weeks (G+ is great! LinkedIn is stupid! Klout is for a$$holes!) it’s time we all regroup, take a deep breath, and look at the data.
Mashable’s leaked iPhone 5 pics—sure to be a supertopic among techy, trendy, early-adopting social media peeps, our test audience—have garnered many a share since they came out 1 hour ago. And where are the socialites sharing said hardware porn?
On Twitter, friends. By a dramatic margin—a full 3/4 of shares. Despite Mashable’s sharing bias of highlighting G+.
Here’s that info restated as a hippocampus-friendly pie chart. Most of the pie is blue bird flavoured, and I think this represents the network zeitgeist as to where sharing has the most perceived value/enjoyment.
[Mashable can probably kill Google Buzz now, eh?]
