Comments on: New Study Reveals Surprises In How People Share

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:46:31 +0000

I have a similar tell-a-friend widget on 5 of my e-commerce websites it's called InviteBox ( http://invitebox.com ) and my own statistic on social channels varies a bit: gmail 22%, twitter 31%, facebook 38%, linkedin 1%, yahoo 7%, myspace 0,2%.

facebook, twitter and gmail appeared vital channels for my businesses.

By: Study: How People Share | Usability Counts | User Experience, Social Media

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:39:04 +0000

[...] Old study, but still interesting, from Social Media Explorer: [...]

By: The art of war

The art of war — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:07:02 +0000

The art of war…

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By: Charlie Southwell

Charlie Southwell — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:39:38 +0000

Would love to see a copy of that report if it is still available…

By: Charlie Southwell

Charlie Southwell — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:39:38 +0000

Would love to see a copy of that report if it is still available…

By: Social Media and Privacy â€” Janet Fouts

Social Media and Privacy â€” Janet Fouts — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:16:59 +0000

[...] it suddenly show up on a web site. You click a “like” button to your website or blog or share a favorite website with a friend.Â “Private” groups on Facebook, Linkedin, or just [...]

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:05:59 +0000

I have a video sharing site that I started about two years ago. I've tried almost every sharing tool out there and read about a lot of others. Email still seems to work the best for my site ( my users seem to be the over 40 crowd ). I've been doing a lot of research on ways to encourage site visitors to share video's and found the info here very useful. Presently I'm trying to figure out if running a ” watch, share, win ” type referral contest would be useful so if anyone has any insight I would love to hear about it. Hope that's not to much off topic.

By: Bach

Bach — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:24:16 +0000

Very interesting that twitter is only 1%. It really says something about how people share.

I think SMS and texting will increase soon. It already has a big share.

Email will never go away – but its percentage will decrease over time.

By: More On The Science of Sharing From ShareThis | The Official Steven Venegas Blog

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:32:34 +0000

[...] of choice for many bloggers, including me, released some information last week that confirms the Tell-A-Friend data we discussed last month. Email is still the sharing mechanism of choice for most web users. In fact, ShareThisâ€™s numbers [...]

By: Jason Eaton

Jason Eaton — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:44:35 +0000

From my own experience, I get a lot more hits from twitter than anywhere else.

The problem I have with this study is that it's just through the use of the share button. It takes no account of the folks that are slightly MORE tech savvy and have their preferred twitter client/link burner at the ready when they want to share something.

So you have a very underrepresented sample of the population, only folks who use the button, on sites that have the button.

I wouldn't put too much faith in the conclusions drawn.

When you consider the automation features built into social-minded sites like youtube, reverbnation, delicious, etc it becomes obvious that there isn't much real worth to the report as a commentary on the overall usage of social media.

What it DOES say is that the same lazy folks that send chain emails are still out there, doing it with more bells and whistles, and we cannot forget to reach out to them.

By: Word of Mouth Research: Study shows email is still the king of sharing

Word of Mouth Research: Study shows email is still the king of sharing — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:38:21 +0000

[...] More analysis from word of mouth supergenius Jason Falls: Click here [...]