Pinterest Drives More Web Traffic Than Twitter

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While Facebook is the king of web traffic, Pinterest is 3 times stronger than Twitter at referral traffic

Statista – When it comes to referral traffic from social networks, it is no surprise that Facebook is the undisputed no. 1. According to Shareaholics, 10% of the traffic on websites from 200,000 publishers comes from the world’s largest social network. Continue reading

Facebook IPO demonstrates our willingness to give up privacy

845 million people willingly display personal photos, events and feelings making Facebook worth $100 billion

Mark Zuckerberg worth billions with our private information (illustration Business Insider)

The announced IPO of social media darling Facebook is putting out to pasture the old concept of privacy.

More people share more information on Facebook than the NSA and CIA have ever been able to collect in the years of their existence.

We do it willingly and regularly. Party pictures, new babies, wedding shots, that vacation in the Dominican Republic are all broadcast to strangers on Facebook.  Continue reading