I am suprised to see Myspace there..

I am pretty surprised that ‘Live Event Chat’ is so low for Twitter. Aren’t they know as being the pulse of the internet and the RIGHT NOW?

real time engines are well positioned as well – to capitalize all of this sharing and data…

private = basecamp
semi-private (friends/group) = facebook
public = twitter

like unix permissions, that pretty much covers the access universe right there w/r/t sharing… if man is five, then the devil is six, and god is seven ?

If you weight these by the size of the user bases for each service, Twitter would be miles ahead, right?

the 2010 winner is ….. ?

Correction, Facebook shares 5 billion pieces of content per week according to the link you included:

“More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week”

Interesting. But usually I see that most TechCrunch articles are shared more on Twitter, followed by Facebook. I wonder what’s the reason for that.

Very interesting to see sharing stats with FB Connect. It seems that more users are adapting to the FB Connect method, even though it’s a barrier to share across sites/platforms.

AddToAny’s sharing button sees well over 1 million of shares per month and does not require authentication.

Over the last 30 days our overall stats show Facebook with about 27%, and the next service, Twitter, with a much smaller 10%. Aside from the absolute dominance of Facebook, also noteworthly is that over 50% of content is shared to other services, including international sites.

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We’re seeing our twitter referral traffic plummet, and Facebook traffic grow very quickly for ratebrain.com

Surprisingly, traffic from Google Buzz is pretty solid.

I think most facebook sharing is mainly for news, and entertainment links.

Probably less than 5% of my facebook contacts would be interested in Techcruch articles or any kind of specific business industry news.

My facebook contacts would be interested in popular news and entertainment.

these stats are just for the US right???

Interesting stuff, what percentage of your traffic is facebook, google buzz, and twitter overall?

Just the four major players shown. other competitors have not been shown here. Another good thing about facebook is that its visitors stay longer.

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Hi Erick – just wanted to clarify that the sharing mix Gigya sees is not just defined by site type – and we have all kinds and sizes – but the type of sharing technology implementation. The data we are showing here is 100% “super pipe”, i.e. Facebook Connect, Sign In with Twitter, MySpaceID and Y!OS. This differs from sharing tools like Addthis and Sharethis which use Facebook Share, and which are not connected to authentication systems for any site.

well it should be expected.everyone use social networking now and google should join it or else google will lose its traffic. :-)

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This doen’st suprise me, elsewhere on the web I have read that US users spend an average of 7hrs per month on facebook..

What suprises me is that Myspace is on that list..

Look at the comments on this article on Google buzz http://bit.ly/bbdF5w http://www.pluggd.in/killing-spree-from-google-is-this-how-you-wanna-grow-297/

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I find this hard to believe. I see a whole lot more sharing going on – on Twitter. In fact every article or post I come across always has more Twitter shares than Facebook.

This post is a good example – at the time of my comment – there were 802 retweets vs 186 facebook shares.

When I see “Email & Print” as #2 & #3 ahead of Twitter and Digg – It makes me wonder how relevant these stats are, and the demographic of the user. I cant remember the last time I printed a post or article. Who does that? My guess is it’s a demographic that is outside of the average user of facebook or twitter.

I think your headline is a little misleading. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great start but there is not enough data in this post from what I can see to accurately gauge and declare facebook the leader in content sharing on the social web.

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Really surprising to see MySpace lurking towards the top. Wot no Reddit?

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Man those were some good shrooms.

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I don’t understand why Google doesn’t want people in the U.S. to know about Orkut, their first social sharing on the web . It’s huge in Brazil and India. I see it on the Google apps page, but nobody ever talks about it.

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How do they monetize this? I can imagine that Facebook can charge money for placing posts linking to a site on people’s newsfeed more prominently if that site is willing to pay. I wonder whether they already do this since those FarmVille posts have been filling my newsfeed.

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If you’re a website publisher, I think the net net takeaway from these type of stats is that the Social Web is a pretty diverse landscape. You shouldn’t be betting the farm on just integrating with one service or another. You really need to use a platform which is going to allow you to be shared into every corner of the Social Web, otherwise you’re just leaving shares on the table and thus potential users.

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I am suprised to see AOL there.
it’s interesting…

Hmm, there are some very impressive stats Eric. Really gets back to Fred Wilson’s great pieces on the power of passed links. Our new advertising platform, http://gigsly.com is attacking this very space. Big opportunities.

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i am surprised not seeing reddit here

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Twitter is always severely under-represented because of the many clients used to tweet.

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the 2009 winner is facebook

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I like this topic. :) Thank you for sharing

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I always had believe that no one can beat Yahoo. But in terms of Social Networking my idea has been changed. Exceptional, is there any to beat facebook??

No Doubt facebook is the top social sites on the web
but is it Relevant for 2010 because I know that most of people using linkdin because of facebook privacy problems

Dawn

Cool stuff, but I thought this was an even better analysis: http://www.tynt.com/sorry-techcrunch-%E2%80%93-fa...

When I just startup with internet I suppeosed Orkut is the best in social networking but now People use Facebook for networking.
Any site can ever be beat Facebook????????????????/

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I think facebook is the best…

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