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Twitter more popular than Facebook in 2011

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Although Facebook dominates Twitter in many areas, it lost to its smaller competitor in at least one metric for 2011. Twitter was discussed in about 50 percent of media coverage regarding social networks this year, while Facebook was only talked about 45 percent of the time, according to HighBeam Research. The report did not even bother mentioning Google+.

Senh: Unless those media mentions can convert more people to using twitter, it's kind of a useless metric. It just means that Twitter's marketing department is doing a good job. Also, because writers tend to solicit users to follow them on Twitter, it makes it a more natural medium for them to use.

 

Thank You Thrillist!

Woohoo! Wopular made it onto Thrillist, a "gloriously free daily email on the newest food, nightlife, travel, entertainment and gadgets in your 'hood." Here's what they had to say about the site:

"This online newspaper rack sports a pleasantly slick interface for aggregation of hand-picked top stories from a variety of popular sources including CNN, BBC News, the New York Times, and Reuters, as well as social sites like Digg and Google News, humor rags including The Onion, and those sparkle-eyed dreamers over at Forbes. "

 

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