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Wie soziale Netzwerke den Traffic im Internet verteilen

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Das Marktforschungsunternehmen Hitwise hat in einem Webinar zur “Social Media Landscape” in den Vereinigten Staaten untersucht, wie soziale Netzwerke, vor allem Facebook und Twitter, der Traffic im Internet verteilen. Hauptaussage: Die beiden Netzwerke werden als Verteilerzentren immer wichtiger. Davon können auch die Medien immer stärker profitieren, sagte Hitwise-Analystin Heather Dougherty. “Die Medien lieben Twitter - aus gutem Grund”, sagte Dougherty. (Zur einer theoretischen Analyse, wie Nachrichten durch das Internet strömen, geht es hier)

Die Analyse der Seiten, die amerikanische Nutzer nach dem Besuch eines sozialen Netzwerkes aufsuchen, zeigt eine klaren und wachsenden Schwerpunkt auf Medienseiten: Abgesehen von anderen Social Media Seiten und Suchmaschinen werden anschließend vor allem Seiten aus den Sektoren Unterhaltung, Fernsehen und Print aufgesucht. Auch Kleinzeigen, vor allem Craigslist und die Ebay-Tochtergesellschaft Kijiji, profitieren von dem Nutzerstrom, der ihnen von den sozialen Netzwerken zugeführt wird.

Werden die Seiten betrachtet, die nach dem Besuch eines sozialen Netzwerkes aufgesucht werden, zeigen sich deutliche Unterschiede zwischen Facebook und MySpace. Während MySpace vor allem Musikseiten begünstigt, verteilt Facebook den Traffic viel breiter. Vor allem Ebay und Nachrichtenseiten  (CNN, Yahoo News, Fox News, CBS) bekommen den Traffic.

Die Downstream-Analyse für Twitter zeigt - neben anderen sozialen Netzwerken - an erster Stelle Photografieseiten, was aber fast ausschließlich Twitpic bedeutet. Danach folgen Suchmaschinen, Unterhaltungsseiten, Email-Dienste, Blogs und auf den Rängen 9 und 10 schließlich Print- und Spieleseiten.

Auch für Twitter gilt: CNN ist mit Abstand die wichtigsten Medienstation nach dem Twitterbesuch. “Zwar sind etwa 90 Prozent der Besucher Wiederkehrer, aber immer rund ein Zehntel gelangt via Twitter zum ersten Mal auf eine Medienseite”, sagte Dougherty.

Wie wichtig die sozialen Netzwerke als Traffictreiber für die Medien schon geworden sind, zeigt auch die Analyse des “Upstream Traffic” also der Seiten, die zuvor besucht wurden. Zwar werden in diesen Zahlen nicht nur die direkten Links auf die Medieninhalte, sondern auch die davon unabhängigen Besuche erfasst, doch zeigt sich klar, dass Facebook der Website des Fernsehsenders CNN schon einen beachtlichen Teil des Traffics zuführt und damit die Abhängigkeit von Google mindert.

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Some new Twitter Statistics

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24% of Tweets are created by automated bots, not humans, according to a recent study. Meanwhile, it was found that 5% of Twitter accounts generate 75% of Tweets.

The “Inside Twitter” study, conducted last month by Sysomos, surprised researchers when they discovered that such a small number of accounts were generating so much of Twitter (Twitter)’s content. Now, they’ve published in-depth data looking more closely at that highly-active 5% of the userbase.

The findings of the report are intriguing. For instance, many of these most active users are actually automated:

We found that 32% of all tweets made by the most active Twitter users were generated by machine bots that posted more than 150 tweets/day. The actual percentage of machine-generated tweets among the most active users is probably higher than 32% because there many bots that update less than 150 times/day.

Based on its previous “Inside Twitter” study and this most recent report, Sysomos concludes that in total, 24% of Tweets are created by bots.

Not All Bots are Spam

However, that’s not to say that 24% of Tweets are spam; far from it.

Sysomos is quick to point out that many of these high volume, automated accounts provide useful data, like the top stories on social news site Digg (Digg), or the most recent popular bookmarks on Delicious (Delicious). Accounts like @CombatSI, which provides realtime updates from the virtual world of Second Life, generate over 2,000 updates per day. Another highly active automated account, @dogbook, provides updates on what dogs are doing via the Dogbook Facebook app.

In other words: just because Tweeting isn’t solely a human pursuit, that doesn’t mean bots are all spammers.

Active Twitter Users: More Fascinating Stats

While the data about bots and “Twitter addicts” is perhaps the most accessible, it’s well worth digging into the report to absorb some of its nuances. In the blog post about the findings, Sysomos quotes these key facts:

Among the most active Twitter users with more than 50,000 followers, we find singer Tyrese (@tyrese4real), actress Alyssa Milano (@alyssa_milano), celebrity Tila Tequila (@officialtila), tv host Jonathan Ross (@wossy) and evangelist Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki).

60.6% of the most active Twitter users live in the United States, while 6.9% are located in the U.K, 4.7% in Japan, and 4.3% in Canada.

–The split between genders among the most active Twitter users is fairly balanced with 54% male, 46% female.

88% of the most active Twitter users have never missed a day without making at least one update, while another 2.1% have only been inactive for one day.

48% have more than 100 followers, compared with 6.3% for overall Twitter users.

33.7% of the most active Twitter users have joined Twitter this year, compared with 72.5% of overall Twitter users who have signed up this year

–The most popular keywords within bios of active users are Internet marketing, music lover, Web designer, video games, and husband/father.

The full “Inside Twitter” report is available as a PDF [warning: PDF link].

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Social Networking: Everyone is Doing it, All the Time

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Social Networking: Everyone is Doing it, All the Time

comScore_InccomScore has a report on the state of social networking in the UK, showing that social networking is a mainstream activity among all age groups, and the second online activity when it comes to time spent, behind instant messaging. Simply put: everyone is doing it, and they’re doing it often.

According to the study, 80% of users among all age groups visited a social networking site in May 2009, at least once, spending an average time of 4.6 hours there. Young users are interested in social networking the most, with 89% of those 25 to 34 years visiting social networking sites, and older groups aren’t falling behind that much, as 67% of those aged 55 or more visited a social networking site in May, spending an average of 3.7 hours there. See the full stats in the table below:

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This is in line with the recent study which showed that Facebook users are, on average, getting older, as silver surfers are embracing the site at an increasing rate.

comScore’s study also lists the top social networking sites in the UK, showing huge growth for Facebook (Facebook), which now sits on top of the list, having increased by 57% since May 2008. With nearly 24 million monthly unique visitors, it dwarfs the competition: according to comScore’s numbers, it’s approximately as big as Bebo (which has been steadily losing its audience, also in line with our recent analysis based on numbers from US-oriented Compete), MySpace (MySpace), Windows Live and Twitter (Twitter) (which has gone from being a complete nobody to the fifth place in a year) put together.

Read the entire study here.

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