YouTube Links Stay “Alive” Twice As Long As Twitter, Facebook Links

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Marissa McNaughton | 4 Comments

Earlier this week, the blog for link-shortening service bit.ly announced results from a study of the ‘half-life’ of links coming from Facebook, Twitter, email and YouTube. The data reveals that different types of links rise and fall at different speeds, and how long a link stays ‘alive’ also depends on the platform it was posted on. Read →

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Tags: Bit.ly, content sharing, Facebook, social media, social media statistics, social network, social sharing, Twitter, Youtube

1,494 Bit.ly Links Are Clicked On Every Second

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Tonia Ries | No Comments

John Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks and Twitter investor, posted some statistics from his #140conf talk this morning on his Twitter feed. He doesn’t source all of them, but he does label the Bit.ly statistic “Betaworks data” — Betaworks is a Bit.ly investor: only 20% of all tweets approach 140 chars (79% have length less than [...] Read →