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StumbleUpon Tops Facebook In Social Media Traffic

StumbleUpon top source for social media traffic

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By · January 3, 2011 · 6 Comments

Analytics firm Statcounter said today that discovery engine StumbleUpon has surpassed Facebook as the top source for social media traffic in the U.S.

StumbleUpon had 43 percent of the U.S. social media traffic on January 1st, while Facebook trailed with 38 percent.

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Statcounter tracks 15 billion page views per month on more than three million websites. Social media sites that Statcounter tracks include Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter, reddit, YouTube, MySpace and Digg.

“StumbleUpon just surpassed Facebook as the #1 source of social media traffic in the US!,” said StumbleUpon CEO Garret Camp on Twitter.

 

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There are 6 Comments. Add Yours.

  1. Amazing set of data

  2. Stumble was already a traffic puller. Its great to see that Stumble has overcome Facebook. Great going stumble!!!!!!!

  3. J
    Reply

    Never realised the gap between Facebook + Stumble to the rest was so great, especially even against Twitter.

  4. David
    Reply

    Cool ! Nice to see something uplifting about someone other than FaceBook ! Hope this will be a trend for 2011.

  5. Wow, it’s been while since I heard that name, great to get these emails from web pro news to keep updated with new information.

  6. Guest
    Reply

    May this mark the beginning a new era: the utter and absolute demise of Facebook.

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