Comments on: Facebook Crushes Twitter for Michael Jackson News Sharing by 500%

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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:39:04 +0000

[...] Michael Jackson death was “Shared” to. Peter Corbett at iStrategylabs.com posted it on his site. (For the tech challenged — and that includes many of us – Thorp was looking at how [...]

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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:02:23 +0000

[...] Michael Jackson death was “Shared” to. Peter Corbett at iStrategylabs.com posted it on his site. (For the tech challenged — and that includes many of us — This simply means Thorp was [...]

By: D.J. Smith

D.J. Smith — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:14:30 +0000

“…they are roughly 5x more likely to share it to Facebook then they are to send it to twitter or even Myspace…”

We often try to guess at how these services compare in carrying certain kinds of information, but it’s nice to have more empirical data on how Facebook and Twitter (…) actually perform virally.

Many thanks for this piece, Peter and to both of you for your very informative blog. Good stuff.

By: Lisa Lomas

Lisa Lomas — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:14:36 +0000

That is huge news, thankyou for sharing. You sometimes wonder who does best.

By: dohn joe

dohn joe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:28:56 +0000

this is a very relevant thing to know about. thanks justin & peter.
there’s a omission, and maybe its intended, in the analysis of the “broadcast size audiences” of some twitter accounts, and that is the average number of accounts a twitter user is following. i won’t like to state the grim figures of how bad the attention span on twitter is, BUT, facebook provides the same amount of cognitive load with just a few friends. you can manage 10x more followers in twitter than the number of friends on facebook, and SO …
… the attention span on facebook is 10x better than twitter, is what i felt.
AND … another issue is about the shortened urls on twitter, they just don’t have that feature called confidence built into them, whereas facebook goes all animal[title, body, thumbs to choose] with a url you hand it over. worthy of my attention.