Do people reach me more via Facebook or Twitter?

[andrewducker]

I posted yesterday about the media using "X defends against accusations" as a way of making you think that there are widespread attacks on them.

47 people clicked through to that post from Facebook. 5 from Twitter.

The 5 from Twitter all did so within an hour of the post going up.

The 47 from Facebook did so over the course of the following 12 hours (19 of them within an hour, but then an ongoing curve downwards).

Which indicates to me that Facebook does a pretty good job of knowing when something is interesting to my friends, and keeping it "active" for a while, whereas Twitter sweeps it away near-instantly, and unless it really grabs people it's gone.

And looking at my overall referrer stats, Facebook gets between three and six times the number of clicks that Twitter does.

(Just had a look at my actual LJ statistics too - yesterday I had 145 readers, of which 100-ish were reading via their friends-page and 45 were going direct to my posts/journal. Sadly I don't get the same info from DW, but Google Analytics tells me that 78 people visited that post on DW.)

Comments

[ironymaiden]

Part of that longevity is FB showing users stuff that their friends interacted with. (A feature I hate.)

And that leads to the driveby shooting-off, where random friends of friends have fights in comments.

...man I hate facebook.

[cyprinella]

I use the FB Purity browser add-on which will block those from showing up in your timeline. I pretty much love it, although sometimes it will cause posts that were there to disappear when the OP comments on their own post.