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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. Is the dominance of Facebook and Twitter, coupled with increasing Google+ engagement , proving to be too much?

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Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

Adam Sherk

The rise of Reddit and the steady decline of Digg have been well documented. Just recently Reddit announced that its traffic has more than doubled in less than a year (to 2.07 Anecdotally we’ve all seen Reddit gain in prominence at a time when Digg has struggled to maintain its relevancy. million visits in 2009 to 22.7

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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

Idaconcpts

This switch to corporate interests isn’t anything new for social media sites; Twitter, Facebook, and others have made changes over the years that do more to make money than they do to satisfy the user. Reddit is (was?) So why did these Digg users embrace Reddit as their new social news website home? click for larger image).

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Stop Reading the News

Ari Herzog

Instead, I visit Twitter and Reddit and peruse the trending topics. Related Stories The Magazines are Coming How I Consume the News Facebook, LinkedIn, and Me. This is what Thoreau wrote in 1854: I don’t learn anything in the news. It’s the same content regurgitated with changed names and places.

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Bloggers: Would You Rather Be First Or Right?

SocMed Sean

If I just spout out statements like “Facebook announces that it’s going to buy Twitter” or “Apple is discontinuing the iPad 1 due to iOS 5 crashes”, I might generate a bunch of SEO traffic and boost my readership, but what value did I actually provide to my readers by publishing unsupported facts?

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Facebook Shares Jump 80% in 3 Months at Private Auction

Idaconcpts

Facebook was most recently valued as being worth $35 billion after venture investor Accel Partners sold part of its stake in November,” wrote Nicholas Carlson of the San Francisco Examiner , on December 14. But that was before the latest private auction for 100,000 Facebook shares, held by SharesPost on December 16. Unsurprisingly.

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This Blog Is Dead

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Let''s forgo the irony that this piece was published on a blog and read this: "Instead of blogging, people are posting to Tumblr , tweeting, pinning things to their board, posting to Reddit , Snapchat ting, updating Facebook statuses, Instagram ming, and publishing on Medium. Blogs are for 40-somethings with kids. blog comment.

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