Top Shared Domains on Twitter, February 2010
Almost every magazine, tech blog, and news site (even CNN Money!) announced this week that Twitter receives more than 50 Million of tweets per day.
Great, but how many of those are junk or spam? Twitter does not care because (good or bad) every tweet translates in growth for them, but I am trying to answer this question in a paper that I am currently writing.
In the meanwhile, the following are the 100 most shared domains on Twitter:
| 5.8864% | youtube.com |
| 5.3170% | twitpic.com |
| 4.5964% | facebook.com |
| 4.4783% | formspring.me |
| 3.7426% | twitlonger.com |
| 1.6916% | tweetphoto.com |
| 1.6064% | twitcam.com |
| 1.1491% | fun140.com |
| 0.9761% | foursquare.com |
| 0.9400% | plurk.com |
| 0.8683% | twitter.com |
| 0.8161% | amazon.com |
| 0.7341% | blip.fm |
| 0.5434% | funwebsites.org |
| 0.5052% | mashable.com |
| 0.5046% | tinychat.com |
| 0.4638% | flickr.com |
| 0.4157% | news.bbc.co.uk |
| 0.4098% | askbiography.com |
| 0.3841% | pollpigeon.com |
| 0.3791% | nytimes.com |
| 0.3342% | etsy.com |
| 0.3329% | news.yahoo.com |
| 0.3059% | friendfeed.com |
| 0.3049% | spreadmytweets.com |
| 0.2931% | twittascope.com |
| 0.2914% | digg.com |
| 0.2810% | huffingtonpost.com |
| 0.2730% | theonlyexception.paramore.net |
| 0.2681% | oohja.com |
| 0.2656% | cnn.com |
| 0.2424% | epicpetwars.com |
| 0.2341% | techcrunch.com |
| 0.2281% | reuters.com |
| 0.2281% | guardian.co.uk |
| 0.2219% | ardenal.info |
| 0.2203% | dezireweb.info |
| 0.2193% | activities.myspace.com |
| 0.2010% | cgi.ebay.com |
| 0.1951% | cv-library.co.uk |
| 0.1911% | online.wsj.com |
| 0.1906% | last.fm |
| 0.1851% | tweetmyjobs.com |
| 0.1819% | justin.tv |
| 0.1789% | engadget.com |
| 0.1697% | myspace.com |
| 0.1617% | google.com |
| 0.1614% | dealspl.us |
| 0.1520% | getafreelancer.com |
| 0.1480% | am6.jp |
| 0.1460% | limelinx.com |
| 0.1455% | newzfor.me |
| 0.1431% | ustream.tv |
| 0.1425% | examiner.com |
| 0.1408% | roflquiz.com |
| 0.1391% | lolquiz.com |
| 0.1353% | pleaserobme.com |
| 0.1317% | washingtonpost.com |
| 0.1294% | news.cnet.com |
| 0.1294% | thetweettank.com |
| 0.1250% | gizmodo.com |
| 0.1243% | telegraph.co.uk |
| 0.1237% | ezinearticles.com |
| 0.1179% | simplyhired.com |
| 0.1178% | whoisdirectory.com |
| 0.1177% | itunes.apple.com |
| 0.1099% | sports.espn.go.com |
| 0.1090% | blogtv.com |
| 0.1076% | caltweet.com |
| 0.1035% | twitition.com |
| 0.1029% | vimeo.com |
| 0.1007% | marketwatch.com |
| 0.0969% | wired.com |
| 0.0947% | businessweek.com |
| 0.0937% | twitgoo.com |
| 0.0933% | money.cnn.com |
| 0.0919% | readwriteweb.com |
| 0.0918% | fwix.com |
| 0.0917% | en.wikipedia.org |
| 0.0917% | fanfeedr.com |
| 0.0867% | raptr.com |
| 0.0857% | followtweeter.com |
| 0.0852% | fastfollowertrain.com |
| 0.0847% | askgetanswer.com |
| 0.0846% | gowalla.com |
| 0.0845% | dealnay.com |
| 0.0820% | usatoday.com |
| 0.0815% | businessinsider.com |
| 0.0803% | sports.yahoo.com |
| 0.0798% | spotcrime.com |
| 0.0794% | trademytweets.com |
| 0.0777% | maps.google.com |
| 0.0769% | twibbon.com |
| 0.0757% | msnbc.msn.com |
| 0.0752% | sfbay.craigslist.org |
| 0.0737% | helium.com |
| 0.0722% | astore.amazon.com |
| 0.0722% | boingboing.net |
| 0.0713% | zazzle.com |
| 0.0710% | petitionspot.com |
| 0.0704% | foxnews.com |
I was expecting to see YouTube among the first domains but not Facebook. Formspring is a total surprise for me, but all its tweets (questions and answers) are automated so it is understandable. Looking at photo/video sharing sites yFrog did not seem to have caught on, since the most popular are Twitcam, Tweetphoto and Twitpic.
Foursquare‘s automated tweets are increasing with the number of their users. All the tweets about Amazon contain referral codes. Among the news websites it seems that BBC is the most shared, followed by the New York Times, Huffington Post and CNN. The most popular tech blog is Mashable, which wins over TechCrunch and Engadget.
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