Facebook Boosts Traffic To Twitter And MTV.com

There are differing opinions on whether Facebook and Twitter are competitors, but in the competition for monthly unique visitors, Facebook provided a great assist to Twitter in August, and the social network helped out MTV.com, as well.

There are differing opinions on whether Facebook and Twitter are competitors, but in the competition for monthly unique visitors, Facebook provided a great assist to Twitter in August, and the social network helped out MTV.com, as well.

According to the latest examination of the top 250 websites by Kantar Media Compete, Twitter received 26.6 percent of its traffic in August from Facebook, representing more than the combined total for Google and Yahoo.

The reverse did not hold true; although Facebook accounted for 22.7

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