Infographic: A Look Back at Social Sharing in 2012

From the 2012 Olympic Games in London to Hurricane Sandy in the Northeastern United States, social media sites have captured the thoughts of internet users around the world as they discussed the headlines online. Social infrastructure and data platform AddThis crunched the numbers to find out which platforms, services, people, and moments made the biggest impact in 2012. Some of them may surprise you.

From the 2012 Olympic Games in London to Hurricane Sandy in the Northeastern United States, social media sites have captured the thoughts of internet users around the world as they discussed the headlines online.

Social infrastructure and data platform AddThis crunched the numbers to find out which platforms, services, people, and moments made the biggest impact in 2012. Some of them may surprise you.

The key findings:

  • Facebook and Twitter are still the reigning social networks, with 51 percent and 15 percent of the audience, respectively.
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