Social Media Couldn't Stop Talking About These 5 Hot News Topics in 2015

These news stories captured national and social media attentions during 2015.

One of the first use cases for social media was bookmarking and aggregating content.

Over the years, social has become a significant source of traffic for brands of all kinds and this year it became apparent that social is an invaluable source of referral traffic to publishers in particular. Indeed, for some publishers, Facebook drives more traffic than Google.

According to web analytics provider Parse.ly, some of the biggest stories of the year were discovered on social media.

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