Twitter Beats Facebook (And Everyone Else) As The Most Popular Social Network Of 2011 [STUDY]

Twitter received more media coverage than any other social network in 2011, earning around half of all press reportage, beating Facebook into second place, says a new study.

Twitter completely dominated 2011 – on a month-by-month basis it consistently edged out Facebook as the most talked about social platform, with Facebook winning only two months in the year. Both of these channels ruled media coverage of social networking in 2011, with all the other ‘major’ social networks hardly being mentioned at all.

According to data from Highbeam Research, Twitter was discussed in about 50 percent of all media coverage of social networks throughout 2011.

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