Worldwide Social Media Links Adoption Trends: Facebook’s “Like” Button Still on Top Followed by Twitter Google “+1″ Catching Up Fast

Recently the trend of adoption of social plugins by top websites was surveyed. Surprisingly Google +1 button reportedly saw the biggest growth; it was up 1% in just a month’s time. Whereas Facebook’s “like” button ranked no. 2 in terms of growth rate with an increment of 0.3%. Twitter’s “share” button saw a rise of only 0.1%. In a survey performed on top 10,000 websites, it was revealed that Facebook still dominated the space of popular social plugins with a formidable 10.8% share occupied by Facebook “Like” button. The Facebook “Like” box was installed by a mere 6.1%, whereas the adoption market share for Twitter share button was at 2.1% and that of Twitter Instant Follow plugin was 1.3% only.

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July 11, 2011 at 3:41 am | Google News | No comment

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