Link Sharing
What makes Twitter special?
Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist and a blogger who spends a lot of time watching trends online. He believes that the ability to share links within a trusted network is the thing that makes Twitter valuable and he says we’re about to see a change in the way that people use the web on par with the rise of Google:
He compared Twitter’s recent organic growth to the early growth of Google (minus any mention of Twitter’s recent slowdown) and shared some analysis of traffic to the Websites of his portfolio companies and his blog. Google is the dominant source of traffic, but over the past 12 months Twitter traffic has been growing 30 to 40 percent per month. It is becoming a significant source of traffic to those Websites, to the point where it is now bringing about 20 percent as much traffic as Google.
Within the next year, he argued, referrals from social networks like Twitter and Facebook will surpass Google as a source of traffic for many websites.
