Quick Test: Facebook vs. Twitter

Just posted a link that I shortend with two seperate shortening services to Kiva’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.   Found some interesting stats, and wanted to post them quickly before going back and writing a full post.

Here are the stats after two days:

Bit.ly (posted on Twitter)

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SnipURL (Posted on Facebook)

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Given that our Twitter account has around 5k followers and our Facebook account has 42k fans, I was surprised how many clicks that I got from Twitter.  I’ve already run more “serious” tests and I’ll post the results.

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  • http://evbart.com/2009/06/facebook-vs-twitter-round-two-with-url-shorteners-as-the-judge/ Facebook vs. Twitter: Round two with URL shorteners as the judge at Evan Bartlett ’s blog

    [...] My previous “quick test” yielded similar results.  Though the facebook link had more clicks in the end, its not enough to account for the huge difference in the size of the audience (6k twitter vs 44k facebook).  Twitter still seems to be driving a disproportionate amount of engagement compared to Facebook [...]

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