Sites link to Twitter more than three top newspapers combined
Jun.03, 2009 in
Statistics
According to Google, 77,400 web pages link to Twitter.com.
You can find links to a particular web site — the USA Today site for example — by searching for Google for “link:usatoday.com“. Results for Twitter look like this:
I ran that same kind of search for the top three U.S. newspapers (by circulation), and found 71,200 links to their sites. That’s 6,200 less than Twitter.
Here is a list of the top ten U.S. papers and the number of web pages Google found linking to their sites. Click on a publication to visit its site. Click on a number to get the most recent results from Google:
[Update, June 5: The list is now ordered according to the number of incoming links. Numbers have not been changed.]
- The Washington Post: 40,400
- USA Today: 29,500
- The Wall Street Journal: 29,300
- Los Angeles Times: 22,900
- The New York Times: 12,400
- Chicago Tribune: 11,600
- New York Post: 10,700
- Daily News (New York): 6,150
- Houston Chronicle: 5,220
- The Arizona Republic: 2,550
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June 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
I wonder how many of those tweets themselves link to newspaper stories, though.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:40 am
Those are links from other web sites to Twitter. I flipped through a few pages of the search results (can click on the image to take a look) and didn't see any links from Twitter.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Right — but I mean, when people link to twitter.com, they are generally linking to particular tweets, no? And those tweets themselves link somewhere.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Thanks for the smart questions. I took a quick look at the first page of Google\'s results for pages linking to Twitter. Almost all of them actually link to twitter.com, not a particular tweet, nor a particular user. Notable: Two of those top results were from form The New York Times.
September 11th, 2009 at 8:51 am
No surprise that many sites linked to twitter website because its only buzz that’s happening around the world.