For the past few posts, I’ve talked mostly about Twitter, but we all know that there are a many more social media sites out there. I find that I spend a good chunk of my time on LinkedIN and Twitter. I spend the least amount of time on Facebook. One of my goals for June is to start using Facebook more, but honestly I find I’m meeting more business connections on LinkedIn and I feel more comfortable using LinkedIn and Twitter for business. Facebook, for me, is great for re-connecting with old classmates and expanding relationships with my Twitter and LinkedIn connections.
I read an interesting article on money.cnn.com (“Facebook is king but Twitter makes waves”) yesterday morning. Here’s part of the stat that stuck out to me:
“According to a report released Tuesday by Nielsen, Facebook users logged 13.9 billion minutes on the site in April. That compares to 5 billion minutes on MySpace, 300 million on Twitter, and 202.4 million minutes on LinkedIn.”
Now for me, I’m finding the total opposite. I spend a majority of my time using LinkedIN, then Twitter and last, Facebook. I would say 60% of my time is spent on LinkedIN, then about 25 % to 30% on Twitter (maybe more) and Facebook gets the rest of my time. What’s your breakdown between the big 3?
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Some day you’re going to have to explain the whole “Vinny D” thing to me.
I spend the most time on LinkedIn. I am a junkie. I bet I EASILY spend a half hour EVERY day on it. Minimum. This includes responding to InMail.
Next is probably Facebook. But I am addicted to Mafia Wars so I don’t know if that really counts. I usually take a quick pass through new recommendations and seeing what people are up to. I’ve recently started to cull people from my FB. Some people should just stay in the past.
Twitter. I pretty much have this on auto-pilot now. I am using it to drive traffic to my blog. And it is working. Every time I post a tweet goes out pointing people to that post. I can see the traffic jump.
I still use IM quite a bit. The Original social media. IM=OG. lol
I actually spend the majority of my time on Facebook, then Twitter, then LinkedIn. I’ve been working a lot with customer product and store pages, and have been dabbling with some of Facebook’s paid advertising offerings for clients. I seem to get the most bang out of Facebook for the clients I serve.
Note… get your blog set up on Facebook’s networked blogs too (if you haven’t already)
How about a post on WHAT you are doing on LinkedIn 60% of the time? I’d love to hear about that.
Blessings!
Wendy
@SocialPMChick
My time breakdown on The Big 3: 45% LinkedIn, 45% Twitter, 10% Facebook. In these uncertain economic times, I’m doing everything I can to fortify/expand my professional network (especially while I’m gamefully employed – knock on wood).
These numbers best illustrate how I’m investing my time with The Big 3:
* LinkedIn Connections = 267
* Twitter Followers = 223
* Facebook Friends = 83
I’ll let you know if this allocation changes drastically in the future. The last 2 weeks, I’ve been learning FriendFeed (at the expense of Facebook time). Ah yes my friend, the learning never stops …