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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Living in the Echo Chamber
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Oh, search still matters. But it is beginning to matter a little less. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson recently pointed out that 14% of traffic to his blog, avc.com, comes from Google, down from 29% the year before. Wilson argues that the difference is Twitter—that is, links from people over algorithms. (Note that Wilson is a Twitter investor.)
I guess for people who live fully inside the echo chamber, that might be true. You have to realize something simple though: Twitter is still a niche thing. I'm still getting 48% of my traffic from Google, which is about the same as it's been for a long while now. I use Twitter; I do get traffic from there. The vast majority of my readers just don't seem to be into Twitter that much though, and I suspect that's a pretty common thing.
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