{"id":337741,"date":"2010-02-18T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.36184"},"modified":"2010-02-18T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:41:05","slug":"did-google-give-twitter-its-best-traffic-month-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337741","title":{"rendered":"Did Google Give Twitter Its Best Traffic Month Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter posted its best month for unique visitors ever, according to analytics from comscore. The credit, tech analysts seem to agree, goes to Google&#8217;s Live Search feature, which culls tweets in a box on its results page under the first few links.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Google unveiled its own social media program Buzz, a Gmail add-on which lets users share links and photos with a network of &#8220;followers.&#8221; In other words, it&#8217;s a Twitter feature &#8212; and possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=6&amp;ved=0CBkQFjAF&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiz.yahoo.com%2Fibd%2F100209%2Ftech.html%3F.v%3D1&amp;ei=13x9S-OjGsLp8Qbo_Jm9BQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxyXNjm6RhuzOxybCggqg-L6RGcg&amp;sig2=UFUf-SaBe6yDK2fJ8Z-kgg\">Twitter Killer!<\/a> &#8212; right next to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Google giveth and Google taketh away, I suppose. But my colleague Dan Indiviglio made an excellent observation just moments ago:<\/p>\n<p>When will Google&#8217;s Live Search include Buzz items in addition to tweets? The answer is: they already do. The Live Search box collects both tweets and Buzz items, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CAwQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2010%2F02%2F14%2Fgoogle-buzz-column%2F&amp;ei=qaV9S_hxwdPxBtHK3NsF&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYaWkAnNJ_UuJSMhEDmNMIg7O5nw&amp;sig2=RbM9BI7VyJMV8XVHjgz-kg\">the Google blog<\/a>, and it will be interesting to follow how Live Search continues to drive uniques to both Twitter and Google&#8217;s Buzz pages.<\/p>\n<p>With Buzz traffic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CAwQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2010%2F02%2F14%2Fgoogle-buzz-column%2F&amp;ei=qaV9S_hxwdPxBtHK3NsF&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYaWkAnNJ_UuJSMhEDmNMIg7O5nw&amp;sig2=RbM9BI7VyJMV8XVHjgz-kg\">exploding<\/a> Twitter shouldn&#8217;t feel safe about relying on Google search pages to drive unique visitors. Twitter&#8217;s unique visitor count flat-lined for the<br \/>\nlast quarter of 2009. Some analysts predicted that Twitter&#8217;s hype had<br \/>\nsimply run out of juice, and that Buzz could capture some of the market<br \/>\nbecause you don&#8217;t need a separate application to run it: Buzz lives<br \/>\nnext to your inbox, after all. I know Buzz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CBAQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fdigits%2F2010%2F02%2F13%2Fgoogle-scrambles-to-tweak-buzz-privacy-settings%2F%3FKEYWORDS%3Dgoogle%2Bbuzz&amp;ei=z359S6TTNpOZ8AbPx93dBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNGGuXb0-2U94K1kOwqkBfUl6sqv5A&amp;sig2=CymzjQcA3kGOli5IMgRfSA\">privacy fiasco<\/a> thew a wet blanket on the product&#8217;s roll-out, but I still see a bright future for the product.<br \/><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:11ce3b1e1a45223144f5a16f0a043c0e:1FT4XRFv97W0fq82xSaO2eE5gzi%2FdFffcXHC0IIlD3tMswNaFxPn8lVZ3lokygreU7iOrp0uQHpf'><img border='0' title='Email this Article' alt='Email this Article' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/emailthis.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:0af43940288a1eaba6b277cfba9a97e8:EEL4NYVEeKwIVLLENnOZUIJky3N8MUFUbiY2BhnIThG5oTG45ghOR4nFvqptfoH%2FCiybuXhMjf%2Fg'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/digg.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:7b0fbb82b25df01f4d3184a63798cfcf:IzUcjPgeS9kH6vt07ZT4Vor%2B0l8rh4EjInGpkjsYFg1zhXEk34pN7YCLHhlwg0UTaZENW67II4nD'><img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/reddit.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:49045215db0c56fe7e08464f11b4acb2:AeVBfl2errmOiC2GY2YaWO8NHOC0csFa5WXDuIr84AhKdiFIeLg%2BJcxVCdVfYeFT51Qg7swEFqLDHg%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Twitter' alt='Add to Twitter' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/twitter.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:a6125301bad04ef43e0502b03bb6bd59:FfNsJ5Q4%2BxS9bzdxRmDX3Mzt%2BQWcGcHCSz1O%2F3iPCIsmPiTsqlMC06%2BtInt6zhZlwza6sXAMU%2Bjb'><img border='0' title='Add to del.icio.us' alt='Add to del.icio.us' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/delicious.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:fec69494718eb8e72e66b472eac4d41b:sNzswx5mQhrnhwCyBpO2gBU6%2BP%2B3q18SEKwmWzkPLYlfn%2FaiwTQRYLeKQnKvz7FmD20IPL3BgLcw9g%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to StumbleUpon' alt='Add to StumbleUpon' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/stumbleit.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:2742b8613083bafc1eeb03b8b756ba4e:8J2OVwhFMu1bdPkiYP76dV3EBgmFbp7a%2Fer6%2Bo4%2BvVes7luxoN0fFdMharzUwQ0N3SErqQtawMieTA%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/facebook.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=16ee62bd3587c50ec5f799768c7b0ca3&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=16ee62bd3587c50ec5f799768c7b0ca3&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AtlanticBusinessChannel\/~4\/LKsCg2yOj_4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter posted its best month for unique visitors ever, according to analytics from comscore. The credit, tech analysts seem to agree, goes to Google&#8217;s Live Search feature, which culls tweets in a box on its results page under the first few links. Earlier this month, Google unveiled its own social media program Buzz, a Gmail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}