Social Network Traffic Surpasses Email

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Social Network Traffic Surpasses Email

Rich Karpinski November 8th, 2007

While some may see social networks as fads, from a pure “bits and bytes” point of view this should get the attention of service providers: for the first time last month, traffic to social networks overtook traffic to web-based email services in the UK, according to researcher HitWise.