StumbleUpon Drives More Than 50% of Social Media Traffic

What social network drives most traffic to the rest of the web? If you think it's Facebook or Twitter, you're wrong. StumbleUpon now represents over 50% of all traffic of reference of the best places in the media. New data shows that StatCounter StumbleUpon is the main source of traffic between the world's leading social networking media. For the first 18 days of August, StumbleUpon represented 50.27% of referral traffic from the 10 social sites. Facebook was the second with a market share of 38.9%, while Reddit, YouTube and Twitter, each received less than 4%.

The statistics are startling, to say the least. StumbleUpon has been growing rapidly (recently surpassed 25 billion StumbleUpon button clicks), but not anywhere near as many users as Facebook or Twitter. The company tracks approximately 3 million web sites, however, so you have a decent sample size.

Although we did not dare to say that traffic drives over StumbleUpon Facebook (12 million users can actually exceed 750 million?) The service is clearly growing in influence. Mashable has seen a steady increase in referral traffic to StumbleUpon recent months, and there is nothing to suggest that growth will not continue.

StumbleUpon’s New Explore Feature Lets You Stumble Specific Topics

StumbleUpon social discovery tool has inspired 25 billion of clicks on the pages of leading people through great songs like "art" or "fashionable." Now is giving recommendations to a more specific level, with a new feature launched Wednesday. With the "Explore Box," users may encounter related pages with hundreds of thousands of specific issues - such as Vincent Van Gogh - instead of working in some 500 established categories - like art - that has stuck in the past to StumbleUpon . It's like a search engine and "best of" list had a child. If StumbleUpon has not ordered the exact term you are looking for, will match you with the next best thing.

At this time the function is limited to a small search bar on the browser of the product. But despite the minimal presence on the web is a huge change for StumbleUpon.

In the future, says StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon Box Explore integrate technology with its monitoring function so that users may encounter a mix of general and specific topics. That will make the engine much more personal discovery, and eventually (though the camp says no, probably in the short term) will allow advertisers to target closer to StumbleUpon your ads.

"We had to rewrite, basically, the recommendation engine," said camp Mashable. "Although it seems a lot of work into a feature, which will have an impact throughout the experience."

StumbleUpon Button Clicks Reaches 25 Billion

StumbleUpon social discovery tool has reached a new milestone, and his famous "Stumble" is clicked the button for more than 25 billion times. "Today we celebrate 25 billion clicks the Stumble It! Button," said Community Manager Monica StumbleUpon Semergiu in a tweet.

The media company has been on a roll since he left eBay in 2009. In November 2010, the social site users hit 12 million.

StumbleUpon reached 27.5 million trips in one day and last month broke his record mobile phone use during the Super Bowl this year. In April, the company faces a month 1000000000 blow.

StumbleUpon While not receiving the same kind of media attention that Facebook, Twitter, or Google Foursquare Garner +, has quietly grown into a social power of media with millions of loyal users. The result has been a solid business that will celebrate its 10th birthday in November.