Good Afternoon, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media.

A new chart out from Marketing Sherpa shows the buttons that companies add to their email newsletters to get people to share the content.  No huge surprises that the winner is Facebook, as per the graph below.  Considering that Facebook is the most widely used social network it should be up there.

Twitter with 88% of companies adding it is to me rather surprising, partly because there are only about 200 million people using Twitter (only you say!).  Of these 42% have 1-5 people following them and about 24% have no one following them, leaving about 68 million people with over 5 followers, or as Mashable found Twitter reaches about 10% of internet users.  Just because people have heard about Twitter doesn’t mean that they are using it or even just looking at it.  But on the other hand tweets do appear in Google real time search results which non-Twitter users can see, which may lead to people coming back to your website….

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