Pinterest now refers more traffic to websites than Twitter or Yahoo!

Social network Pinterest now refers more users to websites than either Twitter or Yahoo!, according to new figures. The figures, released by social sharing widget provider Shareaholic, reveals that 1.84% of users to websites using its tools were sent from Pinterest, which has now overtaken Yahoo! (1.37% of visitors), Bing (1.03%), StumbleUpon (0.97%) and Twitter […]

Andrew Sadauskas 11 September, 2012

Social network Pinterest now refers more users to websites than either Twitter or Yahoo!, according to new figures.

The figures, released by social sharing widget provider Shareaholic, reveals that 1.84% of users to websites using its tools were sent from Pinterest, which has now overtaken Yahoo! (1.37% of visitors), Bing (1.03%), StumbleUpon (0.97%) and Twitter (0.80%) as a source of visitors.

However, Pinterest remains significantly behind Google (41.28%), direct traffic (20.03%) and Facebook (5.9%) as a source of traffic.

The figures were drawn by examining traffic sources from 200,000 websites using Shareaholic’s web tools.