Social Media Sharing Trends - Email Still Rules

The popular social bookmarking service, Tell-a-Friend,  analyzed the 10 million referrals that happened via Tell-a-Friend and compiled a report of the findings.
Key findings include:

• The top channels of sharing include, email (59%), instant messenger (25%), social networking sites (14%).
• Email and IM continue to be the most popular mediums of sharing
• Facebook with a 79% share dominates the sharing in the social networking channel
• Twitter is growing in popularity but is still just 5% among social networks.
• Only 2% of shares happen over Bookmarking sites but digg rules this method.
• In the Email channel, Yahoo Mail is the most preferred, followed by MSN.
• Google’s services like Google Bookmarking, Google Talk, and Gmail, are lagging in their respective channels when it comes to shared content
• LinkedIn, as a networking site, ranks the lowest when it comes to social media sharing.

Read the complete report at Tell-a-Friend.