The State of Photo Sharing on Twitter [STATS]

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Jennifer Van Grove
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The State of Photo Sharing on Twitter [STATS]
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Just how often are Twitter users including photos in their tweets, and which services are they using to do so?

Social media monitoring company Sysomos decided to find out; it looked at the tweets from May 30, 2011 to determine the percentage of tweets with links and images.

Of the all the tweets from May 30, 14.9% contained a link and 1.25% contained a link to a picture from a photo-sharing service. "On a busy day, Twitter gets about 170 million tweets, 1.25% means 2.125 million tweets daily link to pictures from third-party services," Sysomos says.

As for the services themselves, Sysomos found that Twitpic was the most popular (45.7%), followed by Yfrog with 29.3%, Lockerz with 17.4% and Instagram with 5.2%. Flickr commanded just 2.1% of the photos shared on Twitter for the day.

Most notable is that just 1.25% of tweets from the day, a holiday no less, contained photos. The takeaway: Twitter has an opportunity to make photo sharing a more common activity.

Take a look at the charts below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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