Posts Tagged ‘compete.com’

Twitter is claiming that they are now receiving 190 million monthly visitors and 65 million tweets per day. By comparison, Compete shows that Facebook had 135 million visitors in April and Twitter had 21 million. So where ever these numbers come from, it appears as though Facebook is still MUCH larger than Twitter in terms [...]

Interesting article on how Compete.com gets some of its web traffic data. Apparently it’s partially from a popular toolbar that violated its privacy notice.
We were recently pointed to this post from last month by Ben Edelman, a Harvard privacy advocate. In it, he details the data the Upromise toolbar collects and sends out. This toolbar [...]