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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by pp19dd on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:36AM (#28799135)
You might find this actually surprising:

- The increases far exceeded what was lost. The dip in the social line was offset three-fold when you add up external, search and direct. They're not to be averaged.

- Unmentioned, but reflected in graph: people using facebook tend to share articles far more than they read them. As in social share count > pageview count. Sometimes by a factor of 100.

Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by bo1024 on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:51AM (#28799961)
Yeah, I think a takeaway is some evidence that people mainly share not news stories, but headlines.