If you search my name on twitter, you'll see a gazillion tweets that say something like this:
Fred Wilson predicts Twitter will be a bigger traffic source than Google for many websites within the year
But, of course, that's not what I said. It's what Erick Schonfeld says I said at the 140conference yesterday in a post on TechCrunch. Now I know that we aren't supposed to believe what is written on TechCrunch and I certainly don't but I fear that many people still do.
So let me be perfectly clear about this. I said social media, led by Facebook and Twitter, will surpass Google in driving traffic to many websites sometime in the next year. The tweets in this stream validate that. Erick was in the audience but so were most of those twitterers.
Or we could just look at Jonny Goldstein's wonderful notes he took during my talk.
Ok, now that I've gotten that off my chest, I'll return to the regularly scheduled programming.
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We will have to wait an see how Twitter traffic goes, seems to be slowing a little. I also think Facebook could be very close in total traffic to Google in the next year, but in regards to pushing more traffic my way I doubt it. Think about what the two do. All Google does it generate traffic. People search, they click. Facebook you could spend an hour on without clicking one outside link. If Facebook or Twitter falter in anyway, and numbers decrease, it's over. Google will keep on producing search results, one of the most desired things to do online...search and find.
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