Twitter is dominating the first quarter of 2014 in social media sharing competition.
Twitter snatched the first quarter by overtaking all other social networking sites (with a 43 percent of growth in social sharing). Reddit emerged as the second fastest growing channel (25 percent growth), Facebook saw a 14% rise, LinkedIn 12%, Pinterest 5% while email continues to decline in the first quarter.
Reddit users tend to be below age 30, while Twitter and Pinterest attract a slightly older users. LinkedIn largely concentrated in mid-career professionals and Facebook is seeing a lot of social activity in a much older age group.
Hispanic sharing grew the most on Twitter while Reddit has impressive growth across the board. Facebook had a flat growth overall and LinkedIn had double growth for Caucasians. Hispanic sharing grew twice as much on Pinterest than other demographics.
