This Thanksgiving, we would like to express our gratitude to a lot of people across the world. It is because of their support that Tell-a-Friend is able to speak so many local languages. Thank you!

We have introduced Tell-a-Friend in 10 more languages – Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Kurdish, and Romanian. We already had support for French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. The whopping 18 international languages we support, makes Tell-a-Friend the world’s local WOMM widget.

In this update, apart from the new languages, we have some more things:

• We added AOL in the Email tab. This enables users to send emails to contacts in their AOL account.
• A steroid boost of the analytics ensures that you can view the analytics for your widget much faster than before. Your analytics data will get refreshed periodically.
• When you post to Twitter, we shorten the URL using bit.ly before making the post. That gives more room for your message since the URL will only take up about 20 characters.

If you are willing to translate Tell-a-Friend into a language you know well, do write in to us. Not only will you see Tell-a-Friend in your language, you’ll get a special gift from us too.

Keep the feedback coming and Happy Thanksgiving!

We analyzed the recent 10 million referrals that happened via Tell-a-Friend and we were quite surprised by some of the findings. We decided to publish this report since it would be very beneficial to marketers.

Our key findings are:

• The top channels of sharing include, email, instant messenger, social networking sites
• Email and IM continue to be the most popular mediums of sharing
• Facebook rules the sharing in the social networking channel
• Twitter is growing in popularity but is still just 5% among social networks.
• Only 2% of shares happen over Bookmarking sites.
• In the Email channel, Yahoo Mail is the most preferred, followed by MSN.
• Google’s services like Google Bookmarking, Google Talk, and Gmail, are lagging in their respective channels when it comes to shared content
• LinkedIn, as a networking site, ranks the lowest when it comes to social media sharing.

You can see the complete report at: http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/sharing-trends-2009