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The statistic presents responses marketers from around the world gave when asked about the most important social media platform for their business. As of January 2017, nine percent of respondents states Twitter was the most important social platform for their business.

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The statistic presents responses marketers from around the world gave when asked about the most important social media platform for their business. As of January 2017, nine percent of respondents states Twitter was the most important social platform for their business.

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Release date: May 2017

Region: Worldwide
Survey time period: January 2017
Number of respondents: 5,700 marketers
Supplementary notes: The source does not provide detailed information regarding the questions. The chosen wording here might therefore differ slightly from the survey.
The source does not provide survey date. The date given in the field "survey time period" is the release date.

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