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Who Hangs Out Where?

In the virtual world, just as in the physical world, different communities attract different types of people. These differences matter a lot to advertisers as they work to rationalize their social media spending. And they’ll be crucial to sites that hope to follow LinkedIn and Facebook with IPOs of their own.

A version of this article appeared in the July–August 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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