What does the “Email Clients, IM, AIR Apps, and Direct” data in the info page Traffic Referrers mean?
Direct traffic includes people clicking bitly links from:
- Desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook or Apple mail
- Adobe AIR applications such as TweetDeck
- Mobile apps like Twitterific or Blackberry Mail
- Chat apps like AIM
- SMS/MMS messages
- Or any bitly link that is typed directly into a browser