by Bill Ives
January 26, 2010 at 9:56 am
· Filed under Social Media, YouTube
Here is an interesting video on the social media revolution full of data on its impact. Some data I knew and other data was new to me. Facebook would be the fourth largest country, the top Twitters people have followers larger than the population of many countries, and 24 of the top 25 newspapers have had a significant drop in print circulation. People spend less time searching for news as it comes to them. The video has had well over a million viewers in short time. Perhaps you have seen it, if not click on the link below and take a look.
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Some data I knew and other data was new to me. Facebook would be the fourth largest country, the top Twitters people have followers larger than the population of many countries, and 24 of the top 25 newspapers have had a significant drop in print circulation.
This is an interesting piece of self promotion by Erik Qualman to support his theory on social media called Socialnomics. He looks to be paying homage to Professor Michael Wensch’s Information Re/Volution found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM. My issue here is that there’s a lot of factoids with little context, loose connection and no attribution. In the end, it is like eating too much whipped cream. You may be full but likely unsatisfied.
No doubt about it. Social media is very important and growing in user-base across generations. However, Google’s marketshare has not declined all that much with the rise in FB and Twitter users. Laptops and Ipads and such are still selling madly and most social media is highly personal, highly contextual to a place or time and as such extremely ephemeral. Here today and forgotten tomorrow.
marianne – good comments – I also it as a bit fluffy but entertaining. To have attributions might make it too serious. I did not pay any attention to the commercial at the end. I think it does point to trends and complements the many more serious studies done on aspects of what is happening. Bill
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SEOSpyJanuary 26th, 2010 at 9:58 am |
RT @ffblog: Social Media Revolution as Shown on YouTube http://bit.ly/5PN17L
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Social Media Revolution as Shown on YouTube-http://bit.ly/9b1LC1
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