social media
Biggest, record-setting social media moments of the Super Bowl
Updated: The Giant’s fourth-quarter victory help the Super Bowl become the biggest social TV event in history so far. Bluefin Labs says it counted 9.3 million social media comments, surpassing the previous all-time record high of 3 million held by the MTV VMAs. Trendrr said this year’s Super Bowl had approximately 5X the social activity over last year. The data is still coming in, and here’s our early crack at the biggest social media moments of the Super Bowl…
Lots of social media for Royal Wedding, no breakthroughs
Updated: Despite being the largest single video streaming event in history, it didn’t break the internet. The royal wedding of Prince WIlliam and Catherine Middleton was every bit a social media affair, but the web seemed largely prepared. It probably didn’t hurt that it happened in the early hours of the morning in the U.S., [...]
Crowdsourcing breaking news from social media
Today Mashable published a story on an ambitious social media project we’ve been working on at msnbc.com — @breakingnews and now BreakingNews.com and our mobile apps — so I thought I’d take the opportunity to offer some inside perspective. A year ago, we took the reins of @breakingnews from Michael van Poppel of BNO News, [...]
