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The
2012 Olympic events is going to be held in London, United Kingdom at July 27. It is
considered as the world’s “first social Games ever.” You might ask some
question, how social media actually is, there’s no doubt that social media networks
such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will play an huge role what never done
before. We must wait to see how information is spread from London to all over
the world, and how the global sports conversation is driven during July and
August.
What
do you think about the big shift? It’s simple: After the last Summer Olympics
in 2008 social media has exploded tremendously. Will you need 2012 Olympics Social Media Guide?
The use of Web has grown
rapidly at the end of 2008. According to the report of International TelecommunicationsUnion, in 2008,
there were about 1.5 billion Internet users globally & making up about 23%
of the world’s total population. By this summer’s games, the number will have increased
to about 2.3 billion users which making up about a one- third of the world’s
total population.
The 2012,London:Summer
Olympic events feature some of the most popular international sports which including Tennis, soccer, basketball,
swimming, and track and field & many
more which expected one of the biggest Olympics in the history— it is clear to
all it would be huge global buzz as well. In this article we try to share some
context on just how and why social media will get new look this year’s Olympics
in relation to 2008, we thought it’d be the interesting as of the world’s most
popular networks.
In 2008: A tweet by Facebook executive and
co-founder Dave Morin said, “We were gleefully celebrated Facebook for breaking the 100
million-user” in August of 2008 which passing MySpace in popularity. This social network
debuted its constantly encountered chat feature that year as well.
At Present: Now, Facebook claims more than 900
million users on their platform, is only fast becoming a portal to the web at
large for many and is a publicly
traded company. Its
founder Mark Zuckerberg is now a global celebrity.
In 2008: A statistics claimed that in year
2008 is a explosive growth for Twitter & finished the year
with about 6 million registered users who sent about 300,000 tweets per day. Then the social network & its users were still finding their way, by
this official blog post explaining@replies.
In Year
2009: Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love tweeted that their team’s coach had
been let go. It was breaking the story and causing some impact in the sports
world to speculate their service could change how news was delivered and
consumed.
At present: Twitter currently claims more than
500
million users
who send more than 400 million tweets each and every day. Sports & celebrity
news regularly breaks on this network, it’s become a prime marketing channel
for athletes % celebrities and much of the London 2012 Olympic.
YouTube
In 2008: Since, fall of 2008, YouTube users were uploading 10
hours of video to YouTube per minute. The site had emerged as something special
for web video. It also launched its mobile site, pre-roll ads and 720p HD
option as well in 2008 and had been acquired by Google two years prior.
At present: The company claims it receives
over 800 million unique visits per month where visitors watch more
than 3 billion hours of video per month and upload 72 hours of new video
content per minute. A Five hundred years’ worth of YouTube video are watched on
Facebook every day and more than 700 YouTube videos get shared on Twitter each
minute. This Olympic is considered as Iconic Olympic which become immortalized
on YouTube as they happen this summer.
What It All Means
Just looking at the three
most Present social networks make easy to others with a sporting scene by
social media which can contrast to the
last Summer Olympics. Moreover, it doesn’t take into account services like Pinterest, Foursquare and Google+ none
of which even existed in 2008. This summer, we expect news to break, social
sharing records might never possible in previous Olympics. And have to see
what’s going on this 2012 Olympic events.
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