You're walking down the streets, and cries of politicians are let out. "Social media is dangerous!" "Social media will cause problems!" "Social media is the devil!". Now, in some cases these politicians have a point to the extent of meaningless conversations on Twitter and Facebook. People seem to be more fascinated in trivial things than important things. Now, I'm not saying everything people talk about on these social media sites is trivial and just plain stupid, but most conversations are. Especially the subject of what topped Twitter's tweet per second record the other day.
Now let's think of stomach turning news that gets everyone talking and getting hyped up. We have sports games. We even have the US Open this week. We have wars. We have key political figures losing office in Japan. Natural disasters around the globe that make everybody just go what the heck is going on here. So was the most tweeted issue the Super Bowl? The war in the Middle East? Or maybe Hurricane Katrina or Irene? Well if you had guessed anything along the lines of any of those, you had guessed inaccurately.
At a frightening rate of 8,868 Tweets Per Second (TPS?), the winner goes to Beyonce announcing her pregnancy. I'm not saying babies are bad, not at all; They are adorable cute little things that I hope to have some day. But the fact that it is the highest tweeted piece of information among the internet in Twitter's history just kind of scares me. Not in an "oh em gee that's awesome" way, but in a "what the heck is the world focused on" type of way. Companies have to work through this jumble to use Twitter PR successfully. Twitter PR would be a good service to outsource to a social media company.
It boggled my senses when Twitter's own news Twitter tweeted the statistics. In a way, giving life is an amazing event. But part of me says that natural disasters, war, poverty, and such are a wee bit more important. Oh well. Apparently we like babies better. But to me it just shows our main concerns aren't set correctly anymore. On the other hand, it shows the PR power that can be used through Twitter.
So, you may be wondering then, why social media should be used at all. The truth is, social media is a great way to communicate with a great many of people over a vast. And, when you get right down to it, what's more American than that.
Now let's think of stomach turning news that gets everyone talking and getting hyped up. We have sports games. We even have the US Open this week. We have wars. We have key political figures losing office in Japan. Natural disasters around the globe that make everybody just go what the heck is going on here. So was the most tweeted issue the Super Bowl? The war in the Middle East? Or maybe Hurricane Katrina or Irene? Well if you had guessed anything along the lines of any of those, you had guessed inaccurately.
At a frightening rate of 8,868 Tweets Per Second (TPS?), the winner goes to Beyonce announcing her pregnancy. I'm not saying babies are bad, not at all; They are adorable cute little things that I hope to have some day. But the fact that it is the highest tweeted piece of information among the internet in Twitter's history just kind of scares me. Not in an "oh em gee that's awesome" way, but in a "what the heck is the world focused on" type of way. Companies have to work through this jumble to use Twitter PR successfully. Twitter PR would be a good service to outsource to a social media company.
It boggled my senses when Twitter's own news Twitter tweeted the statistics. In a way, giving life is an amazing event. But part of me says that natural disasters, war, poverty, and such are a wee bit more important. Oh well. Apparently we like babies better. But to me it just shows our main concerns aren't set correctly anymore. On the other hand, it shows the PR power that can be used through Twitter.
So, you may be wondering then, why social media should be used at all. The truth is, social media is a great way to communicate with a great many of people over a vast. And, when you get right down to it, what's more American than that.
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