June 2012
16 posts
Miami Heat Win The Championship & Party Like...
Miami is still buzzing today after their beloved Heat finally got to hold the prestigious trophy high above their heads. Last Thursday, the Miami Heat won the NBA Championship, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder in a best of seven series after five games. This was the best series of this year’s playoffs and probably one of the most memorable of the past decade.
A large part...
Axle Rose Eats The Stage And His Popularity Still...
It seems like it could be the late 80s right now, since Axl Rose has been all over news outlets and social media networks the past few months. However, it is not all paradise city for the front man of Guns n’ Roses and a lot of the publicity he has received lately hasn’t been so flattering.
On Saturday, June 16th Guns n’ Roses were one of the headliners for Hellfest in Clisson, France....
SOCIAL NETWORKS IN NUMBERS, WEEK 26
Take a look at last week’s Top Ten pages or profiles through social networks.
Facebook:
We haven’t seen that major commercial brand on top for a long time. Coca-Cola is number one gainer of week 26. Second place belongs to Amazon.com and third is Adele. The most popular football player Christiano Ronaldo is number four. Palestinian singer Lian Bazlamit is on fift position. We also...
Justin Bieber Faces Criminal Charges And Even More...
It has been a busy month for the world’s biggest pop star, Justin Bieber. The Canadian heartthrob has been touring all over the world, taking Selena Gomez to the movies and apparently roughing it up with a photographer. As the most famous teenager on the planet grows up, this sweetheart may be getting tougher … and this has already led him into some potential trouble and maybe even criminal...
Facebook Acquires Face.com - Privacy Proves A...
Facebook has continued to spend big money this week, acquiring the top producers of facial recognition technology, Face.com. However, it has yet to be forty-eight hours and there is already a widespread debate about whether or not this new technology will lead to a breach in the privacy of Facebook’s approximate nine hundred million users.
It was just over two months ago that Facebook completed a...
Drake & Chris Brown Closer To The Final Showdown
The ongoing feud between Drake and Chris Brown heated up in the early hours of this past Thursday, and since then the commotion has continued to grow. A brawl took place in a New York City nightclub near Soho. It was not only fists thrown between the two entourages, but bottles as well.
Drake and Chris Brown were not the only celebrities present that night. San Antonio Spurs star, Tony Parker,...
Madonna’s social rankings rise, then drop, with...
At a concert in Istanbul, Turkey earlier this month Madonna flashed her right nipple towards the end of her song “Human Nature”, turning around to reveal the words “NO FEAR” on her back. The applause from the audience was thunderous, and her social ratings soared.
A week later in Rome, Madonna pulled a similar stunt during the same song, this time dropping her pants to reveal her almost-naked...
SOCIAL NETWORKS IN NUMBERS, WEEK 25
Summary of week 25 - Top pages and profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Japanese Mixi.
Facebook:
Amazon.com was doing really great in the ranking during last week but notised a turndown over the weekend, so at the end of the week is second. First is Adele. On third position is Target, one place better from a week before. Fourth position belongs to Titanic and...
Opera's Browser Is About To Get A Huge Bump!
Ever since Google + has launched and aimed to tap Facebook’s market share, it has been an ongoing battle between the two internet giants. Facebook has better positioned itself as a search engine whereas Google’s attempt to pry Facebook’s users is without much success.
What Google does have going for them however is the widespread use of it’s very own mobile phone platform and compatible browser...
SOCIAL NETWORKS IN NUMBERS, WEEK 24
Social networks top pages and profiles of week 24.
Facebook:
First place for candy! Haribo’s Fraises Tagada, gained more than eight hundred thousand new fans last week. Second is Adele and third place belongs to YouTube. American retail company Target is on number four. This brand is doing very good on Facebook, they are very active. Fifth place - The Simpsons. Second half of this chart...
Why BP Is Making A Comeback Socially
If you were curious as to how BP’s reputation sat post-pending their multi year public relations campaign, then take a good look at their Zoomsphere profile page. Growing is the amount of people following BP as well as the amount of people talking about them…. typically a positive sign for a brand.
If you are skeptical of their buzz generated, then take a look at BP’s largest opposing force...
Nicki Minaj Throws Temper Tantrum and Weezy Drops...
On Sunday Evening, Nikki Minage and Lil Wayne decided to pull out from this years Hot 97 Summer Jam due to some harsh criticism. Never before has the pair canceled in such a fashion.
It all started when morning talk show host Peter Rosenberg from Hot 97 had described Minage’s newest hit single, ‘Starships’ as “wack” and “F***ing bulls**t.” during his routine pregame hip-hop review. ...
What is Klout? Why Does Zoomsphere Measure it?
A common question heard from our members is, “What is a Klout score”. If you login into Zoomsphere.com and view a brand’s Twitter stats, you will notice in the upper left hand corner of the screen a ‘Klout’ score given to that respective brand.
Klout in the simplest terms is the amount of user engagement a social media network user has with its following or audience. Influence is measured via...
Her Majesty's anniversary - the view through...
Celebrating 6O years on throne - wow, that’s a big one for Queen Elizabeth. Take a look what these London’s diamond jubilee festivities made on social media networks. Mentions graph, trending hashtags, most published pictures - from official to ones made by folks just for fun. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Mentions graphs:
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Most published pictures:
The Spirit of...
SOCIAL NETWORKS IN NUMBERS, WEEK 23
The view of social media Top for last week.
Facebook:
Great success for two Spanish soccer players, David Villa Sánchez and Bojan Krkic on first and third place. Shows that EURO 2012 is comming soon. On second position is Adele. Fourth is Facebook with a little over four hundred thousand new likes and fifth Harry Potter. On nineth and tenth place are two biggest American multinational...
Oh The Popularity Of Snooki!
The popularity of Snooki from MTV’s “Jersey Shore” is on the rise. Despite all of her shenanigans, she is becoming an icon to remembered. Snookie is to hit the airwaves once again in January when season 5 of the show is due to be aired.
Take notice of the following graph to see the rise and fall of the “talking about” metric shown below. It was in February that Snookie had announced here...
