Mashable Just Posted These Intersting Twitter Statistics

Is anyone else astonished that Beyonce's pregnancy announcement generated an average of 8,869 TPS(Tweets per second) ?

When Beyonce announced her pregnancy, a multistep flow of media effects became evident. Beyonce is an opinion leader to the public, which includes her beloved fans. Once she announced she was expecting, that information was captured by the media and influenced those who use social media secondhand. Although they might not have heard it from her in person, the news made its way down the chain and eventually onto Twitter and Facebook, making it accessible by all. The multistep flow model is one way the media impacts media usage.

 

Straubhaar, J., Larose, R., & Davenport, L. (2009). Media now, understanding media, culture, and technology. (6 ed.). Boston : Wadsworth Pub Co.

A List of Social Media Sites

With hundreds of social media sites on the internet, I thought I'd narrow it down to some of the most popular.

As of March 2012, the 15 most popular social media sites are:

(1) Facebook as number one.
(2) Twitter
(3) LinkedIn
(4) MySpace
(5) Google+
(6) DeviantArt
(7) Livejournal
(8) Tagged
(9) Orkut
(10) CafeMom
(11) Ning
(12) Meetup
(13) myLife
(14) myYearbook
(15) Badoo

As the list goes on, the top sites become less popular. This shows you how dominant and popular sites like Facebook and Twitter really are.

Wikipedia lists over 300+ sites, and those are just the ones that are most commonly used.

Social Media Today posted an article that lists popular SM sites across the country. A popular site for the Chinese origin is Renren, a site similar to Facebook that appeals to college age students.

Do you have any cool sites that you visit regularly that haven't quite become mainstream yet?

Social Media Addiction: Are You At Risk?

A funny video poking fun at social media addictions.