The Social Media Incubator

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Social Media Gets the Gold for the 2012 London Olympics

The Social Media Incubator

According to Twitter’s UK Blog , there were more mentions (tweets) on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics than there were during the entire 2008 Beijing Olympics. The numbers are captivating, but how else have the Internet and social media affected the Olympic games?

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Will Election Day Tweets Help Determine the Outcome?

The Social Media Incubator

This instant gratification dimension is fueled by feelings, spawned by the twitter generation, the texting age, or possibly in short, the web-gen. According to a recent Pew Internet study , Twitter, a popular social media site for business , is used regularly by just 16 percent of the U.S. How do you rate Twitter?

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