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How Twitter reacted to Bin Laden's death

Following from Chris’ post about his role in a small part of the story, we thought it worth taking a step back and putting the whole thing in context. FlowingData have helpfully annotated a timeline of Tweets for us: And NM Incite have produced this great infographic giving us the perspective we need: Update: A […]

Tweeting the killing of Bin Laden

Note: This was originally posted on my personal blog, but I thought it was worth sharing with We Are Social’s audience as well As the biggest news story of the week, the killing of Osama bin Laden, broke, I was on holiday in New York. As the clock ticked passed midnight local time (EDT) on […]

The Royal Wedding in social media

A nice infographic from Webtrends which looks at how the Royal Wedding was discussed in social media. I’d say they’re massively under-reporting the conversation on Facebook (probably as it isn’t visible to their tool): Twitter’s media blog also has an interesting round-up of how broadcasters integrated Twitter into their coverage of the wedding. Update: The […]

We Are Social's Tuesday Tweakup #6

Freshly back from the UK’s 2nd four-day weekend in a row, here’s our regular mashup of the week’s social media news. It only takes 3 bad reviews to put off online shoppers According to a survey from Lightspeed Research, 67% of shoppers are put off buying a product online if it has as few as […]

The royal wedding: apathy or excitement?

To see us all off before the UK’s long weekend of national pride and rule britannia we thought we’d update you all on what the social interwebs think about the royal wedding. As you can imagine, feelings on Twitter are mixed but it appears that the don’t give a s***” camp have a slight edge […]

Facebook vs. TV

eXpansys recently conducted a survey of 3,000 people in the UK, which amongst other things found that we spend an average of two and a half hours using Facebook every day, compared to just two hours watching TV. More detail in the infographic below:

Next generation media

Our friend Dan Calladine, Head of Media Futures at Aegis Media, has kindly agreed to share his latest Next Generation Media Quarterly with us. This time we’re especially chuffed, as he’s included our recent work for Heinz. Every quarter I create a presentation to try to capture the most important stories and stats within digital […]

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We Are Social's Monday Mashup #69

A third of UK students follow brands on social networks A study from IAB UK carried out together with The Student Room found that almost a third of British students are fans of brands on social networks, and that 40% of students find out about new products via friends on social networking sites and 37% […]

Live Twitter Q&A with Jarvis Cocker

So here I am at London St. Pancras with Jarvis Cocker doing a live Q&A session through the EurostarUK Twitter account. JC and I are chilling on the couch while he answers art and culture related questions tweeted with the #plusculture hashtag. We’re doing this to help Eurostar promote their Plus Culture programme (a partnership […]