Here are updated stats for the top 10 YouTube videos by most views as of February 2, 2014. Charlie was number 1 for many years and slipped to 6th last fall, but has climbed up to 5th. It is the oldest video in this list and the only non-music viral video. Also included are the upload dates to YouTube for each of these videos.
There were over 24.9 Million tweets sent about the Super Bowl 2014 as compared to 24.1 Million in 2013. Even more fascinating is the peak rate of tweets per minute (TPM) was 381,605 in the third quarter.
Like a whistle or a ring, Twitter is the new telephone.
Gone are the days of the landline, dialing your day away to convey your engagement news to your aunt Mary in California. Remember the days when you used to be able to talk to a bunch of people about everything and anything on a party line?
So what do we do today?
Here is something to think about:
2006
Blackberry Messenger (BBM) app was released this week and there were over 10 million downloads in the first 24 hours. They are hoping to be one of the leading private social networks for people who need immediate communication and IM with privacy. You have the ability to share videos, images, and text in real time. You can also chat with groups as large as 30 people at once. That is definitely a nice feature. Other competitive apps would be WhatsApp which claim to have 350 million active users and also Kik Messenger with 80 million.
I updated the stats in my social media presentations and the top 10 Twitter accounts by most followers as of October 16, 2013 were:
1. Justin Bieber
@justinbieber
45.8 Million