Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category
Single Ladies Devastation Wins People’s Choice Award
He got 4.8 million views on a video (see above) of his son crying because he wanted to jam out to Single Ladies by Beyonce.
Then he got boat-loads of people to vote for that video, garnering a spot in the list of People’s Choice Awards Winners for Favorite Viral Video Star.
Now if that’s not a great combination of timing, SEO, social marketing, and cute-crying-kid-anomolyism, I don’t know what is. Well done Carlos Whittaker.
Twitter is Over Capacity
Tuesdays are the new official day of the week to jam Twitter with all of your notes about how bad traffic is or how bummed you are that you forgot your lunch. I wonder if they get dinged by Google in their search rankings whenever they have to put this up. Probably not – they’re Twitter.
Twitter Followers and Following Count Showing 0 Zero Because of a Bug
When I noticed my twitter account has 0 (zero) followers, I didn’t worry quite as quickly as most people would. But that’s because I’ve only ever had a handful of followers anyways. But then I noticed that the number of people I was following had dropped to zero also! Checking around I found that everyone’s counts were set at 0 zero. Very weird. After some searching I found that, according to an article just posted from USA today, twitter reset the counts to zero on purpose until they get a fix installed for a bug some hacker was abusing. The bug allowed the hacker to “force” people to follow them. What happens if the next twitter bug someone finds allows some scum bag to hack into our personal info? Scary. Or even to post tweets as other people? The more our world becomes web-based, the more we depend on others to not fail at protecting us.
