Saturday, June 27, 2009
Music news Add it up: Twitter takeover
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Rank of Atlanta rapper Soulja Boy Tell ’Em’s Twitter page on a list of “businesses” with the highest number of Twitter followers: 9
Rank of CNN: 1
Total number of Twitterers following Soulja Boy: 892,491
Total number of “tweets” the rapper — or his handlers — have posted on his Twitter site: 4,412
Estimated number of tweets worldwide that were related to the Iran protests, following the country’s June 12 election: 79,000
Estimated percentage of tweets that referenced Michael Jackson in the two hours following the king of pop’s death: 30
Total number of Twitter members worldwide: 37 million
Number of other major social-networking sites that have grown faster than Twitter over the past year: 0
Number of jobs that MySpace was forced to cut following stiff competition from Twitter and Facebook: 300
Sources: Twibs.com, twitter.com/souljaboytellem, WashingtonPost.com, ColumbusDispatch.com, Mashable.com, NYTimes.com
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