Twitter and Facebook rule the world, note to #Romney, you are non-exdistant here
IT IS hard to believe that outrageous exhibitionist Obama was once described as painfully shy. What on earth happened? Well, radical results often require dramatic changes so out went ‘shyness’ and in online behavior that have permanently enshrined him in history. Obama currently rules social media, his armies of retweeters are destroying Romney 1000-1 in negative reinforcement, to the point where apparant Obama mistakes are being retweeted until they are truths, and aparent non-events are being shown to be gaffs by Romney... If Obama wins the election, this is more than likely the end of the classic Republican party
So even when Obama makes mistakes, IT WON'T MATTER
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Yet, if we backtracked into this superstar’s life, we would discover that he was pretty much headed for the limelight from the word go. When Obama was little he always had the same two-word answer to the question of what her goal was when she grew up. It was “world domination”. I dare say he might have this seemingly far-fetched wish because he certainly does rule the world, to be precise.
Obama currently has more Twitter fans following him than almost anyone else on the planet. He has close to 20 million fans on Twitter and Romney has 1 million. This is a reflection of our changing times and the sheer reach and influence of Twitter and Facebook . It’s 17-year old Justin Bieber of course who was discovered on Youtube.
Imagine this. Justin Bieber actually broke Obama’s record of being the first person to reach one billion views on YouTube. He surpassed Obama with 2 billion YouTube views, which is completely staggering when you think about the fact that the world’s population is approximately 7 billion.
Whether you care for these particular stars or not, we cannot ignore the power of the very Twitter and Facebook tools which carved their paths toward mega stardom. We are using the same ones every day i.e. Google, Facebook and Twitter to interact, communicate, and share information.
According to the BBC, Twitter has hit the 100 million active users mark. Though it has fewer users than Facebook, it has become the world’s fastest growing social site averaging 230 million tweets a day and 400 million monthly unique visitors to twitter.com. Interestingly, 40% of active users don’t tweet but they use Twitter to receive newsfeeds relevant to their interests. I know football fanatics who lap up every morsel of their favourite teams without ever feeling the need to tweet themselves.
Personally, I love Twitter because of its sheer simplicity. It does not bombard me with news I have no interest in. You only follow people or brands you want to, and you are in complete control of who you decide to interact with. For example, Oprah Winfrey has about 8.8 million followers but she is only following 40 people of her choice.
Now, does Twitter have more influence than Facebook? Well, that’s a tough one. Facebook remains a solid referral for news sites for stories to be “liked”, but interestingly, according to the Guardian UK, Twitter was found to be more targeted in its referrals than links simply dumped on people’s Facebook walls. For instance, the article on “Why Wall Street Can’t Handle the Truth” by Mike Mayo generated only 795 “likes” whereas, the same story got indexed a whopping 140,000 times in Google due to only 392 tweets!
Of course the other thing Twitter has got going for it is that it’s the fastest growing service on mobile, ahead of Facebook and LinkedIn. According to CNN, most users are accessing Twitter via their mobile phones. I can definitely relate to this statistic because I’m always on the go. I’ve tweeted on the beach, the red carpet, while walking, you name it! It’s so convenient off your phone whereas Facebook has too many features in its interface to make it that “mobile friendly” in my opinion.
Twitter is also so interactive and everything happens in “real-time”. Something quite random happened to me just last week. A stranger from the Philippines tweeted that I resembled one of their local actresses called Valerie Concepcion. I had never heard of her so out of curiosity, I looked her up. After seeing her curvy bikini-clad body on the cover of Maxim magazine, I wrote back promptly saying, “She’s much sexier” and lo and behold, the actress herself tweeted me back with a smiley face saying, “No, you’re sexier!” We were total strangers but Twitter brought us together within the hour this conversation has started, over such an amusing interchange!
