Sunday, August 5, 2012

Olympics Social Download

Tonight as I sat and watched the Olympics they had a segment called "Social Download" and it was some astounding numbers dealing with social media.

Usain Bolt, who repeated as 100 M champion, and his teammates from Jamaica (Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell) have enough Facebook fans to fill the Olympic Stadium 94 times.  Capacity at Olympic Stadium in London is 80,000.

Michael Phelps was the most talked about person on Facebook in week 1 of the 2012 Olympics.  More mentions for the 18 time gold medalist than the President, Mitt Romney, and Justin Bieber.

Gabby Douglas winning the all around gold in gymnastics has been the most tweeted about event in primetime thus far in the Olympics.  Interesting side note you probably saw on Facebook, rearrange the letters in her last name and what do you get?  Douglas = USA GOLD.

I'm sure you've seen Usain Bolt in this pose


A farmer has created a Usain Bolt corn maze:


And our gold medal winning U.S.A. women's gymnastics team getting their Usain Bolt on:











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