Just how big IS Facebook?

Posted: August 28th, 2009 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: Social Media News | No Comments

Hat tip to TechCrunch for a blog post about a great job that Buzzpoint has done illustrating just how big Facebook has become. Buzzpoint is a social media marketing firm. They recently put together a great set of charts and graphs that visualize and put into perspective the size of Facebook’s 250-million active users. Whenever I teach a class or make a presentation about Facebook, I make sure to point out that if Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populous in the world. This never fails to elicit a “wow” or two from attendees. But, it really puts things more into perspective when you look at this image from Buzzpoint:

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A morning without Tweets

Posted: August 6th, 2009 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: Social Media News | No Comments

failwhale Were you shaky and irritable this morning? If so, it may have been the lack of Twitter. The service was down all morning (EDT) due to a denial of service attack. Facebook was also affected. They stayed up, but were running slow.

I must admit that while I’m a Twitterjunkie, I didn’t notice it too much. I was producing a podcast and working on a client website, so I wouldn’t have been Tweeting anyhow. I do know at least one colleague (jokingly) said that without Twitter, she’d lost her will to live.

More on the outage from the Associated Press:
Hackers attack Twitter, Facebook also slows down

How did you handle your lack of Twitter? Were you more productive? Were you less productive due to the cold sweats and nausea?

Tags: facebook, social media, twitter