Iowa to New Hampshire: A Three-Horse Race
Social Bakers, a social media analytics firm, is analyzing the 2012 presidential race at a politics microsite they’ve created.
Yesterday they released Facebook findings from the last 30 days in the Republican primaries. Key observations:
- Santorum increased fan base by 107%, followed by Paul at 14% and Romney at 7%
- Santorum leads the top three candidates in number of posts shared – 6X more than Paul and 5X more than Romney
- For Santorum and Paul, posts that include a link have the most number of interactions (“likes” and comments), followed by posts with photos. For Romney, status updates have the most number of interactions, followed by posts with photos.
- The top three candidates have shared an average of 19 videos on Facebook, with Santorum leading with 36 video posts
Image: Detail from Iowa to New Hampshire: A Three-Horse Race? via Social Bakers.
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This stunning image by social media cartographer Eric Fischer maps Twitter @replies from one location to another. Beautiful.
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by Alyson Shontell in Business Insider
Last year was transformative for five-year-old Tumblr.
Tumblr closed the year with 14 billion pageviews in December, up from 3 billion the year before.
In September, Tumblr raised $85 million at an $800 million valuation, but since then Tumblr has been relatively quiet.
We met with its founder and CEO, David Karp to find out what he’s been doing. He told us what made Tumblr’s growth explode last year, what it was like to raise so much money, and he told us what to expect from Tumblr in 2012.
Karp says the sudden burst of traffic last year caught the company off guard. He’s not entirely sure what sparked the 6-fold growth. “All of a sudden we started to get a lot of international traffic,” says Karp.
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/all-quiet-on-the-tumblr-front-but-not-the-back-end-heres-what-david-karp-has-brewing-2012-1
Venice in Winter by Nessa Flame.
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Who’s Using Tumblr? - eMarketer
Unique visitors to Tumblr have skyrocketed since May 2010. Tumblr, the social blogging site, has seen solid growth since its launch in 2007. More users are publishing on the site and viewing others…
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![NYC-based blogging service Tumblr has raised $85m in funding in September 2011, multiple sources said.
Investors include Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Chernin Group, Sir Richard Branson, as well as existing backers Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures.
Founded in 2007 by David Karp and led by President John Maloney, Tumblr today employs more than 50 people and is currently hiring [http://www.tumblr.com/jobs]. Tumblr provides users with tools to share post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from their browser, phone, desktop, email, etc.
The company already raised $25m in funding in December 2010.
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NYC-based blogging service Tumblr has raised $85m in funding in September 2011, multiple sources said.
Investors include Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Chernin Group, Sir Richard Branson, as well as existing backers Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures.
Founded in 2007 by David Karp and led by President John Maloney, Tumblr today employs more than 50 people and is currently hiring [http://www.tumblr.com/jobs]. Tumblr provides users with tools to share post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from their browser, phone, desktop, email, etc.
The company already raised $25m in funding in December 2010.
R U on Tumblr with Your Business? Why Not?
For the first time, researchers have found two new planets orbiting a distant sun-like star that are the size of Earth or smaller. The discovery is key because Earth-sized planets are considered critical in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.
(Photo: AP/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
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