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Social Media at the Olympics

September 12, 2012 By Jimson Lee Leave a Comment

In general in social media, but particularly regarding social media at the olympics, a lot can happen in 4 years. Take a look at the power of Social Media, namely Facebook and Twitter, during the London 2012 Olympics as compared to Beijing 2008. Let’s start with Twitter.

Twitter

What do you think were the top 3 Twitter posts during the games?

Here’s the countdown:

Number 3: Usain Bolt and the 100m Final with 74,000 tweets per minute.  That’s a lot of tweets.

Number 2: Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake and the 200m Final with 80,000 tweets per minute (I was responsible for part of it… heh heh)

Number 1:  The Spice Girls Reunion, with more than 116,000 tweets per minute at the Closing Ceremony.

The Lesson?  Music, Entertainment and young fans rule the world, at least at the social media level.

 

Facebook

Facebook Fans or Likes as of 9-11-2012

Usain Bolt: 8.8 Million Fans (or Likes)

Yohan Blake:  468,240 Fans (was barely 40K before the Games started)

Jessica Ennis:  995,805 Fans (when I joined a few months before the Games, she only had 86,000 fans)

Sally Pearson: 31,915 Fans

For some athletes, we are seeing a 10X fold increase in numbers.

If you are curious, Texas HoldEm Poker App page is the mot popular Fan page with over 65 Million Likes, Coca-Cola has over 50 million and Harry Potter (the movie) has 50 million as well.

For shoes and clothing, Adidas Originals has over 15 million, Nike has over 10 million, and Puma has over 7 million.

These numbers will continue to grow faster than you can imagine as Facebook is reaching 1 Billion users.

Automation Sometimes Works

Jessica ennis - Social Media at the Olympics
Social Media at the Olympics

One of the biggest goof ups was Jessica Ennis and her marketing group, Sports New Media.

They had pre-programmed her Facebook Fan page with scheduled updates just when she was ready to compete in her 7 events (or 6 events and a 2-lap run according to her coach Toni Minichiello). That’s easy to do when you know the schedule.

But Jessica was also scheduled to compete in the individual 100mH two days later, which she eventually scratched due to exhaustion.

But someone forgot to un-delete the scheduled post!

So Jessica’s Facebook Fan Page said “I’m getting ready to compete in the individual 100m Hurdles”. There were a lot of angry followers with #FAIL messages!

Oops… stuff happens.  Technology does not fail, it’s the person between the keyboard and chair.  Get over it people.

China’s Sina Weibo Wins in Social Media at the Olympics

From Ben Rooney’s article in the WSJ:

According to Alex Huot, IOC Head of Social Media, London 2012 and paves the way for future. The IOC used existing social networks, not just Facebook and Twitter, but Tumblr, Instagram, Google+ and Foursquare, as well as Sina Weibo in China and others. Mr. Huot said they sent out messages in Russian, Chinese, Portuguese as well as English and French.

While Twitter recorded more than 150 million messages during the games, China’s Sina Weibo users sent some 393 million messages.

At the center of the strategy was the Olympic hub, a curated site where all social media interactions of the athletes were collated and was searchable by games, by sport, by team or by individual. This, said Mr. Huot, would be a permanent legacy and be carried forward from one Olympic games to the next so that in time, he hoped, there would be a page for all Olympians.

There are ambitious plans to turn the hub into a mobile app. “Imagine walking past a swimming pool and being told that a great Olympian trained there,” said Mr. Huot. “This is how we keep the games alive.”

NOTE: This article is cross posted on SpeedEndurance.com

 

Last Updated on May 6, 2021

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