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Socialympics and The Twitter Games

2012 SOCIALYMPICS AND THE TWITTER GAMES Olympics Set to Strain the UK's Internet Infrastructure • BBC expecting 1 TERABIT PER SECOND of traffic • Purpose-built Wi-Fi station will have 1,800 ACCESS POINTS • 02 cell phone service provider is contributing $79M to Olympic projects The Most Popular Olympic Sports Based on Followers It should be noted that these numbers were recorded June 5-12, 2012 and will likely see boosts closer to and during the Olympics. This is especially true as narratives develop and people decide to tune in to sports they don't nomally watch, as occurred previously with Michael Phelps and Shawn Johnson. "Each sport and number represerts the official London Olympics Twitter hande or each sport and number of folowers. Equestrian Swimming Volleyball 1025 1021 845 Road Cycle Athletics Badminton Tae Kwon Do Track Cycle Triathlon Boxing Handball Judo 729 728 680 676 560 524 516 486 483 Diving 475 Synchro Swim 286 Football 469 Beach Volleyball 285 Archery 437 Weightlifting 261 Artistic Gym 389 Water Polo 260 388 386 Sailing Table Tennis 260 255 236 230 229 Rowing Canoe Sprint Mountain Bike 364 Shooting 352 335 Wrestling Trampoline Basketball Canoe Slalom 210 178 Hockey 334 303 Mod Penathlon BMX Fencing Rhythmic Gym 294 Most Popular Olympic Athletes Social Media x Medal Ratio Curiously, it doesn't appear that athiletic prowess, as it is reflected by LeBron James (USA) 81 BRONZE, 1 GOLD Olympic gold medals, has much to do with Twitter popularity. The most decorated are often the least followed and vice versa. Sawao Kato (Japan) 8 GOLD, 3 SILVER 1 BRONZE Most succest ympic 4.7M Followers 10.6M Likes Kobe Bryant (USA) 81 GOLD 10 No Twitter Account Bjørn Dæhlie (Norway) 88 GOLD, 4 SILVER 108K Followers Likes 13M Cross Country Sking Most decorated Winter Olympian of all time Roger Federer (Switzerland Tennis): 1 GOLD 3 10.7M Rafael Nadal (Spain Tennis): 1 GOLD 10.7M Dwayne Wade (USA Basketball): 1 GOLD V 3.2M 6 6M Shaquille 0' Neal (USA Basketball): 1 GOLD y5.7M O 1,686 Facebook Likes Mark Spitz (USA Swimming, 2nd Most Gold Medals Won in Single Olympics(7)): 9 GOLD, 1 SILVER, 1 BRONZE A 910 Usain Bolt (Jamaica Track & Field): 3 GOLD y 516K 6 6.8M Dwight Howard (USA Basketball): 1 GOLD 2.4M Derrick Rose (USA Basketball): NONE 5.4M Greg Louganis (USA Swimming): 4 GOLD, 1 SILVER 2,339 Rafael Nadal (Spain Tennis): 1 GOLD Y 2.3M Andre Agassi (USA Tennis): 1 GOLD y 66K Michael Phelps (USA Swimming): 14 GOLD, 2 BRONZE V 187K How Big of an Impact Did Social Play 4 Years Ago? This Year? Twitter is banned in Olympic Hub There is Companion China, so aggregates the App released not a lot of traffic. contenders and account for This year, the London offers gateways every event 2012 team is planning to their social a lot of social events. media portals Host Cities Athens, Greece (1896 the first modern Olympics) 1940-44 (Scheduled to occur in Japan and the U.K. respectively, but didn't commence due to WWII) THE U.S. HAS HOSTED 4 TIMES (1904 - SL. Louis 1932 - Los Angeles 1984 - Los Angeles 1996 - Allanta) Timeline of Olympics 1896 First modern 2000 Sydney, Australia - Internet use took viewers away from the TV, however an estimated 3.7 watched on TV and the official website generated over 11.3 hits Olympics hosted in Athens, Greece 776 BC First Olympic games icated to the Olympian gods hosted in Olympia, or the "Island of Pelops" 1936 Berlin, Germany is the first to televise the event 2008 Beijing. China Social media widely used, though not in China Fun Facts 1896 James Connelly was the first winner of the modern Olympics Michael Phelps (swimmer from the U.S.) has won the maximum number of gold medals in a single event (8 medals) Abebe Bikila won the marathon barefoot 5 rings stand for 5 continents of the world (North and South Larissa Latynin (Gymnast from the Soviet Union) won the maximum number of total Olympic medals (18, 9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) America count as 1 and Antarctica was not included) USA has won the most gold medals (895) Fun National Anthem Stats Longest National Anthems: Oldest National Shortest Lived Shortest National Anthems: The only nation without a National Anthems: National Anthems: UGANDA - 8 bars Anthem of her own: GREECE (lyrics) - has a total of 158 verses JAPAN- oldest words SOMALILAND- ONLY 5 dating from the 9th Century days (June 26, 1960 to July 01, 1960) of music URUGUAY (music) - 105 bars of music Cyprus (uses the National Anthem of Greece and the National Anthem of Turkey) THE NETHERLANDS - oldest music - melody known before 1572 Data collected June 5, 2012 through June 11, 2012 Minnesota Public Radio http://minnesota publicradio.org/display/web/2012/03/25/ondon-2012-olympics-internet/ Twitter Olympic.org https:/h s/witter.com//searchusers/2012 http://geography about.com/od/countryinformation/alolympiccities htm The Olympic Athletes' Hub t/hub olympic.org/ Scholastic.com http:/teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_gameshistory.htm Top Tenz.net http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-decorated-olympians.php British Airways hittp://www.britishairways.com/cms/globalimicrosites/2012/games1.html) PRWeb.com http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9523423 htm Syvum.com http://www.sywum.com/cgi/online/serve.ogl/quiz/olympics.htmi?question_hide About.com http://geography.about.com/od/countryinformation/a/olympiccities.htm National-Anthems.org http://www.national-anthems.org/facts.htm Graphic brought to you by ExactTarget. 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Socialympics and The Twitter Games

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Who doesn't love the Olympics? There is no other event in the world that brings the best athletes to one place to compete. It is also extremely hard to find another event that generates more online co...

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