Am not a big fan of Royal Wedding, but yet this still pulled my thoughts. I was surprised to hear that the online buzz for this big event has surpassed the buzz that surrounded the Egypt uprising and the Japan earthquake.
Webtrends gathered some stats and information regarding this. According to them, people have sent 911,000 tweets in the last 30 days, which averages 30K tweets per day. There were approximately 217,000 Facebook status updates and 145,000 blog posts about William and Kate’s big day.
More than 50% of the tweets, blog posts and Facebook updates are from the United States.
You can check these two infographics for more stats.
Interestingly Webtrends data suggest that more people used Twitter in the UK whereas in the US they turned to Facebook and blogging – a sign of malaise in the UK?!
Here's more insightful data from monitoring company Brandwatch's own data: http://www.brandwatch.com/2011/05/social-media%E2%80%99s-favourite-royal-wedding-guests/
LOL, Webtrends are quite sure about this I believe, since Royal Wedding is special for UK.
Man! How do you make these infographs?
We didn't make these infographics. WebTrends made it. 🙂
i was wondering why people in US are so addictive using a twitter account rather than facebook :O and BTW very nice infographic. Loved it and saved it 😀
Yeah, nice info graphic 🙂
The buzz wasn't so great at Charles' time most probably because Twitter was not available at that time?
LOL, I partially agree. 😀 Maybe Social Media was not popular at that time.
Yes it is sad that the real disaster is not getting enough media space. I hope after the wedding Japan will get enough focus.
Hi Pradeep,
I am not a fan of Royal Wedding as well, but I liked to watch how cool is Kate and the bald prince. I think he would find another horseface Camilla very soon it is a traditions of the Royal family. They do not need the fresh blood.
Anyway, it is the most covered event in the media.
Regards. Tessa.
Media actually works well and I appreciate it but an wedding is much more important than what happens in Japan is really disgusting to know.
Twitter is too noisy with the #RoyalWedding tweets. I simply cannot catch up with real tweets. It is sad that Japan's earthquake is now a second preference to the world.
Jane.