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July 2016 Klout Social Media Rankings
[Written by Don Burgess] Cup Match is upon us and people’s social media accounts will be buzzing with how Red and Blue or Blue and Blue will be victorious this year. . Last month saw scores hit some highs as the debate over same sex marriage reached a heightened pitch amongst both camps. SSM advocate Tony Brannon is still campaigning and his score... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Top 50 Twitter List For July 2016
[Written by Don Burgess] It was an unusual month in the Bermuda Twittersphere as five of the top 11 accounts lost followers. Overall, 13 accounts that would have been in the top 50 saw their follower numbers go down. Even the venerable John Layfield was stymied a bit as the WWE and FOX commentator only had a gain of about 1,500 followers. Duddley Duddley... Read more of this article
June 2016 Klout Social Media Rankings
[Written by Don Burgess] There was a noticeable rise in Bermudians use of social media this month. The vote on same sex marriages and the “How much would you pay” Big Brothers Big Sisters fundraiser has helped spark a bump in people’s Klout scores. The heated “discussions” over the upcoming vote on same sex marriage saw much back-and-forth... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Top 50 Twitter List For June 2016
[Written by Don Burgess] Katy Perry and Drake aren’t alone. Less than a week after the prominent musicians’ Twitter profiles were hacked, a Russian-based email account claimed that it has stolen more than 32 million passwords from twitter. It appears the accounts were stolen via malware rather than being hacked from Twitter itself. If you have... Read more of this article
Top 20 Bermuda Youtube Channels For May
[Written by Don Burgess] Bermuda’s top YouTube channels had more than a million views over the last month. Reggae star Collie Buddz and Ben Lusher’s Thirdstory were responsible for more than 900,000 of them with Buddz on pace to past the 20 million views mark sometime in June. Thirdstory dropped three songs from their Searching EP on May 14,; Grows... Read more of this article
May 2016 Klout Social Media Rankings
[Written by Don Burgess] Klout has made it easier to track subjects you are an expert in. Under the Measure button, Klout will list your top Expert Topics. You can think click any one of those topics to get a list of news stories that might be of interest to you. For example, if one were to have clicked under the Bermuda button [if that was one of... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Top 50 Twitter List For May 2016
[Written by Don Burgess] Twitter upgraded its tabs at the top of your news feed on Tuesday. It launched Connect, a new feature which gives you suggestions on what accounts might be good to follow. The Connect tab will give you suggestions on based on where you live, major events happening on Twitter and based on people who you already follow. You will... Read more of this article
Top 20 Bermuda Youtube Channels For April
[Written by Don Burgess] YouTube announced this week it is combing its 360-degree capabilities with live streaming. The move was made ahead of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. This has the potential to help claw back some of the momentum which was lost when Periscope, and to a lesser extent, Meerkat were launched last year. Also, Google,... Read more of this article
April 2016 Klout Social Media Rankings
[Written by Don Burgess] Engage much? For many brands, the answer is no. Lithium, the company that owns Klout, released its State of Social Engagement 2016 in March and its findings were disappointing as many brands still fail to actually carry on a conversation with its followers. An amazing 95% of brands are still stuck in broadcast mode rather than... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Top 50 Twitter List For April 2016
[Written by Don Burgess] Two accounts have been dropped from the Bermuda Top 50 Twitter list for being inactive. One reader asked why the Bermuda Sun was still on the list when it closed down in July 2014. The Sun’s account still has 6,570 followers and it is like a satellite in space that is no longer in use with its orbit is slowing deteriorating.... Read more of this article
Top 20 Bermuda Youtube Channels For March
[Written by Don Burgess] Last month one local church was affected by a bogus claim made to YouTube and had its live stream of its morning service taken down. First Baptist was baffled by the quick takedown, but later found out it was a victim of a YouTube policy that is going to change. The social media video service has responded to widespread criticism... Read more of this article
March’s 2016 Klout Social Media Rankings
[Written by Don Burgess] If you are seeing more live videos show up in your Facebook newsfeed, you aren’t mistaken. It is a calculated move by the social media giant to give people more of what they want. Facebook said people are watching live video three times longer than non-live ones and have tweaked the newsfeed to reflect that. Going forward... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Top 50 Twitter List For March 2016
[Written by Don Burgess] Twitter is expected to roll out its new timeline on March 3 according to VentureBeat. On Thursday users can expect to be able to embed profiles, lists and collections with the new timeline. An official Twitter blog said Tweeters “need a powerful visual storytelling tool to truly engage your users, so we’ve built an embedded... Read more of this article
February’s 2016 Klout Social Media Rankings
[Written by Don Burgess] Did you know there are 4,800 ‘experts’ on Bermuda on social media? At least that is the number Klout says there. The social influence ranking agency computes its top 10 on the subject with Bernews leading the way. The Bermuda Tourism Authority is second followed by Nothing to Do in Bermuda, Bermemes and The Royal Gazette. The... Read more of this article
February: Top 20 Bermuda Youtube Channels
[Written by Don Burgess] Reggae artist Collie Buddz continues to dominate the top spot on YouTube for Bermuda. Buddz racked up 560,000 views in the past month. No one else had more than 100,000 views with musician Mishka coming the closest with 86,600. There is a new entry in the top 20 with boy band Thirdstory having more than five million views.... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Top 50 Twitter List For February 2016
[Written by Don Burgess] The big news for Twitter in January was making livestreaming more available to the wider public. On January 12 it no longer required people to have the Periscope app to watch events live if you are on the IOS platform. Now the broadcast will autoplay directly in Twitter. Once a Twitter user taps the video, it goes full-screen... Read more of this article
