January 2, 2009
Online social network giants MySpace and Facebook battled for supremacy in 2008. The trend lines below show the percentages of consumer-generated online discussions that mentioned each site between June and December:
Meanwhile, Twitter ’s online buzz slowly picked up this fall, almost matching buzz levels for Web video goliath, YouTube:
The release of the new iPhone 3G generated a huge online buzz spike in July:
Detroit auto industry executives’ Congressional testimony in November also triggered a rash of blog discussions around the executives’ mode of travel to Washington, D.C. — via corporate jet and, later, by hybrid car:
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