April 28, 2009 2 Comments
Following Sunday’s spike in conversations surrounding the swine flu outbreak, web chatter doubled on Monday, April 27. Nearly four percent of blogs, micro-blogs such as Twitter, web news and forums were related to “swine flu.” Already, by start of business on Tuesday in the U.S., the number had swelled to nearly six percent.
When looking just at blogs via BlogPulse, compared with any recent health crisis or pop culture meme, the swine flu blog conversations are now more than 10 times those surrounding the salmonella scare earlier this year, and nearly five times the buzz generated by singer Susan Boyle.
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Tags: CDC, Centers For Disease Control, Salmonella, social networks, swine flu, Twitter, viral news stories, Wikipedia
[...] gathered initial reports the virus is indeed outsmarting Susan in terms of popularity. According to Nielsen, one of the reliable tracker firms in the US, the popularity of swine flu has nearly doubled in 24 [...]
The good news is that we were all worried about so-called bird flu which was a much more dangerous virus, but still a worrying time.
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