Nielsen Wire » hybrid car http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire Consumer Insights, News, Research & Reports Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Trends With Byte: 2008 Blogosphere Buzz, By The Numbers http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/trends-with-byte-2008-blogosphere-buzz-by-the-numbers/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/trends-with-byte-2008-blogosphere-buzz-by-the-numbers/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:35:59 +0000 admin http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=6612 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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