OCTOBER 9, 2009

Social Media Summary

Here’s a look at what’s news-worthy in the social media space this week:

Today on YouTube’s official blog, CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley announced that the video sharing site serves well over a billion views a day. In his post, Chad takes a nostalgic look back at the three years since YouTube was acquired by Google.

Yesterday Twitter encountered a problem that caused many users’ timelines to be delayed. While nothing like early August’s denial of service meltdown, the event was certainly an inconvenience. For a few hours in the early afternoon, Twitter users were not able to see real time updates in their stream, but luckily search and the ability to update were functioning properly.

This week Chris Brogan hosted the Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston. The conference featured some great speakers including Valeria Maltoni from Conversation Agent. Valeria says when people ask her what is the most effective form of marketing, her answer is valuable content. You can view her presentation here.

President Obama has been in the social media spotlight as of late. The announcement that the President had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize took 3 of Twitter’s 10 trending topics this morning. Twitter users are congratulating, expressing concern, and commenting on the news.

SNL’s infamous skit mocking the President’s accomplishments this past Saturday has also brought him to the forefront of social media this week. The video has been SNL’s first viral success of the year from online viewers on Hulu and NBC.com.