London Olympics Start Motivates 119m Tweets upon Chinas Sina Weibo

Chinese netizens have taken on the first "Social Olympics" with gusto, posting over 100 million messages in regards to the opening ceremony on microblogging service Sina Weibo on Saturday.

A certified infographic from Sina eradicated the specifics on the 119 million Olympics-related tweets posted adjusted 12pm on July 28. The look doesn't specifically mention what criteria were utilized for that statistic, but it's likely how the number includes retweets and comments.

Along with to become expected, many posts (in excess of 114 million) originated from China. England's showing of 2.4 million originating posts might have been sufficient for just a silver medal. The U.S. came in a close third with 2.38 million messages.

Reported by Sina, the details from all the posts results in 133 copies from the
classical Chinese novel "Dream of Red Mansion", which is notorious due to the length. The graphic estimates it may well go on a person 27 many years of non-stop reading to get through all in the messages.

To its part, Twitter saw 9.66 million tweets while in the opening ceremony and continued to surpass the number of tweets sent throughout the first 24 hours with the 2008 games. The number doesn't directly can rival Weibo's 119 million, though, for the reason that measuring methodologies to the two figures don't go with.

Through the hours of your opening ceremony, 24 million users were active on the service, up from 19 million the last week. Considering China hosted the first Summer Olympics, the chances are Chinese netizens were thinking about seeing if the London's opening outdid Beijing's own.

Olympic videos from Sina compiled 49 million views. That's 1.Two times countless views as "Voice of China", a Chinese carry out "The Voice" singing competition, has garnered on video site Youku.com.

It may not be immediately clear, however, if the Olympics set a new record for posting frequency. In January, Sina Weibo peaked at 32, 312 messages per second across the Chinese New Year holiday, beating out a previous record occur Japan on Twitter.

The web 2 . 0 element of the 2011 games has actually caused damage to the
organizers. After network overloading disrupted the GPS units of competing cyclists, an International Olympic Committee spokesman asked spectators to "take it easy" on social media and entreated them to reserve network use for urgent messages.