Who’s the Highest Followed Google+ User?

Larry Page? No.
Sergey Brin? Guess again.
A celebrity perhaps? No, this isn’t Twitter here.

It just so happens the most followed user is the last person you’d expect:

Social Media Demographics

An oldie but goodie set of statistics here, which is likely still very much relevant despite compiling 2010 data. There are a couple of surprises here though, most strikingly that nearly half of Twitter’s users in the sample are in college. Nearly half!

Google Circles Inspiration

Via happyplace.com.

Google+’s Growth Rate is Ridiculous

Via Techcrunch EU.

#SFRiot Covered Online, Media Fails Again

Wow.

The Giants, San Francisco’s baseball team, won the World Series earlier this evening. It’s taken little time for the city’s normally tranquil inhabitants to go from spirited cavorting to rowdy and dangerous rioting. Here’s hoping everyone is ok.   From Techcrunch:

“The San Francisco Giants won the World Series earlier this evening and of course the celebration in San Francisco has at this point devolved into multiple riots, which you can now follow on Twitter through the hashtags #SFRiot and #SFScanner. About a hundred or so people have checked into the (mayorless) riot on Foursquare at the venue “Giants Riot on Polk Street” and assorted others.

Most of the news disseminated from the San Francisco Police scanner, including some pretty unbelievable accounts of violence and even a riot map based on Tweets. The kind of violence SF folk aren’t used to hearing about unless it’s news from LA.

Needless to say, Twitter is also the place to go to hashtag-surf for riot comedy. Here’s are the top 7 Tweet comedians..

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#2

And the winner is..

North Korea’s Coming Out

Virtually everyone covered North Korea’s media outlet Uriminzokkiri (“on our own as a nation”) joining Twitter and Facebook last week. The news outlet is one of the few news outlets which writes in English for a foreign audience. As of this writing, the North Korean spokesmouth organization has collected 10,000 followers at the on the @uriminzok account. If you’re inclined to “Like” the North Korean Facebook account or perhaps send them a friendly missive on Facebook, you can find them on the page named Uriminzokkiri. While you’re there, you may want to glance over the wall posts, which shower the hermit kingdom with an outpouring of emotion. Some of the wall posts are quite moving to say the least.

One hilarious quirk to the Facebook page though has been thus far – it turns out North Korea’s coming out is in fact a .. coming out. Here’s the original page below – see if you can spot what I’m talking about:

Wonkette points out the page originally contained a number of additional informative updates, including sex listed as male, and “interested in” listed as… male.

Pictured: model North Korean citizens

Fabulous!

The 2010 Social Network Map

Courtesy of Ethan Block and the other awesome folks at Flowtown; this was too funny not to thumbnail-post (“sea of desperation”..hilarious!). Click the preview to see the real deal:

How to Suck at Facebook

Pretty funny post by the Oatmeal, which I’m posting here partly because it’s brilliant caricature and partly because I’ve been too busy to update my blog much of late. Click the preview below, and enjoy!

The Facebook Republic

Most of us have heard the quip “if Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous nation on earth.” But what would it’s economy look like?

This awesome infographic from Visual Economics answers that question..

Is Social Media the Biggest Shift Since the Industrial Revolution?

Compelling statistics from Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics and fellow Longhorn..