The reign of Justin Bieber
We’ve all seen him, heard him sing or heard the likes and dislikes of other people talking about him: Justin Bieber. Personally I am not really a fan: if you told me half a year ago that I would write a blog post about him, I would have laughed and called you silly.
But that was before I read this, this and saw this. I knew Justin had fans, but taking up 3% of all Twitter Servers, having an entire 4chan assault focussed on him and getting more than 104.000.000 hits on Google is out of the ordinary. Hence this blogpost: JB is officially an internetmeme.
Of course there is always some doubt about stories like the 3% Twitter takeover. There aren’t any hard facts and numbers displaying the 3%, we haven’t seen the JB-labelled servers for real nor have we seen the data on it, but it says enough that we DO think there is a possibility this is true. For instance it can be possible because:
““Every time Bieber tweets, his messages have to be delivered to more than five million people who then endlessly retweet it. Apparently, his account receives more than 60 @-replies per second for a while after he tweets…” (source: mashable)
If we look at the statistics being given here, it shows that JB allready has more than 5 million twitter followers, with an average of 18,824 joining in each day. This combined with a total of 10.862.226 people liking JB on facebook, the number of hits on Google and the 1045540 on his Myspace, just makes you wonder. Not about the fact JB has claimed a big part of the internet, the media and of people’s minds…but about the question if we should be frightened by all this? If this “young, innocent” kid can allready leave his trails on the internet in this kind of way and in a relatively short time, isn’t this than also possible for someone with bad intentions and a global dictatorship in mind?
For now: let’s just hope Justin Bieber does have good intentions and sticks with the singing/dancing act.
From http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-09/07/music-hack-day
The Sound Of Data About Justin Bieber
… Jameel Syed took the phenomenon of Bieber as inspiration to produce a track created from data about how the singer’s fans interact with him and each other on the web.
Sayed’s put the full details on a dedicated website, but essentially he took in data from MusicMetrics’ stats about Bieber, turned those numbers into note information using Python code, and then used Propellerheads Reason to generate the audio with a synthesiser. Comments made to the artist on social networks, track plays, fans added, and profile page views all contributed to the melody and bassline. The result? Have a listen for yourself.
I took on the task of analyzing Bieber fever on twitter. There is some interesting behavior going on there. Would love your thoughts on this – http://precisecuriosity.com/bieber-fever-amorphous-communities-and-what-it-means-to-be-a-fan-in-2010.html
i wonder when it’s time to harvest: http://www.southpark.nl/clips/sp_vid_164633/
be patient kaspar, soon: Justin Bieber overspannen