Heat has launched a set of Twitter Awards that it says will celebrate “the joyful collision of celebrities and social media”. It’s what social media has been waiting for!

With 18 categories up for grabs there are awards for such things as “Funniest Tweeter”, “Most Random Tweeter” and “Best Twitter Couple”.  The winners will be announced on May 7th after celeb fans have cast their votes on heatworld.com

One thing Heat is hoping the awards will create is a bit of a social media battle between Justin Biber and Brit darlings One Direction in the best fan category. Is that an unfair fight? Justin Bieber currently has 36.5 million followers on Twitter. The One Direction boys have only 10.7 million. I say only. Read More »

Britney Spears has become the first person to hit six million fans on Google+ and her posts are generating hundreds of comments each time. Pop queen rival Lady Gaga is just behind on 5.9 million and closing fast, according to social media tracker Starcount.com.

Britney has added more than five million followers on Google’s social network in the last 16 months, but while the growth is impressive it is still dwarfed by the kind of numbers the same stars are racking up on Facebook and Twitter. Read More »

So let’s get this straight. Video killed the radio star, right? Okay, and then it seems the internet, YouTube and social media combined to kill the music video or at least had a major impact on why MTV stopped playing music videos and started to seemingly broadcast nothing by reality TV. In the process it has built up a roster that includes: The Real World, MADE, Parental Control, 16 and Pregnant, Jersey Shore, Geordie Shore, Teen Mom 2, Punk’d, Savage U and Snooki & JWoww to name just ten shows.

For a fuller explanation of what happened at MTV this completely unofficial and NSFW (use headphones, folks) tells us why the channel that gave life to the music video is now quite done with them. Read More »

This is really handy. An infographic here packed with Twitter statistics. Among other things it highlights the disparity between  Twitter’s 500 million registered users  and the 140 million active users. On top of that we have the stat that everyday Twitter picks up as many as 300,000 new visitors and one million new accounts are created.

It digs down deeper and throws up numbers such 25% of Twitter accounts have no followers and 40% have never sent a single Tweet. That seems to highlight the issue that Twitter has with spammers and fake accounts among other things.

And how many followers on average do you think Twitter user have? The average Twitter user has 27 followers. That is a long way from the very dizzy heights of Lady Gaga who still tops the Twitter table with 31 million followers with Justin Bieber chasing her high heels on 30 million.

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Fadi Saleh is back with an awesome new “barackdubs” to celebrate the President’s re-election victory. The YouTube phenomenon, created by 19-year old Saleh, has in the past had the president singing and dancing to plenty of tunes including the Obama/Romney duet of Miley Cyrus’ ‘Party In The U.S.A’ and Obama doing Justin Bieber’s ‘Boyfriend’.

Now Saleh is back with Obama doing the MC Hammer’s massive 1990 hit ‘U Can’t Touch This’.

The “moves” Obama does as he removes his jacket in the various clips work wonderfully well. You can almost imagine its real. Almost. Read More »

In a not wholly unexpected turn of events, digital sales continued to grow, with CD sales continuing to drop.  Nielsen SoundScan & Nielsen BDS Data showed that digital album sales in the US were up 14% compared with January – July last year, and digital track sales were up 6%.

The best selling overall and digital album was “21″ by Adele, who sold a staggering 3 million units overall. The second best selling digital album was One Direction’s Up All Night, although this changes to “Tuskegee” by Lionel Richie, when physical sales are included. In digital album sales, Tuskegee only came 8^th, indicating a younger demographic are still making up the bulk of digital sales.

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From Tom Watson’s intern, to Ed Miliband’s “Blackbusters tweet”, to Anthony Weiner’s weiner we are getting increasingly used to political slip-ups in social media. However, it is celebrities we really need to worry about, as they encourage their adoring fans to do all sorts of thins mad, bad, and sometimes outright dangerous things via social networks (usually Twitter).
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There are ten users on Twitter now with more than ten million followers. Nine are celebrities and eight are women. Talk about your girl tweet power.

Lady Gaga is still way out in front and almost two followers million ahead of Justin Bieber who is in the number two spot. Barack Obama is the only non-celebrity individual in the top 20 and adds weight to the idea that the 2012 presidential race will be a Twitter election. Read More »

Justin Bieber appears to own Twitter as his 15.1 million followers made sure he leads this top ten trending topics on Twitter 2011 list.

Although hats off to One Direction, the 2010 X Factor runners up make an appearance here as too. That’s like six degrees of Kevin Bacon via Twitter.

Although the boys are not anywhere near as popular as Women’s football, which as we already know sent Twitter soaring earlier this year and makes sure that the sport is in the overall number two spot. Read More »

As we’re entering the final week, we are keeping an even keener eye on all things X Factor and social media.

The semi final results show was hit by Bieber fever yesterday as Canadian superstar performed.  Whether he sang live or mimed is still the subject of tweebate, but regardless of that he caused a bit of a social media stir.  As was to be expected. Read More »