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July 30, 2012 · News

2012 Olympics: How Twitter is Affecting the Olympics

The 2012 Olympics has surreptiously become a place for every spectator to become a critic covering the games in an instant. There were 9.66 million mentions on Twitter during the opening ceremony and according to CNET that is more tweets than were composed during the entire Beijing Olympics--A sign of the ever increasing importance, and reliance, the world has had on social media, especially, in the past few years.

by Lena Vazifdar

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