Social media lads and lasses, your time is now

As the United States of America ushered in a new era of leadership, and as an aging generation saw the labors of their youth come to fruition, a generation on the ascent tweeted, facebooked, streamed, and dugg every second of it. 

During President Obama’s inauguration Twitter saw 5x the normal tweets-per-second and about 4x the average tweets-per-minute (graph). Facebook enjoyed an average of over 4,000 status updates per hour Tuesday morning, peaking at 8,500 updates every minute during President Obama’s inaugural speech. The President’s speech set a new record for simultaneous streaming-video with 7.7 million video streams, according to content delivery network Akamai Technologies, which provides the NYTimes.com, Ustream, Viacom, WSJ.com, and other leading networks with support for live streaming.

The truth is all of these technologies are still in the early stages of their life-cycle, andas they continue to mature  we will find new and innovative ways to leverage them, ushering in a new age of citizen participation in government and a sense of togetherness that hasn’t been felt in generations.

I am grateful Bedouin|Interactive has the opportunity to be apart of this great transformation I and am inspired to have a leader like President Barack Obama.