{"id":50,"date":"2012-02-14T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:23:30","slug":"data-help-me-find-the-mis-information-being-spread-at-socialympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/data-help-me-find-the-mis-information-being-spread-at-socialympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Data: Help me find the mis-information being spread at #socialympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning a Social Media Week, London<\/a> event looking at the social media around the Olympic games called “#socialympics<\/a>” was stirring a lot of interest on twitter relating to discussions of big data, history of new media and mega events and the revolutionary effects of social media and production\/distribution\u00a0of the games. Speakers include (from the site):<\/p>\n

Our panel will feature Chris Tomlinson<\/a>, record-breaking British long jumper and double Olympian; Gordon Lott, Head of London 2012 Partnership and Group Sponsorship at Lloyds TSB<\/a>, the London Games\u2019 first domestic sponsor; Hugh Chambers, Chief Commercial Officer of the British Olympic Association<\/a>; Paul Kelso, Chief Sports Reporter of the Daily Telegraph; Alex Miller, CEO of Engine\u2019s social media agency Jam, Engine\u2019s social media and mobile agency; with myself in the chair. (3)<\/em><\/p>\n

All\u00a0individuals who have an invested interest in the Olympics and\/or their brand sponsorship.<\/p>\n

Abi Sawyer<\/a> drew me the this tweet made by @SynergyCarsten:<\/p>\n

@jennifermjones<\/a> this right? RT @SynergyCarsten<\/a>: #socialympics<\/a> some stats: social media users in Athens = 0, Beijing = 100m, London = 2b<\/p>\n

\u2014 Abigail Sawyer (@abisawyer) February 14, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This suggests that social media (or web 2.0) was not present during the Athens 2004 games. This claim is hard to believe, seeing that it only takes a quick google search<\/a> to find blog posts still available around the time from independent (or citizen) journalists which makes me think that there is a lot of misinformation being spread about what really happened on the web during the last 12 years of games.<\/p>\n

I’ve extracted the data from twitter (using @mhawksey<\/a>‘s archive spreadsheet<\/a> too) of what was said at the event and how and who was sharing it – I think it would be benefitial going through the comments to see what is being promoted as an authoritative opinion of social media and the Olympic Games. Can you help me?<\/p>\n

The data is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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