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Socmed (Rim v. Apple v. Google v. Nokia) plus the coolest YouTube Ad I've ever seen!

Interesting fact...

Twitter

RIM has over a million followers on Twitter (@blackberry)
Google has almost 5 million followers on Twitter (@google)
Apple has 2.7 million followers on Twitter (@itunesmusic)
Nokia has 291k followers (@nokia)

RIM just had a #1inamillion campaign on Twitter celebrating the fact that they have over one million followers.

Best I can tell all they did was toss a few YouTube videos up that I don't really understand, you can see them here. They all seem like really nice people, but no clue what value this has.

YouTube

I was fascinating to see RIM has 77k YouTube subscribers.
Apple has 484k subscribers (I'm surprised Google doesn't shut their YouTube channel down)
Google has 652k subscribers.
Nokia has 92k subscribers.

So Google clearly wins in terms of followers on both Twitter and YouTube.

It will be interesting to see over time how those numbers change.

Now, in recent weeks people have been comparing RIM to Nokia a lot. While there may be similarities in their current difficulties, the social media front does suggest that RIM remains far more relevant to key stakeholders than Nokia.

It will be interesting to see over the coming months whether RIM's Twitter followers increase or decrease, it could be a potential predictor of whether people are truly done with RIM or whether everyone is merely having a tempter tantrum for the time being and secretly are still interested in what RIM has to offer.

The Coolest YouTube Ad I've Ever Seen

Ok, I can't tell you why this ad is the coolest ever because it will ruin the surprise.

All I can say though is go to Nokia's YouTube channel 

A trailer for the movie the Dark Knight will start playing. Just watch it and if you are like me you find what happens SUPER cool.


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