There was more social media traffic around the first presidential debate between former Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama than there was around the vice-presidential debate. But while the quantity may have been lower, the quality of the humor (Big Bird not withstanding) appears to be higher surrounding Rep. Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden.
The social media reaction to this debate wasn’t quite as big as the last one. Only 3.5 million tweets went out during the VP debate, compared to 10.5 million for the presidential one last week.
Over on Google, search terms around Joe Biden included ‘laughing’ and ‘malarkey.’ The latter was a term Biden used to describe the answer Rep. Ryan gave to a question about the Libyan embassy crisis.
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With media outlets showing live tweets on-screen during the debates last night, the social media response to the event was huge. While the issues were discussed and tempers flared, the biggest reaction online wasn’t about either candidate. It was about Big Bird.
This past year, Facebook growth in Japan exploded, with a 507% increase in users. That by far is the biggest percentage growth, though other countries have continued to expand their Facebook usage as of late. Three of the top 20 counties doubled their numbers of Facebook users in the past year, including Brazil (which is now #2, behind the US, in total number of users), Thailand, and Egypt. India saw nearly 50% growth, though it dropped to #3, bringing its numbers up to 56 millons Facebook accounts. 
There have been some cool additions to Facebook recently that are worth pointing out. The first is that people in the US can now take advantage of a feature that brands and businesses have had for a while: promoted posts. Facebook is currently testing 
At the Blogalicious conference in Las Vegas this past weekend, I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of turning your passion into a business. In the interest of trying to get my message to as many people as possible, I’m sharing those slides here for you to peruse.
It wasn’t an easy ride to where I am know, which is to say able to pay the bills running a website and producing content for the web and television. In fact, it took years of struggle—at one point, I had was juggling a negative checking account balance with the responsibilities of raising a family!
Maybe blogging or producing web videos is your second, unpaid job right now. Something you handle outside of normal work hours, on your own time. But if you can focusing on turning yourself into a media company, making the right deals, working with the right partners, and always struggling to produce the best content you can, someday you too will find a way to turn your passion into a business.