August 10, 2012 by Sam Laird Like+1SharePin ItShareThe social web lit up during the second week of the Olympics. As swimming wrapped up and track and field took center stage — while soccer, basketball, gymnastics and other competitions kept going strong — social media users around the world took to a range of platforms to celebrate, brag and generally emote. Fresh new data from the social media monitoring platform Salesforce Radian6 puts the conversation in perspective. Radian6′s data takes into account a total of more than 150 million sources including Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube and message boards. What follows is a snapshot of how the socially savvy talked Olympics from last Saturday through this Thursday.The United States leads the medal count standings in the physical Olympics, and is also tops in social mentions for the Games’ second week
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Olympics Week 2: The Social Media Buzz [CHARTS]
