What you can achieve by folding up pictures of Ross Kemp.

*searches for pictures of Beverly Craven*

http://rosskempfolds.tumblr.com/

It’s all about ‘contra-competitive timing’ apparently, posting when people are perusing. We fear this means shift-work and weekends in the office ahead but hey…

If you were ever in any doubt – tut-tut! – how social media is the future, you only have to look at the rise and rise of love-him or loathe-him Justin Bieber through the digital space over the past couple of years.

The very clever people at Crisp Social have created an infographic – hurrah! – as to his rise and rise through social media. You know how we feel about an infographic.

Yep, the mechanics and means of distribution are different but the mania of a teenage girl is still the same. Ahhh. : )

We remember the days when we did quizzes like this in Just Seventeen, asking ‘which Spice Girl are you?’ but now we’re able to do one to ensure we’re not drink’n’status updating. That’s progress people.

Wise words / infographics…

So can you predict who’s going to win The X-Factor using social media…?

Our money was on the phenomenon that was Goldie (naturally) but now she’s no longer in the running (boo, etc), we’re keeping an eye on the folks at The Wall, who are analysing every single ‘tweet’, ‘like’ etc, on the social net to work out where we should be putting our money.

And hurrah, they’ve created an infographic – though you may wish to read the full story right here.

It’ll be interesting to monitor whether social media really is in sync with a public phone vote moving forward or do people sometimes just enjoy having something to talk about…?