In an article by in the Social by Caroline McCarthy,

"On April 17, the day of the show--when CEO Evan Williams appeared on-air and Winfrey herself began Twittering--a whopping 37 percent of visits to the Twitter.com homepage were new visitors. That's a high number even for the fast-growing Twitter."

The PR guru has done it again. Whatever she promotes makes it big. Talk about pitching stories just send it to Oprah and she will get it out there. I swear she could support genocide (of course she wouldn't) and still have millions of eager followers. This kinda scares me because her endorsement of Obama seemed to be quite the political stunt, and her not willing to interview Sarah Palin added to that controversy.

Besides the point here she is again promoting another product, a product that seems to promote itself quite well. I mean if you can draw that many visitors, than you deserve a position, forget if she is "social media savvy", she is socially savvy.

This sort of "hit phenomenon" generally happens when something is pitched to a popular blogger or a service intrigues that blogger. The next day or even that day you see the "hits" out-of-the-park.

What do you think about this? I mean one has to wonder how many different things are being tossed at Oprah everyday.

i just wanted to add one thing. When spell check corrects a word like Oprah, you have got to be an influencer, I mean with Sarah Palin it tried to correct it to Sarah Plain.

For all my Bloggers! (Facebook gets credit for yet another miracle)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7983725.stm

The above link is an article in the BBC news about a boy who was trying to commit suicide. The boy apparently was over-dosing and at the last minute decided to get help. He sent a private message to a girl in Maryland saying something along the lines of harming himself. The girl told her mom, who according to the article,
"who called local police. The police called a "special agent" at the White House, the British Embassy in Washington and finally the police control room in Abingdon."
"Staff narrowed down his location to eight possible addresses, and officers found the teenager at the fourth house they tried. He had taken an overdose, but was still conscious."
NOW this is PR!!! Facebook has dozens of stories like this where in one way or another their networking site saved a life or dozens of lives. Their PR is perpetual and seems to be both constant and self-creating