Presidential politics dominated the buzz on Facebook over two weeks that featured political conventions, a major hurricane, the start of the National Football League season, and key events from the world of pop culture.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
Facebook audience data provider Optim.al analyzed the Facebook pages of the 15 total nominees for video of the year and male and female video of the year at the upcoming MTV “Video Music Awards.”
There are differing opinions on whether Facebook and Twitter are competitors, but in the competition for monthly unique visitors, Facebook provided a great assist to Twitter in August, and the social network helped out MTV.com, as well.
