Social media at London Olympics

[Image Source:  facebook.com/nbcolympics]

With just few days to go for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics social medias like Facebook and Twitter are getting active with the updates about the events. The official television partner of the London Olympics is National Broadcasting Corporation. They have already started their facebook (facebook.com/nbcolympics) and twitter (twitter.com/nbcolympics) pages. Even video updates will be available in the page. The official facebook page of NBC has crossed 161k likes. NBC has made agreements with facebook to promote the events of the London Olympics. NBC is organizing a 'Face Talk Meet' via their facebook page. In 2008 Olympics also social media was used for online promotions but limitations of social medias affected it . Now thats not the case. Social medias are very much interactive and user friendly nowadays.With 900 million active users in facebook the decision by NBC for online promotion is not going to be a bad one.