For all of you doubters out there who don’t believe social media sites like Twitter or MySpace can be successfully used for marketing your business.. I give you, The Goat. On February 6, 2010, “Can this Goat get more fans than Barack Obama” made its debut on the social media website more popularly known as Facebook. What started out as probably a little curiosity and humor combined has turned into probably the best proof that social media can be completely systemic. Six days later on Friday, February 12th, at exactly 4:20 in the afternoon the number of fans had already reached 99,078 and exactly four minutes later that number had jumped to 99,171. That’s 93 people/fans in just 4 minutes! And only 52 minutes later at 5:16 p.m. the number has grown by 1,362 fans, creating a new total of 100,533. Now, you don’t have to be a math genius to figure out that this is a substantial exponentially increasing number of people. The remarks on the page vary from “somebody feed him the health care bill please” to “I think the goat could pick a Super Bowl winner” (of course, you can’t have a conversation without mentioning the Super Bowl). They even have a conversation raging over what to name the goat. Those names range from just ‘The Goat’ to your everyday ‘Joe the Goat’ or ‘Bubba Goat’ to the more clever suggestions like ‘Oba-a-a-a-a-ma’ and ‘Baaaa Rack the Goat’. So whether you think this whole mess is just quite silly and even laughable, you have to admit that the universal effects of social media are astounding and cannot be denied. I invite you to examine the limitless possibilities social media has to offer your business endeavors. Of course, nothing takes the place of good ‘ole face to face interaction, but social media seems to come in a close second. Who could deny the insight to people’s emotions and opinions or the frank communication these platforms have to offer to the everyday person or businessman. Now just stop and think of those possibilities… reaching 100,533 in six days.
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As a member of this group, let me say how thrilled we all are over the Goat’s popularity. Most of us feel the same about this goat. If Obama can be President, so can the goat. I also feel that the goat could be the next Noble Peace prize recipient, since he’s brought most of us more joy and loyalty than the president has. He’s done more for America while laying in the mud and eating grass than the president has done in a year.
~Vote for Goat 2012~
That goat sure is clean and articulate… oh; no, sorry.That’s the President!
Gotta agree with Rebecca – I would vote for the goat before I’d vote for Obama. ‘Course, I didn’t vote for him to start off with. As far as the Peace Prize goes, that was such a joke. What were they thinking? ok, they weren’t. I like the funny names but do we really want to insult the goat by naming him after a jackass? The goat is a proud animal.
But was the goat born in the United States?
Amen and Amen again!-and he didn’t even have to invite any one to his house for a beer! You go goat!!!
The Goat in 2012!Obama only qualified to feed the goat and clean up!
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