Black and Blue Or White and Gold?

On February 26, This dress took over the lives of millions! It became a featured story on major news channels such as ESPN, CNN, and even NBC News. A nationwide debate was created as to the what the colors of this dress are. A Tumblr user posted a picture of the dress asking readers to state what color combination they saw: black and blue or white and gold. What would happen next, no one could have imagined. No one could come to an agreement. Here are some interesting statistics following the chaos, of what I believe to be a white and gold dress:

#TheDress was mentioned 11 million times on Twitter

The Dress Debate was mentioned at a rate of 5.7K TPM, with celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Anna Kendrick chiming in; garnering up to 192K retweets in total

28 MILLION (and rapidly increasing at each refresh) people have viewed BuzzFeed's article on The Dress

A record-breaking 670,000 web visitors were on BuzzFeed's website at the same time
500,000 of these web visitors were on mobile devices (quick reminder to make your website responsive!)

16 million people shared The Dress article in the first five hours, which is 10  million more than the article that previously held the "most shares in least time" spot

Three-fourths of all countries have smaller populations than the amount of people who tweeted about The Dress. COUNTRIES.

#WhiteAndGold received more votes than the Governor of Iowa in the most recent election. More people voted in a "What color is this dress?" poll than in an actual election.

It was a fun debate and it showcased the power of social media and the velocity of how fast things can spread in today's time.

Blog Post Comment: http://bmacieblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/post-6-georgia-basketball.html

This could be potentially one of the biggest upsets in college basketball in quite some time. The Dawgs have a team capable of winning, but how many truly believe that they will outside of Dawg Nation. Social media will without a doubt be all over this one, especially if UGA makes it interesting.