LimorE

So, I’m a few days late updating this blog, but I did make a prediction on Feb 9th at 10:53am, that everyone will start writing about the Betty White FB fan page.  http://twitter.com/LimorE/status/8859594032 (which was actually a few days after I realized it would)

Now, I”m not writing this post to brag that I ‘called’ it, but actually quite the opposite.  I’m fascinated by what happened.  Besides the fact that Betty White, who has been in show biz forever, has never hosted SNL.  I’m actually not sure why it took till 2010 for someone to start this FB group? Though, maybe because random groups are popping up daily (I got an invite the other day for “i bet I can get 1M people to join this FB Group….really? Why would I join that?)

But its fascinating that everyone from CNN, HuffPo, popeater, etc all started writing about this FB group.  I of course, am a member (actually 2x, with both of my fb accounts), but what I found funny is that by writing something is ‘getting’ viral is basically promoting it.  When I joined the group it wasn’t growing by 3500 people a day, I dont even think it had 50K+ people but once all the sites started picking it up, and people read about it, they joined.   I mean, really, who DOESN’T want Betty White to host SNL?

So, my questions is, is  the group becomming viral, or did a few influential people see that people were joining and wanted to “break’ the story that this group is viral, hence promoting people to join.  In which case, would the group really have 250k+ fans on its own?

Again, I’m all for Betty White hosting SNL, and called that all the sites would pick it up and run with it, but if the media waited a min to see if it actually went viral, would it have?