- Olympics inspire record Twitter conversation After 16 days and 150 million tweets, the London 2012 Olympics have come to a close. As witnessed by so many other major world events, huge conversation and debate happened on Twitter. We take a look at some of the numbers.
- Downing Street available to tour on Street View Similar to its showcase of The White House three months ago, the British Prime Minister's Office at Number 10 Downing Street is now available to view on Google Street View.
- Olympic opening ceremony mentioned 9.66 million times on Twitter Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and the games are well underway, Twitter UK published a great statistic from Friday night - the opening ceremony was mentioned 9.66 million times on Twitter worldwide.