It was no Election Night 2008 happy riot at Pike and Broadway. Instead, news of the death of Osama bin Laden was greeted on E Pike Sunday night with some enthusiastic social media activity. In a phenomenon that breaks out with big news, Seattle joined the trend across the country of creating Foursquare check-in entries to mark the occasion. For whatever reason, our city’s check-in ended up in the 1000 block of E Pike:
Nice work Mayor Theresa F. on your double check-in before the venue was closed. As for the “whatever reason” part, we think we found the instigator. @NickStarr was the first person we found who checked in and posted to Twitter about it. According to his tweets, he’d been at Poquitos, as good a place as any, we suppose, to start a new era.
From looking at Twitter, looks like our Nick friend *JUST* moved to Seattle yesterday from San Francisco. Looks like we’ve got a new social media star on our hands!
Does 4square really matter anymore, now that yelp, facebook, and others have their own checkins? Do we really care about “social media stars” outside of things that would be newsworthy in any medium, like the guy who liveblogged Bin Laden’s capture?
I really don’t think that something’s eventful simply because it happened on twitter, etc.