Posts Tagged ‘Justin Bieber’

Justin Bieber has become the world’s first musician to achieve 2 billion YouTube views. The total upload views on the JustinBieberVEVO YouTube channel currently clock in at 2,004,941,318. LadyGagaVEVO trails Bieber with just under 1.9 billion.

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If you tried to watch any of Justin Bieber’s videos yesterday on YouTube then you may have noticed that every single one of them was unavailable, due to a copyright claim by iLCreation.

Last week actor Jim Carrey made everyone feel a little awkward when he professed his love for 22-year old actress Emma Stone in a YouTube video that has amassed over 1.8 million views so far. Inspired by Carrey’s bizarre video confession, comedian Kathy Griffin has jumped on the bandwagon, confessing her love to Justin Bieber in a YouTube video that is going viral this morning.

The Aug. 2 agreement to raise the debt ceiling for the United States was the subject of the most shared links via Twitter and blogs, but the Twitterverse took a different approach, focusing on the role that Twitter itself played in the process, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 1-5.

his week we’ve got some really freaky, strange and weird videos for you, including Justin Bieber’s new perfume ad, a girl’s very creepy message to her future grandchild, some eyebrow-raising Greek talent, a rap about telephone manners and the Rapture, or lack thereof.

While other people were out partying and celebrating Cinco de Mayo on May 5, 2003, the founding employees of LinkedIn were launching the professional-networking site, which celebrated its eighth birthday Thursday.

YouTube has helped people from all walks of life achieve their dreams. Now Jasmin Alvarez, a blind girl with an amazing singing voice, is turning to YouTube to help make her biggest dream a reality—to meet Justin Bieber.

A lot of people think it’s cool that YouTube offers a new outlet for talented artists like Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black to get discovered. But not everyone thinks it’s fair. Miley Cyrus says, “It should be harder to be an artist.”

This week we’ve got quite a selection of weird videos for you, from a mashup of polar opposites Justin Bieber and Slipknot, the creepiest cricket fan ever caught on tape, an off-the-wall claim about radiation, an elementary school metal band performance and the continuing saga of Rebecca Black.

The earthquake and tsunami that victimized Japan March 11 accounted for a whopping 66 percent of Tweeted news links for the week of March 7-11, despite occurring on the last day of the period, while the upcoming 2012 presidential campaign dominated the blogosphere, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a Spanish news report about a soccer player kicking an owl during a game, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

The disaster was followed on the list of most-shared news links via Twitter by: the civil war in Libya, at 15 percent; a report in The Sun that Justin Bieber skateboarded through an airport terminal in Birmingham, at 13 percent; Google, at 10 percent; and a preview of the Apple iPad 2 from Mashable, at 7 percent.

The race for the 2012 presidential election accounted for 37 percent of news links shared by bloggers, followed by: the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist David Broder, at 17 percent; the executive order signed by President Barack Obama to create a formal system of indefinite detention for prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, at 10 percent; a column in The Washington Post by George Will questioning the United States’ intervention in Libya, at 7 percent; and a Washington Post interview with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko regarding allegations that the recent election there was fraudulent, at 6 percent.

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