On Tuesday, February 9th Google launched Buzz a service for sharing thoughts, conversations and links with your friends. Buzz has been widely described as the search giants latest attempt to take on Twitter and Facebook.
To launch Buzz, Google added it to it’s Gmail service giving it an instant userbase or 38 million people, and the result has been impressive with 160,000 posts and comments on the new service per hour in it’s first few days.
Because Buzz launched as part of Gmail, it already has more users then Twitter, though at present there are far more tweets on Twitter then posts on Buzz. While the service is unlikely to kill off either Twitter or Facebook, it is the most serious new social media contender to appear since Twitter.
I signed up for Buzz myself today, and I was pleased to find a number of museums already on the site, perhaps a sign of how serious our sector takes social media these days.
Will you sign up for Buzz on behalf of your museum? or if you have already, what do you think of the service?
