Putting a Ring on Social Media Engagement: A Meme Proposal
Earlier today, this post went up on BuzzFeed from Len Kendall asking his long time girlfriend (and employee of McDonald’s), Katie Holland, for her hand in marriage. He also asked readers to post their own images on the site to help him convince Katie to say yes. The meme carried over to Twitter with the #SayYesKatie hashtag as people threw their support behind the happy couple.
In a few short hours, the #SayYesKatie hashtag received almost 1,000 mentions. Here is a look at the most popular words used around the conversation.
There was no response from Katie’s personal Twitter account after the post went live, contributing to the suspense as people wondered what her response would be.
@hollandersauce, the earth needs you to save it! – bit.ly/yOGcJN #SayYesKatie
— John Morrison (@localcelebrity) February 29, 2012
#SayYesKatie… seriously, before the suspense kills everyone on the @BuzzFeed team.
— Lauren Lipsay (@DJLips) February 29, 2012
In the end, all the positive tweets seemed to have an effect, as Len and Katie proudly announced that she did, indeed, say yes, which led to even more conversation.
Us. #sayyeskatie twitter.com/LenKendall/sta…
— Len Kendall (@LenKendall) February 29, 2012
@Hollandersauce @lenkendall Congrats! xoxo #sayyeskatie So glad #KatieSaidYes
— Erin Turner (@efturner) February 29, 2012
Congrats! Here’s to many years of great meme-ries! RT @lenkendall: She said yes! #SayYesKatie
— Anthony Rouhana (@AnthonyCPR) February 29, 2012
Kudos to Len for taking such an effective and literal approach to social media engagement, and a big congratulations to the happy couple from all of us here at Radian6! If you love engagement or want to learn more about it, check out this post 3 Actions to Improve Social Media Engagement.
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