We at Storm Ideas (the creators of Twibbon) don’t like to blow our trumpet very often but in this instance we just can’t help ourselves!

The Social Media Society has announced their shortlist for the Social Media Influencers Award for 2012 and we are in the running for the A is Everywhere Facebook App which we were asked to develop with ABC Family for their programme Pretty Little Liars! 

The application was a contest to find the letter 'A' wherever possible, whether in the clouds, in a reflection, or even in their cereal! Entrants had to then take a picture and send in for a chance to win the prize of a visit to the Pretty Little Liars set.

The competition was a huge success with almost 500,000 people taking part, and will go down as one of the most fun and popular apps we have ever worked on!

We are thrilled to have been nominated for this award and would love for our Twibbon fans to vote for us here! (our entry is on the top row, 3rd along)

On the 23rd of January, Wikipedia, Reddit and other major websites made the unprecedented move of blacking out their entire sites. The motive was protesting against SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act - and PIPA - Protect IP Act - which are US House and Senate bills respectively that wants to give content holders far-reaching new powers to block websites in the name of copyright protection.

In response to SOPA, Twibbon users launched their own protest.

As the movement began to gather momentum, over 74 Twibbon campaigns were created to support this:

In total so far over 100,000 people have added an anti-SOPA or PIPA Twibbon – the most popular being this campaign with over 67,000 supporters! 

Twibboners were vocal in their support:

CoverJunction (along with Twibbon another great Storm Idea) also had users flocking to add Stop SOPA Covers to their Facebook Profile. Almost 3,000 added the cover below - 

In spite of an extensive lobbying campaign from major media corporations, the bill has been shelved for now, demonstrating the amazing power that the internet gives to grassroots campaigning, and people unifying behind one cause.

 

We love a phenomenon here at Twibbon and in the last week we have just seen one of our wildest! One Direction US fans have gone crazy responding to the call to Bring1DtoUS!

On the 10^th of January the boys put a video on their US concert website with number 6 of their famous challenges asking fans to use Twibbon to show which city they want One Direction to visit on their American tour in February.

Within minutes of that video going up Twibbon was buzzing with fans from Atlanta, New York, Dallas, LA, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle and DC vying to add as many Twibbons as they could and show the boys how much they wanted to see them in their hometown! 

The Twitter-sphere was abuzz with chat from fans!

The boys retweeted a tweet that we sent out reporting on the mayhem - 

- which led to even more adding, multiple times over!

By the end of the competition, Chicago had the most fervent support and won the competition with 167,000 Twibbons added. Overall, an incredible 650,000 Twibbons had been collectively added across all the campaigns; that's more than 1 Twibbon per second!

 The success places One Direction as one of the most popular Twibbon campaigns of all time, and demonstrates the amazing power that Twibbon has to spread your cause like wildfire throughout the social world.

If you would like to create a Twibbon campaign for your campaign, charity or brand, create a campaign for free in 5 minutes at http://twibbon.com/create.

ITV’s ever popular Dancing on Ice skated its way back onto our TVs last weekend, and with it the annual campaign that allows you to support your favourite celeb with a Twibbon!

All the celebrity skaters have been freezing their feet off practising to get ready for the series and they are all lined up for you on Twibbon to support from the comfort of your web browser.

The Dancing on Ice homepage on ITV is bursting with videos, updates and info on all this year’s contestants, so if you don’t know Hollyoaks actress Jorgie Porter from your Hollywood child star Corey Feldman, don’t worry – there’s still plenty of time to work out who to lend your social networking support to!

You can also show your Twitter and Facebook followers how much you’re enjoying the show by wearing the official Dancing on Ice Twibbon. Remember when you’re talking about it on Twitter and Facebook make sure you use the #DOI hashtag (so we all know we’re talking about the same thing!)

There are lots of Twitter accounts following all the Dancing on Ice action, including the official @dancingonice, world famous skaters @torvillanddean, presenters @schofe and @clbleakley as well as contestants such as @MrMattWolfenden and @Corey_Feldman so make sure you join in the discussion!

So, what are you waiting for? Get your Dancing on Ice Twibbon on today!