Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

…and then realizes that it will never win anything else.

About a month ago, we picked up news that Texas A&M had publicly challenged LSU on Facebook, who at the time had the largest Facebook fan base of any college. Soon after, major online media outlets began covering the news as well, just as Texas A&M started to gain on LSU. Since then, we’ve been monitoring the progression as both schools set their eyes on being the first university with 100,000 fans on Facebook. As it stands now, LSU has 75,084 fans, a mere 2,833 fans less than Texas A&M, who after their initial challenge, has been consistently ahead of LSU. LSU reignited the challenge this week with a press release in which they talked about their ambition of once again being the top Facebook university. They also talked about the 100,000 fans 100,000 pennies competition by BlueFuego, a social media consulting group for universities who was the first to crown LSU as the biggest Facebook university. For the first university to reach 100,000 fans, BlueFuego will donate 100,000 pennies ($1,000) to the school or scholarship the university designates.

It’s great to see LSU so active in this social media challenge. Since the challenge first began, LSU has been much more active and engaging in the social media sphere. We’ll keep a close eye on the progression, but until then, fan LSU on Facebook, if you haven’t already. (Also, fan your favorite Baton Rouge news outlet while you’re at it.)

The great Facebook Challenge between LSU and Texas A&M is heating up even more with major online news outlets covering the event. Just yesterday Mashable, a popular online blog that covers internet-related topics, published a story about the event. In it, they linked to the Baton Rougean and the article we published yesterday.

At last check, A&M was still beating LSU, and the gap is only widening. Once again, we urge LSU fans to officially add LSU here. Right now is our shining moment—let’s show the world how we truly are the greatest fans.

(While you’re at it, you might as well add us too.)

Eleven days ago, Texas A&M issued a press release to rally its fan base on Facebook. In it, they noted that LSU had, at the time, the largest Facebook fan base at 56,000. Over the past week, they’ve engaged their fan base and have added more features to their page. Yesterday they issued another press release claiming that they now had the largest Facebook fan base of any university-sponsored page. Because of this challenge, they added around 16,000 fans, which is four times the amount that LSU added in the same timeframe.

They are, of course, claiming that they have the greatest fans in the world. Not only is this a ridiculous claim, but it’s utterly inaccurate. LSU has what Texas A&M could never have: a reason for its fans to be passionate. And we’ve shown time and time again that we are the best fans in the world. Now it’s time to do it once again. Let’s shut those freaking Aggies up. We’re currently 1,600 fans behind A&M—an easy feat for LSU.

Become a fan of LSU on Facebook now.

(Also, LSU, it would be nice if you hired a social media expert to take charge of your online brand. Just saying.)

Updated: Mashable has linked to this post. See here for more details.

I just set up the Baton Rougean on Facebook. You can add us by visiting our profile.

Also, there has been basically nothing interesting that has happened in the past few days. What’s up Baton Rouge?

Sidenote: Bobby Jindal turned 38 yesterday, so wish him our governor a happy birthday.