The Power of Social Media (and how to move photos around)

This is an example of how the words wrap around a photo when you 
move it to the left. This photo is sized "medium." This photo is from

an article in Wired magazine.

Yikes! Social media went crazy yesterday trying to decide whether a certain ugly dress was white/gold or black/blue.

CNBC called it "The Dress that Broke the Internet".

Politicians and celebrities had opinions. Kim Kardashian weighed in. So did Taylor Swift.

Buzzfeed reported that it broke its own record for Internet traffic, with 16 million hits in six hours.

From a Buzzfeed post about what it was like to work there while the site was taking on heavy traffic:

All eight dress posts have a combined 41 million views. The original had 28 million views (22 million on mobile) and logged 2.7 million votes. It has been read from every country in the world in five languages. It shaped conversations at dinner, in bars, on couches, over text, all driven by mobile and the ability to show your phone to your friend. Same picture, same device, but different colors! In less than 24 hours, people from every corner of the world were looking at each other’s phones at a post, on a site, run by a company totally optimized for social and mobile.

Here's a photo from Twitter that I sized
 small and moved to the right. I also
 made it link to the #thedress hashtag.

On Twitter, #thedress was a trending topic, and someone posted a photo of what appeared to be a tattoo of the dress on a hairy leg. Just in the time I've been writing this, there have been more than 600 new Tweets about #thedress.

Even the New York Times published an article on the dress, which explained why some people see colors differently than others.

Some people got really angry at other people about what color the dress is, as you can see from this photo from BuzzFeed's article about how some relationships were destroyed by the dress controversy.

So, what color is the dress? White and gold, of course!