Google Cardboard Social Media Buzz Skyrocketing, Yahoo Tumblr Having Bad Time

The latest data from Ticker Tags provides some insightful info on trends in social media and virtual reality. Ticker Tags monitors social media sites to identify trends by searching for words or phrases that are found together in social media content, such as tweets.

In the past 18 months, social media mentions of Yahoo! Inc YHOO’s social networking and microblogging site Tumblr are down a whopping 50 percent. In that same time, mentions of privately-owned rival site Reddit are up 75 percent.