What have we been up to on Facebook and Twitter? Online Producer Michael Hugill cuts out the stats and pastes in the more interesting social media stories (in a picture book format no less).

Statistics are an important part of our jobs in the Online, Editing & Audience Research team, but it's also necessary (and often more fun) to report on the qualitative side of social media.

Let's take a look back at Facebook in August... 

We created our most popular post ever when we decided to do our own take on the classic 'find a word' puzzle...


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Winny, our resident dinosaur, was a huge hit in China and online...

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An incredible snake cake caught our eye and our followers ate it up...

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Another one of our housemates proved very photogenic...

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And we received a particularly nice wall post from one of our Members...

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Meanwhile, over on Twitter...

We got our annual Eureka Science Prizes trending...

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Received some excellent feedback about our Deep Oceans exhibition...

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Impressed one of our followers no end (in a combined effort with @searchndiscover)...

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Helped unleash our annual Science Festival...

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And was told one of our staff members is doing a great job with our video conferencing program...

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THE END ;)