On day 1 of LeWeb'11, conversations on social media were driven by appearances from Karl Lagerfeld and Eric Schmidt. A total of 26,777 social conversations took place on day 1. Karl Lagerfeld received the most social mentions of any speaker, while discussions also focused on start-up finalists like Babelverse. The top hashtags used were related to themes of the conference like #leweb11 and #startups.