MySpace Friends Race for Obama and Hillary
"As the country's most trafficked Web site, MySpace will play a powerful role in the upcoming election," said CEO Chris DeWolfe. Yet what will that roll be aside from tabulating MySpace friends?
Over the course of the week, most within hours of the MySpace Impact launch, the following results could be found.
PC World Canada - Romney, McCain and Clinton with 1,000 MySpace friends, "while Obama had more than 68,000." "Giuliani's profile was set to 'private' and so it could not be publicly seen."
Honolulu Advertiser - "Obama beats rivals when it comes to MySpace 'friends', "and touts the number of Obama's MySpace friends at 68,412.
"Barack Obama: President of MySpace," claims a U.C. Berkley Math student nicknamed Seema. Seema developed a graph of the presidential candidates and their MySpace friends. Obama leads by four-digit percentage points according to his calculations.
Newsweek -- Commentary posted on MSNBC begins "I made a strange new friend today on MySpace. Her name is Hillary Clinton. Frankly, we don't have a lot in common. For one thing, she's 59. I'm 24"
The actual numbers tell a different story. As of March 25th, 2007, if you click on the MySpace Impact presidential candidates links, the following results are found: "Hillary has 4220 friends, Barack Obama has 80402 friends."
If however you conduct a people search on MySpace for the respective candidates a whole new set of figures is found under various MySpace profile IDs. Hillary Clinton has 16476 friends, Hillary Clinton 2008 has 31,100 friends, Barack Obama has 11651 friends, and Barack Obama has 80606 friends.
While Barack Obama may be the MySpace friend leader, Hillary Clinton is far from friendless and makes a strong MySpace Presidential candidate.
It remains to be seen if MySpace Impact will have any real impact on younger votes, but TheSpoof.com maintains that "MySpace visitor usage has increased to over 113 percent, with the majority of visitors registering under the names Dick Cheney, Richard Cheney, Ricky Boy Cheney, Ricky Bobby Cheney and George W. Bush."
Candidates with pages on MySpace thus far include: Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton of New York, Barack Obama of Illinois, Joe Biden of Delaware, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, and John Edwards, former North Carolina senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate as well as Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Libertarian Ron Paul also has a page that is no longer in last place with 1466 MySpace friends.
Source:
PCWorld.ca
Barack Obama President of Myspace
http://www.hbcuhiphop.com/2007/03/senator-barack-obama-received-74000.html
MySpace Impact
http://impact.myspace.com
Published by Donna Porter
Writer / Journalist -- A Yahoo News! Contributor Donna began her writing and internet career in 1995 in the health industry and became an early dot-com entrepreneur soon after. Masters certified in Internet... View profile
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5 Comments
Post a CommentDonna thanks for writing about a movement within a movement, MySpace has to be reckoned with and once again, the pundits put it down - look who's laughin' now! MySpace is for real - as is your writing and sense of what matters! Way to deal with it! -Dana
Hmmm... it will be interesting to see if MySpace will interest younger voters in coming out to the polls.
Wow... learn something new every day. Interesting!
Ah... the technology age! MySpace and YouTube are the new up and coming grass roots efforts
Wow- that's some disparity between Obama and Clinton. A little surprising.