This Improbable Quest, by John Wilson: on Technology


Organizes campaign events via MySpace.com and FaceBook.com

Obama’s campaign has generated far more interest on social networking sites than any other politician. Obama’s MySpace page reached 160,000 friends. An Obama Facebook page had over 200,000 supporters in 2 weeks. Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s Internet campaig manager, observed, “It took our campaign 6 months to get 139,000 people on an email list. It took one Facebook group barely a month to get to 200,000. That’s astronomical.”

Obama drew thousands to a university rally organized online by students using Facebook. Obama hadn’t even met the student organizers until he arrived at the event. By March 1, 2007, just a few weeks after Obama began his campaign, his website My.BarackObama.com attracted 3,306 grassroots volunteer groups, 4,416 personal fundraisin pages, 6,706 blogs, and 38,799 people with individual profiles building networks to support Obama.

This new age of decentralized politics takes much of the power out of the hands of political consultants and into the grasp of individuals.

Source: The Improbable Quest, by John K. Wilson, p. 14-15 Oct 30, 2007

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