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Posted: March 16th, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Marketing | 2 Comments »

dems on myspace

myspace scoreboardI’m not sure if Obama’s apparent dominance in the social mediasphere is down to his popularity or his social media savvyness. I had read a story today on Zdnet that talked about Barak’s leadership over Clinton in the myspace polls and it led me to think about how to create an app that could scrape a select number of myspace profile “friend” counts and put them all on one web page, well luckily Techpresident.com already thought of that. I do wish they would create an embeddable version so folks could put it on their blogs and myspace pages.

Now, apart from Barack leading the dems the incredibly poor showing of the republicans is quite extraordinary, are the young digerati and myspace generation really that skewed toward the dems?

republicans on myspace

With so much time to go before the election how many friends do you think Obama will end up with? Just for fun I’ll give a yet to be named prize to the closest number guessed in the comments or trackbacks for the number of friends Obama has at 11pm on election day.

  • http://revver.com Angela Wilson Gyetvan

    Wonder how many of these “friends” are voting age? And yes, TechPresident should make this a widget. Would rock. –Angela Wilson Gyetvan

  • http://mariosundar.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/long-time-no-blog/ Long time, No Blog « Marketing Nirvana — by Mario Sundar

    [...] 2. Mr. President 2.0 — In recent times I spent a considerable amount of time to talk about the intersection of social media and politics. Karl had a great post recently on the updated stats for social media links (myspace, youtube, and flickr) of current presidential candidates (via sites like TechPresident). [...]