Fastest Growing Facebook Group Now Has A Million Members - Rmail
Posted by elveston priory at 6:12 pm
Unfortunately, the fastest growing Facebook group ever is not a very spontaneous affair; it’s part of a US presidential candidate’s campaign. However, the results are quite astonishing.
Responding to Barack Obama’s Facebook group called Barack Obama (One Million Strong For Barack), which managed to acquire 381.000 members in 9 months, Stephen Colbert launched his own group - originally named 1.000.000 Strong For Stephen T. Colbert - which reached its goal of one million members in just one week. It’s not stopping there; open the group and refresh after a couple of minutes, and you’ll see that the numbers are still rising fast. At the time of this writing, the group has 1,001,168 members.
This is the strongest example of social network usage for political promotion yet. By spending very little time and money, Colbert has managed to gather one million supporters. Whether or not they’ll all vote for him is another matter, but it’s obvious that these (and all following) elections will largely be fought online.
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User comment: By: notenkingMay be FaceBook can occupy first place in 2008,many people were attract to there for it new feature.
User comment: By: Andrew ArnottHmmm... the url got messed up. It's here: http://apps.facebook.com/socialvote/
User comment: By: Andrew ArnottYou can vote for Colbert or another favorite candidate on our new Facebook app "SocialVote". You can add it at http://apps.facebook.com/socialvote. People are looking for something, anything different in 2008.
User comment: By: AndrewThe politics app does a good job - in an obviously unregulated way. If they get enough users the results will be very interesting.
User comment: By: mashableCNFacebook增长最快的group... 虽然增长最快的Facebook group并不是一个自发的组织（是美国总统候选人市场活动的一部分），但结果还是很令人惊讶的 Barack Obama的Facebook group － Barack Obama (One Million Strong For Barack)在过去的9个...
User comment: By: Andrew ParkerSeconded. Getting 1mm Facebook members to sign up for a group is a distant second to raising millions of dollars in small $20 contribution increments and loads blogging on DeanSpace.
User comment: By: franticI think that electronic voting has enough problems as it is (;
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User comment: By: SerivoInteresting. Would it be possible to create a secure/authorised/legitimate/regulated facebook voting application for national elections? Complex and too far off I guess but that really would be revolutionary.
User comment: By: franticIt's not only joining a Facebook group. It's one million people joining the group in 7 days.
User comment: By: David"the strongest example of social network usage for political promotion yet"??...or should that be yet this race so far. Is joing a Facebook group really on a par with the Dean/Trippi momentum of 2003?
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: Manuel VilaFacebook groups are just an another centralized communication system. The true revolution should come from the "spread" (missing) feature, allowing new form of communication and organization. I have just written something about that: http://blog.kindalab.com/2007/10/26/information-spreading-through-social-networks/
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