April 20, 2007

Candidates Pages Get A Facebook Facelift

Facebook is in the midst of changing over their WH '08 pages with some improved features on the way. According to a campaign aide familiar with the changes, users are now automatically added as friends again, they can no longer poke candidates and anyone can write on the wall.

More revelant for our purposes, this time around you can check out who has the most supporters. But it's also important to note that since some of the facebook profiles started updating yesterday, each candidate (except for Brownback) has lost between 10 and 60 "supporters." That fact exemplifies that what many online strategies have been preaching for months: Just because they're your facebook friend, doesn't mean they actually support your candidacy.

Heres' the tally as of today:

Dems
Obama: 64,009 supporters
Clinton: 19,518
Edwards: 6,234
Biden 1,754:
Kucinich 1,320:
No changes yet -- Richardson and Dodd.

GOPers
Romney: 6,201
McCain: 1,859
Brownback: 839
Tancredo: 576
Paul: 485
Hunter: 151
Huckabee: 48
No changes yet: Gilmore, Giuliani, T. Thompson

Posted at 09:45 AM

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Comments

You missed the group membership numbers-
One Million Strong for Barack Obama has 325,000 Members

The next largest group is a Hillary Group-acutally and anti-Hillary group at 60,000 members

Grant Brooke | 04.20.07 12:08 PM

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