TAG | Obama wins the Internet vote for tech President |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Friday, 27 June 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 During his campaign to get the Democratic nomination, for example, in just one month some 90 percent of the AUD $55 million he managed to raise was made up of donations of less than AUD $200. And the majority of this was raised online by tapping into the MySpace generation.Last weekend, representatives of both candidates took part in a Twitter debate according to Tech President but neither candidate actually participated. Now that's a shame as it could have exposed this gap in understanding the culture of technology that appears to exist. Quite apart from which watching McCain use smileys in his speech and Obama stuff his eloquent word smithery into 140 characters would have been great fun. When it comes to Twitter, there are plenty of fake McCain feeds but no real ones as far as I am aware of. I suspect that his campaign office would have ensure the media knew about it if there was an official presence. Obama, meanwhile, has a collection of nearly 43,000 followers and is following nearly 44,000 on twitter. Do you really get a personal take on what Obama is up to from hour to hour? Of course not. But his campaign understands that Twitter represents yet another avenue for getting the message out to interested and potential voters. On an almost daily basis there is an updated posting about what he is doing and where he is speaking and what he is speaking about. Then there is Facebook. Again, plenty of spoof pages claiming to be John McCain, but nothing serious, and nothing official. Obama has over a million Facebook friends and his pages provide links to speeches and video clips. CONTINUED |
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