It doesn’t matter if you embrace or detest California’s Proposition 8, either way it is taking social media’s center stage. Many bloggers, micro-bloggers and social media account owners are amassing a movement to boycott the state of Utah, the Morman church and Marriott Hotels due to their organizing and financial support for Prop 8. Similar campaigns were mobilized against South …
Election 2008 and social media
For the first time in election history a presidential candidate used the powerful reach of social networking for something other than as a virtual ATM machine – the numbers tell the story: Facebook Obama: 2,379,102 supporters McCain: 620,359 supporters Obama has 380% more supporters than McCain Thanks to Forrester Research’s Jeremiah Owyang – @jowang MySpace Obama: Friends: 833,161 McCain: Friends: …