Colbert nation activates over a million Facebook group joins in a few days. Barack Obama's campaign supporters spawn more than 18 different Facebook groups, and he just did a MySpace interactive video conversation (not to mention is leveraging his Digg, MySpace, YouTube and other social network and content aggregation profiles to the hilt). Ron Paul, "the red libertarian", has 75 thousand MySpace friends. Hilary did her "vote for my campaign song" thing, but c'mon, does anyone really trust an online vote that selects a multi-platinum Canadian as the winner (of anything?). Mike Gravel hasn't made much of a splash so far, but his ripply youtube video became a viral phenomenon (even if no one knew what it - or he - meant by it). MoveOn is being both copied and vilified for its web messaging and fundraising.
All in all, these are fascinating times to observe the social media space... and certainly will be through "Indecision 2008".
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