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Facebook.com becomes a political force

by Victoria Revay | February 10, 2007 at 01:39 pm

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You can now "poke" Mitt Romney (the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) on Facebook (just like you could poke my 16-year-old brother's entire high-school and most of my girlfriends.) "Poking" in this sense means something totally different, however. It's a way to contact or keep in touch on the popular social website. Democratic Senators Barack Omaba, and Hillary Rodham Clinton already have accounts on Facebook, but they don't share as much personal information as does Romney.The communications manager for Romney's campaign says anytime you introduce someone you can use all the tools necessary to organize the outreach.

The largest group supporting Romney has more than 3,000 members and the interest continues to grow. However, Romney is not the first to use the Internet as a form of outreach for the 2008 presidential election.

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at 14:06 on February 11th, 2007

At NowPublic, this is high praise from NowPublic editors! Your story is now on the home page for awhile, and everywhere else the “good stuff” box shows up. Many thanks for your great work. I think NP is in a unique position to research and comment upon the different and important uses of the Web by politicians. I particularly liked your comments about the differences among candidate Web presences.