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Social media rankings for the candidates

November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Pete Quily did this fascinating analysis of how well Peter Ladner and Gregor Robertson campaigns did in using social media. You can read about it here. I’m supposed to be giving a talk on YouTube politics next week, which will be easy because it was so noticeable how much more people were using YouTube, Facebook, twitter and the rest.

These tools are so prevalent now that, in the journalism course I teach, I have an assignment that specifically requires my students to know how to search social media to get information about people in the news.

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  • Pete Quily

    Thanks for the post Frances.

    One thing you might mention to your students is that they should be more sociable on social media than Gregor Robertson and Peter Ladner were.

    They had 5 and 7 subscribers respectively on YouTube, neither had any friends on YouTube, while Barack Obama had 25,226 friends there. He was very sociable:)

    They had 252 and 898 photos on Flickr but only bothered getting 1 and 2 friends there to share them with.

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