Barack Obama's One Millionth Supporter on Facebook [UPDATED]
By Michael Whitney, 06/17/2008 - 7:54pm

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Barack Obama is about to get his one millionth fan.  The Democratic candidate's official Facebook page saw a sharp increase right around when Sen. Clinton dropped out earlier this month, and has climbed steadily since.  Lucky #1,000,000 will arrive tonight.

At 7:09pm EST - I twittered that Obama had 998,901 fans, and he'd reach one million "by the end of the week."  Then I refreshed the page.  Now, it's 7:29, and there are 999,036 supporters.  That's 135 new supporters in 20 minutes.  At that rate - according to my very rough math - Obama will have 1,000,000 Facebook supporters by 10pm EST or so.

The original social networking craze in this election - the One Million Strong for Barack Obama Facebook group - only has 565,214 members.  The first million-strong group to actually reach its goal was the anti-Hillary Facebook group One Million Against Hillary Clinton, which crossed one million two months ago.

John McCain has 146,439 supporters, and he saw a similar, though not as sharp, spike in supporters around when Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race.

And finally, as of this posting, Obama has 999,141 supporters. Right on track for one million tonight.

[UPDATE FROM MICHAEL] Here's a screenshot of when they hit 1 million. (Micah posted another screenshot earlier, with the time included.)

obama facebook 1,000,000

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Good Prediction!

At 10:16pm, it happened.

By Luigi Montanez at Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:18pm | login or register to post comments

More than my.BarackObama.com

I think it's interesting that he has more supporters on Facebook than on his internal social network - which is considered very successful for a non-public network. This article from 2 days ago puts my.BO at 926,000 while the Facebook page had 946,568.

By Ruby Sinreich at Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:38pm | login or register to post comments

The difference

With Facebook and it's users who have been around for a while, it is not surprising to see it reach 1 Million before my.BO.

What is also interesting is to see that two days ago 926.000 had taken the time to sign up for an account with my.BO instead of just staying with their facebook.

I do wonder if when the general becomes closer and closer to November if we are going to see group messages starting to come out and mass emails across the board from all of BO accounts (On a side note I wonder if this would qualify as the largest series of mass messages from a political candidate).

-DirtyData

By DirtyData at Wed, 06/18/2008 - 9:03am | login or register to post comments

Supporting on Facebook takes just a click

while becoming part of my.barackobama requires registering for a new
site.

Chris Hughes wrote a post which includes the over one million
s supporters graphic they now have on the facebook page

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/chrishughesatthecampaign/g...

http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos

http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles & sites

http://twitter.com/tigerbeat

By ari at Fri, 06/20/2008 - 7:16pm | login or register to post comments



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