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Internet gears up for the biggest Election party in history4th November 2008 6:25 pm Twitter It’s fair to say that this presidential election has broke new ground in terms of it’s online content. Today, as Americans got to the polls, people will be glued to their monitors like never before. Way back when the compaigns for the party nominations began all aspects of the internet from YouTube & Twitter right through to large scale Google adWords campaigns have all been used to embrace the new online generation. Independant companies such as Facebook have seen this election as the perfect way for new media to get through to a difficult to reach sector of the electorate and wage war against voter apathy. Google have weighed in with a pretty impressive Google Map that is crruently counting down towards results time. It features a retrospective of the campaign trail, historical results as well as a full results suite for the Presidency, The Senate and The House of Representatives. Google Maps 2008 Elections Gallery. Yahoo is offering a similarly impressive political dashboard featuring interactive moment by moment coverage. MSN has a similar offering including a live Election Q&A service. Whether Barrack Obama or John McCain wins one thing is for certain…every single move will be watched in minute details via the web. Facebook reports it’s voter registration scheme has hit the 50,000 mark30th October 2008 4:12 pm Twitter The Official Facebook blog is reporting that the Facebook Register to Vote scheme has logged over half a million Facebook responding to their call to vote on Election Day. Further to this they noted that these users invited more than 300,000 of their friends follow suit.
More importantly over 50,000 users have registered to vote on the Facebook Vote 08 page. Voter turnout has long been a worry for politicians and political activists alike and the 2002 Presidential Election showed how every single vote can count. There has been a history of voter registration schemes aiming to reached the disenfranchised electorate from the Motor Voter bill and Project Vote back in the 80s right through to the Sarah Silverman powered Great Schlep and the Kevin Costner project Swing Vote. It can be said that 50,000 voters is a drop in the ocean however it’s certainly notable how the social media sphere is being utilised duting this election. From the very start YouTube was a key ‘battle ground’ in getting the candiates messages across, Twitter allowed a constant dialogue between supporters whilst Facebook fanpages have been used as campaign co-ordination tools and a support league table. Would you like to know more about social media and it’s uses? If so, contact Hit Search, SEO and Google adWords qualified PPC specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Twitter ceases to distribute updates via SMS14th August 2008 3:34 pm Twitter People with an over-inflated sense of their own importance were aghast today as Twitter, the popular microblogging site, announced it would no longer be distributing user updates to user’s mobile phones.
According to a wonderfully sarcastic Guardian article the system of distribution was simply costing Twitter too much “It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service,” said a spokesperson for Twitter “Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.” The decision will not affect users in the North America but was met with dismay by UK users. It will be interesting to see whether this move will be a pre-cursor to a pay-per-update charging system although the Guardian article contains a quote from Ev Williams saying that nothing along those lines was imminent “We don’t have any specific plans for a payment system, though that’s interesting,” he said. “But we definitely are striving for (and believe we can achieve) a built-in revenue model that is compatible with the open nature of Twitter and its ecosystem, rather than something tacked-on.” Read the full Guardian article here : Twitter drops text support in UK Would you like to know more about Twitter? If so, contact Hit Search, SEO and Google adWords qualified PPC specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible.
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