March 31, 2007
Election 2.0
Rudy Giuliani on MySpace, Barack Obama on Flickr and Hillary Clinton on Twitter (no updates yet, Hillary, what gives?); presidential candidates from across the political spectrum are rushing to web 2.0 sites to spread their message, but none moreso than John Edwards.
According to this handy chart, Mr Edwards’s campaign is active on 25 different web communities, from mainstays like YouTube and MySpace to less well known sites like Blip.tv and hi5. That is five times the number of sites of his next-closest competitors in the 2008 race.
Less may be more when it comes to a campaigner’s web presence, however. All those web sites seem to be proving hard to manage. A quick visit to the candidate’s Bebo page on Friday morning revealed that it has been vandalised for the past two days by a rather crudely drawn phallus (careful - link may not be safe for work).
Somehow we doubt that this was the kind of exposure Mr Edwards was looking for.
Update: It looks like Mr Edwards’s Bebo profile has been deleted!
