A Lesson for Local Business in How Not to Use the Internet
The other day I got a menu from Duccini’s, a tasty pizza place on U St. There’s probably two or three others in my kitchen, in the middle of the mess of menus in a drawer. On my way to the trash, the title on the top of the back page caught my eye: “See What the Blogs are saying about Duccinis!”
Wow, I thought. A local restaurant might understand the Internet. I expected to see a review from any of the numerous DC food blogs, or maybe even a comment from Yelp.
No, instead, it’s a screenshot of a random, unnamed bulletin board.
Barack Obama’s One Millionth Supporter on Facebook
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.)
