The Obama Bump Felt on Facebook

Ah, what a difference a caucus makes. In November, when ABC and Facebook announced their partnership for U.S. political coverage we, like many other tech pundits, expressed skepticism. We noted that polls on the Facebook politics section were drawing just around 1,000 participants–”a microscopic number” compared to the 17 million US members of voting age on the site (now over 18 million). But just over a month later, things seem to have turned around completely.

Read the rest of this post


comments so far. Add yours.

About Voices

This is a section of the AllThingsD Web site featuring posts that have been curated from around the Web: pieces we’ve read, discussions we’ve followed, stuff we like. Five posts are included here each weekday, but only the headline and the first two sentences. We link to the original site for the rest. The section is explicitly labeled, so it’s clear that content comes “from other Web sites.”

We also solicit original full-length posts and accept some unsolicited submissions. Voices is edited by Beth Callaghan.

Dive Into Media

Latest Video

View all videos »

Search »