Digg into Twitter to find Chief Twit Barack Obama
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Hot on the heels of the news that Twitter is telling its UK users to get stuffed by pulling support for SMS Twittering in the UK, comes word that over the pond a certain big fish has been crowned Chief Twit.
Yep, it seems that Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has more followers on Twitter than anyone else.
More than the previous Chief Twit, Digg founder Kevin Rose who for some unfathomable reason found himself with some 56,482 people who were interested in the Digger Top Dog’s every thought. Rose, on the other hand, not being completely mental or a politician did not follow everyone who chose to hang on his virtual coat tails. Instead, he only follows 97 people.
One of those he follows happens to be Barack Obama.
A man who happens to understand the importance of technology in the modern presidential election process.
A man, who happens to have 56,791 people following his every move on Twitter.
What’s more, it seems that Obama follows every one of them as well. And then some. According to Twitter he auto-follows a total of 59,474 people in all. Or at least his account does, which one has to assume is manned by a small team at his election HQ or alternatively some nerd in a back bedroom carefully locked away from the campaign spotlight. I doubt that Obama spends much time actually using Twitter himself, if truth be told.
Still that is more than Grandpa McCain who seems to have let this technology thing pass him, and his campaign, by. He does not feature in the Twitter Top 100, or anywhere at all. Mainly because it seems that he does not have a Twitter account.
Even his unofficial campaign Twitter account, going by the name of JohnMcCain2008, can only muster a comparatively tiny 1485 followers.
Does this bode badly for the old man of presidential politics? Or does it just mean that when it comes to popularity amongst the younger and more media savvy types that the younger and more media savvy man gets the vote?
Not that Obama has it all his own way in the switched on Internet presidential campaign stakes. There’s always a certain Paris Hilton to consider, even though she is not entirely naked for a change. Hilton appears in a spoof presidential campaign video which she made after McCain featured her in a campaign advert decrying Obama as just a celebrity.
La Hilton has proved as popular as ever, with that video clip fast approaching 7 million views.
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