2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLOL at Hillary's foreign Facebook likeshops
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/27/bernie_sanders_secret_advantage_how_dominating_facebook_could_help_him_overcome_hillary_clintons_financial_juggernaut/According to data obtained by Quintly, a social media analytics firm, Sanders presidential campaign page began the day of Saturday, August 22 with 1,197,290 likes to Clintons 1,199,797. By the end of the day, he had 1,218,879 to her 1,205,437. His lead has only increased since then. Sanders success comes despite some suggestions that the Clinton campaign has been padding its totals on Facebook with purchased likes. Back in April, Vocative, a data mining media site, reported that Clintons presidential campaign page was more popular among Facebook users in Baghdad than any American city. And a further side-by-side comparison of both candidates page data shows that, over the last month, 95% of Sanders growth came from within the United States, while for Clinton that number is only 74%.
Oftentimes, so-called click farms are based out of developing countries and employ legions of low-paid workers to create fake Facebook profiles and then like the pages of clients. Clinton has seen strong growth over the last several weeks in followers in developing countries. To cite a single example, her followers in Myanmar tripled, to 18,150. (By contrast, Sanders share of foreign followers is much smaller and comes mostly from Western Europe.) This doesnt necessarily mean Clintons campaign was paying click-farms directly sometimes customers buy ads from Facebook, which promises to generate a certain number of likes, and those end up coming from click farms but that didnt stop some Reddit users from accusing her of buying likes to stave off Sanders.
Todd Haupman is the public relations director for Wishbond, an online marketing platform, and previously worked as the social media director for two members of Canadas parliament. According to Haupman, when politicians purchase likes on Facebook, it comes from a general ignorance and lack of understanding of social media.
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Whether or not her campaign bought followers directly, there is a precedent for an organization led by Hillary Clinton purchasing Facebook likes: the State Department spent $630,000 on them between 2011 and 2013, when she was secretary of state, according to an inspector generals report.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Pure astroturfing. She's a fraud.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)OMG is there ANYTHING about this woman that is not fake or contrived?
YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)so much as I think that they don't care and are in on the game. They want her to win.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)MindfulOne
(227 posts)To see a bigger image of the graphic, go here:
http://i.imgur.com/iCLLEh9.jp but add the "g" to the end for a "jpg" file type.
wow.
honest?
no way.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Evidently knowing how to buy Facebook likes and twitter followers, and uttering the words "emoji" and "gig-job", pass for 'winning the social media war" in some campaigns. As if the people who actually use social media don't dig into everything. Using social media is not like making smarmy TV ads or buying print space.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Or at least, whoever writes her bad jokes for her does.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)I will be obliged to vote for her in the general, but I won't like it ONE BIT!
That's stooping.
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)Thanks for the thread, mhatrw.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
BlueWaveDem
(403 posts)Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Especially from Salon.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)Hillary's campaign is gaming Facebook. But you knew that.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)To 'like' her stuff lol
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Everyone here knows you understand what's actually said in the OP. Please don't insult everyone, including yourself, by pretending to be this dumb.
ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Calling someone dumb. But that's allowed around here I see if they are a Hillary supporter.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Now, if you try reading the post again, you'll note I didn't actually call the poster dumb. They are pretending to be dumb in order to incinerate their strawman.
It's insulting to everyone here. But they've got an H logo, so they must be the aggrieved party.
ronnykmarshall
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Krytan11c
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ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Such a charming reply.
Krytan11c
(271 posts)It was an honest reply too
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)mhatrw
(10,786 posts)been put to work rebuilding her Facebook infrastructure!
Globalists hunting the lowest wages always put me off.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)People are starving, homeless, abused, and $630,000 of government money gets spent to have digital ghosts click "like" on Facebook!? What the absolute fuck?
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)One is too many.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)The US State Department spent half a million plus on buying FB likes for Hillary?
What. The. Fuck?
MindfulOne
(227 posts)There is no connection between what Secretary of State Clinton did and the family foundation and her campaign.
No connection, I tell you.
What a sexist thing to say.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)If her page were liked by U.S. military personnel or private contractors stationed in Iraq, would the likes show up as being from people in Baghdad?
I'm guessing there's no way to tell whether those likes are from clickfarms in Baghdad, or real-life Iraqis who actually like her, or real-life Americans who are in Iraq temporarily.
jfern
(5,204 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)As of June 2015, CNN reported that the number was approximately 3,050, with Obama planning to send up to 450 more.
I'll speculate that the government also has some civilian contractors there, in addition to whatever Americans are there as journalists or aid workers or whatnot.
jfern
(5,204 posts)Sanders has a much higher percentage of his likes are American. Because he doesn't pay for them.
PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)What the fuck?
I'm sorry, but...
6chars
(3,967 posts)could that have anything to do with it? I would be more surprised if people in Pakistan were aware of Sanders. How many of those countries did she go to as SoS or as First Lady? Not surprising she would have fans all over.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)How is she going to outsource the actual voting?
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)voting machine likes?