In every measure, Obama clobbers Clinton online

[babylonsister]

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/04/11/obama_online/

In every measure, Obama clobbers Clinton online



We've long known that Barack Obama is the Web's favorite presidential candidate -- now that Ron Paul is gone, the race isn't even close. But in a blog post today the Web-analysis firm Compete put out the full measure of Obama's dominance over rival Hillary Clinton.

Look at the table above: In every category, Obama clobbers Clinton.

The first row, FaceTime, is Compete's composite measurement of online interactions with a candidate -- how much time people spend on the candidate's MySpace and Facebook profiles, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, and MeetUp pages. The measurement reflects a "share" of Democrats online -- i.e., in March, Obama was the focus of four-fifths of the time that Democrats spent looking at a candidate online.

As a result of his popular speech on race relations, Obama was particularly strong on YouTube. In March, people spent more than half-a-million hours -- hours! -- on his channel. That's nearly 60 years of YouTube time! (Clinton's 59,100 YouTube hours comes to less than 6 years.)

Of course, none of this matters: The superdelegates, not the Internet, will decide the Democratic nominee. But superdelegates must be paying attention to Web traffic data, right?

[futureliveshere]

1. I hope they are seeing..... This is good news but I don't know how relevant it is on the ground.

[babylonsister]

2. I'm just happy there are so many curious people out there

driving up those numbers.

[futureliveshere]

4. Amen!!!

[MethuenProgressive]

3. They count "hours spent on you tube"

:rofl: Yeah, like that'll translate into votes...