Ridiculous Item of the Day: Steve Colbert Facebook Group Eclipses 1M Members in Less Than a Week, Almost Triples Barack Obama's Group

Unfortunately, the fastest growing Facebook group ever is not a very spontaneous affair; it’s part of a US presidential candidate’s campaign. However, the results are quite astonishing. Responding to Barack Obama’s Facebook group called Barack Obama (One Million Strong For Barack), which managed to acquire 381.000 members in 9 months, Stephen Colbert launched his own group - originally named 1.000.000 Strong For Stephen T. Colbert - which reached its goal of one million members in just one week. It’s not stopping there; open the group and refresh after a couple of minutes, and you’ll see that the numbers are still rising fast. At the time of this writing, the group has 1,001,168 members. This is the strongest example of social network usage for political promotion yet. By spending very little time and money, Colbert has managed to gather one million supporters. Whether or not they’ll all vote for him is another matter, but it’s obvious that these (and all following) elections will largely be fought online.
http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/fastest-growing-facebook-group/

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