President-Elect Barack Obama used many technologies to win and advertize his campagin. One of these is Facebook. Unlike his opponants, he used Facebook to unlock the youth market for the first time in any election. His campagin sent out daily messages to get the message out and add motavation for people to vote for the first time.
After that he used Twitter. Twitter is like the status thing on Facebook so he just added that kind of stuff. By using Twitter, some 120,000 voters got regular updates on where Obama was and were regularly provided links to watch rallies being streamed live over the Internet. Which would be very useful for serious supporters.
Next, he used Youtube. Youtube is a website that users can upload videos and anyone on the internet can watch them. As long as there is no lag. AHHHHHHH.Thanks to YouTube, all of Obama’s major events from the campaign can be seen. Obama’s big speech on race has been viewed more than 5 million times on the site, which is more than the combined cable news audience who watched it. Also, a music video putting an Obama speech to music has had more than 11 million views.
Also, Obama used mobile texting to support his campaign. Rather than having to look at a computer all the time, people could get instant updates strait to their phones. Which is useful for people who don’t have time to sit down and look up updates.
Lastly, he personaly used a blackberry. It is basicly a mini computer on a little phone with a keyboard. It does the same thing as a computer that You are looking at.
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