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Google+ to live stream Republican National Convention

on April 16th, 2012

2012 race, Google Plus, GOP, Politics 2.0

VentureBeat.com: “Continuing efforts to push its new social network into the mainstream, Google will live stream this year’s Republican National Convention on Google+, the company announced in a blog post today.” Link

Google enters 2012 race, manipulates search engine results for Romney and Santorum to help Obama win

on February 16th, 2012

2012 race, Google, Politics 2.0

Fox News: “A Google bomb is the intentional manipulation of a search engine to return a specific result, thanks to large numbers of relevant links or related searches. One recently uncovered by FoxNews.com connected the search string define: to certain swear words. And whether officially a “bomb” or merely an explosion in popularity, such image-jacking is clearly on . . . → Read More:

Pro-Obama Google fixes anti-Romney search engine algorithm

on November 12th, 2011

2012 race, Google, Mitt Romney, Politics 2.0

CBSNews: “It appears that Google’s mysterious search algorithm has been making a suggestion that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney may not appreciate. When a Google user types the phrase “Romney can win” into the search engine, its spell check function responds with the message, “Did you mean: Romney can’twin?” Slate first stumbled upon the curious result and notes . . . → Read More:

The cost of getting a vote in 2012 race: $145

on October 18th, 2011

2012 race, Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review: “Swaying a single voter costs a U.S. politician an average of$145 in campaign spending, according to an analysis of election data by Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi of the University of British Columbia.” Link

92% of Newt Gingrich’s Twitter followers are fake accounts

on August 3rd, 2011

Newt Gingrich, Politics 2.0, twitter

Gawker: “Yesterday, we published an item based on a former Newt Gingrich staffer’s claim that Gingrich assembled his 1.3 million Twitter followers—a number that he’s taken to bragging about—in part by buying fake Twitter followers. A lot of people did not think that was true! But today social networking search firm PeekYou announced that it had crunched . . . → Read More:

White House uses its official Twitter account to trash political opponents

on July 6th, 2011

2012 race, twitter, White House

Quite interesting news in the Politics 2.0 and public relations field. The White House is reportedly using its official Twitter account to trash its political opponents. The Daily Caller reported that

President Obama’s director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee’s duties at the White House include “online response” . . . → Read More: