Social Media 101 For Politicians

Note-Sharkbait would prefer to stay out of the political arena but today we’d just like to make a few comments about yesterday’s election. As we all know, Barack jumped on the social media bandwagon early enough to get some pretty substantial coverage just for his use of Facebook alone. Now that President Obama has entered the Twitter world, is there any looking back?

Now since we aren’t in Massachusetts, we really don’t have a dog in the fight, but some of the social media statistics from yesterday will make any pollster step back and study the data as presented in the Wall Street Journal today:

Here’s a look at the numbers:

Facebook Posts since Jan. 1: Brown (128), Coakley (58)

Facebook Fans: Brown (70,800), Coakley (13,529)

Tweets since Jan. 1: Brown (142), Coakley (144)

Twitter Followers: Brown (9,679), Coakley (3,385)

YouTube Videos: Brown (57), Coakley (52)

YouTube Video Views: Brown (578,271), Coakley (51,173)

Attention Please! Future candidates from both parties-

Social media matters. Your constituents are listening and if you’re not engaging with them, your competitor is…