May the most (social media) savvy candidate win! #18
December 10, 2009
queenbeedc1983
Tags: 2012 Election, banners, facebook, future, mobile, Obama, Social Media, twitter, wiki
Statistics reveal that 93 percent of Internet users expect future politicians to have a presence online and even a higher percentage expect them to be on several of the top 100 websites. This statistic proves that people want to see politicians promoting themselves online. My prediction is that 2012, all of the candidates will be social media savvy and running elaborate online campaign. I’m pretty clueless at this point, but if I had to guess I’d say that mobile, wikis and video will be key social media factors in the upcoming race. In fact, 2012 election widget are already arising online. These widgets include banners, scrolling widgets powered by feedzilla, and plenty of iphone applications. Some of these widgets are just simple banner embeds, but other are relevant sources of political news that will provide candidate-related information as the campaign approaches.
Aside from these predictions, it’s very difficult to predict what will be key to winning the 2012 election. It will be interesting to see how social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter evolve and handle new social media. Given the evolution of social media in the past few years, I would say that Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube will be standard, obvious tools utilized in every campaign. I think we should prepare for new and improved social media options in the near future.
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