http://www.thestandard.com/node/111926/comments comments feed. en http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/19/picture-facebook-v-myspace-presidential-edition <!--paging_filter--><p><!--paging_filter--> <p><!--paging_filter--></p> <p>MySpace and Facebook are both important places for presidential outreach in this election year but  one site links the candidates to many more fans than the other. Barack Obama logs almost 1 million more <a href="http://www.techpresident.com/scrape_plot/facebook">fans on Facebook</a> than <a href="http://www.techpresident.com/scrape_plot/myspace">friends on MySpace</a> and McCain has almost 3 times as many fans on Facebook than MySpace.</p> <p>This is especially interesting because MySpace is <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/myspace-still-handily-beating-facebook-in-the-u-s-">still bigger than Facebook</a> in the United States, though grabbing millions more monthly visitors. But even behind, Facebook is significantly more popular among the political set:</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><center><img src="/sites/thestandard.com/files/u2482/prezsupportersfbms.jpg" height="295" width="429" /></center></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/19/picture-facebook-v-myspace-presidential-edition#comments co:Facebook co:MySpace people:barack obama people:john mccain Software &amp; Web The Industry Standard Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:35:06 -0400 Jordan Golson 111926 at http://www.thestandard.com