Fwd: Now Facebook Has Your Affiliation

New uses for social media in politics.  Facebook for political trending?  Even spying on peoples' lives?

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From: American Breaking Point <Service@americanbreakingpoint.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:38 AM
Subject: Now Facebook Has Your Affiliation

EMAIL ALERT: July 13, 2012 HOME ABOUT IMPORTANT READER NOTE: American Breaking Point will be signing off from daily emails to your inbox. Instead stop by our website daily to join in our conversations. We'll still keep in touch as critical issues demand a voice be heard. Until then, see you online. 10 Companies Making the Biggest Political Donations July 12, 2012 With the U.S. presidential election heating up, public companies' political contributions are staggering and have prompted many to ask whether money can buy a seat in the House, Senate or even the presidency itself. Read more… Overseas Radio Network Ends Live Broadcasting July 11, 2012 Last Friday (July 6, 2012 to be exact) was the last day of live broadcasting for the Overseas Radio Network. Read more… ESPN Seeks Touchdown With Political Ads July 10, 2012 Commercial breaks on ESPN this fall may contain some unfamiliar people from outside the world of sports: politicians. Read more… A Tax or not a Tax? July 9, 2012 Republicans blew a gasket when their supposed conservative trump card, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the court's robed Progressives to give Obamacare the Supreme Court's jurisprudential seal of approval. Read more… Facebook Likes Linked to Political Affiliation By InvestorPolitics Researchers at Engage have crunched the data and found out something interesting about the web sites people "like" on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB): knowing what sites a person likes gives them a clue about their political affiliation. By using a special piece of software, Engage was able to track thousands of users' Likes, political affiliation, and behavior — whether or not a person showed a high or low level of political engagement. What are some of the things they've discovered? The most engaged Mitt Romney supporters like eBay Fans of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) were the most likely to support Romney, and the most likely to do so at a high level of political engagement. Another web site whose fans were likely to be rabid Romney backers was eBay subsidiary PayPal. The most engaged Barack Obama supporters like BuzzFeed What's BuzzFeed, you ask? Billed as "The Viral Web In Real Time", BuzzFeed serves as an aggregator of web content that has gone viral. Its fans were deemed the most likely to support Obama among those who were highly engaged. xkcd fans love Obama The popular stick figure comic's fans are the most likely to be Obama supporters. However, Engage scored them as having a low level of political engagement. Also popular among minimally engaged Facebook users who support Obama were social news site Reddit and handmade e-commerce site Etsy. Liberal and conservative search engines Fans of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) were more likely to support Obama, and more likely to be engaged politically than fans of Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing search engine. Angry Birds For Obama, Farmville for Romney Fans of Zynga's (NASDAQ:ZNGA) popular social game Farmville are strongly likely to be Romney supporters, while Angry Birds fans are just slightly more likely to be Obama backers. Both groups of fans have a low level of political engagement, however. Perhaps they're too busy playing to discuss politics? Amazon for conservatives, Zappos for liberals Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) fans lean Romney, while fans of Amazon subsidiary Zappos prefer Obama. Zappos fans seem to be slightly more engaged then their Amazon brethren. Facebook fans are centrists The web site with the largest number of fans on Facebook — Facebook itself — also appears to have the most centrist group of fans. Facebook sits right in the middle, with no real preference in presidential candidate, and a medium level of political engagement. For more analysis of Engage's research, check out this article from The Atlantic. For a graph visually demonstrating the likelihood of a site's users being supporters of Obama or Romney, as well as their level of political engagement, check out Engage's web site. ARCHIVE Freedom & Prosperity Letter Free Reports Partner With Us Contact Us To prevent your American Breaking Point email updates from getting swept up by an overzealous spam filter, please add our "from" address (Service@americanbreakingpoint.com) to your address book. If your email address has changed, please tell us by going here now: http://investorplace.com/ipi/e/. Or if you would rather not receive email updates from American Breaking Point, you can let us know by visiting http://u.investorplace.com/u/cgfp/index.html We will honor your request in 7-10 days © 2012 InvestorPlace.com Presented by InvestorPlace Media, LLC 700 Indian Springs Drive, Lancaster, PA 17601 ABP20120713A