Obama's MySpace Drama

fistfullast33l writes "TechPresident, which is covering the use of technology by Presidential Campaigns for 2008, has a very interesting article on how Obama's MySpace page is currently the subject of an underground battle for control by the campaign itself and the volunteer who created it in 2004. Joseph Anthony worked with the campaign initially and grew the site to include over 160,000 unsolicited friends that the campaign could use to reach out to. It currently is the main Obama page in the Impact Channel on MySpace. However, as Obama's campaign became more centralized and formal, the decision was made to attempt to acquire control of the site from Anthony. They asked him for a price, which he offered up as $49,000 plus part of the $10,000 fee paid to MySpace for the Impact Channel. Obama balked at the price, and decided to start afresh rather than pay the money. The fight broke out into the open when Anthony posted a response on his blog to rumors that the campaign was spreading regarding him wanting to cash out. MyDD has more."

Comments

Onion.

[Anonymous Coward]

This article needs pics.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Not Sure About The Profile, But...

[Bob9113]

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the profile - I don't know enough of the full story yet.

The following, however, does seem a little wrong:
http://traxel.com/tmp/obama-myspace-2.png

I do not have a MySpace account. I have not ever logged in. On this computer, I have all MySpace cookies blocked. That is, I have no network on MySpace. It is not possible that, "Barack is in my extended network".

Don't take my word for it - flush your cookies and see for yourself.