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#inaug09 – Obama and Social Media Part II
The Social Media campaign created and managed by GMMB last year on behalf of Barack Obama was truly fascinating – Obama was indeed everywhere online from mainstream sites such as Facebook, Myspace or Twitter to niche communities such as Eons or AsianAve.
Today millions of people are attending or watching the Obama Inauguration on TV/Online, but are also creating content live across the Globe through Social Media.
1) Avatars
Shepard Fairey’s ‘Hope’ poster of Barack Obama became the iconic image of a historic campaign. I spotted lots of Twitterers this morning who changed their avatar using Obicamicon.me. Here’s Lolly-Obama!
2) Twitter
There were sightings of the Fail Whale earlier this afternoon but I think that Twitter coped pretty well overall! The Inauguration Twitter stream is right here.
Inaugural Ceremony Tweets can be found right here: #inaug09
3) Flickr
New photos are being added to the Inauguration 2009 group as we speak – keep your eyes peeled on that one! I really enjoyed taking a look at the various newspaper headlines from around the world!
4) CNN and Facebook
The CNN / Facebook integration was my personal favourite of the day, but I don’t think Facebook will replace Twitter quite yet. I LOVED the CNN/Facebook interface and the concept certainly has a lot of potential to engage with non-geeks! 
The stats released, as of noon ET are as follows (Source: Mashable)
1. There were 200,000+ status updates through the Facebook integration on CNN.com
2. At that time, 3,000 people commented on the Facebook CNN feed per minute
3. Obama’s Facebook Fan Page has more than 4 million fans and in excess of 500,000 wall posts
5) Inauguration Speech Wordle Cloud
Kudos to Nick Burcher for spotting it!
Last but certainly not least, I received this ad for Phillips Power4life whilst watching CNN (PR agency was at the right place at the right time), a (hopefully) humorous conclusion to this blog post – enjoy!
Feel free to redirect me to anything exciting / different / super-dooper cool that you’ve seen today!
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