Obama Hires Facebook Founder Hughes

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Hotline reports that Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has been blogging on Barack Obama’s site and has “joined Obama’s camp full-time as New Media staff.” Their headline writing wag wonders, “Can This End The ‘Who’s Winning On Facebook’ Debate Once And For All?”

I’ve been on Facebook for a few weeks and find it interesting. I haven’t figured out how one would leverage it, let alone MySpace, to much advantage in a political campaign. Then again, hiring the guy who created it strikes me as a smart move.

One response to “Obama Hires Facebook Founder Hughes”

  1. It’s probably the best tool for mobilizing college students since fear of the draft. And even before this, Obama was rocking it — his support group has something like 500K members.