Politicians Spotted on MySpace

Posted on April 17th, 2006
By Todd Zeigler in Politics, Public Affairs, Social Networks, Technology, Web 2.0

I got an email from a colleague pointing me to the MySpace page of Allan Lichtman, a Democrat running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Maryland. This is the first politican I’ve seen with a MySpace profile, although I haven’t looked that hard. With 250,000 new users signing up every day and 66 million total users, I’d look for more politicians to try to tap in to the MySpace phenomenon.

Note: Lichtman (or one of his staffers) was actually logged on to MySpace when I visited and took the screenshot below.

Update: I got an email from a reader and there is another Senate candidate with a MySpace page. Meet Pete Ashdown, who is running against Senator Orin Hatch in Utah.

Update #2 (May 8, 2006): I came across another one. Check out California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides on MySpace. There is a San Francisco Examiner article about this candidates My Space.

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Theo

April 18th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

Thanks for noticing Allan’s MySpace page. As far as I know we are the first political campaign to use MySpace in this way and it’s been getting some attention just because it’s a new idea. You should check out our campaign blog on the main web site at http://www.allanlichtman.com.
Todd Zeigler

April 19th, 2006 at 12:11 pm

Theo -

Thanks for the comment. I think you guys are the first as well. It’s a novel idea.

Thanks,

Todd
Todd Zeigler

April 19th, 2006 at 12:45 pm

I take that back. Was just alerted that there a Senate candidate from Utah is on MySpace as well.