Paul, Obama lead pack in Web 2.0 campaign efforts

-Computerworld

If presidential elections were determined by the success of the Web 2.0 efforts of candidates, the leaders today would Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) on the Republican side and Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) would come out on top.

Both candidates have found much success in getting voters to view their videos on YouTube, their photos on Flickr and their profiles on MySpace according to a new study released Monday by Internet research firm Compete Inc. The study set out to measure the time two million online users spent interacting with the candidates through MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and MeetUp (a site for organizing groups) and candidate Web sites.

Ron Paul led all the candidates in what Compete called "FaceTime," or the total time users spent viewing content about him on the Web 2.0 sites, with 167,760 total hours in October, according to Compete. Obama came in second with 86,548 hours, and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) rounded out the top three with 60,876 hours.

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