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Obama Mania
January 27, 2009
As 2 million Americans in Washington witnessed the historic inauguration of president elect, Barack Obama on 20 January 2009 – we were also watching down under, online. According to Hitwise, Barack Obama (www.barackobama.com), the campaign website of president elect Barack Obama, was ranked 2nd in the Lifestyle – Politics industry for the 21/01/2009 and experienced a 72.82% market share increase from the 20/01/2009.
The top three downstream websites to receive traffic from the Barack Obama website for the 21/01/2009, were Facebook, Wikipedia and MySpace.
Interestingly, the search term variations for ‘barack obama’ for the four week period ending 17/01/2009 included: ‘barack obama inauguration’, ‘barack obama acceptance speech’ and ‘barack obama shirtless’. Now you know.
Posted at 10:52 AM
In Categories Politics