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Saturday, July 28

Politicians Changing Friendships on My Space

by Chris Gilbey on July 28, 2007 09:30AM (EST)

2 weeks ago on July 14th I did some research on the number of friends Australian politicians had on MySpace.

I thought it would be interesting to see what, if any, changes there have been over the last two weeks, to those that I originally researched.

Here are the results - previous numbers in brackets.

Howard Government – 9 Friends (8)
Kevin Rudd – 9545 Friends (4131)
Bob Brown – 958 Friends (181)
Andrew Bartlett – 573 Friends (261)
Steve Fielding – 60 Friends (5)
Peter Garrett – 1040 Friends (933)
Joe Hockey – 567 Friends (275)
Kerry Nettle – 205 Friends (83)
Tanya Plibersek – 201 Friends (101)
Malcolm Turnbull – 229 Friends (123)
Warren Snowdon –241 Friends (26)
Dennis Jensen – 95 Friends (6)
Julia Gillard – 1671 Friends (778)
Wayne Swan – 417 Friends (180)
Stephen Conroy – 208 Friends (112)
Maxine McKew – 573 Friends (133)
Nicola Roxon – 149 Friends (66)
Greg Combet – 553 Friends (342)
Steve Ciobo – 100 Friends (71)
Sam Crosby – 10 Friends (10)

The take away: Even the Liberal Party can grow its friends! But Sam Crosby can't....

Keywords: Politics, MySpace, activism

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