Palin Nears One Million Facebook Fans, While Lagging on Twitter
by Kara Swisher
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 12:06 AM PT
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is certainly giving her Facebook fan page a workout this week, as she nears one million fans.
Using the site to flack her new book, “Going Rogue,” which comes out officially today, it got a big boost from her interview today with Oprah Winfrey, clocking in at close to 995,000 fans last night.
Posts include info on her multipart interview with Barbara Walters, her unhappiness with the recent cover of her in running clothes in Newsweek magazine (“The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now.”) and, of course, how the media were unfairly attacking her.
Interestingly, Palin’s followers for the book in Twitter (#SarahPalinUSA) number a paltry 17,624.
Still, Palin has other Twitter accounts, such as when she was governor of Alaska (153,432), but this is still a very small audience.
(By the way, President Barack Obama is closing in on seven million fans on Facebook and 2.7 million followers on Twitter.)
As the media onslaught gains steam, here is some video of Palin’s television interview on “Oprah” yesterday:
