Fastest Growing Groups in the History of Facebook

October 22, 2007 by Steve - Seton Hall

Stephen Colbert Facebook will be a powerful tool in the 2008 presidental race.

Although there’s no guarantee everyone who joins a candidate support group on Facebook will make it out and vote, it is a good way to create awareness.

Obama created a group called Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) 9 months ago and it currently sits at 381,000 members. There is a anti-support group called Stop Hillary Clinton: (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary) started 8 months ago that currently has over 488,000+ users.

These were the strongest two political groups on the Facebook network until Stephen Colbert officially entered the 2008 presidential race on October 16th.

1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert was created on Wednesday Oct 17th at 5PM and quickly overtook Obama’s “1,000,00 Strong” in less than 5 days. Currently at 441,000 members the group will pass the Hilary group later this afternoon.

Whether or not you support Colbert (or even think he is a legit candidate) it’s worth visiting the page, waiting one minute and hitting refresh to see the number jump.

Their goal of 1 million by the end of this week could actually be reached.

UPDATE: Colbert reached his goal of 1,000,000 members – and counting!

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10 Responses to “Fastest Growing Groups in the History of Facebook”

Evan says:

October 24, 2007 at 2:01 pm

I am a member of this group that has now grown to over 700,000 members. I am 18 and a registered voter. I will vote for Stephen Colbert, they created a 1,000,000 against stephen which has around 50 members and when I asked wat qualifications he didnt have, nobody could answer my question. He is a born leader with a degree in history. His work is about politics, and whatever inexperience he has is solved by his presidental cabinet. he was raised in a family of 11 other siblings, he is a family man. he is everything that politicians try to get you to beleive they are. Our first president once said that the best president is one that doesnt want to be one. so why not vote for the unexpected candidate.
Dan says:

October 25, 2007 at 8:15 pm

Unfortunately he is only running in South Carolina. Right now at least.
tr says:

October 25, 2007 at 9:01 pm

my #1 question is how awesome is it going to be when he debates!?

Will he even be allowed to debate?
dberz says:

October 25, 2007 at 9:36 pm

The group is well into the 900,000 region now, the goal of 1,000,000 its laughably close to becoming a reality.
Damien Hunter says:

October 26, 2007 at 3:22 am

If he runs on the ticket in California I will vote for him. Second choice is Ron Paul.
sebastian says:

October 26, 2007 at 3:55 am

awesome!
stef says:

October 26, 2007 at 7:52 am

we’ve just reached the million
Tim says:

October 26, 2007 at 9:04 am

The goal has been reached.
ramfan23 says:

October 26, 2007 at 4:27 pm

it hit one million
dfd says:

November 6, 2007 at 7:27 pm

And he’s STILL a fake candidate. Only there for morons who don’t understand politics.