In 2008 the presidential election was a huge deal because the candidates were flocking to social media websites to attract more viewers and get more publicity. News outlets started to post results and different polls so people can see updates of them on news feeds instead of looking them up or seeing them on TV. Fast forward now to the 2012 election that has just past the social media has probably increased ten fold then it was four years ago. I truly believe that people use these social media sites more then the watch the news for updates on elections or to watch clips from debates, more so on Facebook. I believe Facebook has surpassed a lot of things involving news whether its the presidential election to the Super Bowl. Twitter is just more of peoples thoughts but I mean it does present clips and pictures from many things involving news but its more low key. Below are some statistics I found on the internet that seem pretty accurate
"Social media has grown in leaps and bounds over the past four years. Facebook penetration went from 44.3 million users to 143.3 million in that time, Twitter grew from 3.4 million to 24.1 million, and online video viewers went from 121.4 million to 178.8 million."
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