Social Media make Afghan Election Debut

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SGT Daddy sent me the link to this story.. being the social media geek that I am, I thought it was pretty cool. It will be interesting to see how social media(mainly Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) and the internet makes a difference in the Afghanistan Presidential Election with only 10% of the population having access to electricity.

According to the story–

Afghans may be desperately poor, largely illiterate and without electricity, but that does not stop would-be presidents campaigning in cyber space on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Mimicking tactics made famous by US President Barack Obama, one of the top contenders to rule Afghanistan “tweets” on hot micro-blogging service Twitter and has a flashy website where supporters can make donations.

Of 41 presidential candidates standing on August 20, some trumpet policies on social networking site Facebook, while video-sharing website YouTube carries clips of campaign rallies from across the war-scarred nation.

You can view the whole story : http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090730/tc_afp/afghanistanvoteinternetmedia