Brown Tops Coakley in Social-Networking Vote

Voters in Massachusetts are heading to the polls to elect either Democrat Martha Coakley or Republican Scott Brown as the replacement for Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), but from a social-media standpoint, there was already a clear winner by a landslide.

AdAge.com reports that the Brown campaign has been much more active on social-media sites, with the Republican candidate besting his Democrat counterpart 10,765-3,657 in Twitter followers, 83,535-15,573 in Facebook friends and 675,208-76,805 in YouTube video viewings.

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