Sarah Palin's Crosshairs Come Under Fire On Facebook
Status updates go up about once every second addressing Saturday's shooting in Arizona, and whether Sarah Palin had any influence upon it.
After Saturday’s shocking shooting in Tucson, millions of people turned to Facebook to discuss what happened and share their reactions, and even now status updates addressing the issue go up at least once every second. Sarah Palin became part of the controvery because of her “rifle-sight” maps against Democrats, which were available on her Facebook profile until her staff pulled the content shortly after the tragedy occurred. In an interview with ABC News yesterday, Facebook’s marketing director Randi Zuckerberg discussed how people used Facebook to react and talk about the shooting outside of a Safeway store in Tucson last Saturday, when a gunman shot 20 people, killed six, and left Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords badly injured in the middle of her public meeting with constituents.
Within 12 hours after the shooting, about 3 million people had mentioned State Representative Gabrielle Giffords in their profile status in some capacity, while about 2 million...
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