The Facebook Election Results

If you have been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, Barack Obama won the U.S. Presidential election. Also declaring a big win yesterday: Facebook. A couple of hours ago, Randi Zuckerberg posted statistics of yesterday’s Facebook activity. According to ZDNet, site usage was up 20 percent over the previous week, indicating that users were turning to their friends for insight on the election.

Other statistics that Facebook posted includes:

  • More than 5.4 million clicked the “I voted” button that we wrote about yesterday
  • The 5.4
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