ABC News partners with Facebook

November 26, 2007 · Filed Under Innovation, , ,  

and have partnered around the presidential , integrating the network’s news coverage with and new tools for discussing the campaign.


The / partnership includes:

  • Debate Groups — an area of the US Politics application where users can take a stand and discuss their views on the campaign’s key issues. will join and WMUR-TV in hosting back-to-back Democratic and Republican Presidential candidate debates in New Hampshire in the run-up to that state’s primary. Both before and after the debates, users will be able to participate in Debate Groups, providing a companion to the televised debates.
  • ’ political news and video will be located on the US Politics application. users can add this application to their profile and support candidates, interact with content directly on and share the content with their friends, and view updated supporter counts and Poll results.
  • reporters assigned to the candidates will file frequent dispatches from their posts on the trail to . The dispatches will be posted to their reporter profiles - which users can subscribe to.
  • / Pulses. and will conduct frequent online polls to gauge users’ responses to the campaign’s hot-button issues.

You can sign up for the ABC News Facebook application here.

· Written by Jon · 2 Comments

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