McCain Campaign Launches Straight Talk Express
Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 20th, 2008 10:43 AMThe McCain campaign decided to enter the world of Facebook yesterday with the launch of the Straight Talk Express application. So what does the application do? Not much to be honest. All it does is embed the video which I’ve included below. That’s it! It also enables users to invite their friends and provides links to John McCain sites as well but nothing else.
I’m not quite sure why the McCain team decided to launch this application rather than embed the video on a fan page but that’s their decision, not mine! The McCain team is way behind the Obama team on Facebook given that the Barack Obama fan page has now crossed 1 million supporters. The John McCain straight talk express application has added less than 1,000 users so far but then again it just launched yesterday.
The video created by the McCain team is a really well done MTV Cribs style overview of one of the Straight Talk Express buses. I’m not sure how this tells me anything about McCain as a candidate but I definitely learned a little something about his bus driver. Check out the video below and feel free to install the Straight Talk Express application.
(4.64 out of 5)
(4.22 out of 5)
June 20th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Facebook won’t let me review this app. An error message pops up.
Is this a Facebook bug or has Facebook made a deal with the McCain campaign to protect their app?
June 20th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Nevermind, I made it work. Apparently facebook blocks reviews with “dot com” in the text. I just that in reference to McCain’s homepage.
What a lame app. 2 stars…because he knows what Facebook is.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Facebook won’t let me review this app. An error message pops up.
Is this a Facebook bug or has Facebook made a deal with the McCain campaign to protect their app?
June 20th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Nevermind, I made it work. Apparently facebook blocks reviews with “dot com” in the text. I just that in reference to McCain’s homepage.
What a lame app. 2 stars…because he knows what Facebook is.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
nick did you see the app obama has? its embedded on their fan page, but anyone can put it on their site too. not very complex, but better than this.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
nick did you see the app obama has? its embedded on their fan page, but anyone can put it on their site too. not very complex, but better than this.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
FYI this video keeps autoplaying on my computer, mildly-to-severely annoying…
June 26th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
FYI this video keeps autoplaying on my computer, mildly-to-severely annoying…
June 26th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
The autoplay is actually quite annoying, especially if you are on the main site and suddenly you hear about the mccain express
June 26th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
The autoplay is actually quite annoying, especially if you are on the main site and suddenly you hear about the mccain express