If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you may not have noticed that Michael Phelps has risen to become possibly the most popular athlete in American history over the weekend. On Facebook, Michael Phelps attracted almost 1 million fans over the past week and has grown to have the second most popular fan page on Facebook. The only person that Phelps has to contend with on Facebook is Barack Obama who currently has over 1.34 million fans.
Michael Phelps is catching up rapidly and with the help of Facebook, who has decided to promote the page at the top of the newsfeed today, there’s a good chance that Michael Phelps will soon be the most popular person on the site. The page is currently growing at around 20 fans a second so within a few hours, Phelps could theoretically be the most popular person on the site. We’ll have to see if the growth remains constant.
If you’d like to be part of making Michael Phelps the most popular person on Facebook, go check out the Michael Phelps fan page.
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What about the UK. Pfft.
Comment by Mike — August 18, 2008 @ 11:56 am
What about the UK. Pfft.
Comment by Mike — August 18, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
For the UK i think Facebook (and other sites cue MSN UK) should be 'worshiping' Rebbecca Adlington and Chris HoyBut remember fellow brit – Facebook is American so like NBC coverage which i been told will neglect the rest of the world and follows the 2 state system 'USA and the rest of the world'
Comment by Jamie — August 18, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
For the UK i think Facebook (and other sites cue MSN UK) should be 'worshiping' Rebbecca Adlington and Chris Hoy
But remember fellow brit – Facebook is American so like NBC coverage which i been told will neglect the rest of the world and follows the 2 state system 'USA and the rest of the world'
Comment by Jamie — August 18, 2008 @ 8:03 pm
I do not understand why Michael Phelps has not accepted my friend request.
Comment by Elizabeth — August 19, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Yeah I noticed that… what a huge tribute to him as we all know FB never does that…. congrats to him!
Comment by Nick Stamoulis — August 19, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
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