The B.C. Liberals, NDP, and Greens are fighting an all-out social-media war in the lead-up to the May 12 provincial election.
The battlegrounds: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.
So, who's winning? Judging by the numbers of followers and supporters they've amassed, as of this afternoon (April 26), it's too early to tell.
On Facebook, Liberal premier Gordon Campbell has 2,172 supporters, NDP leader Carole James has 1,959, and Green leader Jane Sterk has 193.
The Liberal party's Facebook page lists 959 fans, while the New Democrats' boasts 332 supporters.
In addition, the NDP has a Facebook group with 1,575 members, and the Greens have a group with 997 members.
Over on Twitter, Campbell has double the amount of followers as James, with 2,732 to her 1,329. Sterk is far behind with 95 followers.
But, in terms of party accounts, the NDP leads with 1,005 Twitter followers. The Liberals have 732 followers, and the Greens have 589.
Ray Lam became the election campaign's first social-media casualty on April 19, when he resigned as the NDP candidate in Vancouver-False Creek after sexually provocative Facebook photos came to light.
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And who has time for Twitter? When articles can be read?
But I looked up their group, it has, ahem, 270 members.