{"id":612522,"date":"2009-12-21T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Facebook-Group-Beats-Simon-Cowell-130347.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-21T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:28:00","slug":"facebook-group-beats-simon-cowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/612522","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Group Beats Simon Cowell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook enjoys a massive audience of 350 million users and Twitter, while a lot smaller, commands some pretty impressive sway; yet, it’s still impressive to see the power they have after just a few years of existence. For the last four years, the number one single in the UK for Christmas came from the winner of X-Factor, one of Simon Cowell’s many reality talent shows, which was timed to end just before Christmas. This year, the number one single was Rage Against the Machine’s 15-years-old “Killing in the Name,” thanks to a massively popular Facebook campaign. <\/p>\n

Londoners Jon and Tracy Morter were fed up with the status quo and decided to do something to change it by trying to push out this year’s X-Factor winner from the number one spot. So, they did as anyone fighting “the system” does these days, they set up a Facebook Group and started promoting their cause. The big surprise, though, was that it actually worked, apparently the message resonated with a lot of folks and word of the movement began spreading. <\/p>\n

Soon enough, the Facebook group “Rage Against the Machine for Christmas no.1” got 1 million members, perhaps spurred by comedian Peter Serafinowicz who urged his over 268,000 Twitter followers to join the campaign. But even with the apparent popularity, half of those people wou… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook enjoys a massive audience of 350 million users and Twitter, while a lot smaller, commands some pretty impressive sway; yet, it’s still impressive to see the power they have after just a few years of existence. For the last four years, the number one single in the UK for Christmas came from the winner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zlo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}