The White House began using services from Facebook Inc., News Corp.'s MySpace and Twitter Inc. to connect directly with the millions of Americans on social- networking sites. President Barack Obama's administration has created pages on Facebook and MySpace, the most popular social-networking sites, along with Twitter, where users post short text messages, the White House said on its blog. The pages had already attracted more than 100,000 fans or followers - mostly on Facebook. The effort builds on the president's official Web site, WhiteHouse.gov, which debuted in 1994. The White House also uses YouTube, Google Inc.'s video-sharing site, and Flickr, Yahoo! Inc.'s photo service. As a candidate, Obama relied on Twitter and Facebook to reach constituents, especially younger voters.
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