With the recent use in the Iran Presidential Election demonstrations of Twitter to circumvent the government's cut-off of cellular phone and other Internet connections many other network operators (and governments) are wondering if the 140 character communiques can be the catalyst for political action.

MySpace has recently been surpassed by Facebook in millions-of-members but MySpace actually "makes money," taking-in hundreds-of-millions of dollars in advertising revenue that it's parent company, News Corp., can use to promote it's other media companies, The Wall Street Journal, the Fox Broadcast and Cable Television Networks, 20th Century Fox films and Fox Interactive, the division that MySpace operates under.

This is a synergistic advantage that the News Corp. information has as newspaper advertising has declined The Wall Street Journal can run full-page color advertisements for the Fox Business Channel.

Having the opportunity to observe MySpace users for five years they are not using the website to search for educational opportunities. Mostly they spend hours scrolling-down through endless pages of "friends" photos.

MySpace is an "open" network, that is it's members pages can be searched through Google and it's page links posted on it's members other websites.

Facebook, is a "closed" network, only the members entry page shows on a Google and then the prospective reader has to "Log-In" (and be a "member") to view the rest of the Facebookers pages.

Facebook is "still trying to figure out how to monetize it's site" after three years of explosive growth and an investment by a Russian corporation values the Website at $60 billion.

Twitter is the site that limits the individual posts so that they fit the "mobile texting" slanguage that reduces words and idiomatic expressions to their minimalist purity, Twitter is another fast-growing Internet application that is trying to figure-out how to monetize it's hundreds-of-millions of members lols.

The hundreds of workers at the French Total Sa's Lindsey refinery that had been laid-off, to be replaced by lower paid contractors from Europe, got their jobs back after organising mass protests at refineries all over Britain using their Social Networking Websites.

The contracting companies agreed to rehire the 650 engineering and construction workers that had walked-off a $330 million construction project that was building a new refinery unit.

The companies were surprised by the extent of the sympathy walkouts at their other facilities in the country. The industry is staffed mostly by contract workers (called "Temps", temporary workers, in the US a phenomenon that is spreading as employers don't want to provide health insurance) so they had the immediate goal of keeping their jobs as the contract workers at the other facilities in the country joined their common cause by logging-on to their Social Networking Websites.

There are politically-oriented Social Networking Websites in the United States but there is so much activity by the Democratic majorities in both houses of the Congress that are creating massive aggregates of legislation that has so far not been effectively countered by the Republicans that are unaccustomed to being in the minority and have so many side "social conservative issues" that diffuse their efforts as they need "Conservative Democrats" to vote with them to halt the Obama Administration's legislative avalanche. 

That's not to say that it cannot be done. Currently the "Cap-and-Trade" tax scheme that will add to the costs of everything in the United States by selling Carbon Dioxide "Emissions Credits" to energy generators and producers has been taken-up by the political networking sites.  

The first political Website was moveon two presidential elections ago (three generations ago in Internet time) as it blended the use of cellular phone numbers published online on it's Website to enable communication between members, Click "Political Voices of Women" Link Below:

Political Voices of Women