TITLE

Facebook tops among NASCAR fans

AUTHOR(S)

Klaassen, Abbey

PUB. DATE

September 2009

SOURCE

Tire Business;9/14/2009, Vol. 27 Issue 12, p11

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports that data from Turner Networks reveal that social networking website Facebook Inc. is the most popular social network among NASCAR fans. Turner has recently made NASCAR and National Basketball Association (NBA) viewing social by letting users sign in to the various online networks to chat about the races and basketball games. MySpace is the second in ranking.

ACCESSION #

44388814

Tags: ONLINE social networks;  FACEBOOK Inc.;  NASCAR (Association);  STOCK car racing;  NATIONAL Basketball Association

 

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