Barack Obama is about to get his one millionth fan.  The Democratic candidate's official Facebook page saw a sharp increase right around when Sen. Clinton dropped out earlier this month, and has climbed steadily since.  Lucky #1,000,000 will arrive tonight.

John McCain's often aimless email messages are something of a recurring theme here at techPresident, so much so that we're dubbing the topic "McCain Email Watch."  Patrick Ruffini got us started with a post on the "fundamental disconnect" of McCain's "stitled" online personality, and I followed up on a distinct lack of links in a recent McCain campaign email.

But McCain's email problems are worse than we first thought.  Case-in-point: today's fundraising message that offered a 3'x6' personalized banner for the low price of $250.

John McCain's online team needs to find someone who knows what they're doing with the campaign's email list. Campaign manager Rick Davis sent an email to supporters this afternoon titled "Reckless" - clocking in at 597 words - without including a single link until the 580th word.

Shortly after 2:00pm today, the New York Times posted a front-page story announcing New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer was involved in an interstate prostitution ring. But if you wanted the absolute latest information, close your NYTimes.com browser window and head over to Twitter, where the news of Spitzer's scandal spread so quickly it was difficult to keep up.

Using the third-party application Tweetscan, you can search for specific phrases and see only the tweets that include your search. In the half hour between 3 and 3:30 EST, there were more than 300 tweets that mentioned Spitzer.

Yesterday Facebook changed the way it lets users identify their political views, replacing a simple spectrum of views with a cluttered list of international political parties. Organizing people into political parties allows Facebook to sell microtargeted ads to advertisers looking to reach, say, Democrats in Ohio. Unfortunately, the change in emphasizing in party over position will organize a small base of users who self-identify as members of the national parties, and scatter the rest into free-form identification.

Hillary brought some short & simple class to Twitter tonight - she thanked both Rhode Island and Ohio immediately after winning each state.

Kentucky bloggers are taking back their state's Democratic Party, one wiki entry at a time.  This week Ben Carter and Joe Sonka, proprietors of the progressive Kentucky blog BlueGrassRoots, announced the creation of BlueGrassWiki.  The project aims to organize information about Kentucky's 120 county parties in order to "infiltrate" local leadership in upcoming party precinct elections.

First Macworld, now the State of the Union. Several times during tonight's SOTU address Twitter's servers were overloaded, preventing users of the popular micro-blogging service from sending or receiving tweets for several minutes at a time.

A scan of Twitter's public timeline during the speech showed a number of tweets about Bush's (hopefully) last address to Congress. But midway through, Twitter's website failed to process new messages and friend requests for several minutes at a time.

Barack Obama's campaign put its Facebook page to a new use just days before the Iowa caucuses. Fans, or supporters, of Barack Obama received a message asking to remind their friends in Iowa to caucus.

The message, titled "3 Days to Go," directs supporters to a page with all of their friends who have some connection to Iowa. You can check off the friends you want to invite to the caucus, and then send them a reminder to caucus on Thursday.

Hillary Clinton's online operation is adapting the traditional tactics of polling and direct mail to survey subscribers of the campaign's email list.  Political campaigns have always contacted donors and potential supporters via phone polls or direct mail appeals, but Clinton's campaign is going one step further, applying similar techniques to obtain a potentially more honest portrait of its email list. 

I wrote about this survey on Huffington Post's Off the Bus, but come take a look at some of my findings after the jump.