Two Five pro-life groups surpass huge milestones on Facebook, Twitter
UPDATE 11/30, 2:50p: Students for Life of America has informed me its Facebook cause, Abolish Abortion, has garnered an amazing 636,257 members and has raised an amazing total of $25,052.78 to date. In addition, SFLA announced yesterday it has received a matching grant opportunity from the Friess Family Foundation, which will generously match every dollar donated through December 31 up to $125,000. Double your donation by giving to SFLA today.
UPDATE 11/29, 8:14a: When one writes a post such as this, one risks making an oversight. And I made a big one. Commenter Anna mentioned Personhood USA’s huge accomplishment on Twitter, which is that it has over 100,000 followers, 111,683 to be exact – 3x more than Planned Parenthood. But what’s more, Personhood Florida has almost 124, 000 followers, and Personhood Colorado certainly deserves credit for having almost 47,000 followers. Obviously the Personhood movement is a major force in the pro-life movement.
11/28, 7p: Last week was a big week for Lila Rose and Live Action. The dynamic team blew past 200,000 “likes” on Facebook, an incredible feat.
Tonight with more than 209,000 fans, Live Action has surpassed $1 billion abortion conglomerate and nemesis Planned Parenthood, which has roughly 202,000 pro-abortion fans. NARAL is distantly behind at almost 48,000. Rose commented in an email to me:
The Live Action team is excited about our latest milestone, to be connected with over 200,000 people on Facebook – the largest page on Facebook for a pro-life organization – and the vast majority of our page made up of youth.
While Live Action has less than .1% of Planned Parenthood’s budget, our Facebook page is bigger, and this is just the beginning. Youth stand for the human rights, for the absolute dignity of the human person and the right to life of our unborn brothers and sisters. And we will use every medium available to make our message heard.
Meanwhile LifeNews.com’s founder and editor Steven Ertelt passed an impressive milestone on Twitter, garnering his 30,000th follower.
Ertelt is now nipping at Planned Parenthood’s heels, which has just 1,500 more followers, even after famously paying astronomical ad fees to buy friends. Again, NARAL ranks a distant third with about 10,500 followers.
Ertelt’s advice about Twitter? He wrote in an email:
We’ve been very blessed and successful at networking with pro-life people both on Twitter and Facebook, and I strongly suggest that pro-life groups and activists do more to use social media to advance the pro-life message. With the bias and misinformation in the mainstream media, it’s crucial that we as a pro-life movement uses these free and low-cost tools to educate, to take action, and help people.
The key to success on Twitter and Facebook is providing a consistent stream of timely and useful information that people will find either interesting or be something they can celebrate – a piece of good news.
The second key is interacting with other people – dialoging, having conversations, and sharing information. Twitter and Facebook are communities and people want to network and learn things, but, most of all, they want to build relationships. Building relationships is the key to growing your pro-life networks in social media.
Congratulations to these two leaders in the pro-life movement. Social media is an important, new tool in our quest to defeat the culture of death.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Oh wow, a propaganda laden campaigning organisation has more social media clickers than a non-profit organisation which is more focussed on actually providing services for people.
How many does Bieber have? Is that almost 38 million I see?
Equally valuable!
Very true Reality.
i hear justin bieber is pro life and actually got hate mail from the left wing goons! lmao…i love the kid now!!!!!!
I see the Haters gotta Hate on this thread too.
Great job Live Action and Life News!! Keep up the Good Work!
Simplistic and gratuitous statement Praxedes. No hate, just pointing out the lack of relevance, or importance.
Marilyn Manson a bit over 2 million
Ozzy Osbourne 5.5 million
Miley Cyrus nearly 17 million
It’s always good to have more fans than a billion dollar killing machine. Congratulations Live Action.
Personhood USA recently passed 100,000 followers on Twitter. Awesome to hear about the other groups, too. :) Live Action is great!
Congratulations Lila and Steven!!
My journeys on Facebook have not only helped me make new pro-life friends (and allowed me to support their efforts), but I’ve also learned which of my IRL friends are pro-life (making them even more dear to me)!
I LOVE MY PRO-LIFE FB BUDDIES!!
Oh my goodness, Anna! I’m sorry to have missed that and will add!
Love!!
LOL – yes, let’s be idiots and compare number of followers of pro-life organizations (most of whom have been around for much less time than, say, Miley Cyrus – not that it’s any sort of logical or valid comparison) to the numbers of fans of ANY celebrity, for that matter.
ROFL!!! Apples to oranges.
“Apples to oranges” – glad to see you got my point Kel :-)
Once again, Reality, if you actually read Jill’s posts every once in a while without attempting to derail or without eliciting knee-jerk responses like you did in this thread, maybe you’ll notice she’s actually on topic and is marking a milestone for… watch this… PRO-LIFE GROUPS.
Looks like you’re the one who didn’t read it Kel.
It told us how many more followers on social media sites there were for the propaganda laden anti-choice sites than there were for PP.
I merely pointed out that it was comparing two significantly differerent organisational constructs.
Like you said, apples to oranges.
Uh huh. I don’t see the issue here, Reality.
Jill compared a pro-abortion organization’s number of followers to a pro-life organization’s number of followers.
You compared Marilyn Manson and Miley Cyrus to those numbers.
If you were doing that to make some sort of obscure point, I guess I missed your “logic” as usual.
I was pointing out the complete irrelevance of comparing a service provision non-profit organisation with a social campaigning one. About as relevant as comparing PP’s social media stats with Bieber’s.
It is the failure of the anti-choice movement to ‘get’ numerous instances of the ‘logic’ which is applicable to women choosing abortion that finds anti-choicers battling for a lost cause.
It is the failure of the anti-choice movement to ‘get’ numerous instances of the ‘logic’ which is applicable to women choosing abortion that finds anti-choicers battling for a lost cause.
There has been “logic” behind pretty much every human atrocity to date. The killing always makes perfect sense at the time.
You don’t get it Reality. Every life saved means our cause is not lost. :)
“There has been “logic” behind pretty much every human atrocity to date” – yes, I’ve noticed that. The crusades, the spanish inquisition, rwanda, darfur. Abortion isn’t one of them.
“Every life saved means our cause is not lost.” – much effort, little reward. Glad you’re happy with that.
Reality says:
“Every life saved means our cause is not lost.” – much effort, little reward. Glad you’re happy with that.
Every life saved is of a magnitude far surpassing what you can apparently comprehend. And every life lost is an inestimable loss. If you could truly understand how precious each life is you wouldn’t advocate for abortion. And you wouldn’t think working for a lifetime to save even one life is “much effort, little reward”.
Reality’s comment is pathetic and shows the difference between the pro-life and the pro-abortion philosophies. The pro-life sees every human life (preborn, post-born) as having value. The pro-abortion philosophy sees human life as having little value – unless the strong and powerful say it has value.
Please do not whine about the atrocities of the crusades, the spanish inquisition, rwanda or darfur – hypocrites. Soon enough you will be weak and powerless and at risk of being dump in an ash heap. If you are lucky, you will have a pro-life nurse to care for you in your final years.
We are all in it together, thanks for noticing.