BillboardsAgainstObama.com

[melensdad]

Apparently this website has gone viral and is attracting donations from all walks of life, all around the nation.

They have billboards in Atlanta now, you can see samples at their website Billboards Against Obama

 

[bigiron]

who can i contact? i would like to have one put in my front yard!

 

[Field King]

what do u mean by "gone viral"?

 

[lawrra]

what do u mean by "gone viral"?

It has spread around to people, kind of like a virus. It's an internet term, I suppose.

 

[melensdad]

who can i contact? i would like to have one put in my front yard!

I put the link in my first post, simply click on the link, it takes you to their website, but they don't have yard signs, these are HUGE BILLBOARDS on the Interstate Highway, they plan to put them all around the USA.

what do u mean by "gone viral"?

Gone Viral is an internet term that means it started small and has grown at an exponential rate and keeps growing/spreading by work of mouth. Typically growth is so fast that the webservers crash because they are getting too many requests for views.

Here is an article about it, and how it started.

Who's Behind the Anti-Obama Billboards? - 11Alive.com | WXIA | Atlanta, GA
WHO IS BEHIND THE ANTI-OBAMA BILLBOARDS?

ATLANTA - 11Alive News first broke the story about several anti-Obama billboards that popped up around Atlanta two days ago.

On Friday we found out who's behind them.

"There's a group of entrepreneurs, small business owners, that have frankly just said, 'we've had enough' and they're taking the gloves off," says Atlanta author and motivational speaker Tommy Newberry.

Newberry is an outspoken conservative whose books include, "The War on Success: How the Obama Agenda is Shattering the American Dream".

He has now come forward as the spokesman for what he says are about a dozen business owners who hatched the idea for the billboards about two months ago.

He says they are political conservatives who are unsatisfied and troubled with the direction the Obama administration is taking America.

"The health care bill was maybe the final straw that set them off," Newberry adds.

He says they asked themselves, "why don't we use the free market to help slow the slide into socialism?"

They launched their website, Billboardsagainstobama.com, about two weeks ago and began putting up a half dozen of the rotating digital billboards Wednesday.

The billboard messages include "Stop Obama Socialism" and "Now It's Personal. America's Coming for You Congress! Vote Liberals Out in 2010!".

After the Drudge Report picked up 11Alive's first web story from Thursday, the billboard website has gone viral.

"It's overloaded," says Newberry, adding that they've had to add extra capacity to handle several hits a minute.

He says they've now gotten contributions of anywhere from $1 up to $3,200 from Texas, Seattle, California and several other states.

Right now the group has about nine of the billboards in various parts of Metro Atlanta, but they hope to put them up all over the country soon.

 

[Field King]

Thanx I did not know the internet meaning

 

[miguel]

It has spread around to people, kind of like a virus. It's an internet term, I suppose.

Yes, "viral marketing" means you don't pay to advertise, you count on people saying, "Hey, did you see that [fill in product]?" and info spreading "person to person". Most people will trust something a friend tells them, over something a stranger or ad tells them. (most...)

Some companies actually pay people to go into online forums to talk about a product in order to generate interest. I've also heard of companies that get people to do it on a college campus -- or bars near a college campus.