A Provo company drove up its Web traffic significantly with a little April Fool’s joke involving President Barack Obama and 18 million users of Facebook.
Familylink.com, a 2 -year-old family and social networking company, sent out e-mails to active users of its “We’re Related” application on Facebook, the Web site that allows people to connect with each other and share information about their lives.
“Hi,” said the e-mail, “Barack Obama (Washington, DC) has confirmed you as his fourth cousin once removed.”
Read the full article in the April 1, 2009 edition of The Salt Lake Tribune.
Read about how they did it at the World Vital Records blog… Note that they got to Randy with it and now they are using him as their example (see his picture on the WVR blog). But he’s got a good sense of humor. I’m sure he’s handling it well… (grin)
