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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: A Handy Guide To The Most Texas-Loving Pages On Facebook
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Back when Facebook was new on the net, in order to spur participation on the platform, Facebook made a page for every state and issued a challenge: “Let’s see which state can get to a million likes first.”
Texas won and won handily. It wasn’t even close.
Given Texas’s galactic reputation for state pride, the only surprise would have been had Texas not come in first. California and New York were much more tech savvy and digitally connected at the time and should have at least come in second and third, but they didn’...