LOS ANGELES. CA (KNX) -- The dispute between the Obama presidential campaign and Joe Anthony, a 29 year old paralegal in Los Angeles, over who manages Barack Obama's MySpace profile ended with MySpace handing the campaign control over the profile but transferring the network of 160,000 friends to another profile which Anthony edits.
Anthony created the profile in November, 2004 when Obama won a seat in the US Senate. When Obama entered the presidential race, his campaign worked with Anthony to update the site and Anthony gave them the passwords necessary to access the profile.
However, once Obama's friends network exploded to over 160,000 people, the campaign became weary of letting an outsider control the candidate's image on the popular social networking website. The Obama campaign wanted more control over the profile, but negotiations broke down when they rejected Anthony's request for $39,000 plus future fees.
Anthony then changed the password to the profile. The Obama campaign responded by complaining to MySpace executives over the issue. Obama got control of the profile, but had to start his friend network from scratch since MySpace executives decided to let Anthony keep the network of 160,000 Obama supporters.
As of Thursday morning Barack Obama has slightly over 21,000 friends.
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