Colbert Nation Rules Facebook

The Facebook group "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T. Colbert" reached a million members in just over a week, making the organization devoted to the comedian's phony presidential campaign the fastest-growing political group in the four-year history of the social networking site. 

The 16-year-old student who founded the group expressed amazement at how much faster the Colbert group had grown than Facebook's Barack Obama group, which took eight months to reach 380,000 members, reports the New York Times. The sheer volume of enthusiasm for Colbert's "campaign" forced Facebook to take the group off line temporarily, with 83 new members a minute straining the web site's server capacity. (More Stephen Colbert stories.)