One of the interesting things about the Wikileaks brouhaha is the speed at which news about it, and support for it, is propagating. I’ve been watching Wikileaks’ Facebook page today (Dec 6 ,2010), and if my numbers are right it has gained an average of 105 “Likes” per minute between 11AM EST and 3:25 PM EST. That’s about 6300 new people, every hour, giving Wikileaks a thumbs-up by clicking the “Like” button on their fan page. A few minutes ago it topped 900k.

Extrapolating from that average, in about 16 hours, Wikileaks will have over 1 million Facebook supporters.

How ’bout Twitter? Wikileaks’ Twitter account gained 1907 followers between 13:32 EST and 15:32 EST, up from 406,018 to 407,925.

I wish I’d been looking at the data earlier on. It would be neat to see the points where the growth accelerated, and correlate that with big news events. The only historical data I have is that on Dec 4, just two days ago, Wikileaks tweeted  they had hit 600K Facebook supporters.

Amazon, PayPal, and EveryDNS (not EasyDNS!) have all dropped support for Wikileaks’ internet presence. I wonder whether and how long Twitter and Facebook will allow these accounts to stay up.