In my piece today about Donald Trumpโ€™s possible 2012 run, I wrote that โ€œas a possible candidate, Trump doesnโ€™t appear to have gained much traction.โ€

Not so, objects Michael Cohen, executive vice president at The Trump Organization and one of the organizers behind the โ€œShould Trump Run?โ€ website. Cohen points out that the site has already had over 550,000 page views, despite the fact that Trumpโ€™s name has only recently been bandied about as a presidential contender. He also points out that Trumpโ€™s two Twitter accounts (DonaldJTrump and RealDonaldTrump) cumulatively have over 500,000 followers. I pointed out in the piece that Mitt Romney had significantly more Facebook followers than Trump (800,000 vs. 180,000), but itโ€™s true that Trump does trump (yes, I know, if he does run in 2012, all the media should mutually promise not to use phrases like that) Romney in twitter followers: he has only 30,000 followers.