Facebook and Twitter Primary: The Final Five
April 15, 2016

Facebook and Twitter Primary: The Final Five

RCP % Avg Facebook Followers FB Engaged Engagement Rate FB Followers Dec FB Gain % chg FB Twitter Followers APR Twitter Dec Twitter gain % chg Twitter Hillary Clinton 46.8  3,163,408    681,093 21.5  2,160,862  1,002,546 46.4  5,940,469  5,049,765     890,704 17.6 Bernie Sanders 45.8  3,882,973 1,064,851 27.4  2,296,730  1,586,243 69.1  1,949,708  1,105,792     843,916 […]

The Facebook and Twitter Primary in Iowa
January 16, 2016

The Facebook and Twitter Primary in Iowa

FB  Followers FB Engaged FB Eng Rate Twitter  Following RCP Avg IOWA Bernie Sanders 19135 22212 1.16 4272 45.3% Hillary Clinton 16661 5918 0.36 21742 45.5% Martin O’Malley 5.0% I received a lot of comments on my post on the Twitter and Facebook primaries and the national polls.  One of them said I did not […]

January 7, 2016

Twitter and Facebook Primary Democratic Update: Engagement Matters Most

FB Followers Dec Engaged Dec Engagement rate Dec Gain in FB Followers Twitter followers RCP Poll Avgerage Dec Hillary Clinton 2,160,862 450,105 0.208 951,683 5,049,765 53.3% Bernie Sanders 2,296,730 425,935 0.185 1,071,178 1,105,792 32% Martin O’Malley 104,179 2,516 0.024 27,226 119.145 3.5% With only three data points in the Democratic race for President, there is […]

December 30, 2015

Twitter and Facebook Primary Update: The GOP Stretch Run

With the holiday season winding down the stretch run in Iowa and New Hampshire I thought I would take another look at how the candidates Facebook and Twitter followings associate with their Real Clear Politics (RCP) polling averages.  There are 3 candidates left in the democrats and 12 left for the GOP.  There were 13 […]

Twitter Primary: Following and Presidential Candidate Support
August 29, 2015

Twitter Primary: Following and Presidential Candidate Support

In my last post I talked about how candidates Facebook followings predict their standing in the polls.  I came across this graph about the number of fake Twitter followers the top candidates have.  I decided to look at how the candidates followers on twitter correspond with their respective standing in the polls.  The poll numbers […]