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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Sun May 10, 2015, 02:35 AM May 2015

Good News .....Bernie's and Hillary's FACEBOOK statistics.

Between April 30th and May 9th Bernie Sanders has had an average of 17,766 Facebook shares per post reaching a total of 100,000,000 people on Facebook. Within the same time, Hillary Clinton has had an average of 225 Facebook shares per post reaching a total of 1,000,000 people.


But what do the data show when you compare Clinton’s post-announcement 'shares' to those of Sanders? Does Sanders still win?

During the 10 days following Hillary's announcement she had an average of 3,700 Facebook shares per post. So Bernie had an average of 14,000 more shares per post following his announcement.


interesting metric is "talking about this".

Hillary Clinton (~800k likes) has ~50k (~6.25%) talking about this.
Bernie's page (~400k likes) has ~250k (~62.5%) talking about this.
Bernie's Senate page (~1m likes) has ~955k (~95%) talking about this.
Phenomenal engagement there. Many articles I read simply mention Facebook likes and ignore "talking about this" which is a lot more useful to show engagement & reach.


http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/people-talking-about-this-defined/273447


http://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/35ft7d/between_april_30th_and_may_9th_bernie_sanders_has/

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Good News .....Bernie's and Hillary's FACEBOOK statistics. (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter May 2015 OP
There definitely a buzz around this campaign..... daleanime May 2015 #1
You can believe the evil ones have teams scouring the print records Enthusiast May 2015 #3
And what happens... RoccoR5955 May 2015 #4
I hope they exhaust themselves silly in a futile quest. Enthusiast May 2015 #5
They're working on it right now. Paying millions of those corporate dollars to try sabrina 1 May 2015 #9
Yay, Bernie! Enthusiast May 2015 #2
Everyone on Facebook is sharing his quotes. They're more ubiquitous than cat pictures at this point. arcane1 May 2015 #6
Thanks! KoKo May 2015 #7
Good news BrotherIvan May 2015 #8

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
1. There definitely a buzz around this campaign.....
Sun May 10, 2015, 06:48 AM
May 2015

there's just two things I worry about. The MSM and corporate political system will manage to convince enough people that this race is un-winnable or that a 'Dean Scream' moment will be found/created that worries folks.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
3. You can believe the evil ones have teams scouring the print records
Sun May 10, 2015, 08:50 AM
May 2015

and video records looking for something to use against Bernie.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
9. They're working on it right now. Paying millions of those corporate dollars to try
Tue May 12, 2015, 01:00 AM
May 2015

to find something, ANYTHING, to smear him with. Because they cannot allow THEIR choice of candidate to simply debate him.

Now WE need to have a strategy to counter those millions of smear dollars.

I think there should be an Quick Response Team strategy set up by Bernie's campaign to handle the smears.

First thing they should do is send out an alert to their millions of supporters telling them what is going on. Eg, MSM is promoting a FALSE smear against Sen Sanders.

Second, start the phone calls, millions if necessary, DEMANDING that Bernie be on their program to counter the lies.

Third, important, find out who is behind the smears, who is paying them, and expose it.

If necessary infiltrate the enemy camp.

And every single supporter should be all over Social Media slamming the lies, exposing them if possible, but don't wait one extra minute to start the anti smear campaign.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
6. Everyone on Facebook is sharing his quotes. They're more ubiquitous than cat pictures at this point.
Sun May 10, 2015, 04:43 PM
May 2015

Even conservative former classmates are sharing his stuff.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
8. Good news
Tue May 12, 2015, 12:36 AM
May 2015

I think it's very funny that Hillboosters all assume that everyone who voted for Obama last time will switch to Hillary. To be honest, I think she was much stronger in 2008 than she is now. The beginning of her campaign is just one misstep after another. And the marching orders to be silent on issues and to get her to run as a populist may just be her undoing. It's so stupid.

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