Second Presidential Debate: Less Twitter, More Facebook. While the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney set a new politics record on Twitter, the second only saw a fraction of the tweets sent during the first: 7.2 million for Tuesday's town hall event to the first debate's 10.3 million. One might argue that Twitter's numbers going down might be a sign that Tuesday's debate wasn't as popular overall on social media than the first debate. However, according to an analysis from Attention, powered by Tracx, engagement across social networks during the second debate was at 31% — a high since Attention began tracking the debate on social media in March.
For reference, engagement during the first debate was rated at 20%. If the conversation wasn't happening on Twitter, where did it all go? Facebook. Nearly 40% of the online conversations about Tuesday's debate happened on Facebook, while an equal percentage was seen on Twitter. SEE ALSO: ‘Binders’ Dominate Twitter Activity, Google Searches in Presidential Debate. Second presidential debate the third biggest social media event of all time. Debate+(1).jpg (JPEG Image, 1280 × 720 pixels) - Scaled (80. Debate social media reaction. Social media weighs in on 2012 presidential debate. Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control.
And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama. Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Facebook Wednesday during the first debate of the 2012 presidential contest.AP Photo/Matt Sayles Oct. 3, 2012: Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama shake hands before the first presidential debate at the University of Denver.AP Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control. And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama. Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Facebook Wednesday during the first debate of the 2012 presidential contest. Until recently, debate watchers would have waited through the entire broadcast to hear analysis and reaction from a small cadre of television pundits. 'People use social networks to have influence, voice opinions and be involved Twitter scored Romney the debate's clear winner according to Peoplebrowsr, a web analytics firm. . - Big Bird. . - Jim Lehrer. CPD: 2012 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates.
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) today announced the formats for the three presidential and one vice presidential general election debates it will sponsor this fall. The formats for the 90-minute debates are designed to facilitate in-depth discussion of the leading issues facing the nation. First presidential debate (September 26, 2016, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY) The debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate.
The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic. Vice presidential debate (October 4, 2016, Longwood University, Farmville, VA) Weekend Update: Kourtney Barnes | Video | Saturday Night Live | NBC.
6a00e54ee3905b8833017d3cc64e7c970c-pi (JPEG Image, 686 × 6000 pixels) Screen-Shot-2012-10-22-at-2.02.42-PM.png (PNG Image, 400 × 370 pixels) 6a00e54ee3905b8833017d3caa7fe8970c-pi (JPEG Image, 643 × 4000 pixels) - Scaled (15%) Mitt Romney's Project ORCA Failure: Broken ORCA App Cost Him Thousands Of Votes. A week before the presidential election, the campaign for GOP nominee Mitt Romney announced that it had been assembling a sophisticated poll-monitoring system, which would use smartphone technology to receive more data in real time, and redirect resources to areas where there may be low turnout to get voters there to the polls.
Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul told The Huffington Post in a statement, that Project ORCA would give the campaign an "enormous advantage on Election Day," but the app turned out to be a failure and cost Romney what could have been thousands of votes, according to The Verge. Throughout Election Day, volunteers reported multiple problems and complaints about the app, and one aide told The Washington Examiner that ORCA (which was named after the whale) had just crashed -- "Somebody said ORCA is lying on the beach with a harpoon in it,” said the aide. "In a national campaign, what additional things are the headquarters really going to do to move resources?
Final presidential debate provoked most social trash talk. Third-party data on last night’s presidential debate confirms what we already know: Politics can bring out the worst in people. Anti-spam startup Impermium analyzed debate-related conversations from online forums, chat rooms, and social media sites and found that trash talk concerning both candidates reached all-time highs for this election’s debate season. “A disproportionately large portion of commentary on social media channels in regards to [the debate] was hostile and insulting,” Imperium CEO Mark Risher said in a statement. “With over 7 percent of commentary being categorized as some form of profanity, ‘astroturfing,’ or spam, practically all intelligent debate on social media was unfortunately laced with abuse.”
Impermium, a company that provides social content cleaning services, looked at data from more than 300,000 websites. The startup found that online comments slurring President Barack Obama were three times more pervasive than those insulting his opponent. Presidential Campaign on Social Media - Interactive Feature. The Evolving Use of Social Media for Political Campaigns. Campaigns and social media have been in the news a lot this year – Republican primaries and London riots in just the last week – and the exposure will increase as the US heads into election year in 2012. I want to look at how political campaigns have evolved in their use of the internet and social media, and see what possibilities exist in the near-term.
For this purpose I’ve looked at two types of campaigns: Campaigns that are centrally organized by the political party or the candidate’s team. Here I will look primarily at Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008Campaigns that are organized bottom-up. Centrally Organized Campaigns Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004 had many of the features of successful campaigns: press coverage, successful fundraising and exciting people. Some of the same strategies Dean used were taken up by Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign. 1. Obama used social media to lower the cost of building a political brand. 2. 3. 4. 5. Image credit cqpolitics Bottom-up Campaigns 1. 2. Social media growing in US politics, study finds. Nearly two out of five US adults use social media to get involved in politics, with the younger crowd and the ideologically committed especially active, a study showed Friday. The Pew Research Center study showed that 60 percent of adults use social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter and that two-thirds of these—39 percent of all US adults—use social media for civic or political activity.
Social media users who talk about politics on a regular basis or who have firm ideological ties are the most likely to be active on the sites, the study found. And those aged 18-29 are "notably more likely than older users to have posted their own comments, as are those who have at least some college experience," Pew said.
"Now that more than half of adults use social media, these technologies have worked their way into the rhythms of people's lives at many levels," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.