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Twitter Dominated Online Chatter About the Presidential Debate
Trying to make sense of my Twitter feed during Wednesday night's debates was all but impossible -- it was just moving too fast. My other networks, though, were nice and slow. That pattern was echoed on the candidates' own social networks, where Twitter updates were frequent while other platforms were left all but silent.
Is this anecdotal evidence enough to prove Twitter was the place to be for chatter about the debate? Hardly. So Mashable turned to social analytics company Attention, powered by Tracx, to get the data.
According to its analysis, Twitter was indeed home to a staggering 77% of the total online conversation about and during the debate. Blog posts took up 7%, while Fac…
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