Now that this election is almost (mercifully) over, Twitter has some interesting metrics out today on how the campaign played out on Twitter.
According to Twitter, these were the most retweeted tweets from both candidates over the course of the entire campaign:
Delete your account. https://t.co/Oa92sncRQY
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2016
How long did it take your staff of 823 people to think that up–and where are your 33,000 emails that you deleted? https://t.co/gECLNtQizQ
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016
So yes, Trump’s most-RT’ed tweet was his snappy comeback to Clinton’s most-RT’ed. And as Twitter also points out, “Clinton’s ‘delete your account’ Tweet was the most Retweeted Tweet of the entire election.”
In fact, as Twitter notes, Clinton’s second-most-RT’ed tweet of the entire campaign was in response to a 2012 tweet from Trump that ended up being his third-most-RT’ed of all time:
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
"I never said that." —Donald Trump, who said that. #debatenight https://t.co/6T8qV2HCbL
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 27, 2016
Overall, though, there have been roughly a billion tweets sent out about the election, and based on this graphic, more of them have been about Trump than Clinton:
Tweets mentioning candidates @HillaryClinton and @realDonaldTrump since the start of 2016 pic.twitter.com/G3gqyWhkGH
— Twitter Government (@gov) November 7, 2016
And since January, it’s clear that foreign affairs have dominated most of the online policy conversation:
The top Tweeted policy issues during #Election2016 pic.twitter.com/TUgGn7HyMm
— Twitter Government (@gov) November 7, 2016
[image via screengrab]
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