Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 6/29/2019
With debate fields as large as the DNC hosted this week, it can be hard to get a read on who did best. Partisans and in-the-tank media figures boost their preferred candidates no matter what, so hard data is hard to come by.
But one metric we do have is Twitter followers, and since I just updated the Twitter Primary on Tuesday, we have a nice baseline for at least one semi-objective proxy for additional interest generated by the debate. So let’s see what the numbers tell us:
Bernie Sanders: 9.35 million (up 20,000)
Cory Booker: 4.28 million (up 20,000)
Joe Biden: 3.61 million (up 10,000)
Kamala Harris: 2.81 million (up 90,000)
Elizabeth Warren: 2.73 million (up 70,000)
Marianne Williamson: 2.67 million (up 50,000)
Beto O’Rourke: 1.44 million (up 10,000)
Kirsten Gillibrand: 1.43 million (unchanged)
Pete Buttigieg: 1.21 million (up 60,000)
Amy Klobuchar: 706,000 (up 10,000)
Andrew Yang: 480,000 (up 143,000)
Tulsi Gabbard: 381,000 (up 34,000)
Julian Castro: 308,000 (up 87,000)
Steve Bullock*: 175,000 (unchanged)
Bill de Blasio: 162,000 (up 5,000)
John Hickenlooper: 149,000 (up 3,000)
Seth Moulton*: 143,000 (unchanged)
Mike Gravel*: 111,000 (up 11,600)
Eric Swalwell: 96,500 (up 3,200)
Jay Inslee: 72,300 (up 6,100)
John Delaney: 25,900 (up 3,500)
Michael Bennet: 24,900 (up 1,700)
Tim Ryan: 24,300 (up 2,000)
Joe Sestak*: 10,900 (up 200)
Wayne Messam*: 7,738 (up 209)
*Not in the debates
For reference, President Donald Trump’s personal account has 61.5 million followers, up 200,000 since Tuesday. The official presidential @POTUS account has 26.1 million, which I’m sure includes a great deal of overlap with Trump’s personal followers.
A few notes:
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