Note:
“Tweets” includes the number of original tweets, retweets, and replies.
“Users” is the number of people who participated over the measured span of time.
“Engagement” is the number of times people either retweeted or replied to tweets.
This Timeline graph shows #CripTheVote tweet volumes over the course of September 12, 2019, the day of the Third Democratic Presidential Primary Debate. It shows two major spikes in activity during the course of the 3 hour debate ... an early spike above 600 tweets, followed by a moderate drop-off, and a second spike over 1,000 tweets. followed by a drop off at and after the end of the debate.
And here is a graph covering the last three debate live tweets. Since the first two debates were two nights, we came up with daily tweet averages for comparison with the single night Third Debate. The graph shows steady increases in tweets and users over the three debates, a large increase in tweets from the First to Second debates, followed by a slight decline in the number of tweets from the Second to the Third debate. The exact figures are below:
First Debates (Two Nights)
June 26-27, 2019
Tweets: 1,569 average per day
Users: 575 average per day
Engagement: 1,618 average per day
Second Debates (Two Nights)
July 30-31, 2019
Tweets: 2,761 average per day
Users: 1,196 average per day
Engagement: 11,915 average per day
Third Debate
September 12, 2019
Tweets: 2,996
Users: 1,123
Engagement: 10,691
We will keep collecting data from upcoming live tweets and chats. Check back here at the #CripTheVote blog.
