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Pre Debate President Candidates Twitter followers.
twitters api | September 15, 2015 | datrickar

Posted on 09/15/2015 6:33:57 PM PDT by datricker

Name 8/15/2015 9/15/2015 Followers Gained
clinton 4,047,251 4,229,113 181,862
trump 3,732,643 4,147,239 414,596
rubio 817,191 840,669 23,478
paul 669,967 680,590 10,623
christi 548,566 591,592 43,026
carson 491,393 555,678 64,285
fiorna 453,336 490,931 37,595
huckabee 391,875 447,093 55,218
sanders 337,884 402,238 64,354
perry 312,736 316,945 4,209
bush 266,334 294,652 28,318
santorum 239,823 242,467 2,644
jindal 209,092 214,613 5,521
walker 190,746 205,036 14,290
kasich 97,696 102,838 5,142
omalley 80,934 83,384 2,450
pataki 45,824 51,318 5,494
chafee 18,371 19,174 803
webb 12,647 13,721 1,074
graham 126 129 3


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KEYWORDS: debate; spam; twitter
Some raw data - Make of it what you will. Thought it'd be fun to see before the debate.
1 posted on 09/15/2015 6:33:57 PM PDT by datricker
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To: datricker

Graham is “surging”—with his three new Twitter followers.


2 posted on 09/15/2015 6:35:28 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: datricker

I didn’t know Lindsey Graham had 129 family members.


3 posted on 09/15/2015 6:36:15 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: datricker

Read where a gazillion of Hillary followers did not exist. That was a time back, but somehow the Clintons padded the numbers, apparently. Now what, Hillary?


4 posted on 09/15/2015 6:36:53 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: datricker; Admin Moderator

So, how many times are you going to post this?


5 posted on 09/15/2015 6:37:27 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: datricker

More reason to doubt that last polling # for Carson.


6 posted on 09/15/2015 6:39:41 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: datricker

No Cruz?


7 posted on 09/15/2015 6:41:09 PM PDT by brothers4thID (I owe my life to the brave passengers of Flight 93. Let's Roll.)
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To: SaveFerris

ROFL


8 posted on 09/15/2015 6:42:30 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Patriot Babe

Must be some great family plans on cell phone carriers these days.


9 posted on 09/15/2015 6:43:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: datricker

There are so many fake Twitter followers that it is almost irrelevant.


10 posted on 09/15/2015 6:46:55 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: datricker

I guess Cruz isn’t on Twitter


11 posted on 09/15/2015 6:58:44 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: brothers4thID

Nobody wants to twitter with him.


12 posted on 09/15/2015 7:04:02 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: datricker

Graham has 79,000 followers. I did not check the rest of the numbers, but I would take them with a grain of salt considering how off the Graham number is.


13 posted on 09/15/2015 7:14:12 PM PDT by mcjordansc
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sorry about that had a crash in mid post. Didn’t seem to go through. Way to many things running.


14 posted on 09/15/2015 10:50:42 PM PDT by datricker (Make America Great Again - Why not?)
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Oh dear now I’m taking it with a grain of salt. Thanks for the correction. I was using @lindseygraham but it appears as though you are correct as he seems to have multiple twitter account. This was my first pass at this to save me time and clicking. It looks as though it will do just the opposite. Thanks beta testers. I’ll take a crack at version 2.0.


15 posted on 09/15/2015 10:50:42 PM PDT by datricker (Make America Great Again - Why not?)
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To: brothers4thID

That is what I wondered.
I am a Cruz supporter myself (but never have done Twitter/Facebook, etc).


16 posted on 09/16/2015 7:43:15 AM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Verbosus
Senator Cruz does have a twitter account @sentedcruz. As of yesterday Senator Cruz had 515,827 followers

After a bit of research it appears as though I can't go back and get Senator Cruz's followers on August 15th. (I hope I'm wrong and will keep looking

Interestingly enough the data does exist but I believe only Senator Cruz himself (or twitter folks) could get it by logging on and going to his followers trending tab. Mousing over the graph on that day. Seriously though he got better things to do.

Going to take some time tonight during the debate to improve the little program I wrote. Got some good feedback here on FR. Thanks all! Some things I'm going to try to address

Suggestions welcome as trying to get as accurate data as possible but no promises. I'd apologize but the next version will just have new bugs - doh software!

17 posted on 09/16/2015 9:13:49 AM PDT by datricker (Make America Great Again - Why not?)
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