Cruz Twitter Rally smashes through to 1.1 billion impressions

The Washington Examiner's Washington Secrets ^ | June 16, 2015 | Paul Bedard

[2ndDivisionVet]

Sen. Ted Cruz and his supporters are taking over the world of social media, the latest example being a "Twitter Rally" for the GOP presidential candidate that sent tweets to 1.1 billion followers.

It occurred midnight Monday when the independent grassroots support group "Cruz Control" blasted out nearly 75,000 tweets on the candidate's behalf under the #CruzCrew hashtag.

The rally started with a blast of 5,557 tweets and touched on the Texan's "extensive knowledge of the Constitution, his support for the 2nd Amendment, religious liberty, and his steadfast opposition to Obamacare and Common Core," said a spokesman, who added, "Other tweets focused on Cruz's trustworthiness and his dedication to traditional American values and restoring the American Dream."(continued)

[Hardens Hollow]

“Nowhere close to a billion people actually saw anything relating to this event.”

Since the US population is only 320 million, it doesn’t really matter.

[GilGil]

Still if this is true it is quite amazing!

[kevao]

If one billion is accurate, in a country of 320 million, then he might have even the illegal vote locked up!

[caww]

....'1.1 billion Twitter hits for Cruz in online rally, SETTING RECORDS!"......

"What's more, #CruzCrew was 'the top political hash tag' for 12 hours and Cruz even tweeted out a thank you, yielding more retweets.

Cruz's campaign team are an outstanding group....make no mistake about it that what they do , and what Cruz does, is very carefully timed and coordinated.

I will also add that I've noted so many tweets all along where people might comment on the race or speak of another candidate....but they are clear they support Cruz and quick to say why...this is on twitter and as much comments sections below articles.

[caww]

Jealous???

[caww]

Loving his campaign moves.... firm and steady... like the tortoise and the hair.....running in the dead of night! LOLOLOL....

[kevao]

like the tortoise and the hair.

Tortoises are glabrous.

[caww]

Athletes may depilate as an enhancement to their abilities.

[GilGil]

That is quite a number. We will soon find out. If he starts surging then it is for real. If he flails in the tall weeds then it is bogus.

[Isara]

No one on Twitter has anything close to 1 billion followers.

They're impressions, not followers.

[Isara]

I get the impression that Cruz has learned from the democrats and has a social media machine second to none.

Ted Cruz gave Obama's campaign strategy book by David Plouffe to his team to read and learn from it.

[kevao]

Isn’t that cheating?

[caww]

No.

[CPT Clay]

Kewl

[American Constitutionalist]

But, we were told Ted Cruz was toast, he was losing his base supporters.

Someone must have been lying and some of those same people here are supporting Donald Trump here on FR.

[caww]

Well as I’ve said before...Cruz is going to do just fine...it’s still early and he’s got a fabulous campaign group.

I also support Trump being in the race, though unlikely he will win.....but he’s going to throw out there what other candidates hesitate to say..and Trump won’t care one iotta about political correctness in his delivery.

Trump was just on O’Rielly.....and you know how curt O’ Rielly can be. He put the pressure on Trump and it simply didn’t work.

We all know how Trump does his “Trump Talk”...he’s not the easiest out there to follow if you’re not listening. HE sounds like he’s rambling on at times because his mind is constantly in the on mode, like Bushes was, and it comes out of his mouth.

Don’t misunderstand those who are supporting Trump’s ‘being in the race’ to those who are actually Trump supporters.

[caww]

Well as I’ve said before...Cruz is going to do just fine...it’s still early and he’s got a fabulous campaign group.

I also support Trump being in the race, though unlikely he will win.....but he’s going to throw out there what other candidates hesitate to say..and Trump won’t care one iotta about political correctness in his delivery.

Trump was just on O’Rielly.....and you know how curt O’ Rielly can be. He put the pressure on Trump and it simply didn’t work.

We all know how Trump does his “Trump Talk”...he’s not the easiest out there to follow if you’re not listening. HE sounds like he’s rambling on at times because his mind is constantly in the on mode, like Bushes was, and it comes out of his mouth.

Don’t misunderstand those who are supporting Trump’s ‘being in the race’ to those who are actually Trump supporters.

[5th MEB]

Put me on your Cruz ping list, he had my vote 3 months ago.

[SoConPubbie]

You have one of two choices where the Ted Cruz Ping List is concerned 5th MEB:

1. A once-daily Digest of all Ted Cruz Pings for the day.

2. Getting pinged for each and every Ted Cruz ping. This is a very high-volume ping list as FreeRepublic Ping lists go.

Which would you like?

[thefactor]

The article said followers. But it’s been clarified.