#2016: Hillary, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Lead Way on Social Media

Newsmax ^ | 19 Feb 2015 11:33 AM | Joel Himelfarb

[SoConPubbie]

If name mentions on social media show how well their messages are connecting with voters, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would be facing off in next year's presidential election, according to The Wall Street Journal.

On Facebook, Clinton is number one, while Cruz is ahead on Twitter.

Clinton and Cruz have dramatically different approaches to social media. The Texas Republican, who has more than 404,000 followers, tweets roughly 31 times a week, while Clinton, with 2.83 million followers, tweets about one time a week.

On Facebook, Cruz has more than two million likes on all of his pages combined, while Clinton "does not maintain a Facebook presence," the Journal reported.

The data from Facebook and Twitter only covers mentions of a politician's name and does not indicate whether the messages are positive or negative. But the most shared tweets tend to be news articles about the person or ones that share a prospective candidate's message.

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

CRUZ or LOSE!

[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing Ted Cruz’s followers are actually real people like myself.

[nascarnation]

A lot of social media presence is suspect.
Baraq Obama is #3 on Tweater, along with 9 “celebrities”.
You know that was engineered by the fabled WH computer ops squad.

[cripplecreek]

The democrats all have staffers handling social media accounts and it seems to be a full time job.

Progressives expend a lot of energy attempting to appear more numerous than they really are.

[nascarnation]

attempting to appear more numerous than they really are.

And on election day, they're REALLY good at this!

[Red Badger]

So, this election will be the ‘American Idol’ election?....................

[SoConPubbie]

A lot of social media presence is suspect.
Baraq Obama is #3 on Tweater, along with 9 “celebrities”.
You know that was engineered by the fabled WH computer ops squad.

Yea, that sounds like Ted Cruz's speed.

Really?

What about Ted Cruz would lead you to believe he would stoop to such crap?

[SoConPubbie]

So, this election will be the ‘American Idol’ election?....................

Not if Ted Cruz wins.

However, it is intelligent politics to use all the tools you have available to you and to meet the voters where they are.

[lormand]

- Thugs and Nuts 2016 - Sharpton/Paul 2016

[lormand]

I am a HUGE Ted Cruz supporter, but hope to never-ever get a Twitter account. I will have to be threatened with termination from my current employer before I would consider becoming a “tweeter”.

[nascarnation]

I don’t think Ted is far enough up the list to accuse of cheating.

Baraq Obama has 45m FB “likes”, Cruz 1.1m.

[cripplecreek]

However, it is intelligent politics to use all the tools you have available to you and to meet the voters where they are.

Yup. Retreating from the culture war and social media is a surefire route to defeat. Conservatives have considerable strength on twitter. Plus we have fun doing it.

Just the other day Nick Searcy tweeted "Now that "Justified" has ended, I'd like to say that Barrack Obama is the greatest president of all time. My agents are standing by" LOL

[txhurl]

Want to get texts from Ted Cruz? Text CONSTITUTION to 33733.

[cripplecreek]

You don’t have to use your own name on twitter.

Twitter is considerably less intrusive and more anonymous than FB.

[lormand]

Thanks for the tip. Is there a surcharge for receiving these texts?

[SoConPubbie]

So, this election will be the ‘American Idol’ election?....................

So how many does Walker have?

[truth_seeker]

“The Texas Republican, who has more than 404,000 followers, tweets roughly 31 times a week, .... “

If decided on tweet volume, he should be in the running.

[truth_seeker]

“The Texas Republican, who has more than 404,000 followers, tweets roughly 31 times a week, .... “

If decided on tweet volume, he should be in the running.

[Beagle8U]

Does twitter work on a computer like email?