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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Is Social Media A Good Gauge Of Political Opinions?

A chart tracking tweets during the second presidential debate. (Credit: Twitter)

You don’t have to wait for public political analysis anymore just open Twitter or Facebook and you’ll be flooded with opinion.

But one tweet or post does not necessarily mean one voice or opinion. According to research done by Impermium, 46 percent of political social media content generated during the second debate came from one percent of users.

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  • Hilde

    This was great information. I would love to post it on facebook, but the FB visual displays none of the facts in the story. Can you provide FB share that has concise visual of the facts?

    • Rachel Rohr, Here & Now

      Hi Hilde, In the post above, we’ve added a  link to another story about this (from Silicon Beat). Perhaps you can post that link to Facebook instead. 

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