Category: Social Media
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New working paper: What does a satellite campaign do? The use of Momentum in Labour’s 2017 General Election Facebook campaign
Satellite campaigns have been discussed as core parts of parties online campaigns. However, they are not well conceptualised or understood. I have developed a new working paper within which I analyse satellite campaign group Momentum and the Labour Party Facebook campaign.
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Innovation via desperation – Twitter Fleets
Twitter Fleets are not necessary, nobody on the network was calling for them, and their implementation shows that Twitter has more interest in following the crowd than genuinely innovating. Instead, what we now have is social networks innovating from a position of desperation, focused on ‘keeping up with the Joneses’.
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Two trains slowing to a crawl? Biden and Trump’s Facebook pages – a roundup
Summary Trump has won in the head to head battle between his personal Facebook page and Biden‘s across all engagement metrics. This is seen across total engagement and when averaging engagement to remove Trump’s big advantage from increased levels of posting. Biden has gone backwards compared to Clinton, and Trump is only matching his 2016…
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Where are Trump and Biden’s Facebook followers located?
Where are Trump and Biden’s Facebook followers located? 2020 data shows Trump (67%) has far fewer US based followers than Biden (88%). This is a reversal of 2016 data that showed Trump having many more US based followers (75% US) than Clinton (56%).
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Biden’s organic Facebook campaign is behind Clinton’s, while Trump is surpassing his 2016 performance
Analysing 4450 posts from equal campaign periods before the 2016 and 2020 Presidential Elections, the data shows that Biden is trailing Clinton’s performance, while in contrast, Trump is exceeding his 2016 performance.
