‘Jeb!’ debate launch fails to excite Facebook

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush on theatre to announce his candidacy for a 2016 Republican presidential assignment Jun 15, 2015 in Miami. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic)

If amicable media activity means anything in politics — and we’re not certain it does — Jeb Bush launched his debate Monday with a Facebook deficit.

Facebook users responded to Bush’s debate proclamation with a turn of power distant subsequent a leaders in a Facebook primary — Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz — posting a measure usually forward of former Arkansas administrator Mike Huckabee and usually behind Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

On Monday, 493,000 U.S. Facebook users generated 849,000 interactions (likes, posts, comments, shares) associated to Bush, according to information supposing by a amicable media platform.

By comparison, former secretary of State Clinton scored 10.1 million interactions from 4.7 million users on a day of her launch and Texas Sen. Cruz racked adult 5.5 million Facebook interactions from 2.1 million users.

Even neurosurgeon/activist Ben Carson scarcely doubled Bush’s Day One Facebook activity, generating 1.5 million interactions from 847,000 users when he announced his debate May 4.

The other Florida Republican in a 2016 presidential race, Sen. Marco Rubio, also outperformed Bush on Facebook a day he announced his campaign, generating 1.3 million interactions from 695,000 people.

Also value noting: The tip 5 locales where Jeb Bush many dominated a Facebook review were Florida, D.C., Vermont, Maine and Oregon. Rubio also done his biggest first-day dash in Florida and D.C., though his subsequent many active states were Alabama, New Mexico and Arizona.

This information marks usually tender volume of activity, not view of a interactions. So possibilities get credit for Facebook activity even if a user posted “That guy’s a jerk.”

While it’s tough to tell what any of this information means, one thing we can contend for sure: On a day he announced his campaign, Jeb Bush came in 7th on Facebook, 5th among Republican candidates.

 

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