Politico: Trump Dominates Facebook in Run-up to New Hampshire Vote

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From Hadas Gold writing at Politico:

Heading into the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, Donald Trump is dominating the conversation in the state on Facebook, while Hillary Clinton just barely edges out Bernie Sanders in share of conversation.

According to data provided by Facebook, Trump had 69,000 New Hampshire residents making 283,400 interactions (comments, likes and shares) about him in the past week. The social media king kept his top ranking across the web, with the highest share of online engagements for the week sharing 36 percent of total candidate engagements. according to ListenFirst’s digital engagement aggregation ranking.

Trump’s most popular Facebook post this past week — and the most popular post among all the candidates — was from Feb. 2 as Trump was on his way to New Hampshire, according to digital media firm Socialbakers.

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