Social Media and Politics Expert | Social Media Research Consultant | Digital Campaigns
My thesis “How do parties use Facebook and what does it offer to their campaigns?” is now out, it examines UK parties Facebook campaigns from 2010-2018 including the 2015 and 2017 general elections in huge detail.
The Facebook followers of leader and party pages of UK political parties from 2010 to 2021. Post Corbyn, the Tories are now dominating. While, some parties such as the Green Party have not grown in followership since 2018, while UKIP is going backwards.
Summary Trump has won in the head to head battle between his personal Facebook page and Biden‘s across all engagementContinue Reading
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%).
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.
