On Saturday, Axios reported the social media response from this week’s Democrat National Convention, and Michelle Obama took the cake with her anti-Trump speech.
Axios reports:
Among the 100 most viral stories about DNC topics this past week, there were 7.56 million social media interactions (likes, comments, shares) on stories about Michelle Obama’s speech.
That’s 5x more than the estimated total for the next closest person — her husband.
Joe Biden, the presidential nominee and the main focus of the convention, came in third.
Only 89,000 social media interactions came out of vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris’ speech, despite all the hype in the media about her being selected as Joe Biden’s running mate.
The story continues :
The details: Barack Obama had the second-most interactions, followed by Biden and then President Trump.
Kamala Harris, the vice presidential nominee and the other subject of praise during the week, was far down on the list, with only one story in the top 100.
The data captured all of the social media interactions as of Friday morning — including stories about Biden and Harris’s acceptance speeches.
For Wednesday and Thursday’s articles, NewsWhip’s predicted interactions account for where the stories could be expected to wind up, factoring in whether they were gaining or losing traction as of Friday morning.
The revelation from Axios’ statistics shows that Joe Biden may have messed up by choosing Harris instead of Michelle Obama for vice president, despite Obama seemingly uninterested in politics.
Of the speeches listed, Michelle Obama’s speech beat out all others combined with 7.6 million to the others’ 7.3 million.
