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Spin Control

Watching presidential candidates on social media

Social media is expected to have an even bigger impact on the 2016 presidential race than it did in 2012. So it's not surprise that people will be finding ways to track the Internet presence of the candidates and tell us about it on the Internet.

That pretty much sums up what Brandwatch React is doing, with charts, graphs and a blog with the social media presence of the Republicans and Democrats running for president. They've done similar things with the election in the United Kingdom, the World Cup and Wimbledon.  

Here's their link for Democratic candidates.

Here's their link for Republican candidates. (It was running very slow Thursday morning, but one assumes  they'll get that fixed.



Jim Camden
Jim Camden joined The Spokesman-Review in 1981 and retired in 2021. He is currently the political and state government correspondent covering Washington state.

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