Mid-Term Election 2010 by the Social Stats
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For all of you statistics junkies out there. This one is for you.
- Tuesday election got more Web news traffic than Obama’s election in 2008 – 4.6 million to 4.2 million page views per minute, respectively. (Akamai) (Source)
- 36% of all Election 2010 online conversation took place via microblogs. This followed by 20% of convesations on social networks and 19.3% on mainstream media. (e.g. Twitter) (Alterian) (Source)
- Christine O’Donnell dominated online mentions with more than 100,000 since mid-September and Republicans had 61% of all online mentions. (Alterian) (Source)
- Gubernatorial races in California, New York and Texas were the most discussed. (Alterian) (Source)
- Ohio’s Senate race was the least discussed race on social media. (Alterian) (Source)
- Republicans appeared to be more engaged online than Democrats in this election cycle, (HeadCount.org) (Source)
- Foursquare loaded over
100,000 voting locations into its venue database. (Techcrunch) - California and New York led the Foursquare iVoted check-ins with 7,274 and 5,988 checkins respectively, (Techcrunch) (Source)
- Out of 98 House races, 74% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests. (Facebook) (Source)
- More than 12 million people clicked the “I Voted” button yesterday compared to about 5.4 million in 2008. (Facebook) (Source)
- Nearly 80% of avid social network users consider themselves occasionally or very active in politics. (PBS) (Source)
- The traffic peak on Tuesday at about 6 p.m. makes the U.S. midterm congressional election the third most-read-about and most-watched online news event since Akamai started watching these trends in August 2005. (Akamai) (Source)
- More than 50,000 people “checked in” to polling locations on Tuesday and earned digital badges on Foursquare. (CNN) (Source)
- Across the state of Michigan, 1,613 voters texted in their polling place to the Foursquare servers. (AnnArbor.com) (Source)
- The Washington Post was the first news outlet to sponsor the hashtag term #Election on Twitter.
- On Google, “elections” was the top No. 1 “hot topic” Wednesday
- Seventeen of the top 20 search topics on Tuesday on Google were related to the election. (Source: Google spokeswoman)
- Pennsylvania’s Senate race was the least discussed via social media. (Alterian) (Source)
I will continue to update this post throughout the day.
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Ray Rice said:
The most interesting item to me is that 12 million people clicked the “I voted” yesterday verses abot 5.$ million in 2008. That is an increase of over 50% in two years. What a great visual number for the increased use of the internet.
November 3rd, 2010 at 3:28 pm -
Gurgaon property said:
In election time each one wants to know update news. So you are right that there are 4.6 million to 4.2 million page views per minute Obama’s election in 2008. Here i wanna to tell you that in common wealth game in India there was heavy traffic on online record update sites.
November 4th, 2010 at 2:15 am -
Printable Coupons said:
@Ray Rice. That’s a great number indeed. more and more people are practicing their right to vote and speak their mind. Woot!
November 4th, 2010 at 2:18 am -
Heather Whaling said:
As a political junkie, I love these stats. Thanks for compiling, Sarah!
Heather
@prTiniNovember 4th, 2010 at 7:50 am -
PRsarahevans said:
I love stats in general. Can’t help myself. Glad someone else loves them, too.
November 4th, 2010 at 12:40 pm -
car battery said:
Quite the stat rat myself. Stats can never get comprehensive enough for me, hehe.
November 5th, 2010 at 9:56 am -
bikram said:
@Ray Rice, it is great people is getting more involve with the political process. this is great for the country
November 5th, 2010 at 3:04 pm -
wordgeist said:
@bikram, you are so right and I think the elections are going to get more competitive.
November 5th, 2010 at 3:07 pm -
textbook rental said:
This is really great info.. I’m especially astonished by how much web traffic this election got
November 5th, 2010 at 6:19 pm -
acai said:
wonderful information about election that just accomplished.
Obama faced defeat and other party won with great margin. I think
its worst time for a great personality. Now he’s ready for his trip to India…November 6th, 2010 at 8:55 am -
SA said:
….Thanks for sharing…,)
November 6th, 2010 at 2:00 pm -
Sanalika Hileleri said:
….Thanks for sharing…,))
November 6th, 2010 at 2:01 pm -
Sanalika Hileleri said:
I love social media…:D
November 6th, 2010 at 6:47 pm -
Computer Tips Tricks said:
Interesting numbers indeed.
November 7th, 2010 at 3:05 am -
Sanalika Hileleri said:
I love stats in general. Can’t help myself. Thanks!!!
November 7th, 2010 at 5:23 am -
Jasmine said:
These stats are interesting to know. Cool stuff. Thanks for compiling them.
November 8th, 2010 at 1:32 am -
Jasmine said:
Oh, more than 12 million people clicked the “I Voted” button… that’s a huge bunch, right?!
November 8th, 2010 at 1:33 am -
Laptop Briefcase said:
Wow I am really surprised that this election for more web news traffic than the Obama election. Perhaps more people were watching that one on tv.
November 8th, 2010 at 7:15 pm -
car battery said:
That’s an interesting observation, Laptop.
Quite amazing for sure.November 9th, 2010 at 6:48 am -
Web Development said:
Increase the huge number of people clicked the “I Voted” button. Interesting !!
November 11th, 2010 at 4:48 am
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