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U.S. ELECTION

First Twitter election

By Duncan Mil

October 31, 2016 - Since declaring his candidacy for president, Donald Trump has used Twitter to insult whole countries, news organizations, and Hillary Clinton -- most of all Trump calls his opponent “crooked” and “dishonest.”

The Associated Press has described theTrump-Clinton campaign as the country's first nationwide Twitter election.

Four years ago, candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were just testing the waters with social media. This year, it's a primary source of information — political and otherwise — for a huge number of Americans. Trump’s Twitter followers outnumber Clinton's, 12.7 million to 10 million.

In a Pew Research Center poll last January, 44 percent of adults said they had learned about the election in the previous week from social media, more than cited print newspapers.

The New York Times’ data is available here: Click here

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PUBLISHED: 31/10/2016; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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