WaPo: Cruz, Rubio, Trump Win Twitter War
Washington Post
It will be interesting to see what the TV ratings for Thursday night's presidential primary debate look like once they come out. It started out with enormous intensity, but quickly faded. It's pretty safe to assume that viewership did, too.
We can see one potential point to reinforce that. The most Googled candidate in the debate at any point was Ted Cruz -- with 67 percent more searches at his peak than the next most-searched candidate's peak.
It's hard to see the sustained interest over the course of the two hours on that graph, but we can get some sense. The search volume is all relative to each other; a "100," the Cruz peak, is the most search in a minute for a candidate.
On average, Trump held the most sustained search interest, surprise, surprise. Notice that Ben Carson maintained steady interest, too -- followed by Cruz and Marco Rubio.
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