Donald Trump made headlines Tuesday by announcing that he would live-tweet CNN’s Democratic presidential debate.
By at least one metric, Trump came out the winner of the debate. By the end of it, he had gained 60 thousand new followers.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, by contrast, added 28 thousand and 10 thousand new Twitter followers, respectively.
Martin O’Malley, Kim Webb, and Lincoln Chafee added about 10K new followers combined. While generally mocking the candidates and describing the debate as a “snooze-fest”, Trump did commend Bernie Sanders for having a collegial moment with competitor Hillary Clinton. Sanders blew off the controversy surrounding Clinton’s personal email server, saying that Americans didn’t care about her “damn emails”.
Trump’s live-tweeting of the debate also became a trending topic on Twitter.
Check out his most notable tweets of the evening:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654111504862703617
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654095559528181760
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654118384121065473
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654122760860495872
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654132174954827776
On Hillary Clinton:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654115688567689216
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654112910923403264
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654100208784162817
On Lincoln Chafee:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654101562948763648
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654099325342060544
On Martin O’Malley:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654102127921524736
On Jim Webb:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654104833075597312
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654109245001072640
On himself:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654109946490060800
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654116027832369152
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654116860145831936
His second most retweeted message of the evening was recognition of smart politicking from Sanders:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654113273105776640
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