Paris (AFP)
The US presidential election generated more than 570 million tweets in a campaign year, including nearly 10 million in the last 24 hours, a volume six times higher than in the previous election in 2016, according to data compiled by Visibrain.
In France, nearly 1.7 million tweets were published over a campaign year, twice as many as in 2016.
If for a year Trump has distanced his opponent Joe Biden in terms of popularity on Twitter - with 3 times more tweets about the current president than about his opponent - over the last 24 hours, the gap has narrowed drastically, underlines Visibrain .
Since Tuesday, there have been more than 9 million tweets published on Biden against 17 million for Donald Trump.
This enthusiasm for the American election on Twitter is also reflected in the French press, where there were 3 times more articles this year than during Donald Trump's first election in 2016, and 7 times more than during the re-election of Barack Obama in 2012, according to a separate study published by the Tagaday monitoring platform.
According to this study, Donald Trump is the 2nd most cited personality in the French press, behind Emmanuel Macron, since 2017. By way of comparison, Barack Obama, President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, will never be higher. of fourth place in this ranking.
Since the start of the year, the visibility of Donald Trump in the French press has been more than double that of his opponent Joe Biden, who dropped from 78th place in the ranking a year ago to 7th place on October 30, underlines the study.
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