Hillary Clinton's 2016 Launch Tweet Nabbed 3 Million Views In One Hour
The tweets that a global conversation visualized in real time.
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Within an hour of her campaign's digital launch, the tweet Hillary Clinton posted to announce her second bid for the presidency had been viewed 3 million times.
That eye-popping number comes from Twitter's analytics team, which often briefs reporters on what kind of chatter has erupted on social media. There's more: From right before her 3 p.m. Eastern time announcement, to right after 5 p.m., there were more than 420,000 tweets mentioning Hillary Clinton. A half an an hour after the announcement, there were 7,000 tweets about Clinton per minute.