SEMrush: Gabbard Draws Most Debate-Related Tweets

Data trend tracker SEMrush looked at the hottest topics--tweets, searches--related to Tuesday night's (Oct. 15) Democratic presidential debate on CNN and Tulsie Gabbard took the honors as most-tweeted-about.

Gabbard got 68% more tweets than Joe Biden at number two. The least-tweeted candidate was Julian Castro. The tale of the twitter tape was Gabbard, 84,674 tweets; Biden, 50,010; followed by O'Rourke, 49,357; Sanders, 36,602; and Yang, 33,151 rounding out the top five. Castro was at 9,779.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is in pretty much of a dead heat with Biden atop a crowded Democratic field, was the most searched for candidate in October after being number two in September behind Andrew Yang. SEMrush said that Warren searches are up 313% since April 2019, while searches for Beto O'Rourke have decreased by 49%.

Among the other "buzziest" searches from the debate, in order of popularity: "Dude got to go"; Blue Democratic Wall, Tom Steyer Billionaire (his first debate appearance); Andrew Yang math pin; Warren vs. Biden; Bernie Sanders heart attack; Cory Booker vegan (he said he was the only vegan on the stage); Friendship Joe Biden; Andrew Yang Bing." (Yang said "no one uses Bing").

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.