Top Ten 2020 Presidential Campaign Facebook Posts (9/18 to 9/25/2020)

Path to the White House leads through Facebook

Hi folks, apologies for the sparse posting other than the top ten lists lately. This year I’m doing a ton of election-related work helping to elect Democrats, and it’s taken up most of my brain the last few weeks. Also, my apartment got broken into over the weekend! No one was hurt, though Albert the cat is still a little freaked out. Once I get into a better rhythm with the campaign work, look for substantive ideas soon. Thanks for your patience.

Check out the last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the Trump and Biden campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages. By these metrics, pages are competing against themselves, not each other.

A special note to our readers-via-email: be sure to click through to the online version of this article to see the embedded posts. It’s well worth your time.

1. Donald J. Trump (16x)

 

2. Donald J. Trump (12x)

 

3. Donald J. Trump (11x)

 

4. Donald J. Trump (10x)

 

5. Donald J. Trump (9x)

 

6. Donald J. Trump (9x)

 

7. Donald J. Trump (8x)

 

8. Donald J. Trump (8x)

 

9. Donald J. Trump (7x)

 

10. Joe Biden (7x)

 

Explanation of the Scoring

These posts don’t represent the most-viewed pieces of content on Facebook (since that would almost entirely end up being dominated by the same small handful of large-audience Pages over and over). Instead, we list the posts that performed the best (using shares as the primary metric) against the organization Page’s OWN average (hence the word “over-performing”). To build the list, we CrowdTangle’s tracking system, which generates an average rate of growth for Pages over time (with at least 50 data points before a Page is scored). So, the "x" numbers listed above specifically represent how many more multiples of shares each post received compared with what the Page’s posts normally get. Note that we set a minimum bar of total engagement of around 500 shares or so.

About CrowdTangle

CrowdTangle is a new tool that helps organizations easily keep track of what’s being shared on Facebook. Organizations can use it to find shareable content around their own issue area or to keep track of what affiliated Pages are posting on a regular basis. Launched in late January, the beta version of the tool is already being used by dozens of leading organizations across the country. If you want to see how it works, watch this short video: http://www.screenr.com/Iv1H

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