Scott Walker’s presidential announcement put him in the Facebook users’ announcement day top tier, though he wound up behind a few rivals.
The Wisconsin governor generated 1.578 million interactions, which could be likes, posts, comments and shares, on Facebook in the 24 hour period Monday before and after he announced he was seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
Among Republicans, real estate mogul Donald Trump still tops the list with 6.4 million interactions on the day of his announcement last month, followed by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at 5.5 million. Next came Sen. Rand Paul, at 1.9 million, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, at 1.5 million and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., 1.3 million.
At the bottom were former New York Gov. George Pataki, 81,000, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at 142,000.
Walker’s interactions were generated by 679,000 people. Trump had 3.4 million people.
Some other announcement day data:
Chris Christie
482,000 unique people
803,000 interactions
Bobby Jindal
316,000 unique people
542,000 interactions
Donald Trump
3.4 million unique people
6.4 million interactions
Jeb Bush
493,000 unique people
849,000 interactions
Rick Perry
422,000 unique people
763,000 interactions
Lindsey Graham
84,000 unique people
142,000 interactions
George Pataki
59,000 unique people
81,000 interactions
Rick Santorum
169,000 unique people
266,000 interactions
Mike Huckabee
458,000 unique people
814,000 interactions
Carly Fiorina
304,000 unique people
515,000 interactions
Ben Carson
847,000 unique people
1.5 million interactions
Marco Rubio
695,000 unique people
1.3 million interactions
Rand Paul
865,000 unique people
1.9 million interactions
Ted Cruz
2.1 million unique people
5.5 million interactions
David Lightman: 202-383-6101, @lightmandavid