Comment Here's what FB actually sends (Score 1) 157
A Facebooker here. The file we send to Politico looks like this:
Candidate, Date, Mentions, % Positive, % Negative
Lincoln, 21 Aug 1858, 4217, 0.35, 0.12
Lincoln, 22 Aug 1858, 5829, 0.42, 0.08
Douglas, 21 Aug 1858, 3119, 0.28, 0.42
Douglas, 22 Aug 1858, 6339, 0.18, 0.55
The numbers are computed by textually analyzing wall posts. The actual mention counts are in the thousands to hundreds of thousands.
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