Thursday, August 11, 2011  Twitter Analysis of the Ames Debate
During the last GOP Presidential debate in June, I did an
analysis of the trending topics on Twitter immediately
afterwards and got a lot of positive responses.  So, back by
popular demand, here's another city-by-city analysis of what
everyone was tweeting about the debate in Ames, Iowa tonight.
One thing is immediately clear: there were a lot fewer debate-
related trending topics than when I did this analysis in June.
Not sure if there were less overall tweets, or if an election
that's still more than a year away was overshadowed by the
controversy about whether Bert and Ernie should get married
(Yes, "Bert and Ernie" is a trending topic in many cities
tonight, and yes this is a real issue. I wish I were kidding.)
but the Ames debate was definitely less of a presence on the
trending topics lists tonight.  Anyway, here's your trending
topics (if a city is not listed, then it did not have any
debate-related trending topics):  Overall United States: