Blog Wars: Clinton vs Edwards vs. Obama
By Micah L. Sifry, 02/10/2007 - 10:20pm

So far, on pure incoming blog posts as tracked by Technorati (disclosure, run by my little brother), Hillary Clinton is generating far more conversation online than John Edwards or Barack Obama. The chart below shows the track for the last thirty days, with a huge spike for Hillary around her announcement in late January, a smaller spike for Obama just before that, which was probably around his filing exploratory papers, and a lesser jump for Edwards in late December when he officially launched his campaign. Edwards also shows a recent boost, no doubt around all the controversy over his hiring two feminist bloggers with a paper trail that offended some rightwingers. This is a dynamic chart, so it should start to show whatever spike Obama will get around today's announcement of his candidacy.

English posts that contain "hillary Clinton" VS "barack Obama" VS "john Edwards" per day for the last 30 days.

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last names

Obama seems to be a "one name" star like Madonna. If you do the same chart for just last names, you get a huge spike around this weekend's announcement. But by full name there's very little sign of a spike yet.

Also, for some reason the "campaign launch" spikes for Obama and Clinton show up about a week earlier by first name than by full name.

By Asa Hopkins at Mon, 02/12/2007 - 00:05 | email this page

Brilliant catch!

Thanks, that's really useful!
Micah

By Micah L. Sifry at Mon, 02/12/2007 - 10:01 | email this page

well, not really....

Interestingly, now that a couple of days have passed, the spike for "obama" that was missing for "barack obama" has disappeared from announcement day, and instead appears at today. So, this looks like a funny effect from Technorati's end, not a real effect at all.

By Asa Hopkins at Thu, 02/15/2007 - 17:17 | email this page

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