On Facebook, Clinton's speech more popular than NFL kickoff game
President Clinton took the ball and ran with it last night, and Facebook has the numbers to prove it.
Even though the Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants in last night's NFL season opener, it was the former president who garnered the most attention on Facebook. According to data provided to CNN from Facebook, Bill Clinton got more mentions on the site than the terms "Cowboys," "Giants," "football," and "Romo," the Cowboy's starting quarterback.
Normally, the vice-presidential running-mate speaks the night before the presidential candidate accepts the party's nomination, but because of concerns that Vice President Joe Biden's speech would be overshadowed by the game, convention organizers scheduled his address for Thursday night for maximum exposure.
Facebook's numbers show that the worrying was for naught, because Clinton's speech proved to be an effective attention getter on Facebook.
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