Wazzup Pilipinas!
There were over 1.6 Million tweets during the second Presidential Debate on 20 March 2016.
No hour and a half long wait quelled the fiery conversations that Filipino voters anticipated from yesterday’s second Presidential TV debate. The political showdown went on between Jejomar Binay, Rodrigo Duterte, Grace Poe, and Mar Roxas at the University of the Philippines in Cebu, despite the absence of Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago who had to excuse herself to undergo an experimental treatment for her medical condition.
There were over 1.6 million Tweets sent during the debate (from its scheduled broadcast of 4:30PM-9.30pm, 20 March 2016), boosting the #PiliPinasDebates2016 hashtag to the #1 Twitter trending topic not only in the Philippines, but also worldwide. The Twitter conversation peaked over 16,000 Tweets per minute around 6:49PM during the heated exchange between Senator Grace Poe (@SenGracePOE) and Vice President Jejomar Binay (@VPJojoBinay) on Freedom of Information bill.
There were over 1.6 million Tweets sent during the debate (from its scheduled broadcast of 4:30PM-9.30pm, 20 March 2016), boosting the #PiliPinasDebates2016 hashtag to the #1 Twitter trending topic not only in the Philippines, but also worldwide. The Twitter conversation peaked over 16,000 Tweets per minute around 6:49PM during the heated exchange between Senator Grace Poe (@SenGracePOE) and Vice President Jejomar Binay (@VPJojoBinay) on Freedom of Information bill.
Embeddable chart: http://reverb.twitter.com/view/689225780792313823
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Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines/status/711551565870411778
Even
the candidates took to Twitter to express their view on the cause of delay and
stay connected in real-time with their
supporters.
supporters.
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/VPJojoBinay/status/711496212797521920
The
second debate had a new format with the first half constituting of candidates
answering questions posed by the panel, and the second half constituting of
candidates posing questions to each other followed by closing statements.
Among
all the topics covered during the second debate, it was “Freedom of Information
and Rule of Law” that registered the most interest on Twitter with 32% of the
Tweets. This was followed by “Crime” (23%), “Tax Reform” (20%), “Yolanda”
(11%), and “Climate Change” (11%).
As
the debate delay was caused due to miscommunication of debate rules by the
organizers to one of the candidates, VP Jejomar Binay (@VPJojoBinay), regarding using notes on the
stage, the conversation at the start of the debate was dominated by mentions of
Binay. As the debate progressed, the share of voice changed, with Duterte (@RRD_Davao) leading the Twitter conversation
during the second half.
Share of voice on Twitter during the
first half of the debate when the candidates were asked questions by the panel
(6:20PM-8:10PM, 20th March):
Share
of voice on Twitter during the second half of the debates when the candidates
posed questions to each other and gave their closing statements (8:20PM-9:30PM,
20th March):
Twitter continued to be the platform of choice for all
candidates to directly share their stand on issues during the debate. While,
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago (@senmiriam) was physically absent
at the debate venue, she took to Twitter to share her opinions and participate
in the conversation real-time.
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/senmiriam/status/711528611866480641
The other candidates also Tweeted during the debate, to express
their opinions on topics they didn’t get an opportunity to elaborate on, as well
as to reinforce their opinion on specific issues in their own voice.
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/MARoxas/status/711516862677319680
Below
are some of the most shared Tweets from yesterday’s debate, ranging from the
comedic way Miriam would react if she was watching the #PiliPinasDebates2016 to the public’s reaction
to every humorous instance they could relate to like a quip from @IamEthylGabison on #OrasKoTo, a
reference to candidate @MarRoxas’ tendency to assert
himself over every attempt of his co-debaters to rebut him during his time
allotment.
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/IamEthylGabison/status/7115a21754804387841
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/kimpoyfeliciano/status/711523042975830017
Filipinos can also search and participate in ongoing elections-related conversations by following @COMELEC (https://twitter.com/comelec) or Tweeting and searching the #PiliPinasDebates2016 hashtag on Twitter. The public may also view all crowd-sourced debate questions and comments via Tweets by visiting http://www.electionsphl.com/pilipinasdebates.
Ross is known as the Pambansang Blogger ng Pilipinas - An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professional by profession and a Social Media Evangelist by heart.
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