US Presidential elections are going viral in India like never before, trends on Facebook with 40mn posts

The US Presidential elections are underway and the whole world is waiting to find out who will be the next and 45th President of the United States. Social media is abuzz with hundreds and thousands of posts regarding the US elections. According to the data shared by Facebook, between March 23, 2015, and November 1, 2016, 289 million people around the world generated 10 billion likes, posts, comments and shares related to the US election.

India, too, is overly excited about the polls. Indians were giving their feedback on who should become the President-Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. According to Facebook, more than 9.3 million Indians on Facebook generated over 40 million likes, posts, comments and shares related to the US elections and about 40,284,000 conversations on the same topic.

The most trending topics of the US Presidential Elections included-the second presidential debate on October 9, the release of the Access Hollywood tape, the first presidential debate on September 26, the third presidential debate on October 19, the Democratic Convention, FBI Director Comey reopens investigation into Clinton emails, the Republican Convention, the Vice Presidential Debate on October 4, Trump criticizes the Khan family after the Democratic Convention, Super Tuesday on March 1.

(iamge:IndiaTimes)