Brazil’s Bolsonaro leads in social media with 49 million followers

President and PL re-election candidate (right), Jair Bolsonaro, has 49.2 million followers on his Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube profiles (combined).

This represents 68.1% of the total number of the other top 5 candidates for the Brazilian presidency.

The data came from Bites and was submitted in advance to Poder360.

The conservative president also stands out for the number of new followers he gained from January 1 to September 25, which are 8.3 million.

Luiz Lula da Silva (PT, left) has fewer (5.7 million).

It is 54% compared to 37% in relation to the total.

The popular chief executive registered 470.1 million (66% of the total) likes, comments, shares, and RTs.

Lula da Silva did not even reach half: 202.7 million (29%). He is followed by Ciro Gomes (27.5 million) and Simone Tebet (4.0 million).

In the analysis of tweets posted about the candidates, the president also leads with 64.3 million mentions.

This is 53% of the total. Lula da Silva is also in second place with 44.6 million (37%).

Ciro (9.3 million), Tebet (1.9 million), Soraya (119.4 thousand), and d’Avila (106.9 thousand) complete the list – the four combined do not reach Bolsonaro or Lula da Silva’s score.

Bites also calculated the monthly searches on Google averaged over the last 12 months.

The 5 candidates reached 13,267,350 searches.

Bolsonaro (9.4 million), Lula da Silva (3.1 million), Ciro (599 thousand), and Tebet (149.4 thousand) make up the top 4.

POSTS WITH GREATER IMPACT

Of all the posts published by the candidates in the studied period, 5 of the 10 posts with the most interactions came from Bolsonaro.

At the top of the list is a video of the president posted on his Instagram profile on August 22, with an excerpt from his interview in TV Globo’s Jornal Nacional.

He talks about what the country was like at the beginning of his term and briefly comments on mad cow disease and the war in Europe. Observe:

On the other hand, the last five posts are in the top 10 most interacted posts by Lula da Silva.

The highlight among the leftist’s posts is a photo that the former president published just before he participated in the Jornal Nacional on August 25.

Lula da Silva asked Internet users if they liked his tie.

With information from Poder360

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