Fifty per cent of Twitter conversations about Trump involve attacks against him, Rubec said. Among Twitter users who had tweeted favourably about Trump before the debate, 4,137 said he had lost their vote after the debate. A graph showing the shift in candidate support among Twitter users who had expressed support for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton before the debate and revoked it after. Both Trump and Clinton took strong stands on abortion during the debate, and that seems to have influenced the conversation online. In Clinton-related tweets, mentions of abortion went from one per cent before the debate to 11 per cent after — a 1,000 per cent increase.

Source: CBC News October 21, 2016 17:20 UTC