Walker’s announcement day reaches top tier on Facebook

Scott Walker’s presidential announcement put him in the Facebook users’ announcement day top tier, though he wound up behind a few rivals.

The Wisconsin governor generated 1.578 million interactions, which could be likes, posts, comments and shares, on Facebook in the 24 hour period Monday before and after he announced he was seeking the Republican presidential nomination.

Among Republicans, real estate mogul Donald Trump still tops the list with 6.4 million interactions on the day of his announcement last month, followed by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at 5.5 million. Next came Sen. Rand Paul, at 1.9 million, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, at 1.5 million and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., 1.3 million.

At the bottom were former New York Gov. George Pataki, 81,000, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at 142,000.

Walker’s interactions were generated by 679,000 people. Trump had 3.4 million people.

Some other announcement day data:

Chris Christie

482,000 unique people

803,000 interactions

Bobby Jindal

316,000 unique people

542,000 interactions

Donald Trump

3.4 million unique people

6.4 million interactions

Jeb Bush

493,000 unique people

849,000 interactions

Rick Perry

422,000 unique people

763,000 interactions

Lindsey Graham

84,000 unique people

142,000 interactions

George Pataki

59,000 unique people

81,000 interactions

Rick Santorum

169,000 unique people

266,000 interactions

Mike Huckabee

458,000 unique people

814,000 interactions

Carly Fiorina

304,000 unique people

515,000 interactions

Ben Carson

847,000 unique people

1.5 million interactions

Marco Rubio

695,000 unique people

1.3 million interactions

Rand Paul

865,000 unique people

1.9 million interactions

Ted Cruz

2.1 million unique people

5.5 million interactions

This story was originally published July 14, 2015 at 5:38 PM with the headline "Walker’s announcement day reaches top tier on Facebook."