Herman Cain Tops GOP Field In Facebook Buzz

An enterprising politico is ranking the Republican presidential candidates using Facebook's new "people talking about" metric.

An enterprising politico has leveraged Facebook’s new “people talking about” metric for every Republican presidential candidate.

Patrick Ruffini, a political strategist at Engage, has made public a Google spreadsheet that will constantly update the rankings of the most talked about GOP candidates for president on Facebook, using the new tool launched last week.

With the new “people talking about” metric, Facebook will quantify how many people are talking about a topic or page across the entire social networking site, regardless of whether a page is liked or not.

The recently added share button will also help to improve the dialogue around hot or emerging topics on Facebook.

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