Ted Cruz Most Tweeted About During Debates

Last night’s debate drove 1,196,000 tweets. Some of the top moments via Nielsen Social:

• In the U.S., tweets about the event were sent by 225,000 people and seen 181 million times, via Twitter TV impressions.
• The most tweeted minute of the night was at 9:45 p.m. ET, when 8,900 tweets were sent following Ted Cruz’ comments about securing U.S. borders.
• The top mentioned candidate of the night was “TedCruz” who was mentioned in more than 65,500 tweets around the debates.