US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump owes his rise to the media frenzy that surrounded his controversial bid for the White House, says Don DeBar, an American broadcaster and political analyst.
SocialFlow, a social media optimization platform, announced Thursday that the New York businessman is the most popular candidate on various social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
SocialFlow estimates that in March people have spent around 1.94 million hours reading Trump content shared on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
This is specially significant when compared to around 630 thousand hours people have spent reading content related to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Another analysis by mediaQuant, published on Tuesday, has found that Trump has received nearly $2 billion in free media exposure this past year.
“Trump is as close to a human-computer-generated image or character as he can get,” Don DeBar told…