Yang leads on new Twitter follows during Thursday night debate

Published September 13, 2019 11:56am ET



Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang gained many more new followers than other candidates during the debate in Houston on Thursday night.

Yang attracted over 7,500 new followers, an increase of nearly 1%, according to a tally by Politico. Nevertheless, Yang came in last for total speaking time for his third debate in a row with only 7.9 minutes. Front-runner Joe Biden spoke for 17.4 minutes.

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