Clinton tops Sanders on Twitter during debate

Hillary Clinton led the Twitter conversation during Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate.

The former secretary of State is the subject of 53 percent of the conversation during the CNN presidential debate from Brooklyn.

Rival Bernie Sanders follows close behind, with 47 percent of debate tweets involving the Vermont senator.

Final share of #DemDebate Twitter conversation:

– @HillaryClinton 53%
– @BernieSanders 47% pic.twitter.com/eqTvdqbScl

— Twitter Government (@gov) April 15, 2016

But Sanders gained the most Twitter followers during the debate, followed by Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in third.

The most tweeted moment during the debate happened when Clinton and Sanders discussed raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The next most-tweeted moments happened during the candidates’disagreement over environmental policy and Clinton pointing out there had not be a question about women’s rights.