Interest in Pete Buttigieg is exploding

Since his March 10 CNN town hall, he’s added 447k followers on Twitter. His next closest 2020 competitor, Beto O’Rourke, has picked up 137k in that period, per CrowdTangle.

Buttigieg has generated more engagement with his tweets (2.10 million interactions) during this period than any other candidate’s main account except O’Rourke (2.17 million) — with half as many followers.

During this period, he’s added more followers on Instagram (90k) and Facebook (75k) than any other candidate except O’Rourke (92k, 82k), per CrowdTangle.