Social media exploded Sunday night as presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed over personal and policy issues.
The Political Social Media Group, composed of students in a political communication graduate seminar, have been using sophisticated social media monitoring technology to scrutinize the debates leading up to the election. Among their observations about Sunday night’s town hall event:

• There were 2 million more posts related to Sunday’s debate than were logged during the first presidential debate.

• The debate began with a discussion about Trump’s recent video scandal, and social media responded with more than 180,000 posts containing the term