Connacht Tribune website and social media tops the poll
The Connacht Tribune’s award-winning website and social media channels topped the poll at the weekend for unrivalled up-to-the-minute election tallies, counts and analysis.
Over the past week, connachttribune.ie attracted more than 87,600 users and recorded 227,400 page views.
Of the users, just over 75,000 were in Ireland (85%), but the election coverage also attracted 3,800 readers from the UK (4.3%); 3,600 (4.1%) in the United States; nearly 1,500 in Turkey (1.6%) and more than 700 in Australia (just under 1%).
Hundreds more expatriates tuned over the weekend from numerous European counties and as far afield as India, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, South Africa, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, China, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia – and they returned for more!
Meanwhile, our Facebook page was leagues ahead of all other local media, with 458,000 engagements (clicks, likes, shares and comments) for the week to February 12th – fifteen times higher than some other outlets and more than 267,000 ahead of the closest.
On Twitter, the @CTribune account earned more than 207,000 impressions (the number of times our tweets were shown in people’s timelines) last weekend.
The figures show, once again, that the Tribune is the most popular and trusted news source in Galway.