Question

This graph shows social media usage and presidential elections.

A bar chart shows the number of tweets in millions for 2008 was 10 and 32 in 2012.

What can you infer from the information presented within this graph?

social media has become an important tool in presidential campaigns
presidential campaigns have become less important to older Americans
social media has had little to no impact on how politicians campaign
presidential campaigns spent more money on advertising

Answer 1

social media has become an important tool in presidential campaigns.

Reason: the large increase in tweet volume from 10 million (2008) to 32 million (2012) shows growing use of social media in elections. The other choices require data not shown (age-group interest or ad spending) or contradict the observed increase.