Before we have polls to indicate how the Alba Party might do in the upcoming Scottish elections I thought I'd have a quick look at what social media tells us about their support...
Alba officially launched last week, and since then they have gained:
⚫️ 8868 Twitter followers
⚫️ 1518 Facebook followers
Those don't feel like the levels of support I would expect a popular party with electoral potential to have. In fact I'm surprised by how small it is...
According to @crowdtangle, the Alba Party have only had a total of 5126 interactions on Facebook (likes, shares, comments, reactions) in the past week.
The majority of these (2993 interactions) were from the launch day...