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The New York Times's Social Media Editor Liz Heron
So far, that story has been Liked more than 1,550 times on Facebook and is spreading around the web like wildfire.
CNN's breaking news Twitter feed saw hundreds of retweets on its first two posts about the story. Trendistic says the term "Trump" peaked at 0.8% of all tweets earlier Monday morning. According to Trendsmap, many of these updates seem to be popping up from the New York and Los Angeles areas.
The one thing we can't get from all this data is sentiment analysis. So take a moment to weigh in via this poll. How does Trump's announcement sit with you?