Gerry Adams was the most mentioned party leader on Twitter during last night's final leaders' debate.
According to data generated using a tool developed for RTÉ by the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, the Sinn Féin President was referenced more than 2,000 times during the hour-and-a-half long head-to-head.
In second place was Labour leader Joan Burton, whose name was included in more than 860 tweets between 9.30pm and 11pm.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny was the next most mentioned participant in the debate, followed by Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.
The ADAPT SentiWords tool analyses tweets for hashtags, keywords, party and candidate mentions related to the election.
Using a sophisticated analysis system it is also able to measure the sentiment expressed in individual tweets.
In tweets posted during the debate mentioning Mr Adams, Mr Kenny and Mr Martin, the sentiment expressed was broadly one third positive and 40% negative, with the balance neutral.
Mr Burton, however, bucked the trend, with 40% of the tweets mentioning the Labour leader registering as positive and 30% negative.
In total there were more than 26,000 tweets related to the leaders' debate while it was on air.
Labour was the most mentioned party, followed by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and then Sinn Féin.
The top issues mentioned in the tweets were health, finance and taxation.
Meanwhile, using a different time range and set of search criteria, Twitter itself said it counted over 57,000 separate tweets related to the election and the debate.
It says Fine Gael was the most mentioned party between 9.05pm and 11.25pm, followed by Labour, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil.
According to the microblogging site, Mr Adams registered the most mentions, followed by Mr Kenny, Ms Burton and Mr Martin.
But its analysis does not give any sense of the sentiment expressed in any of those tweets.
The most tweeted about moment during the debate, Twitter said, was the creaking of the studio floor, with the creak even having its own Twitter account by the end of the night.
Notably, the most retweeted post during the debate came from Social Democrat joint leader Stephen Donnelly, who wasn't taking part.
While an interesting snapshot, all the data about debate-related conversations on Twitter needs to be treated with caution, because of the volumes of tweets involved, and the disproportionate number of media and political activists that use it.
