As of May 2020, the most followed Republican member of the 116th Congress was Ted Cruz. Cruz, who represented Texas, had a total of 5.27 million followers on Twitter. The second most-followed 116th Republican Congress member was Marco Rubio, representing Florida, with 4.3 million Twitter followers.
Most-followed Democrat members of 116th United States Congress on Twitter as of May 2020
Follower counts are calculated for each member of Congress by summing up their followers across all of their accounts on each day they were in office and selecting the highest observed value. Users who follow multiple accounts for the same member are counted twice.
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Pew Research Center. (July 16, 2020). Most-followed Democrat members of 116th United States Congress on Twitter as of May 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 03, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142885/us-congress-member-republican-most-followed-twitter/
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