Percentage of U.S. Congress members who posted on social media accounts 2020

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Stacy Jo Dixon,
Nov 9, 2024
In 2020, 98 percent of U.S. Senators have posted through their official social media accounts on Twitter. In comparison, only 79 percent of Senators went through their official social media accounts to post content on Instagram.

Percentage of U.S. Congress members who posted on official social media accounts in 2020

CharacteristicSenateHouse
Twitter 99% 98%
Facebook 100% 100%
YouTube 92% 86%
Instagram 86% 79%
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December 2020

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United States

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January 1 to November 30, 2020

Supplementary notes

Analyzed nearly 800,000 posts made by members of the 116th Congress on official social media accounts. Includes activity from official legislative accounts. For measuring the messages legislators wrote in their own words, Twitter data does not include retweets. Instagram and Facebook data does not include stories.

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