Daily number of posts per platform by U.S. Congress members 2021

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Stacy Jo Dixon,
Nov 9, 2024
In 2021, U.S. Congress members generated a total of 1,430 Twitter posts per day and 885 Facebook posts. In addition, there were 178 press releases per day and 61 daily posts on YouTube. Across all platforms there was a slight decrease daily in posts when compared to 2020, apart from YouTube, which saw a slight increase.

Daily number of social media posts by members of the U.S. Congress in 2021, by platform

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December 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

January 1 to November 30, 2021

Supplementary notes

According to the source: "This report analyzes nearly 800,000 posts made by members of the 117th Congress on official Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts in 2021. In previous years, this report has also covered Instagram, but dialogue trackers like Quorum are no longer able to track Instagram data."

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