What we can learn from the 10,000 tweets sent by Colorado’s congressional delegation in 2021 – By Sandra Fish (Colorado Sun) / January 17, 2022
Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert sent the most tweets, but she didn’t have the one with the most engagement
Colorado’s congressional delegation took to Twitter in 2021 to extol their policies, raise money and take jabs at their enemies, not necessarily in that order.
The state’s seven U.S. House members and two U.S. Senators tweeted 10,052 times in 2021 from both personal and congressional accounts. The Colorado Sun analyzed those tweets to identify a variety of trends.
Four lawmakers accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total. Three of those also top the list of followers on Twitter. But the tweets with the greatest engagement among users might come as a surprise.
Only 23% of U.S. adults use Twitter compared with 69% who are on Facebook, according to Pew Research. But people interested in news and politics frequent Twitter. So the platform offers politicians a different, more engaged, audience, said Aaron Smith, director of the data labs research team at Pew Research Center.
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