The average number of followers for all Senate Democrats dropped by around 0.2% between Monday and Tuesday. Accounts linked to Republicans, however, increased by 0.8%
, users noticed a peculiar trend: left-leaning accounts were bleeding followers, while right-wing users enjoyed a boom.studied the pattern by charting the number of followers that America’s members of Congress had on Twitter before and after the deal was announced on April 25th. The results are subtle, yet highly consistent. The average number of followers for all Senate Democrats dropped by around 0.2% between April 25th and April 26th. Accounts linked to Republicans, however, increased by 0.
Vice-President Kamala Harris lost the greatest number of followers, dropping 22,000 in one day. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, two progressive senators, shed more than 19,000 and 14,000 followers, respectively. On average, Democratic senators lost 2,700 followers each. A significant drop in Twitter followers across various accounts usually indicates an operation to clean up “bots”—automated accounts controlled by software.
Republican senators gained an average of 3,400 each after the announcement. Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator, often described as a conservative libertarian, added 66,000 followers to his account. Other prominent Republicans in the Senate and House also experienced significant gains. Jim Jordan, a congressman from Ohio and stalwart supporter of Donald Trump, added 51,000. Ted Cruz, a senator from Texas, saw his following grow by more than 40,000.
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