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SamAdams76 Monthly Trending of Twitter Follower Growth for 2020 Presidential Candidates - Nov 2018

Posted on 10/31/2018 5:12:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76

This is a monthly posting of Twitter follower growth for the past month for 2020 presidential candidates.

Last Month's Post Here

For those who are new to this, what I do here is take a snapshot of Twitter followers at end of each month for people who have either formally announced or notable people who show interest in running for president in the 2020 cycle. Then I stack rank by what the growth is month-over-month in Twitter followers.

This is very unscientific of course but I feel that Twitter growth in followers is a very strong indicator of candidate "velocity" and we certainly saw that in 2016, when it was Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and the eventual winner Donald Trump who month after month saw the highest growth in followers. My 2016 tracking showed "front-runners" like Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio with rather tepid Twitter follower growth months before they eventually dropped out of the race.

So I think this "unscientific" survey has some merit.

I am currently tracking 54 individuals for the 2020 Presidential Race but only the Top 20 make the cut for my monthly update.

The notable exception here is Kamala Harris. I was following her Twitter handle @KamalaHarris20 but that appears to be inactive so I switched to @SenKamala Harris. She currently has 536,114 followers and we'll see if she makes the list next month.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary

1 posted on 10/31/2018 5:12:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Some of the names on this list made me projectile vomit.


2 posted on 10/31/2018 5:15:51 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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might you understand what the President was talking about here?

Twitter has removed many people from my account and, more importantly, they have seemingly done something that makes it much harder to join - they have stifled growth to a point where it is obvious to all. A few weeks ago it was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp! Total Bias?

10:05 AM - 26 Oct 2018


3 posted on 10/31/2018 5:18:27 PM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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Why no Beto O’Rourke?


4 posted on 10/31/2018 5:21:04 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Artemis Webb; Moe-Patrick; snarkpup; TaxPayer2000; HoneysuckleTN; Jane Long; bohica1; Thom Pain; ...

Pinging my list


5 posted on 10/31/2018 5:31:11 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: Robert DeLong
He has not yet personally expressed an interest in running. That is my criteria.

However, I have started tracking his followers so that when he does affirm he has an interest, I'll insert him into the mix.

"Beto" (not his real name by the way) currently has 198,011 followers. 90% of which are girly-girls who were recently sighted screaming their lungs out at a Justin Bieber concert.

6 posted on 10/31/2018 5:37:47 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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Yeah I know his name is Robert, like mine. A fake Hispanic like our fake Indian. All Democrats pretend to be someone they are not.

Screaming girls. When I was young I thought I would enjoy that. As I get older, they just make me shudder. 8>)

7 posted on 10/31/2018 5:46:49 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SamAdams76

The good news is the amount of “Clutter” on the D side; the discredited, superannuated, creepy, and rich pretenders.

I’ll Look for your next report!


8 posted on 10/31/2018 5:49:43 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: SMGFan
Recently a lot of conservatives were suspended or even banned on Twitter. What that does is reduce follower count for those whom they follow. I think that is what Trump was getting at.

Nonetheless, Trump continues to have impressive Twitter follower growth month over month.

9 posted on 10/31/2018 5:54:57 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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"This is very unscientific of course but I feel that Twitter growth in followers is a very strong indicator of candidate"

How are you able to tell the difference between "followers" & an algorithm?

ANSWER: YOU can't!

Oh, and I'd go with FAKE-A-Hantas, because "Pocahantas" was the REAl DEAL, Fake Lizzy isn't, she was dumb enough to release her genetics screening, i.e. DNA results.

10 posted on 10/31/2018 7:06:20 PM PDT by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s).)
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To: SamAdams76
Commercial Photography
11 posted on 10/31/2018 8:26:27 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Cool graphic! I spent a lot of time up in those bleachers. Except back then, they didn’t have those super-expensive seats over the Green Monster!


12 posted on 10/31/2018 8:28:19 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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Good work and revealing. Biteme and ComanChe would have no chance against Trump. Neither would BookerT&theMSGs


13 posted on 11/01/2018 5:57:04 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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