The news this week per @Spedwybabs is this: Democratic numbers are flat in terms of new arrivals, but the Republican party is basically herding all of their members into Twitter. Connecting this trend with the presence of right wing Twitter amplifiers means Democrats, who've been behind the eight ball on Twitter from the start, are in danger of ceding this entire medium to right wing noise.
Democrats have the people to overwhelm this, but without a a focused effort this medium will become another right wing echo chamber.
What you see here are a hotlink to the politician's Twitter ID, their real name, their district or state, a hot link to their @Klout, their friends (mutual follower/following), their followers, and their True Reach. Klout is a computationally complex, slow to change, hard to game set of metrics and we believe it to be the best publicly available measure of a Twitter account's effectiveness.
We don't provide all of the Klout metrics in tabular form, just the ones we believe to be most relevant for political figures. The relationship between follower count and True Reach is the key to understanding how effective a public figure actually is. There are many, many junk followers on Twitter – accounts driven not by engaged humans but by software. These systems hunt for key words or phrases and then follow those using them – these are often subtle sales pitches.
True Reach measures not followers, but followers who are actually paying attention. Watching those who retweet, or respond, or ask a question of a given account is a far better metric of how well the account is interacting with constituents than a simple raw follower count. If True Reach is zero, per Klout founder @JoeFernandez this indicates that the account is too thinly engaged to have a score. This lack of engagement is, in our opinion, a hazard to the Democratic majority.
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