The Twitter Primary for October 2019

As I did in previous months, here’s an update on the number of Twitter followers of the Democratic presidential candidates, updated since last month’s update.

Two months ago I started using a tool that gives me precise Twitter follower counts.

I do this Twitter Primary update the last Tuesday of each month, following Monday’s Clown Car Update. Today’s falls on the 29th, while last month’s fell on the 24th, so feel free to adjust accordingly for the five day difference.

The following are all the declared Democratic Presidential candidates ranked in order of Twitter followers:

  1. Bernie Sanders: 9,798,075 (up 94,034)
  2. Cory Booker: 4,386,540 (up 29,379)
  3. Joe Biden: 3,915,347 (up 167,504)
  4. Elizabeth Warren: 3,425,325 (up 237,827)
  5. Kamala Harris: 3,218,938 (up 89,581)
  6. Marianne Williamson: 2,763,765 (up 416)
  7. Beto O’Rourke: 1,658,964 (up 47,366)
  8. Pete Buttigieg: 1,506,454 (up 63,473)
  9. Andrew Yang: 982,814 (up 104,738)
  10. Amy Klobuchar: 800,472 (up 33,453)
  11. Tulsi Gabbard: 717,648 (up 143,711)
  12. Julian Castro: 416,338 (up 26,976)
  13. Tom Steyer: 247,715 (up 2,640)
  14. Steve Bullock: 187,507 (up 1,745)
  15. Michael Bennet: 40,571 (up 1,094)
  16. John Delaney: 37,045 (up 775)
  17. Joe Sestak: 13,200 (up 262)

Removed from the last update: Tim Ryan, Wayne Messam

For reference, President Donald Trump’s personal account has 66,325,828 followers, up 1,626,646 since the last roundup, so once again Trump has gained more Twitter followers this month than all the Democratic presidential contenders combined. The official presidential @POTUS account has 27,008,334 followers, which I’m sure includes a great deal of overlap with Trump’s personal followers.

A few notes:

  • Twitter counts change all the time, so the numbers might be slightly different when you look at them. And if you’re not looking at the counts with a tool like Social Blade, Twitter does significant (and weird) rounding.
  • Warren gained the most followers of all the Democratic contenders, 237,827, but she’s not quite on a pace to overtake Biden before Iowa.
  • Biden gained the second most, 167,504, which doesn’t sound that impressive until you realize that he’d only been making mid-five-figure gains in previous Twitter Primary roundups. A six-figure gain is the most momentum we’ve seen from him.
  • Gabbard’s 143,711 gain is the third biggest gain this month. We’re still waiting for that momentum to show up in her polling numbers.
  • Yang was the only other six-figure gainer (though Harris and Sanders were close), and he should break one million followers soon.
  • Marianne Williamson’s mere 416 gain shows her buzz is dead.
  • Steyer still seems to be getting a pretty pathetic return on his Twitter ad buys.

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