The Twitter Primary for November 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.

Three 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.

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

  1. Bernie Sanders: 10,027,745 (up 229,970)
  2. Cory Booker: 4,401,991 (up 15,451)
  3. Joe Biden: 3,965,181 (up 49,834)
  4. Elizabeth Warren: 3,504,758 (up 79,433)
  5. Kamala Harris: 3,252,966 (up 34,028)
  6. Marianne Williamson: 2,764,694 (up 929)
  7. Michael Bloomberg: 2,343,799 (new)
  8. Pete Buttigieg: 1,556,876 (up 50,422)
  9. Andrew Yang: 1,045,469 (up 62,655)
  10. Amy Klobuchar: 816,810 (up 16,338)
  11. Tulsi Gabbard: 734,646 (up 16,998)
  12. Julian Castro: 434,802 (up 18,464)
  13. Tom Steyer: 249,321 (up 1,606)
  14. Steve Bullock: 188,787 (up 1,280)
  15. Deval Patrick: 51,868 (new)
  16. Michael Bennet: 42,033 (up 1,462)
  17. John Delaney: 37,451 (up 406)
  18. Joe Sestak: 13,543 (up 343)

Removed from the last update: Beto O’Rourke

For reference, President Donald Trump’s personal account has 67,030,782 followers, up 704,954 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 27,163,640 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.
  • Sanders crushed it this month, adding nearly 230,000 followers; no one else even came close six digit follower gains.
  • Elizabeth Warren gained 237,827 followers last month, but only 79,433 this month. Even though that’s the second biggest gain, it suggests that her campaign may have peaked and that she failed to become the far-left alternative to Sanders.
  • Andrew Yang’s momentum seemed to slow as well, but it was still enough to carry him up over the 1 million mark.
  • Along with Joe Biden, Warren and Yang, Tulsi Gabbard was the only candidate to gain over 100,000 followers last month. That momentum seems to have slowed dramatically, with just under 17,000 new followers for November, which is right in line with what Amy Klobuchar and Julian Castro did. All are below The Andrew Yang Line, and none seem a threat to break into a higher tier anymore.
  • Michael Bloomberg joins the list in seventh place, with 2,343,799 followers, a majority of which I would guess are New York City/business related. Can he gain the 400,000+ followers to overcome the moribund Williamson campaign for sixth place between now and Iowa? I’d bet not.
  • Deval Patrick joins the race with 51,868 Twitter followers, or the sort of numbers garnered by people who drop out of the race, not get in it.
  • No one below Joe Biden is on a trajectory to pass Joe Biden in followers before Iowa.
  • Marianne Williamson’s second straight sub-1,000 gain month shows that the magic is gone and probably isn’t coming back.
  • Steyer still seems to be getting a pretty pathetic return on his Twitter ad buys.
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