Over one million people follow MPs on Twitter

1,224,902 people follow MPs on Twitter.

The most followed party (with the most followed MPs) is the Conservatives whose MPs are followed by 637,338 people. Labour follows with 576,304 people, and the Liberal Democrats with 200,176 people.

These are all unique figures/followers - total number of people (cleansed of duplicates). A simple sum of all MPs’ followers, not excluding duplicates, adds up to 3,628,982.

The 10 most followed MPs on Twitter:

@David_Cameron 280916 followers

@Ed_Miliband 204818

@WilliamJHague 138369

@georgegalloway 122764

@tom_watson 119180

@nick_clegg 106194

@edballsmp 81113

@grantshapps 64988

@CarolineLucas 55017

@ChukaUmunna 49894

*@Dmiliband (125,972) is excluded from the list.

All data was gathered on Thursday 11 April.

Posted at Thu, Apr 11th 2013, 17:37
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A new electionista.com

Last week we announced V2 of electionista pro. Today, we’re delighted to release the latest update of electionista.com:

- a beautiful new interface

- photos and videos most shared by politicians and political media around the world

- a markets channel (simply type markets in the search bar) to see the latest relevant tweets and most shared content by financial experts and influencers around the world.

Posted at Mon, Apr 8th 2013, 15:00
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