Members of Congress on Twitter



The Electoral College is incredibly obsolete but still remains. Many institutions in government are slow to change, but one thing I find fascinating is incredible changes in how candidates and politicians communicate. Imagine if you could follow your representative or senators throughout their day and even communicate with them? Well exactly that is happening on Twitter!

About 10% of the members of Congress are now on Twitter. I've detailed the list below and linked to their Twitter pages. But think about this. Many of these folks are personally reading their Twitter pages. If not personally, then someone close to them who probably interacts with them on a weekly basis if not more frequent. There is probably no better way of interacting with your representative (provided you don't already have a personal relationship with them).

So far as I can tell, 17 senators are active on Twitter (8 Republicans and 9 Democrats). They all seem to be active although not very followed (Senator McCaskill has the most followers at about 4,300 compared to Lance Armstrong at 80,000 and Robert Scoble at 58,000):

As for the House of Representatives, there are 46 members on Twitter (32 Republicans and 14 Democrats) and the one with the most followers seems to be John Culberson (R) from Texas at 6,500:

Bottom line is that this is great. The more transparency we bring to government the better.

PS, let me know if you find other members of Congress on Twitter and I'll update the list.