Liberal sensation Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more power on Twitter than any other Democrat - including former President Barack Obama - although she is miles behind that other social media force: President Donald Trump.

The freshman Democratic representative has generated more interactions - retweets plus likes - on the social media site than party leaders Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

She is second only to the president, Axios found, when it measured the Twitter star power of several politicians.

Liberal sensation Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more power on Twitter than any other Democrat

The freshman lawmaker trails President Donald Trump however

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has 2.4 million twitter followers

Trump has 57.3 million twitter followers

And she trails Trump by millions - Ocasio-Cortez came in with 11.8 million interactions while the president easily outdistanced her at 39.8 million interactions.

Ocasio-Cortez gets more bang for her buck though. She only has 2.3 million twitter followers to the president's 57.3 million.

The freshman lawmaker, who took office in January, stunned Democrats in June when she beat sitting Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in their primary.

She's been a prolific user of social media - using her Twitter account to slam fellow Democrats, interact with journalists and state her opinions.

Trump tweets frequently but he only tends to have direct interactions with the official White House twitter account, his staff or the first lady.

Coming in third was California Sen. Kamala Harris, who has a new book out and is contemplating a 2020 presidential bid.

Obama comes in fourth with Pelosi sixth and Schumer seventh.

Even Beto O'Rourke, who became a social media sensation when he tried to knock of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, trailed Ocasio-Cortez.

He logged only 1.8 million interactions.

Sen. Kamala Harris came in third and former President Barack Obama came in fourth with Twitter interactions

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't crack the top five

Axios noted a discrepancy in the volume of tweets too:

Trump: 9.1 tweets per day

Ocasio-Cortez: 5.8 tweets per day

Harris: 9.7 tweets per day

Obama: 0.4 tweets per day.

Despite Ocasio-Cortez' telegenic approach to self-promotion and her social media star power, Democratic House leaders have sought to sideline her in practical ways that could limit the public's exposure to her less mainstream views.

When she made a play this month for a seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, a senior Democrat told Politico that '[i]t totally pissed off everyone. You don’t get picked for committees by who your grass-roots [supporters] are.'

Veteran Democratic members suspected Ocasio-Cortez was behind a siable online campaign to convince Speaker Nancy Pelosi to give her the plum appointment.

And she is expected to loudly advocate for Democratic primary campaigns against some of the middle-of-the-road members of her own party in Congress.

Her new chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, told supporters during a November conference call that 'we gotta primary folks.'