Democrats get to keep their House majority for a few more weeks, but the GOP already has control of Twitter.



A study released this week shows that Republicans in Congress are more influential than Democrats on Twitter — by overwhelming margins.

Seventy of the top 100 most influential congressional Twitter users are Republicans, the study said.

Still, the Democrats can claim one victory: Capitol Hill's most "influential" tweeter.



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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) ranked first, five slots ahead of Speaker-designate John Boehner John Andrew BoehnerLongtime House parliamentarian to step down Five things we learned from this year's primaries Bad blood between Pelosi, Meadows complicates coronavirus talks MORE (Ohio). Second was Rep. Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanBiden's debate game plan? Keep cool and win Trump, Biden have one debate goal: Don't lose RNC chair on election: We are on track to win the White House MORE (R-Wis.), and third was Rep. Michele Bachmann Michele Marie BachmannEvangelicals shouldn't be defending Trump in tiff over editorial Mellman: The 'lane theory' is the wrong lane to be in White House backs Stephen Miller amid white nationalist allegations MORE (R-Minn.).



HP Labs, the research center for Hewlett-Packard, applied an algorithm to rank the 100 most influential Twitter users in Congress.



The primary criterion was how much members interact with their followers, rather than how many people follow them. Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainBudowsky: Senate's Trump Republicans on trial, in trouble America's presence in Cam Ranh Bay should be more than occasional Meghan McCain, husband welcome first baby girl, Liberty Sage McCain Domenech MORE (R-Ariz.), for example, is the most-followed member, with more than 1.7 million followers. But he ranks seventh on the list.



Bernardo Huberman, a researcher who contributed to the study, said the algorithm elevated people whose messages tend to be heard over all the noise on social sites.



"Sometimes it can be quite surprising, paradoxical, that the people who are quite popular in the sense of having a lot of followers … have little influence," he said.



Click here for the full list. And watch a clip of Huberman explaining the Twitter method below.





