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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.

Four 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.

This month, we’ve had our first ever verified decline in Twitter followers for any candidate.

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

1. Bernie Sanders: 10,137,379 (up 109,634)
2. Cory Booker: 4,412,455 (up 10,464)
3. Joe Biden: 4,045,008 (up 79,827)
4. Elizabeth Warren: 3,573,835 (up 69,077)
5. Marianne Williamson: 2,763,144 (down 1,550)
6. Michael Bloomberg: 2,364,351 (up 20,552)
7. Pete Buttigieg: 1,571,971 (up 15,095)
8. Andrew Yang: 1,124,156 (up 78,687)
9. Amy Klobuchar: 839,271 (up 22,461)
10. Tulsi Gabbard: 763,680 (up 29,034)
11. Julian Castro: 454,139 (up 19,337)
12. Tom Steyer: 253,467 (up 4,146)
13. Deval Patrick: 52,519 (up 6,510)
14. Michael Bennet: 42,832 (up 799)
15. John Delaney: 38,015 (up 564)

Removed from the last update: Kamala Harris, Steve Bullock, Joe Sestak

For reference, President Donald Trump’s personal account has 68,039,448 followers, up 1,008,666 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 27,370,155 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.

The rate for most of the candidates adding followers slowed, which I attribute to the Christmas season.

Except Joe Biden, who gained some 30,000 more followers in December than November, bucking the trend.

However, Bernie Sanders still gained more overall, even if he gained half as many as he did in November.

Also gaining more: Andrew Yang, who gained more followers than Elizabeth Warren.

Marianne Williamson records the first verifiable decline in Twitter followers since I started tracking the race.

Steyer and Bloomberg are dropping huge amounts into ads, yet their Twitter counts are growing more slowly than Andrew Yang’s.

Tags: 2020 Presidential Race, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Democrats, Deval Patrick, Elections, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, John Delaney, Julian Castro, Marianne Williamson, Media Watch, Michael Bennet, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer, Tulsi Gabbard, Twitter

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