March 09, 2011 10:11 AM UTC

New Media: Lessons Learned, Some Still Don't Care

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• by: MileHighMessiah.com

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

On February 14 I declared Jared Polis King of Colorado because his online presence was the strongest of all the Colorado Delegation. As of today, Polis is still king.

However, maybe some legislators do listen to CPolsters because in the three weeks since that diary, our legislator’s online presence has increased.

Surprisingly, Representative Scott Tipton had the greatest increase with a whopping 19% surge in facebook and twitter followers. Senator Michael Bennet came in second with just over 11% boost.

Rounding out the bottom of the Colorado delegation for the last few weeks are Coffman and Lamborn with a 1.76% and 2.49 increase respectively.

While Scott Tipton did surge by over 19%, all he really needs to do is sneeze and he can probably round up the 27 followers he needs to get out of last place so that Lamborn will truly be last in Colorado.

Now I know what you’re thinking: How can Scott Tipton’s paltry increase of 157 be considered a surge when Jared Polis’ increase of 428 followers is more than half of Tipton’s total followers? And to that I say, hey, you do your best to compare the heavyweight with the bantam weight. Give Tipton credit for trying. It could be worse, he could still be without a Twitter account like another delegation member who for the sake of not appearing partisan I will not name (hint, take a look at second to last on the list!).

As a reminder, these numbers were taken directly from the links from the websites of our legislators.

P.S. – sorry the tables below aren’t linear, formatting is not my specialty.

Followers Feb 14      Followers Today

Jared Polis

Facebook –   5,178    5,347

Twitter –    7,882    8,141

Total –      13,060   13,488 3.17% Increase

Mark Udall

Facebook –   5,159    5,346

Twitter –    6,732    6,999

Total –      11,891   12,345    3.67% Increase

Mike Coffman

Facebook –   2,971     3,000

Twitter –   4,728     4,837

Total –   7,699     7,837   1.76% Increase

Ed Perlmutter

Facebook –   2,375   2,436

Twitter –   2,544   2,637

Total –   4,919   5,073   3.03% Increase

Diana DeGette

Facebook –   3,453   3,545

Twitter –   1,049   1,361

Total –   4,502   4,906   8.23% Increase

Michael Bennet

Facebook –   2,322   2,475

Twitter –   404   593

Total –   2,726   3,068   11.14% Increase

Cory Gardner

Facebook –   416   467

Twitter –   1,329   1,437

Total –   1,745   1,904 8.35% Increase

Doug Lamborn

Facebook –   822   843

Twitter –   not created   Not Created

Total –   822   843   2.49% Increase

Scott Tipton

Facebook – 385   425

Twitter – 274   391

Total – 659   816   19.24% Increase