February 15, 2011 02:26 AM UTC

Polis declared King, Lamborn, Not So Much

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• by: MileHighMessiah.com

I did a fun and admittedly superficial study today by visiting each of our congressional delegation’s websites to look up their total number of fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.

I wanted to see which member had the most overall “love” from Colorado by way of followers, as well as which were the most tech-savvy.

I was fully prepared to put the senators and representatives into two different categories to compare their numbers, after all, a congressional member with only a few hundred thousand constituents can’t compete with a senator that has several million residents to pick from can they?

Apparently I was wrong because the King of the Facebook and Twitter is Congressman Jared Polis with over 13,060 followers.

That man really gets some Valentine’s Day love from Colorado. He is followed by only a thousand or so people by Senator Udall.

Rounding out the bottom of the social networking universe is Scott Tipton with a paltry 659 followers and fans. Now, I give him somewhat of a pass because of the makeup of his district as well as the fact that he is a freshman. But it’s still hard to give him too much leeway when one considers that freshman member, Representative Cory Gardner already has 1,745 people following him.

Another item I thought worth noting was the pretty weak numbers for Senator Bennet. After a couple years as a senator and with millions of prospective followers, one would think he wouldn’t be rounding out the bottom of the Colorado delegation.

Lastly, there is Doub Lamborn. I have no doubt that if Representative Tipton’s staff were to see this, they could at least wrangle up 163 more twitter followers, hell, just follow a thousand people or so and with a 10% re-follow rate, he should pass Lamborn by tomorrow. So even though Tipton is technically the toad of the delegation, it doesn’t have to last long. Because after four years as a member of congress and several campaigns, one would think Lamborn would have more than his couple hundred Facebook followers. And the fact that he hasn’t even created a Twitter account, well that says volumes about either his tech capabilities, or his willingness to enter a new age of constituent relations.

So, with my keyboard, I bestow the title of “King of Facebitterverse” (facebook + Twitter + Universe) unto Jared Polis. And because I am making this up as I go along, I grant myself the power and authority to declare both Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton as “Co-toads of the Facebitterverse” because Lamborn, you really need to step it up!

So if fans and followers were chocolate hearts and candy kisses, Polis would definitely be playing Barry White all night long while Lamborn and Tipton would stuck singing “One Is the Loneliest Number.”

Jared Polis

Facebook – 5,178

Twitter – 7,882

Total – 13,060

Mark Udall

Facebook – 5,159

Twitter – 6,732

Total – 11,891

Mike Coffman

Facebook – 2,971

Twitter – 4,728

Total – 7,699

Ed Perlmutter

Facebook – 2,375

Twitter – 2,544

Total – 4,919

Diana DeGette

Facebook – 3,453

Twitter – 1,049

Total – 4,502

Michael Bennet

Facebook – 2,322

Twitter – 404

Total – 2,726

Cory Gardner

Facebook – 416

Twitter – 1,329

Total – 1,745

Doug Lamborn

Facebook – 822

Twitter – not created

Total – 822

Scott Tipton

Facebook – 385

Twitter – 274

Total – 659