Gubernatorial Twitter Update #4
The state of the Maine gubernatorial race on Twitter.
Independent Alex Hammer (@AlexHammer) is following 483, has 354 followers, and 585 Tweets; +5 Followers.
Republican Matt Jacobson (@jacobson4gov) is following 375, has 515 followers, and 39 Tweets; +209 Followers.
Republican Les Otten (@LesOtten) is following 0, has 16 followers, and 0 Tweets; +9 Followers.
Republican Bruce Poliquin (@BruceForME) is following 74, has 74 followers, and 89 Tweets; +11 Followers.
Democrat Steven Rowe (@Steven_Rowe) is following 0, has 99 followers, and 2 Tweets; +7 Followers.
Green Independent Lynne Williams (@Lynne4Governor) is following 10, has 29 followers, and 12 Tweets;+2 Followers.
Overall, independent Alex Hammer remains in the lead, although impressively Republican Matt Jacobson is ahead in total followers.
Okay, fair enough – I didn’t mean to make you mad, it just didn’t make sense to me. Its a cool list, I just assumed you were going on followers.
Could you perhaps let us in on how you determine the “overall” winner? Not really interesting in disputing it, I’m just curious what formula you are using.
Thanks.
We did revise this post to remove the criticism, it was a fair point.
No real formula, we’re just looking overall at all three factors – Followers, Followed, and number of Tweets. We think having 10,000 followers isn’t very impressive if you only have 10 Tweets, for example.
In the coming days, probably next weekend after Update 5, we’ll post a graph of the candidate’s growth over time on Twitter, to show how they’re doing.