| Candidate | Followers on 6/15/2011 |
|---|---|
| Barack Obama | 8,628,273 |
| Newt Gingrich | 1,324,904 |
| 615,671 | |
| Sarah Palin | 561,050 |
| 165,040 | |
| Mike Bloomberg | 99,413 |
| Jim DeMint | 95,266 |
| Bobby Jindal | 59,598 |
| Paul Ryan | 59,094 |
| Ron Paul | 54,455 |
| Michele Bachmann | 52,100 |
| Mitt Romney | 51,580 |
| Rick Perry | 44,438 |
| Herman Cain | 43,542 |
| Chris Christie | 42,041 |
| Tim Pawlenty | 40,981 |
| Jeb Bush | 14,937 |
| Rick Santorum | 10,529 |
| Jon Huntsman | 704 |
| Total Republican Followers | 3,335,343 |
For Mitt Romney, the Republican frontrunner, it is clear that not everyone is hanging on his every word. He even trails Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann.
Perhaps it's not the wisest strategy to be at the top of the Twitter list. Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich have made themselves over to be national jokes. Sarah Palin is everywhere ridiculed, and Mike Huckabee would be too if he had not dropped out.
Indeed, Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner was all over Twitter until he spread a little too much of himself over Twitter.
It's a wonder why anyone bothers to talk about about Jon Huntsman, as he is at the bottom of both the Facebook and Twitter lists. He announced Tuesday that he will announce his candidacy next week, but not on Twitter where his feed still says "@jonhuntsman hasn't tweeted yet." I'm sure all 704 of his followers eagerly await his first tweet.
Three weeks ago Herman Cain was on track to cross the Biden line and become a serious contender by mid-July but now it looks like it will be late September. That's not too late but he has lost the momentum he had in April and May. His Twitter numbers also lag.
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