Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teaches fellow Democrats to use Twitter
There are some things, such as courage and a sense of humour, that you cannot teach. But becoming a titan of social media? That may just be possible to learn.
Such is the hope, at least, of Democrats on Capitol Hill, who have undergone a class in how to tweet more effectively, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the veritable Twitter superpower.
Nobody in the Democratic party – Michelle and Barack Obama included – has as much Twitter power as the 29-year-old congresswoman of New York’s 14th district.
Axios reported recently that from December 11 2018, to January 11 2019, Ms Ocasio-Cortez, had 11.8m Twitter interactions, second only to Donald Trump, – who had 39.8m – among politicians or the news media. Senator Kamala Harris was third with 4.6m, Barack Obama was fourth with 4.4m, and CNN came fifth with 3.1m.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s boss as head of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, had a relatively modest 2.6m interactions, and come sixth.
“Neither Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s background nor her position as a first-time representative are…noteworthy enough to be driving the national political conversation. And yet she is doing exactly that,” Ben Thompson, the founder of tech newsletter Stratechery, told the news site.
“In short, she is the first – but certainly not the last – of an entirely new archetype: a politician that is not only fueled by the Internet, but born of it.”
Ms Ocasio-Cortez, who has 2.42m followers, held Thursday’s lesson with congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who has 76,500.
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