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Welcome to the Senate page. All Senators are listed alphabetically by state. Each office's use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, RSS feeds and Flickr are tracked, as well as other forms of social media a few offices are currently experimenting in. Campaign pages (which under Senate rules must be kept separate) are dealt with on the Senate Campaigns page along with their respective challengers. All of the icons are linked and clicking on them will take you that Member's specific social media page. You can move the mouse over the icons in the "Other" section to learn what type of social media they link to.

The columns are are sortable. Click on the arrows in the header column to sort. Learn more about advanced sorting here.

Rankings

I use one tool to rank Facebook pages and 3 separate tools to rank Twitter accounts. An explanation of who they are and how they calculate their respective ranking scores can be found on the Influence page. The first ranking column with the Facebook icon is by Facebook Grader. The second column rankings and first Twitter icon is by Klout. The third column rankings are by Twitalyzer. The last column rankings are by Tweetlevel. The scores are constantly changing, and my site is not dynamic (i.e. it does not auto-update), so the data is never fresh. However, scores generally do not fluctuate wildly, so they can be thought of as more baseline, ballpark scores. Clicking on any score will take you to an updated version of that score. Fell free to edit the page an update scores - this is a wiki after all.

Social Media accounts with a * next to them indicate that the account listed is a campaign account and not the office account. I include those ONLY when there is no official Senate office account AND the campaign account is treated by the Senator as their primary account. It would be misleading to say they had no official account when they tweet 3 times a day on their campaign account.

Facebook accounts with a ^ next to them indicate Facebook profiles and not fan pages. Profiles cannot be ranked.

Accounts with an § next to them indicate that the account is not linked from their Senate.gov page. It's a lot easier to learn if your Senator uses social media if they publicize it. We believe it is important to point out when they fail to do so.

Accounts with an ‡ indicate that the account is known to be updated by the Senator personally and not staff.

#	First	Last	Party	State	Facebook	Twitter	Youtube	RSS	Flickr	Other
Social Media links updated July 27th 2011 - Rankings updated July 27th 2011											Influence Rankings
1	Jeff	Sessions	R	Alabama					No	Z	75	56	94	49.3
2	Richard	Shelby	R	Alabama					No	Z	72	43	65	32.4
3	Lisa	Murkowski	R	Alaska						Z	72	56	91	57.6
4	Mark	Begich	D	Alaska						Z	71	55	89	56.4
5	John	McCain	R	Arizona				No	No	Z	98.6	72	99	74.4
6	Jon	Kyl	R	Arizona				No	No	Z	68	53	92	28.7
7	Mark	Pryor	D	Arkansas					No	Z	62	0	0	0
8	John	Boozman	R	Arkansas					No	Z	68	53	90	54
9	Dianne	Feinstein	D	California					No	Z	0	0	0	0
10	Barbara	Boxer	D	California						Z	54	64	96	50.5
11	Mark	Udall	D	Colorado						Z	73	56	92	57.6
12	Michael	Bennet	D	Colorado					No	Z	65	52	81	40.9
13	Joe	Lieberman	I	Connecticut				No	No	Z	74	58	94	49.3
14	Richard	Blumenthal	D	Connecticut	5*					Z	84	50	60	43.3
15	Tom	Carper	D	Delaware						Z	54	51	87	49.3
16	Chris	Coons	D	Delaware							10	61	97	64.5
17	Bill	Nelson	D	Florida	No			No	No	Z	0	60	95	48.1
18	Marco	Rubio	R	Florida					No	Z	75	53	74	49.3
19	Saxby	Chambliss	R	Georgia	No	No					0	0	0	0
20	Johnny	Isakson	R	Georgia	5*	5*		No	No	Z	83	45	74	46.9
21	Daniel	Inouye	D	Hawaii	1^		No	No	No	Z	0	50	78	55.2
22	Daniel	Akaka	D	Hawaii					No	Z	63	42	60	34.8
23	Mike	Crapo	R	Idaho		No		No	No	Z	63	0	0	0
24	Jim	Risch	R	Idaho	No	No		No	No	Z	0	0	0	0
25	Dick	Durbin	D	Illinois						Z	61	66	98	58.7
26	Mark	Kirk	R	Illinois							62	59	93	59.9
27	Richard	Lugar	R	Indiana				No		Z	76	57	93	56.4
28	Dan	Coats	R	Indiana					No	Z	49	54	95	50.5
29	Chuck	Grassley	R	Iowa		0‡			No	Z	77	57	97	61
30	Tom	Harkin	D	Iowa					No	Z	65	52	90	44.5
31	Pat	Roberts	R	Kansas					No	Z	0	49	67	39.7
32	Jerry	Moran	R	Kansas					No	Z	67	51	82	56.4
33	Mitch	McConnell	R	Kentucky					No	Z	72	10	10	10
34	Rand	Paul	R	Kentucky					No	Z	78	66	96	54
35	Mary	Landrieu	D	Louisiana				No		Z	66	10	10	10
36	David	Vitter	R	Louisiana	0‡	1*		No	No	Z	88	58	93	70.1
37	Olympia	Snowe	R	Maine					No	Z	59	48	79	40.9
38	Susan	Collins	R	Maine					No		70	53	93	58.7
39	Barbara	Mikulski	D	Maryland					No	Z	54	63	93	50.5
40	Ben	Cardin	D	Maryland						Z	45	55	89	54
41	John	Kerry	D	Massachusetts					No	Z	80	56	90	46.9
42	Scott	Brown	R	Massachusetts						Z	80	56	96	51.7
43	Carl	Levin	D	Michigan						Z	74	49	67	26.2
44	Debbie	Stabenow	D	Michigan	5*					Z	75	48	76	51.7
45	Amy	Klobuchar	D	Minnesota	5*	No		No	No	Z	81	0	0	0
46	Al	Franken	D	Minnesota	5*	1*				Z	93	70	99	72.3
47	Thad	Cochran	R	Mississippi	No	No	No	No	No	Z	0	0	0	0
48	Roger	Wicker	R	Mississippi				No	No	Z	63	44	75	42.1
49	Claire	McCaskill	D	Missouri		0‡					77	62	98	50.5
50	Roy	Blunt	R	Missouri							68	60	97	61
51	Max	Baucus	D	Montana	0§	No	§		No	Z	38	0	0	0
52	Jon	Tester	D	Montana		No		No	No	Z	45	0	0	0
53	Ben	Nelson	D	Nebraska						Z	71	52	92	50.5
54	Mike	Johanns	R	Nebraska						Z	64	47	78	44.5
55	Harry	Reid	D	Nevada	5*				No	Z	83	72	99	59.9
56	Dean	Heller	R	Nevada					No	Z	52	45	85	32.4
57	Jeanne	Shaheen	D	New Hampshire					No	Z	58	37	54	39.7
58	Kelly	Ayotte	R	New Hampshire						Z	55	52	86	34.8
59	Frank	Lautenberg	D	New Jersey				No	No	Z	67	54	93	37.3
60	Bob	Menendez	D	New Jersey					No	Z	73	58	95	55.2
61	Jeff	Bingaman	D	New Mexico		No			No	Z	64	0	0	0
62	Tom	Udall	D	New Mexico						Z	69	51	72	34
63	Chuck	Schumer	D	New York						Z	78	74	100	65.6
64	Kirsten	Gillibrand	D	New York	5*	5*			No		88	70	98	61
65	Richard	Burr	R	North Carolina					No	Z	63	40	40	40
66	Kay	Hagan	D	North Carolina						Z	74	54	93	52.9
67	Kent	Conrad	D	North Dakota		No		No		Z	57	0	0	0
68	John	Hoeven	R	North Dakota		No			No	Z	48	0	0	0
69	Sherrod	Brown	D	Ohio	5*				No	Z	84	58	93	50
70	Rob	Portman	R	Ohio							85	59	99	58.7
71	Jim	Inhofe	R	Oklahoma	0§				No	Z	70	48	77	61
72	Tom	Coburn	R	Oklahoma	No			No	No	Z	0	61	93.3	45
73	Ron	Wyden	D	Oregon	5*	0‡§		No	No	Z	82	0NA	57.2	35
74	Jeff	Merkley	D	Oregon					No	Z	69	52	71.1	41
75	Bob	Casey, Jr.	D	Pennsylvania					No		58	10	10	10
76	Pat	Toomey	R	Pennsylvania				No		Z	46	54	73.4	44
77	Jack	Reed	D	Rhode Island	No	No	§		No	Z	0	0	0	0
78	Sheldon	Whitehouse	D	Rhode Island	No			No	No	Z	0	0NA	0NA	0NA
79	Lindsey	Graham	R	South Carolina				No	No	Z	74	59	89.5	56
80	Jim	DeMint	R	South Carolina	5*	1*			No	Z	94	66	98.9	66
81	Tim	Johnson	D	South Dakota					No	Z	46	38	10	26
82	John	Thune	R	South Dakota	5*				No	Z	91	10	10	10
83	Lamar	Alexander	R	Tennessee					No	Z	60	51	57.2	38
84	Bob	Corker	R	Tennessee					No	Z	58	51	81.5	47
85	Kay Bailey	Hutchison	R	Texas					No	Z	68	59	73.7	49
86	John	Cornyn	R	Texas					No	Z	82	67	97.8	70
87	Orrin	Hatch	R	Utah	5*				No	Z	71	63	93.3	63
88	Mike	Lee	R	Utah						Z	59	63	79	50
89	Patrick	Leahy	D	Vermont					No	Z	46	0NA	54.2	34
90	Bernie	Sanders	I	Vermont					No		90	72	98.3	61
91	Jim	Webb	D	Virginia		No		No	No		79	0	0	0
92	Mark	Warner	D	Virginia							80	58	92.3	51
93	Patty	Murray	D	Washington	5*				No	Z	84	0NA	0NA	0NA
94	Maria	Cantwell	D	Washington				No	No	Z	0	0NA	0NA	0NA
95	Joe	Manchin	D	West Virginia	No				No	Z	0	45	36.4	31
96	Jay	Rockefeller	D	West Virginia						Z	0	10	10	10
97	Herb	Kohl	D	Wisconsin		No		No	No	Z	59	0	0	0
98	Ron	Johnson	R	Wisconsin					No	Z	49	52	62.2	38
99	Mike	Enzi	R	Wyoming		No			No	Z	61	0	0	0
100	John	Barrasso	R	Wyoming				No	No	Z	62	45	54.2	35