McCain now over 1.7 million Twitter followers

The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2010-01-05 | Jordan Fabian

[rabscuttle385]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) notified his Twitter users Tuesday that he crossed the 1.7 million follower threshold.

McCain took to Twitter a day after the account of his 2008 presidential election opponent, President Barack Obama, announced it had crossed over the 3 million follower mark:

Over 1.7 million followers!! Thanks everyone - keep tweeting!

The former GOP nominee has a long way to go if he wants to avenge his loss last year by gaining more followers than Obama.

McCain is the second-most followed sitting politician on Twitter and the 49th most followed Twitter user overall according to TwitterCounter, a widely used Twitter metrics site.

[rabscuttle385]

Over 1.7 million followers!!

Unfortunately for Juan, almost all of them are liberal Democrats.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

A sign that McCain should run again for President!!!

/bitter, bitter sarcasm

[dragnet2]

Oh boy....He’s popular....Lets run him for President!

[dools007]

YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reaganaut1]

McCain has voted the right way in 2009 — against the stimulus and health care bills for example. We have much bigger fish to fry than McCain. It’s popular here to call McCain a RINO, but it’s stupid to pretend there is no difference between him and Obama.

[gov_bean_ counter]

WGARA???

[VicVega]

He can double those numbers in a day if he pulls a Dodd and retires.

Please John, please retire.

[norraad]

He's a 'tard, a bought and paid for 'tard.

A monkey on a string w/o a cup.

[Scythian]

1.7 Million idiots (at least)

[freekitty]

The are waiting for him to announce his retirement.

[GrannyAnn]

***Unfortunately for Juan, almost all of them are liberal Democrats.****

And illegal aliens.

We need JD Hayworth to run against him. Please JD! Run!!!

[Candor7]

RINOtweets.

May they all suffer from TROLLathsma, and forget to vote.

[PoloSec]

Smoke and Mirrors...NEVER...EVER...Trust a RINO

[The Shrew]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) notified his Twitter users Tuesday that he crossed the 1.7 million follower threshold.

And that's just the people who want to laugh at him on a daily basis.

More will follow.

Regards,

TS

[subterfuge]

Any candidate with “FOLLOWERS” should be shunned.

[Migraine]

Remember the old cartoons when somebody got conked over the head with a sledge hammer, and they heard the sounds of tweeting?

Hey, mclame — I got yer tweety-tweet-tweet right here (raises sledge hammer over the “count de monet”, ancien regimer’s head)...

[bigbob]

Is this more or less than his big-Twitted daughter has? She’s supposed to be the darling of the Twitterati isn’t she?

[ReformedBeckite]

1.7 million shallow minded individuals

[kbennkc]

It’s popular here to call McCain a RINO, but it’s stupid to pretend there is no difference between him and Obama.

The false choice is the favorite rhetorical device of both McCain and Obama .

[cripplecreek]

McQueeg’s Twits.