Recent articles seem to believe that Conservatives and the Republican party are using Twitter the most successfully within the general public and congressional members. A recent blog post by From Anthea Watson, New Organizing Institute (Click Here for the Rest of the Article) discusses the recent articles.

Following the 2008 election cycle, the progressive community appeared to have the edge on using new media technology to effectively build support for ideas and movements. However, a few recent articles show that, at least in Congress, it’s the Republican party that uses Twitter most successfully.

This recent article by Micha Sifry at the Personal Democracy Forum looked at the "Klout" rating given to each Member of Congress that Tweets. Klout weighs 25 different variables to determine “the size and strength of a person's sphere of influence on Twitter.”   Of all the Congressional Twitter users, Congressman Joe Wilson has the most influence, and eight of the next ten are Republican. Tweet Congress reports that 192 Members of Congress use Twitter.

The hashtag #tcot (top conservatives on twitter) which is used an average of 2,000 times per day.  Before the launch of TweetProgress, the corresponding progressive hashtag #p2 (progressives 2.0) was used an average of 400 times per day (estimates based on hashtags.org searches)