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| | See [[Top conservatives on Twitter]] for current number of followers of top Twitter users thought to be conservative. Of those Twitter posters whose accounts on that page are still in existence, none lost in their total number of followers over the whole year of 2016. | | See [[Top conservatives on Twitter]] for current number of followers of top Twitter users thought to be conservative. Of those Twitter posters whose accounts on that page are still in existence, none lost in their total number of followers over the whole year of 2016. |
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| − | {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:98%; margin:left;" | + | {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:98%; margin:left;" |
| | |+ Promoters of conservatism with large gains of followers on Twitter, 2016 | | |+ Promoters of conservatism with large gains of followers on Twitter, 2016 |
| | |+ | | |+ |
| | !Twitter poster | | !Twitter poster |
| | !Increase<br>in followers<br>2016 | | !Increase<br>in followers<br>2016 |
| | + | !Percent<br>increase<br>in followers |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Donald J. Trump]] | | |align="left"|[[Donald J. Trump]] |
| | |align="right"|+13,053,000 | | |align="right"|+13,053,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+237% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|Dr. [[Ben Carson]] | | |align="left"|Dr. [[Ben Carson]] |
| | |align="right"|+1,475,000 | | |align="right"|+1,475,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+136% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Michelle Malkin]] | | |align="left"|[[Michelle Malkin]] |
| | |align="right"|+943,000 | | |align="right"|+943,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+105% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Sean Hannity]] | | |align="left"|[[Sean Hannity]] |
| | |align="right"|+697,000 | | |align="right"|+697,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+56% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Laura Ingraham]] | | |align="left"|[[Laura Ingraham]] |
| | |align="right"|+550,000 | | |align="right"|+550,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+89% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Ann Coulter]] | | |align="left"|[[Ann Coulter]] |
| | |align="right"|+463,000 | | |align="right"|+463,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+63% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[John Kasich]] | | |align="left"|[[John Kasich]] |
| | |align="right"|+352,000 | | |align="right"|+352,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+237% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|Judge [[Jeanine Pirro]] | | |align="left"|Judge [[Jeanine Pirro]] |
| | |align="right"|+292,000 | | |align="right"|+292,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+222% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Franklin Graham]] | | |align="left"|[[Franklin Graham]] |
| | |align="right"|+277,000 | | |align="right"|+277,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+59% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Sarah Palin]] | | |align="left"|[[Sarah Palin]] |
| | |align="right"|+226,000 | | |align="right"|+226,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+20% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Tucker Carlson]] | | |align="left"|[[Tucker Carlson]] |
| | |align="right"|+224,000 | | |align="right"|+224,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+89% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Steven Crowder]] | | |align="left"|[[Steven Crowder]] |
| | |align="right"|+180,000 | | |align="right"|+180,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+122% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Dinesh D'Souza]] | | |align="left"|[[Dinesh D'Souza]] |
| | |align="right"|+166,000 | | |align="right"|+166,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+69% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Mark Levin]] | | |align="left"|[[Mark Levin]] |
| | |align="right"|+157,000 | | |align="right"|+157,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+30% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[James O'Keefe]] | | |align="left"|[[James O'Keefe]] |
| | |align="right"|+147,000 | | |align="right"|+147,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+198% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Katie Pavlich]] | | |align="left"|[[Katie Pavlich]] |
| | |align="right"|+145,000 | | |align="right"|+145,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+70% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Allen West]] | | |align="left"|[[Allen West]] |
| | |align="right"|+137,000 | | |align="right"|+137,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+29% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|Dr. [[Charles Krauthammer]] | | |align="left"|Dr. [[Charles Krauthammer]] |
| | |align="right"|+121,000 | | |align="right"|+121,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+20% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Monica Crowley]] | | |align="left"|[[Monica Crowley]] |
| | |align="right"|+114,000 | | |align="right"|+114,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+42% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |align="left"|[[Linda Suhler]], Ph. D. | | |align="left"|[[Linda Suhler]], Ph. D. |
| | |align="right"|+90,000 | | |align="right"|+90,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+48% |
| | + | |- |
| | + | |align="left"|[[Lori Hendry]] |
| | + | |align="right"|+59,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+93% |
| | + | |- |
| | + | |align="left"|[[John Nolte]] |
| | + | |align="right"|+46,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+74% |
| | + | |- |
| | + | |align="left"|[[Dennis Prager]] |
| | + | |align="right"|+28,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+50% |
| | + | |- |
| | + | |align="left"|[[Hugh Hewitt]] |
| | + | |align="right"|+42,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+47% |
| | + | |- |
| | + | |align="left"|[[Nikki Haley]] |
| | + | |align="right"|+57,000 |
| | + | |align="right"|+47% |
| | |- | | |- |
| | |} | | |} |