WHO ARE THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MEPS ON TWITTER? In recent years, Twitter has become ubiquitous for political conversations and discussions, and has served as a key medium that has driven significant global change to the way we communicate. In Brussels, realising its power MEPs are increasingly turning to Twitter to reach their constituents and other target audiences. MOST FOLLOWED MEPS Pablo Iglesias Turrion Martin Schulz @pablo_iglesias_ @martinschulz EU political group: EU political group: 1 Confederal Group of the European 6 Group of the Progressive Alliance 920K followers 163K followers United Left – Nordic Green Left of Socialists and Democrats Twitalyzer Impact Score: Twitalyzer Impact Score: 23.4 National political group: 22.7 National political group: Klout Score: 78 Podemos Klout Score: 68 SPD # of Tweets: 9310 Nationality: Spain # of Tweets: 3409 Nationality: Germany Marine Le Pen Matteo Salvini @mlp_officiel @matteosalvinimi EU political group: EU political group: 2 Non-attached Members 7 Non-attached Members 559K followers 132K followers National political group: National political group: Twitalyzer Impact Score: 23.2 Front National Twitalyzer Impact Score: 23.1 Lega Nord Klout Score: 83 Nationality: Klout Score: 78 Nationality: # of Tweets: 5248 France # of Tweets: 9533 Italy Jean-Luc Mélenchon Nadine Morano @jlmelenchon @nadine__morano EU political group: EU political group: 3 Confederal Group of the European 8 Group of the European People’s 427K followers 148K followers United Left – Nordic Green Left Party (Christian Democrats) Twitalyzer Impact Score: Twitalyzer Impact Score: 24.4 National political group: 23 National political group: Klout Score: 74 Parti de Gauche Klout Score: 81 UMP # of Tweets: 11600 Nationality: France # of Tweets: 11400 Nationality: France Nigel Farage Eva Joly @nigel_farage @evajoly EU political group: EU political group: 4 Europe Freedom and 9 Group of the Greens/European 213K followers 124K followers Direct Democracy Group Free Alliance Twitalyzer Impact Score: Twitalyzer Impact Score: 23.8 National political group: 21.6 National political group: Klout Score: 78 UK Independence Party Klout Score: 79 Europe Ecologie # of Tweets: 7598 Nationality: UK # of Tweets: 2236 Nationality: France Jerzy Buzek Rachida Dati @JerzyBuzek @datirachida EU political group: EU political group: 5 Group of the European People’s 10 Group of the European People’s 219K followers 93.5K followers Party (Christian Democrats) Party (Christian Democrats) Twitalyzer Impact Score: Twitalyzer Impact Score: 20.5 National political group: 19.3 National political group: Klout Score: 57 Platforma Obywatelska Klout Score: 63 UMP # of Tweets: 3005 Nationality: Poland # of Tweets: 2018 Nationality: France TWITTER REACH billion estimated from 24,846 5 impressions Twitter mentions 24,846 104 4.35 mentions Tweets/day Tweets/hour Methodology Using data gathered and analysed from Twitter, Sysomos’ Media Analysis Platform (MAP), and other sources, H+K examined the Twitter activity of MEPs’ over the last 9 months (between July 2014 and March 2015) since they were elected to the European Parliament. .