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Indeed, a majority of members of the national legislative bodies in five predominantly English-speaking countries have a Twitter account. But as is true among other types of Twitter users, a modest number of active tweeters produce an outsize share of legislative tweets. A new analysis by Pew Research Center finds that the one-quarter of legislators who are most active on the site produce a majority of all tweets from this group – both overall and within each individual country.
a majority of tweets come from a  | minority of legislators  | % ofall tweets from national-level legislators created by  | the  | Top 25%  | Bottom 75%  | of tweeters  | of tweeters  | 65%  | 35%  | All tweets from legislators  | Source: Analysis of tweets from national-level legislators in the  | United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand,  | posted Jan. 1-June 30, 2019. N=2,180 legislators with Twitter  | accounts, including 2,056 who tweeted at least once  | "For Global Legislators on Twitter, an Engaged Minority Creates  | Outsize Share of Content"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 