Want to keep tabs on all the wild happenings at the Republican National Convention?

Thanks to Twitter, you won’t miss one RNC moment as the event not only has its own hashtag, but a dedicated page as well!
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House Republicans did it in April and now it appears to be the Democrats’ turn: Competing for followers on Twitter.

The competition isn’t limited to Twitter, it includes all social networking platforms with a focus on amassing followers. We wonder who will get busted for buying followers first?
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You put them there, so you should understand not only how your members of Congress are voting on the issues you care about, but also how they’re using Twitter (especially if they’re sending lolcat links during a session…).

PR firm Edelman took a look at the tweeting habits of Congress in the below infographic, exploring who has an account (and who doesn’t), bipartisan tweeting and more.
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The top four Republican presidential candidates are battling it out on televised debates, attack ads and, yes, on Twitter. So who’s winning the race in 140-characters or less?

The folks at Tweepsmap took a look at the Republican candidates’ Twitter followers on a state-by-state basis, to see who’s most influential in Texas, who’s rocking Alabama, and who’s leading the pack in Florida.
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The Republican candidates are facing off against one another for the coveted spot of Presidential nominee to go head-to-head against Obama in the US elections this November. And all of them have invested considerable efforts into courting the social media crowd.

So just how are they doing on Twitter? HubSpot’s Dan Zarrella did some analysis and created this infographic to explore this question.
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In an anonymous interview with Gawker on Monday, an ex-campaign staffer for Republican Newt Gingrich said that the majority of his million-plus followers on Twitter were not actually real – they were bought and paid for to pad his Twitter bottom line.
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Republican candidates will be participating in their third debate today, but this time they’ll have to interact using computers and smartphones. They will be participating in a Twitter debate, answering pertinent questions about how they would run the US in 140-characters or less.
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