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Request - Include Mastodon ID for members of congress

Open privaterra opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

A growing number of members of congress are joining the social network Mastodon as a potential alternative to Twitter.

Here's a link to the document that is being maintained that tracks the members on Mastodon and their ID's

privaterra avatar Nov 29 '22 16:11 privaterra

We (the GovTrack team) will be looking at adding it as a part of the update for the 118th Congress. If someone wants to add the data for the current members before then, that's totally fine with me. As with our other social media data, it should exclude accounts operated by reelection campaigns.

JoshData avatar Nov 29 '22 16:11 JoshData

The spreadsheet linked to is being managed by me, and I'm confirming with every member whether it's their official (and not political) account.

I don't scale, alas.

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We (the GovTrack team) will be looking at adding it as a part of the update for the 118th Congress. If someone wants to add the data for the current members before then, that's totally fine with me. As with our other social media data, it should exclude accounts operated by reelection campaigns.

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DanielSchuman avatar Nov 29 '22 18:11 DanielSchuman