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title: "Popularity contest: Which council candidate is winning in your ward?"
date: 2014-10-10 9:25:00 # This is used in place of the filename
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Admitedly, social media doesn't tell the whole story, but in today's media-obsessed culture it is always fun to observe. 

In the table below, we've gathered up the latest data on city council candidate's Twitter accounts. We've presented it sorted by ward, then by number of followers, the most followers to least. Feel free to sort the table any way you like -- just click on the header you want to sort by -- to get a sense of the numbers. 

What stands out at first glance is an outlier like [<NAME>](/toronto-city-council/benjamin-dichter-1976/) with a whopping 100,000+ followers -- that's three times more than previous mayoralty candidate, [<NAME>](toronto-city-council/%7B%20candidate.slug%20%7D%7D), and almost seven times more than councilor he is aiming to unseat, [<NAME>](/toronto-city-council/kristyn-wong-tam-2010/). There must be an interesting story there. 

While Twitter followers or social media savvy may not be a deciding factor in a race, people across the country applaud personalities like Calgary Mayor [<NAME>](https://twitter.com/nenshi/) (190,000 followers) for his candid and witty remarks online.<commit_msg>Copy edits; ref to Mayor Ford<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: "Popularity contest: Which council candidate is winning in your ward?"
date: 2014-10-10 9:25:00 # This is used in place of the filename
---

Admitedly, social media doesn't tell the whole story, but in today's media-obsessed culture it is always fun to observe. 

In the table below, we've gathered up the latest data on city council candidate's Twitter accounts. We've presented it sorted by ward, then by number of followers, the most followers to least. Feel free to sort the table any way you like -- just click on the header you want to sort by -- to get a sense of the numbers. 

What stands out at first glance is an outlier like [<NAME>](/toronto-city-council/benjamin-dichter-1976/) with a whopping 100,000+ followers -- that's three times more than previous mayoralty candidate, [<NAME>](toronto-city-council/%7B%20candidate.slug%20%7D%7D), and almost seven times more than the councilor he is aiming to unseat, [<NAME>](/toronto-city-council/kristyn-wong-tam-2010/). At this rate, Dichter might even catch up to [Toronto mayor <NAME>](https://twitter.com/TOMayorFord) (178k followers). There must be an interesting story there. 

While Twitter followers or social media savvy may not be a deciding factor in a race, people across the country applaud personalities like Calgary Mayor [<NAME>](https://twitter.com/nenshi/) (190k followers) for his candid and witty remarks online.
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