We searched for accounts followed by the 76 members of the Arizona State Legislature with public twitter accounts. This gives us a window into what legislators see on their timelines when they open up Twitter.

Did Twitter followings translate into votes? In August, we explored Boston political twitter. Now that the preliminary election has happened, we have votes to check the theory.

Twitter is the undisputed social media venue for national political conversations - presidents, senators, and reporters keep up a running stream of statements and reactions that compete with cable news as the background noise of Washington. Is the same true for city politics? A smaller geography means that real life conversations are more possible, but a more connected political ecosystem might also make a social network like Twitter more vibrant.

We downloaded the accounts followed by the 178 members of the Massachusetts State Legislature with public twitter accounts and who follow others. This gave us a list of 60,254 accounts that at least one representative or senator followed and 167,831 unique follower-followed relationships. The median legislator followed 740 accounts, though with a wide range across the building.

You can access and download the full data for the 28,000 most popular accounts with the button below. See how followed you might be and conduct your own analysis.