Many senators and representatives are active on X/Twitter, often issuing statements there rather than posting official press releases to their websites. This list is intended to help users identify and quickly access the X/Twitter accounts of those in the current (118th) Congress.
For the few representatives identified (with ** by their name) as not having an X/Twitter account linked from an official House website, I've listed what I think is the correct account. Please use caution with these accounts, as recent changes in the X/Twitter verification process make it more difficult to confirm authenticity.
The lists are arranged alphabetically by last name, and identify the home state and political party for each person. An Excel file is also available for download, if you wish to sort the data in other ways.
New: X/Twitter redirected all Twitter.com addresses to X.com on 5/17/24, and links on this guide have been updated to reflect that change. If you're trying to locate archived tweets in the Internet Archive or elsewhere, you should be able to simply replace x.com with twitter.com in the link to find older/archived material.
LibGuide and Excel file last updated 6/25/24.
The 117th and 118th Congresses are the only datasets I've compiled. A google search for ("congress" OR "congressional") "twitter" ("accounts" OR "handles" OR "IDs") plus the Congress/year of interest returns several possible sources for earlier compilations, including:
