she began her career with a popular social media, having more followers than all of the newly elected congress members combined. , she had 6.3 million twitter followers, up from 1.4 million in november 2018. she passed nancy pelosi's number of followers. by july 2019 that had risen to almost 4.8 million, or about seven times the population of her congressional district. she had 2.2 million instagram followers, and 500,000 followers on facebook when she began. some representatives asked her to teach them social media lessons when she arrived in congress.