The Twitter World Is Not The Real World

I don't live or work in the 7th District to know if Billy Long is "clearly the most visible candidate" running for Congress there, but this line from the KY3 "7th District Power Rankings" does not make sense:

The auctioneer is also clearly the most visible candidate in the field, in part due to his prolific Tweeting of his whereabouts. (He's the @clairecmc of the GOP).

First: the Twitter world is not the real world.  It's certainly a useful tool, especially for political news -- but a subset of the already small population of reporters and political junkies is not representative of the larger voting public.

Second: Bill Long has exactly 236 followers, many of whom are not 7th District voters.  That's it.