Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a member of Congress for only 15 days, but she already has some of the most veteran House Democrats chasing her heels and taking notes.
“She’s really good at Twitter and she’s gonna teach me,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., emerging from a jam-packed Twitter training session Thursday morning hosted by Ocasio-Cortez.
“Between [former Rep.] John Dingell and AOC, I’m going to get good at Twitter,” she said.
Class was in session this morning! I was thrilled to offer some insights on Twitter and social media to my. colleagues this morning.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 17, 2019
Now Majority @WhipClyburn is teaching me what all the bells mean in the Capitol ?? https://t.co/pEGVZqqn2g
“AOC,” as the freshmen Democratic phenom from New York is known, has 2.44 million followers on Twitter. Rep. Dingell has nearly 37,000; her husband, John, has more than 251,000.
Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman in Congress, has electrified progressives with her social media engagement, unabashed about picking a fight, pushing back at critics and giving followers an inside look at her personal life.
“The top tip, I think, is really to be yourself and to really write your own tweets so that people know it’s you talking,” Ocasio-Cortez told ABC News after emerging from class.
(MORE: After stunning primary upset, newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes youngest woman in Congress)ABC News was the only news organization to visit the Ocasio-Cortez Twitter boot camp in the bowels of the U.S. Capitol.
Here is a selection of the advice AOC gave to her peers:
ABC News' Beatrice Peterson contributed reporting.
