IN the pantheon of world leaders who have embraced 140-character communication, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's late president, neared the top. Since he first logged on to Twitter three years ago, President Chávez out-tweeted many of his peers with an average of 12 messages each week, nearly all from a BlackBerry. He had more than four million followers and was the second most followed leader on Twitter, after President Obama, whom Mr. Chávez once called a "clown." In a tweet, Mr. Chávez decried both Mr. Obama and his "gringo imperialist government."
Mr. Chávez's grandiose and garrulous persona was evident in exclamation point-laden revolutionary messages like "There is no poverty in Venezuela! Factory capitalism is poverty!" The late president's tweets also expressed his soccer fanaticism and warm, if paternalistic, connection to citizens. Last summer, he rewarded his three-millionth follower, a 19-year-old woman, with a new apartment.
In addition to a horrific crime rate and a crippled economy, Mr. Chávez's legacy includes his position as the world's leading Socialist on social media, which helped rejuvenate an aging movement and gave it the "immortality of revolution" his political idol Che Guevara famously asserted in the face of death.
Tweeting from his sickbed in Cuba last month, Mr. Chávez reassured his followers in what has become his most retweeted message of all time: "Onward to victory forever. We will live and we will conquer!"
Here, a brief numeric catalog of Twitter-related Chávez data:
1:3
For each tweet sent following the death of President Chávez there had been three for the singer Whitney Houston, whose death was the most tweeted in 2012.
3
Number of months of Chávez's longest Twitter inactivity. (During his illness.)
4
Number of national soccer matches Chávez live-tweeted during which he thumbed "Gooooooooooooal!!!"
4,545
Number of exclamation points in Chávez's tweets. (The late president averaged 2.5 exclamation points per tweet!!)
5,845
Number of times Chávez's tweet, "And soon you will see me again!" has been retweeted. (Prescient, as his body is to be embalmed and put on display in a military museum "for all time," according to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's acting head of state.)
56,586
Chávez's new Twitter followers in the three days following his death.
1,204,210
Number of people who tweeted about Chávez in the three days after his death. (The 3,351,467 tweets about Chávez include a message from the celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton shouting "Murderer!" in Spanish, which was retweeted more than 4,200 times.)
Marc Lavallee and Alexis Mainland are editors at The New York Times.
Gilad Lotan, vice president of R&D at SocialFlow, contributed additional data reporting.
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