Twitter lobbying dollars shoot up but are eclipsed by other Internet giants

Twitter’s lobbying spending nearly doubled in the third quarter, but its advocacy dollars are eclipsed by the big three Internet spenders -- Google, Facebook and Amazon. Twitter’s $170,000 in spending -- an increase of increased 89 percent -- came as it hired its first three outside lobbying firms, but it is nowhere near Google’s $3.65 million, Facebook’s $2.59 million and Amazon’s $2.02 million.

Third quarter spending for most Internet companies remained largely flat compared to the same quarter 2014, while spending from a number of other major Internet lobbyists dropped slightly -- including spending from Google, Yahoo, eBay and Apple.