Twitter! Twitter!! Twitter!!!
It’s just in everywhere. The ULTIMATE question is who is the Most Influential personality rocking Twitter world?
INQ Mobile has just released their 2009 Twitter influence study, determining the most influential Twitter users in both the UK and the world. Guess what? Neither Oprah nor Ashton is in the leading place. It’s Mashable founder Pete Cashmore rocks both Lists.
The new list, entitled Twitterati, identifies the online influence of the 20 most popular UK Tweeters across five categories including entertainment, music, politics, sport and technology.
Measuring influence
The list was created by identifying the five most popular Twitterers across the five different categories, giving each an influence rating out of 100.
Their relative influence was then measured by exploring:
- The number of ‘tweets’ they send
- The number of times they ‘re-tweet’ others’ updates
- The number of times that person’s updates have been ‘re-tweeted’
- The number of times they are referenced in other people’s ‘tweets’
UK Top 10
| POSITION | NAME | PROFESSION | NO. OF FOLLOWERS | INFLUENCE RATING |
| 1 | Pete Cashmore | CEO at Mashable | 1.8m | 81.0 |
| 2 | Stephen Fry | Entertainer | 1.1m | 76.8 |
| 3 | Russell Brand | Entertainer | 0.6m | 69.1 |
| 4 | Dougie Poytner | McFly band member | 139k | 64.2 |
| 5 | Tom Fletcher | McFly band member | 175k | 60.6 |
| 6 | Eddie Izzard | Entertainer | 1.3m | 55.2 |
| 7 | Zee M Kane | Editor in Chief of The Next Web | 21k | 47.0 |
| 8 | Jonathan Ross | Entertainer | 461k | 44.8 |
| 9 | Richard Bacon | DJ and presenter | 1.2m | 43.9 |
| 10 | Peter Andre | Singer/celebrity | 390k | 41.4 |
International Top 10
| POSITION | NAME | PROFESSION | NO. OF FOLLOWERS | INFLUENCE RATING |
| 1 | Pete Cashmore | CEO at Mashable | 1.8m | 81.0 |
| 2 | P Diddy | Entertainer | 2.3m | 79.3 |
| 3 | Stephen Fry | Entertainer | 1.1m | 76.8 |
| 4 | Oprah Winfrey | Entertainer | 2.7m | 73.9 |
| 5 | Kim Kardashian | Entertainer | 2.6m | 73.7 |
| 6 | Ellen DeGeneres | Entertainer | 3.8m | 73.6 |
| 7 | Ryan Seacrest | Entertainer | 2.7m | 71.8 |
| 8 | Barack Obama | US President | 2.8m | 70.5 |
| 9 | Ashton Kutcher | Entertainer | 4.1m | 68.6 |
| 10 | Britney Spears | Singer | 3.9m | 66.8 |
Source: INQ’s Twitterati List Revealed
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