by Brian Solis
Forbes recently ran its latest report on the most influential Twitterers, by the numbers.
According to the study, Guy Kawasaki holds the number 1 spot. His advice? ” Forget the “what are you doing?” question. Readers would rather hear news about layoffs at Microsoft than the length of the line at Starbucks.
Here’s the breakdown:
#1 Guy Kawasaki
#2 Robert Scoble
#3 Jason Calacanis
#4 Michael Arrington
#5 Kevin Rose
#6 Pete Cashmore
#7 Darren Rowse
#8 Leo Laporte
#9 Stephen Fry
#10 Will Wheaton
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by Brian Solis
It’s the week for new Twitter Apps to say the least. On the heels of our coverage of Replies by TwitApps, we’re now introduced to Retweet Rank.
Retweetrank measures the RT reach and topical influence of anyone on Twitter by calculating the number of RT’s associated with a username. It then ranks the results based on the quantity of retweets (the close to 1, the better) and also provides an approximate percentile representing the overall position over the general Twitter population (100% equals complete authority).
Retweet rank also publishes a Top 50 leaderboard that seems to be updated automatically as they standings fluctuate.
Here’s the current Top 50 at the time of this post:
- Guy Kawasaki (guykawasaki)
- Chris Brogan (chrisbrogan)
- Calvin Lee (mayhemstudios)
- Jesse Newhart (JesseNewhart)
- Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
- Reg Saddler ?? (zaibatsu)
- Shorty Awards (shortyawards)
- Darren Rowse (problogger)
- BNO News (BreakingNewsOn)
- Pete Cashmore (mashable)
- Tim O’Reilly (timoreilly)
- BILLROMANOS (BILL_ROMANOS)
- Robert Scoble (Scobleizer)
- David Armano (Armano)
- Andy Sowards (andysowards)
- The Onion (TheOnion)
- Sarah Evans (PRsarahevans)
- Lisa thdomesticdiva (domestic_diva)
- Kevin Rose (kevinrose)
- Laura Fitton (Pistachio)
- styletime (styletime)
- Manifest Mastermind (manifestmmind)
- ColonelTribune (ColonelTribune)
- Carrie Wilkerson (barefoot_exec)
- Zappos.com CEO -Tony (zappos)
- shel israel (shelisrael)
- Gaza news and facts (gazanews)
- Peter Shankman (skydiver)
- Jay Rosen (jayrosen_nyu)
- Steve Rubel (steverubel)
- Dave Winer (davewiner)
- The New York Times (nytimes)
- remarkablogger (remarkablogger)
- Tim Storm (fatwallet)
- noradsanta (noradsanta)
- sugree (sugree)
- Tips, Tools & Status (Twitter_Tips)
- Atherton Bartelby (ABartelby)
- Graham Smith (imjustcreative)
- Evan Williams (ev)
- Bert Decker (BertDecker)
- CNN.com (cnn)
- Twitter (twitter)
- Breaking News (BreakingNewz)
- Happy Holidays! (wellwishes)
- Damien Basile (DamienBasile)
- Damien Basile (DamienBasile)
- Ann Handley (MarketingProfs)
- Perry Belcher (perrybelcher)
- Blair Warren (blairwarren)
For more tools, apps, and services for Twitter, please read, “Twitter Tools for Communications and Community Professionals.”
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