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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Come on Brain for God’s sakes, what kind of funny ring are you running here? I should be on this list right besides Pete cause Pete is sexy but the rest come on. Where did you get such ridiculous idea for a list? This ain’t no list unless I’m on it. It’s obvious I would make it look good. Try to keep up with me for crying out loud Brain. Lmao
so where is Sumaya Kazi…
this list is incomplete without her name, bruh…
get educated. haha
okay that’s two best of social network posts with like one fricking woman. puhhhlease. if anything the influence of the old gatekeepers is shrinking in a shrinking economy, leaving room for rogues to swoop in. yay!
Even if a person has 50,000 followers on Twitter, that means that 99.99% of the other people on the social network aren’t following them. I don’t think you can draw a straight line between number of followers and the social influence someone has.
What kind of influence are you talking about? Over major decisions other people make? What blogs they read? What to buy? Or just who else they should follow on Twitter?
How strong is the influence? I think that a small group of 100 friends who are linked to each other have more influence over each other’s ideas and acts than huge networks of people who follow a celebrity Twitterer so that they keep abreast of the latest scoop.
I really think that the number of Twitterers who consider the opinions of those 10 people listed when they come to forming opinions or making decisions is very, very, very small, probably mostly people without a close network of friends.
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