The 6th Floor Blog commissioned Twitalyzer to find the most influential people on Twitter. According to Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, the simple practice of counting followers says very little about a person’s influence. Williams explains, “someone with millions of followers may no longer post messages frequently, while someone followed my mere tens of thousands may be a prolific poster whose messages are amplified by others.”
Twitalyzer uses an Influence Index, which is determined by the number of times a person is mentioned by someone else + how often that person’s messages are retweeted. The results are pretty interesting. As you can see from the Twitalyzer’s results, there is a big difference between those that have a lot of followers versus those that are the most influential. Snoop Dog is slightly more influential than President Obama even though Obama has 4.5 million more followers.
You can see more results, like “who’s more influential” matchups (Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich; LeBron James or Shaquille O’Neal) at The 6th Floor Blog here.
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