Who are the Most Popular Twitter Users?

Posted on February 13th, 2009 by EliciaBasoli

Twitterholic.com has been a source of intrigue for me on this Friday, the 13th and is worthy of a shout out. In a nutshell, the website scans the Twitter public timeline and, multiple times a day, calculates which Twitter.com users are the most popular based on number of followers. As part of this list, Twitterholic includes the location and URL of the Twitter user as well as the number of followers and updates that the user has, as well as when they joined Twitter.

Top 5 Twitter Users (according to Twitterholic as of 2/13/09 at 11:00am ET)

  1. @BarackObama 
  2. @StephenFry (An English actor, comedian, author and television presenter)
  3. @CNNBrk (CNN’s Breaking News Twitter account with over 175,000 followers)
  4. @KevinRose (Founder of social news site Digg.com)
  5. @Twitter (Twitter’s own Twitter account)

Among the Top 100 list, a handful of categories of tweeps emerge including celebrities, technology execs, consumer brands, journalists and bloggers, politicians, and PR/marketing folks. It gives you a good snapshot of the types of people that are using Twitter.

Other Tweeps from the Top 100 List:

Celebrities:
@BritneySpears
@LanceArmstrong (bicyclist)
@WilW (Wil Wheaton: Actor – Star Trek: The Next Generation – blogger, author, self-proclaimed “geek”)
@TinaFey
@THE_REAL_SHAQ (Shaquille O’Neal)
@MCHammer
@StephenColbert
 
Technology/ Social Media:
@GuyKawasaki (founder of Alltop.com)
@Scobelizer (Robert Scoble, tech geek blogger)
@JasonCalcanis (founder of Weblogs, Inc., TechCrunch50 and Mahalo)
@AlexAlbrecht (Creator/Host of Totally Rad Show – Project Lore – Diggnation – Internet FTW)
@DarrenRowse (ProBlogger.com blogger, author)
@JOwyang (Jeremiah Owyang, social computing Forrester analyst)
@FeliciaDay (Gamer! Star of the popular Online Show about MMO players “The Guild”)
 
Consumer Brands:
@Zappos (Online shoe retailer, Zappos.com)
@WholeFoods 
@Starbucks
@JetBlue
 
Media, Journalists, Bloggers:
@TechCrunch (start-up and technology news blog)
@NYTimes
@dooce (“mommy blogger”)
@Mashable (social media blog)
@NPR (National Public Radio)
@theOnion
@ESPN
 

Check out the full list at Twitterholic.com.

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