The 100 most influential news media Twitter accounts
September 3rd, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Social media and blogging
Daniel Romero, a PhD candidate at Cornell University in the US, has produced some fascinating research into news organisations and sources’ influence on Twitter.
Using a study by HP Labs’ Social Computing Lab, which attempts to measure influence on Twitter, Romero has created a list of the 100 most influential news media accounts.
The BBC’s breaking news account, the Wall Street Journal, ESPN and the New York Times all rank within the top 25 most influential. But as our visualisation below of the top 25 accounts in the list shows (click to interact with it), a large number of followers doesn’t always guarantee you more influence – the quality of links and how they are shared also count.
(via Memeburn)
Tags: social media, Twitter
Similar posts:
- Project Cascade: The New York Times’ new visualisation tool for Twitter tracking
- New York Magazine: Weigh-in for New York Times and Wall Street Journal
- Wall Street Journal uses Foursquare list feature for hurricane evacuation centres
- #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – Twitter accounts to watch
- #UKjourn: Growing master list of all UK journalists on Twitter
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Hi did your analysis only include News-Sources in english language? or did the non-english sources not reach the Top-100?
This is a serious question from the continent.
Yours Stephan Fink
September 3rd, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Hi Stephan,
A good question – best put to @danielromero – http://twitter.com/DanielMRomero
September 4th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
[...] The 100 most influential news media Twitter accounts | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog See also the easy-to-read version of the list – here – http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~dromero/news.html (very interesting) – thanks http://www.delicious.com/macloo (tags: journalism news list influence media) This entry was posted in links. Bookmark the permalink. ← links for 2010-09-03 [...]
September 4th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Yea, it definitely included only news sources in English. Two of the main news portals in Brazil have over 200k followers, a Sunday prime time news show on TV has more than a million, and I’m pretty sure there are huge news sources on Twitter in countries like Indonesia and Japan.