Tom Watson is Labour’s top influencer on twitter

Tory Radio have produced a new index of Tory Twitter influence based on Edelman's tweet level service. Left Foot Forward produces a similar Labour list.

As the debate over Tweetminster’s report continues, Tory Radio have produced a new index of Tory Twitter influence based on Edelman’s tweet level service.

The index showed that Iain Dale and Tory Bear had more influence on twitter despite having fewer followers than Boris Johnson or the Conservative Party itself.

Left Foot Forward has carried out the same analysis from Iain Dale’s list of the top 20 Labour tweeters. As with Tory Radio list, the brackets outline where they are positioned in Iain’s list.

Tom Watson, an MP well respected in techy circles, tops the list with bloggers Ellie Gellard and Cath Elliott the two highest climbers. Both Tom Watson and Sarah Brown have more influence than any Tory tweeters.

 

Top Labour Tweeters by Tweet Level

1. (4) Tom Watson – 69
2. (1) Sarah Brown – 67
=3. (19) Ellie Gellard – 65
=3. (3) John Prescott – 65
5. (9) Kerry McCarthy – 64
6. (2) Alastair Campbell – 63
7. (12) LabourList – 59
8. (15) Tom Harris – 55
9. (14) The Fabians – 54
=10. (7) Lord Drayson – 52
=10. (18) Cath Elliott – 52
12. (8) Ed Balls – 51
13. (16) Stuart Bruce – 49
14. (20) Sion Simon – 48
=15. (10) Sadiq Khan – 47
=15. (17) Kevin Maguire – 47
17. (5) David Miliband – 45
18. (6) Ed Miliband – 44
19. (11) David Lammy – 40
20. (13) Ben Bradshaw – 36

Earlier today at my suggestion, Mark Thompson produced a list of the Top 20 Lib Dem twitterers. Over to Mark again for a list of the most influential Lib Dem tweeters.

Hat-tip: Samuel Coates

36 Responses to “Tom Watson is Labour’s top influencer on twitter”

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    Will Straw

    Don’t shoot the messenger. All the methodological discussions are here:

    http://tweetlevel.edelman.com/about

    Ellie’s ranking reflects both the number of followers, the number of retweets and a series of other factors.

  2. Mark Thompson

    Go on then, I’ve had a crack here:

    http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-20-lib-dem-influencers-on-twitter.html

    I have quite a big problem with the methodology though but it could not be resolved without lots of effort! See post for details.

  3. Alasdair

    Hrm. I think your list’s a bit off. TweetLevel flatten’s the playing field a bit, and you’ve missed people out. @msgracefh, @benfurber, myself (@ralasdair) should all be in the top 12 or so, but aren’t.

    I’m not going to kid myself that I’m more influential on Twitter than David Miliband. #methodologyfail

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    Will Straw

    Alasdair – just to be clear, I only used the top 20 most followed Labour people (as per Dale’s list) so you had to have more than 3000 followers to get listed.

  5. Alasdair

    That sounded bitter – it’s not meant to be! I just think it overstates certain people…

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