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”
Alasdair
I think it’s also probably a mistake to use Iain Dale’s list, which was quite deliberately compiled to ‘show’ his point, and refute Tweetminster’s claim that the Tories were ‘machine’ and Labour ‘grass roots’ on Twitter.
Tracey Cheetham
For example, @CllrTim, according to the system you use, has a Twitter influence of 60, thus should have a place on the list. http://tweetlevel.edelman.com/user/CllrTim
Ellie Gellard
Maybe the lesson is to stop making lists and just do what we do?!
Will Straw
Well said, Ellie.
This was just a bit of fun, guys. If someone has the patience to go through every single Labour or progressive tweeter and put them through Tweet Level, I’d be happy to publish the results.
There are clearly lots of problems with Dale’s list (eg he excluded Wes Streeting who has 2,500 followers) but I think it also indicated that our grassroots campaigners (incl Ellie) outshine the Cabinet members in terms of their “influence” while no-one on the right is as “influential” as Tom Watson.
Back to the real work: clearing my inbox.
Will
Mark
But is it influential? All I really see is tribal behaviour with each side lining up behind their own supporters, for example Kerry McCarthy and Ellie Gellard are extremely loyal to the Party line. That’s not influence, that’s groupthink. At least LFF promotes some more independent ideas from time to time.