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25 October 2010 14 Comments

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I’ve been doing some these top ten lists for Isle of Man tweeps for the past several months. I started them in February to show that because someone is popular on Twitter doesn’t necessarily mean they are influential. I use two tools to come up with my lists. Twitter Grader looks at popularity; TweetLevel looks at influence.

I thought it might be fun to do a list for Ottawa, seeing as I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in my hometown of late, and I’ve met quite a few tweeps there. However, the exercise is not as straightforward in this urban capital city as it is on a small island in the Irish sea. First of all, there’s tons more folks on Twitter. Secondly, every single person on the Grader Top 50 for Ottawa (used as the basis for my lists) scores a perfect 100.

So while it was easy enough to come up with the popularity list; ranking the top influencers has proven to be more difficult. It would be folly to assume that only tweeps from from the top of the Grader list would make up the cream of the TweetLevel list; there could be hundreds of people on Twitter that rank higher in influence than those shown on my list.

I’ve gone ahead and used Grader as the basis of my lists for now, but I ask you, dear Ottawa readers, to please help me get it right. Is your TweetLevel score above 52? Then please get yourself listed on Grader and let me know your TweetLevel score by leaving a comment beow. And, in a couple of weeks, I’ll revise the list. My hope is that, with the wisdom of the crowd, it won’t take long to get a more accurate TweetLevel list. Remember, I only reference profiles that are attached to a human’s name. No brands, corporate nor company names are included. This levels the playing field somewhat.

Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 (October 2010)

Twitter Popularity (Grader)	Twitter Influence (TweetLevel)
@knealemann	@bitofmomsense 70
@brianhurley	@knealemann 69
@nataliemaclean	@susanneure 67
@justinottawa	@davidakin 66
@michelfortin	@nataliemaclean 66
@surinderjsingh	@stephen_taylor 65
@stephen_taylor	@mgeist 65
@mgeist	@iancapstick 64
@cindyteevens	@thornley 60
@realwat	@thestacey 59
@webzie	@michelfortin 58
@jason_otoole	@michael_gr 58
@robwoodbridge	@pmharper 56
@plevy	@rbacal 56
@thornley	@surinderjsingh 55
@rbacal	@breakawaydad 55
@louise_philp	@brianhurley 54
@michael_gr	@plevy 53
@pmharper	@justinottawa 53
@breakawaydad	@robwoodbridge 52

Let’s not forget that the cool thing about Twitter is that it can be exactly what you want it to be for you. So whether you just read the feeds from the mainstream media to get your news fix or chat exclusively to old school friends, it’s all good. You don’t need to have thousands of followers or friends to find value in Twitter. Make it what you want.

14 Comments »

Melissa | refashionista said:

I’m 97.2 on Grader and 64 on TweetLevel.

# 25 October 2010 at 7:33 am

Maranda said:

Fun tools, i have never tried either of them before reading this article. My TweetLevel influence score 52.5 (@hotelqueen). I prefer not to follow too many people, and it’s nice to see a couple of twitter analyzers that don’t consider that a bad thing!

Thanks for list, i will take a good look through and see if there are any great ottawa folks I am missing out on.

# 25 October 2010 at 8:11 am

sheila gallant-halloran said:

Hi – I tweet under @sheila_gh. I blog at http://www.sheila0gh.wordpress.com I’m interested in what your analytics actually mean in terms of ROI on social investment. I hadn’t tried the grader or tweetlevel until I read this. For what it’s worth, I’m 97.8% on grader, and 59 tweetlevel. Interested in learning more. (And, I think there are a couple of people on your list I haven’t met yet, so will check them out.)

# 25 October 2010 at 9:00 am

zchamu said:

I hadn’t seen either one of these. I got a 98.4 on Grader and a 64 on TweetLevel. Now to figure out what either of those mean. Ha.

# 25 October 2010 at 9:05 am

Amanda said:

Hi, this is neat and new to me to check out I am a 64.2 on TweetLevel and 97.2 on Grader

# 25 October 2010 at 11:48 am

Kneale Mann said:

This is good, right?

I’m being helpful and friendly and sharing-like?

Whew!

# 25 October 2010 at 4:05 pm

aparadekto said:

Hey, I can’t view your site properly within Opera, I actually hope you look into fixing this.

# 26 October 2010 at 7:45 am

sherrilynne (author) said:

Melinda and Maranda thanks for leaving your scores in the comments and I’ll be sure to refer to them next month. Sheila, I don’t think either of these tools measure ROI; it’s best to set targets against business goals to best understand ROI. In fact, I’m not so convinced that Grader measures much more than the number of followers v number of tweets. My goal was just to show that popularity does not equal influence.

# 27 October 2010 at 10:14 am

sherrilynne (author) said:

Zchamu, Amanda and Kneale, thanks for your contributions. I’ll let you all know when next month’s table is published. Aparadeko, I’ll check with my web guy on this problem and let you know. Thanks again.

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sherrilynne (author) said:

Amanda, you didn’t leave me your Twitter handle! Soz.

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