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Celebrity Twitter Accounts Among Most Listed Twitter Accounts
There are some blog posts discussing the most listed Twitter accounts here and here that claim Mashable is the second most listed Twitter account. It hasn't been #2 for several days. Here is the correct ranking of the top most listed accounts.
- Barack Obama: 11,007
- Taylor Swift: 9,507
- CNN Breaking: 8,777
- The Ellen Show: 8,057
- Shit My Dad Says: 7,954
- Lady Gaga: 7,695
- Mashable: 7,665
- Demi Lovato: 7,477
- Ashton Kutcher: 7,176
- John Mayer: 7,150
- Britney Spears: 7,068
- Katy Perry: 6,835
- Selena Gomez: 6,573
- Google: 6,124
- Stephen Fry, 6,118
- Oprah: 5,715
- Twitter: 5,650
- The New York Times: 5,210
- The Onion: 5,160
- Perez Hilton: 5,049
- Shaq: 5,000
Update 11-2-09: You can find a longer list of the Most Listed Twitter Accounts here.
It's good to see Mashable up near the top of the most listed Twitter accounts, but Mashable has been falling. The list of the most listed has been trending more celebrity since lists were turned on for all Twitterers a couple days ago. A week ago Mashable was ranked first and a couple days ago it was ranked fourth. Now it is ranked seventh. The trend that seems to be shaping up here is that celebrities will have to most listed Twitter accounts sort of like what you see on Twitterholic, a site that shows Twitter accounts with the most followers. However, the celebrities with the most listed accounts is a turning out to be a little different then the celebrity accounts with the most followers.
Note: You can find a list of 400+ celebrities here, a list of Twitter tools and apps here and lots more lists at Listorious.com.
Posted on November 1, 2009
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Twitter's Suggested Users List is Part of Mainstream Push
 Twitter recently added a list of suggested users and some of the users and organizations on the list are said to be adding 10,000 followers are day. Some of these followers won't be very useful since they are just bored newbies bulk following the entire list but overall it's a big benefit to the people and organizations listed. The concept is very similar to the recommended feeds (bundled feeds) on services like Bloglines and Google Reader.
There has been a backlash from some Twitter users in the tech community. The argument is that the suggested users list gives certain Twitter accounts too much popularity and boosts some Twitter users that have not been using Twitter nearly as long as some users who have been on Twitter since it began. It is probably unfair to users that have been on Twitter since the beginning but Twitter's goal was never to be just a tool for the tech community or for early adapters.
Twitter has always had every intention of going mainstream. The fact that they did not sell either to Facebook or Google is a sign that they intend to get very big, very quickly. One way to do this is to showcase some of the most popular users of Twitter. The big celebrities. The big mainstream users. The leaders in different niches. They want these users to have lots and lots of followers so they will tell others about Twitter. They want to use these big fish to lure in other big fish. They also want the mainstream media to start keeping track of these big celebrity Twitters.
It was inevitable that celebrity Twitter users like Shaq and Britney Spears would probably have ridiculous amounts of Twitter followers. By including them in the Suggested Users list Twitter is probably just fast-forwarding what would have eventually happened anyway. Twitter wanted this to happen or they never would have put so many celebrities in the list. Some of the tech blogs and niche blogs in other categories have a good argument that Twitter is being unfair by putting competiting blogs on the Suggested Users list and thereby granting them tons of followers. But it's nothing new. Those bundled feeds put together by RSS aggregators have never really been completely fair either.
Other posts on Twitter's Suggested Users list:
Posted on March 16, 2009
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