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One Direction top list of Twitter’s ‘most influential’ users
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 1 November 2013
One Direction are topping pop polls all over the shop, this one I’m mentioning now being a list of Twitter’s 140 most ‘influential’ UK users.
The list’s compiler PeerIndex reckons that Liam, Harry, Niall, Louis and Zayn, who rank highest to lowest in that order, each hold a greater individual sway over tweeters’ hearts, minds and click-throughs than, say, PM David Cameron, who places seventh in the chart. Underneath Ed Sheeran.
“The sheer volume of mentions and conversations generated by their legions of fans is hard to escape”, rules the survey, with PeerIndex founder Azeem Azhar piping up: “As Twitter has become more mainstream, the top 140 starts to resemble the contours of popular culture and power, the footballers, politicians and boybands”.
He continues: “However, social media’s democratising effects still allow those with challenging, well-defined or interesting views to build influence. Witness the number of independent media stars, like Marius Listhrop and Dan Howell and authors like Owen Jones and Caitlin Moran”.
In conclusion: “Twitter is so rich and vast, that subcultures co-exist on it, often without knowing about each other. For example, even though more than 900,000 people follow both George Osborne, the chancellor, and Rylan, the reality TV celebrity, they only share six followers in common”.
