If you're a brand, who are the people you should ideally try to get on your side? Or at the very least, try to not get on the bad side of?
It's not just the marketer in us that wants to know - but the ego-surfing social media person too. We've always answered that question internally by going back to two globally well-respected tools: Klout and PeerIndex. Both have slightly different approaches to calculating one's social influence - you can read about their approaches here and here.
And all we've done here is to start with an initial list of a few hundred people or brands of Indian origin on Twitter, find their Klout and PeerIndex scores and, with their permission (thank you folks!) publish a simple average of the two here. We'll be the first to admit, many names may be missing - do send those to us, either by email to info@pinstorm.com or tweet us @pinstorm - and we'll add them over time. (As of now, we're somewhat thrilled to see some of our own: @inkv, and @maheshmurthy feature on this list of top influencers - we must be doing something right!) We would like to thank the fine folks at Tweeple and media2win for their list data; not to forget all those of you who wrote in / tweeted to us and have helped making the list more relevant.
Your messages of mild criticism and insane delight are also welcome :-) By the way, these scores are polled automatically via APIs once a day, so the ranking will change from day to day - do come back to see it regularly. Also feel free to bookmark this page. You may also notice that you can sort the columns by clicking on the headings.
- The Pinstorm TeamHope you find this, if not useful, at least mildly distracting during your workdays!
| Rank | Handle & Name | Followers | Follows | Tweets | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Shashi Tharoor |
1,334,936 | 233 | 10,263 | 80.1 |
| 2 |
Priyanka Chopra |
2,388,451 | 149 | 6,240 | 78.97 |
| 3 |
Ram Gopal Varma |
307,067 | 43 | 2,630 | 77.83 |
| 4 |
Aamir Khan |
2,150,916 | 6 | 88 | 77.8 |
| 5 |
Madhuri Dixit-Nene |
588,542 | 0 | 554 | 76.23 |
| 6 |
Salman Khan |
2,150,048 | 6 | 1,093 | 75.94 |
| 7 |
Virender Sehwag |
883,120 | 2 | 486 | 75.925 |
| 8 |
Akshay Kumar |
1,344,839 | 6 | 1,202 | 75.53 |
| 9 |
Siddharth |
399,375 | 43 | 5,413 | 75.46 |
| 10 |
Yuvraj Singh |
1,300,662 | 105 | 2,389 | 75.42 |
| 11 |
Kiran Bedi |
408,263 | 12 | 5,702 | 75.215 |
| 12 |
Preity zinta |
1,576,412 | 33 | 6,815 | 75.115 |
| 13 |
Hrithik Roshan |
1,824,509 | 40 | 926 | 74.925 |
| 14 |
shruti haasan |
243,019 | 70 | 3,962 | 74.24 |
| 15 |
Farhan Akhtar |
878,210 | 41 | 1,540 | 74.2 |
| 16 |
Rajdeep Sardesai |
451,962 | 301 | 10,384 | 73.985 |
| 17 |
Dalai Lama |
4,225,991 | 0 | 766 | 73.79 |
| 18 |
SHILPA SHETTY |
795,395 | 46 | 1,418 | 72.785 |
| 19 |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
1,355,608 | 16 | 71 | 72.735 |
| 20 |
Neil Nitin Mukesh |
286,539 | 144 | 5,659 | 72.725 |
| 21 |
sachin tendulkar |
2,342,310 | 8 | 284 | 72.565 |
| 22 |
Sonam Kapoor |
1,247,093 | 247 | 5,481 | 72.33 |
| 23 |
Narendra Modi |
628,430 | 233 | 1,127 | 72.02 |
| 24 |
SHAH RUKH KHAN |
2,311,007 | 55 | 3,113 | 71.845 |
| 25 |
Kamaal R Khan |
50,371 | 14 | 1,820 | 71.7 |
| 26 |
Bipasha Basu |
604,427 | 66 | 1,879 | 71.6 |
| 27 |
RITEISH DESHMUKH |
820,036 | 105 | 4,849 | 71.26 |
| 28 |
Vijay Mallya |
1,133,018 | 54 | 722 | 71.205 |
| 29 |
Subramanian Swamy |
67,680 | 90 | 12,781 | 70.775 |
| 30 |
Deepika Padukone |
1,952,366 | 24 | 516 | 70.375 |
| 31 |
boman irani |
480,543 | 55 | 2,607 | 70.35 |
| 32 |
Karan Johar |
1,014,891 | 181 | 2,285 | 70.24 |
| 33 |
arjun rampal |
546,367 | 36 | 1,865 | 70.085 |
| 34 |
Mrs.Sushma Swaraj |
246,753 | 0 | 1,966 | 69.385 |
| 35 |
Lalit Kumar Modi |
480,884 | 67 | 6,663 | 69.305 |
| 36 |
Harsha Bhogle |
361,105 | 61 | 9,121 | 69.095 |
| 37 |
Poonam Pandey |
155,970 | 61 | 3,322 | 68.965 |
| 38 |
sanjay dutt |
467,296 | 14 | 98 | 68.875 |
| 39 |
Amitabh Bachchan |
2,649,729 | 297 | 13,072 | 68.565 |
| 40 |
Uday Chopra |
347,361 | 139 | 5,565 | 68.555 |
| 41 |
Aakash Chopra |
88,117 | 57 | 18,408 | 67.795 |
| 42 |
latamangeshkar |
534,247 | 7 | 946 | 67.77 |
| 43 |
Sidhartha Mallya |
250,686 | 21 | 3,599 | 67.68 |
| 44 |
Lara Dutta Bhupathi |
794,711 | 38 | 1,588 | 67.505 |
| 45 |
Ayesha Takia Azmi |
215,075 | 74 | 6,314 | 67.11 |
| 46 |
barkha dutt |
568,177 | 146 | 45,719 | 66.98 |
| 47 |
Chetan Bhagat |
867,683 | 55 | 5,741 | 66.96 |
| 48 |
Mehul Patel |
111,891 | 2,146 | 14,135 | 66.925 |
| 49 |
SANJAY MANJREKAR |
73,433 | 30 | 2,873 | 66.915 |
| 50 |
Anupam Kher |
683,327 | 45 | 5,822 | 66.895 |
| 51 |
Dr Manmohan Singh |
98,318 | 12 | 413 | 66.58 |
| 52 |
virat kohli |
284,289 | 25 | 346 | 66.39 |
| 53 |
Lakshmi Manchu |
98,525 | 103 | 4,082 | 66.245 |
| 54 |
Ramesh Srivats |
38,687 | 216 | 11,143 | 66.215 |
| 55 |
Tanuj Garg |
35,771 | 243 | 10,917 | 65.7 |
| 56 |
Azmi shabana |
148,399 | 44 | 2,173 | 65.52 |
| 57 |
Javed Akhtar |
282,033 | 19 | 1,877 | 65.485 |
| 58 |
shantanu mukherji |
49,830 | 33 | 1,985 | 65.45 |
| 59 |
Rudra Pratap Singh |
202,240 | 52 | 363 | 65.295 |
| 60 |
anand mahindra |
490,996 | 87 | 3,830 | 65.185 |
| 61 |
A.R.Karthick |
32,445 | 30,101 | 94,318 | 65.18 |
| 62 |
Vivek Oberoi |
337,335 | 56 | 14,186 | 65.085 |
| 63 |
Agnivo |
3,320 | 409 | 204,175 | 65.08 |
| 64 |
Madhavan Narayanan |
17,225 | 895 | 58,756 | 65.065 |
| 65 |
Mitul Dadhania |
5,324 | 1,019 | 3,950 | 64.915 |
| 66 |
taran adarsh |
147,412 | 131 | 8,983 | 64.895 |
| 67 |
Omar Abdullah |
136,212 | 60 | 4,881 | 64.785 |
| 68 |
Gopinath Dhandpani |
2,157 | 1,895 | 19,233 | 64.71 |
| 69 |
Alok Kejriwal |
3,120 | 6 | 3,103 | 64.615 |
| 70 |
Sidin Vadukut |
33,384 | 1,453 | 46,324 | 64.32 |
| 71 |
vishal gondal |
22,202 | 69 | 3,988 | 64.22 |
| 72 |
Sachin Kalbag |
12,598 | 151 | 23,052 | 64.055 |
| 73 |
pragmatic_desi |
16,012 | 137 | 62,225 | 63.995 |
| 74 |
Ashwin Sanghi |
127,931 | 127,179 | 27,198 | 63.915 |
| 75 |
Kartik Murali |
110,418 | 45 | 1,532 | 63.825 |
| 76 |
Mahesh Bhupathi |
213,385 | 116 | 2,813 | 63.735 |
| 77 |
Gul Panag |
334,215 | 445 | 47,984 | 63.56 |
| 78 |
vir sanghvi |
558,056 | 19 | 2,781 | 63.485 |
| 79 |
Sonu Niigaam |
331,765 | 49 | 1,421 | 63.46 |
| 80 |
Abhishek Bachchan |
1,341,364 | 137 | 15,166 | 63.11 |
| 81 |
Shekhar Kapur |
180,399 | 45 | 10,727 | 63.09 |
| 82 |
Yogesh M. A. |
1,019 | 1,441 | 27,399 | 62.95 |
| 83 |
Shahid Kapoor |
1,284,193 | 55 | 2,926 | 62.8 |
| 84 |
Roomy Naqvy |
29,254 | 32,259 | 27,912 | 62.495 |
| 85 |
Sagarika Ghose |
69,552 | 197 | 8,780 | 62.36 |
| 86 |
Sunil Jain |
10,307 | 10,109 | 44,287 | 62.32 |
| 87 |
Dabboo Ratnani |
85,281 | 298 | 2,230 | 62.285 |
| 88 |
calamur |
9,691 | 492 | 62,896 | 62.155 |
| 89 |
Pritish Nandy |
193,619 | 152 | 35,647 | 62.145 |
| 90 |
Jamshed Wadia |
20,723 | 16,933 | 9,932 | 62.015 |
| 91 |
Jaydip Parikh |
5,078 | 398 | 17,200 | 61.95 |
| 92 |
kaveri ahuja |
12,853 | 757 | 131,456 | 61.9 |
| 93 |
Vidyut |
4,300 | 172 | 78,824 | 61.725 |
| 94 |
Raju |
6,646 | 2,838 | 29,423 | 61.715 |
| 95 |
Janakiram MSV |
1,822 | 475 | 2,361 | 61.57 |
| 96 |
Ishant Sharma |
170,637 | 33 | 93 | 61.51 |
| 97 |
Gautam Ghosh |
9,049 | 503 | 43,424 | 61.46 |
| 98 |
Rahul Banker |
8,428 | 3,095 | 71,184 | 61.445 |
| 99 |
Nitin Pai |
15,284 | 283 | 47,080 | 61.44 |
| 100 |
Sussanne k roshan |
251,549 | 55 | 641 | 60.98 |



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