Last updated on : Thursday, 17^th May 2012

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!

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Rank	Handle & Name	Followers	Follows	Tweets	Aggregate
1	ShashiTharoor Shashi Tharoor	1,334,936	233	10,263	80.1
2	priyankachopra Priyanka Chopra	2,388,451	149	6,240	78.97
3	RGVzoomin Ram Gopal Varma	307,067	43	2,630	77.83
4	aamir_khan Aamir Khan	2,150,916	6	88	77.8
5	MadhuriDixit1 Madhuri Dixit-Nene	588,542	0	554	76.23
6	BeingSalmanKhan Salman Khan	2,150,048	6	1,093	75.94
7	virendersehwag Virender Sehwag	883,120	2	486	75.925
8	akshaykumar Akshay Kumar	1,344,839	6	1,202	75.53
9	Actor_Siddharth Siddharth	399,375	43	5,413	75.46
10	YUVSTRONG12 Yuvraj Singh	1,300,662	105	2,389	75.42
11	thekiranbedi Kiran Bedi	408,263	12	5,702	75.215
12	realpreityzinta Preity zinta	1,576,412	33	6,815	75.115
13	iHrithik Hrithik Roshan	1,824,509	40	926	74.925
14	shrutihaasan shruti haasan	243,019	70	3,962	74.24
15	FarOutAkhtar Farhan Akhtar	878,210	41	1,540	74.2
16	sardesairajdeep Rajdeep Sardesai	451,962	301	10,384	73.985
17	DalaiLama Dalai Lama	4,225,991	0	766	73.79
18	TheShilpaShetty SHILPA SHETTY	795,395	46	1,418	72.785
19	msdhoni Mahendra Singh Dhoni	1,355,608	16	71	72.735
20	NeilNMukesh Neil Nitin Mukesh	286,539	144	5,659	72.725
21	sachin_rt sachin tendulkar	2,342,310	8	284	72.565
22	sonamakapoor Sonam Kapoor	1,247,093	247	5,481	72.33
23	narendramodi Narendra Modi	628,430	233	1,127	72.02
24	iamsrk SHAH RUKH KHAN	2,311,007	55	3,113	71.845
25	kamaalrkhan Kamaal R Khan	50,371	14	1,820	71.7
26	bipsluvurself Bipasha Basu	604,427	66	1,879	71.6
27	Riteishd RITEISH DESHMUKH	820,036	105	4,849	71.26
28	TheVijayMallya Vijay Mallya	1,133,018	54	722	71.205
29	Swamy39 Subramanian Swamy	67,680	90	12,781	70.775
30	deepikapadukone Deepika Padukone	1,952,366	24	516	70.375
31	bomanirani boman irani	480,543	55	2,607	70.35
32	kjohar25 Karan Johar	1,014,891	181	2,285	70.24
33	rampalarjun arjun rampal	546,367	36	1,865	70.085
34	SushmaSwarajBJP Mrs.Sushma Swaraj	246,753	0	1,966	69.385
35	LalitKModi Lalit Kumar Modi	480,884	67	6,663	69.305
36	bhogleharsha Harsha Bhogle	361,105	61	9,121	69.095
37	iPoonampandey Poonam Pandey	155,970	61	3,322	68.965
38	duttsanjay sanjay dutt	467,296	14	98	68.875
39	SrBachchan Amitabh Bachchan	2,649,729	297	13,072	68.565
40	udaychopra Uday Chopra	347,361	139	5,565	68.555
41	cricketaakash Aakash Chopra	88,117	57	18,408	67.795
42	mangeshkarlata latamangeshkar	534,247	7	946	67.77
43	sidharthamallya Sidhartha Mallya	250,686	21	3,599	67.68
44	DuttaLara Lara Dutta Bhupathi	794,711	38	1,588	67.505
45	Ayeshatakia Ayesha Takia Azmi	215,075	74	6,314	67.11
46	BDUTT barkha dutt	568,177	146	45,719	66.98
47	chetan_bhagat Chetan Bhagat	867,683	55	5,741	66.96
48	TheMehulPatel Mehul Patel	111,891	2,146	14,135	66.925
49	sanjaymanjrekar SANJAY MANJREKAR	73,433	30	2,873	66.915
50	AnupamPkher Anupam Kher	683,327	45	5,822	66.895
51	PMOIndia Dr Manmohan Singh	98,318	12	413	66.58
52	imVkohli virat kohli	284,289	25	346	66.39
53	LakshmiManchu Lakshmi Manchu	98,525	103	4,082	66.245
54	rameshsrivats Ramesh Srivats	38,687	216	11,143	66.215
55	tanuj_garg Tanuj Garg	35,771	243	10,917	65.7
56	AzmiShabana Azmi shabana	148,399	44	2,173	65.52
57	Javedakhtarjadu Javed Akhtar	282,033	19	1,877	65.485
58	singer_shaan shantanu mukherji	49,830	33	1,985	65.45
59	RpSingh99 Rudra Pratap Singh	202,240	52	363	65.295
60	anandmahindra anand mahindra	490,996	87	3,830	65.185
61	arkarthick A.R.Karthick	32,445	30,101	94,318	65.18
62	vivek_oberoi Vivek Oberoi	337,335	56	14,186	65.085
63	Aagan86 Agnivo	3,320	409	204,175	65.08
64	madversity Madhavan Narayanan	17,225	895	58,756	65.065
65	mitul807 Mitul Dadhania	5,324	1,019	3,950	64.915
66	taran_adarsh taran adarsh	147,412	131	8,983	64.895
67	abdullah_omar Omar Abdullah	136,212	60	4,881	64.785
68	dgopinath1996 Gopinath Dhandpani	2,157	1,895	19,233	64.71
69	rodinhood Alok Kejriwal	3,120	6	3,103	64.615
70	sidin Sidin Vadukut	33,384	1,453	46,324	64.32
71	vishalgondal vishal gondal	22,202	69	3,988	64.22
72	SachinKalbag Sachin Kalbag	12,598	151	23,052	64.055
73	pragmatic_d pragmatic_desi	16,012	137	62,225	63.995
74	ashwinsanghi Ashwin Sanghi	127,931	127,179	27,198	63.915
75	kartikmurali Kartik Murali	110,418	45	1,532	63.825
76	Maheshbhupathi Mahesh Bhupathi	213,385	116	2,813	63.735
77	GulPanag Gul Panag	334,215	445	47,984	63.56
78	virsanghvi vir sanghvi	558,056	19	2,781	63.485
79	sonuniigaam Sonu Niigaam	331,765	49	1,421	63.46
80	juniorbachchan Abhishek Bachchan	1,341,364	137	15,166	63.11
81	shekharkapur Shekhar Kapur	180,399	45	10,727	63.09
82	glocalsources Yogesh M. A.	1,019	1,441	27,399	62.95
83	shahidkapoor Shahid Kapoor	1,284,193	55	2,926	62.8
84	roomynaqvy Roomy Naqvy	29,254	32,259	27,912	62.495
85	sagarikaghose Sagarika Ghose	69,552	197	8,780	62.36
86	gupshupblog Sunil Jain	10,307	10,109	44,287	62.32
87	DabbooRatnani Dabboo Ratnani	85,281	298	2,230	62.285
88	calamur calamur	9,691	492	62,896	62.155
89	PritishNandy Pritish Nandy	193,619	152	35,647	62.145
90	JamshedWadia Jamshed Wadia	20,723	16,933	9,932	62.015
91	jaydipparikh Jaydip Parikh	5,078	398	17,200	61.95
92	ikaveri kaveri ahuja	12,853	757	131,456	61.9
93	Vidyut Vidyut	4,300	172	78,824	61.725
94	rajupp Raju	6,646	2,838	29,423	61.715
95	janakiramm Janakiram MSV	1,822	475	2,361	61.57
96	ImIshant Ishant Sharma	170,637	33	93	61.51
97	GautamGhosh Gautam Ghosh	9,049	503	43,424	61.46
98	bankerrahul Rahul Banker	8,428	3,095	71,184	61.445
99	acorn Nitin Pai	15,284	283	47,080	61.44
100	sussannekroshan Sussanne k roshan	251,549	55	641	60.98