Paul Waugh of PoliticsHome is apparently the UK’s most influential media tweeter. This was the result of the second Portland NewsTweet Index, which is a study of over 300,000 tweets by UK journalists between October and December 2011. You can look at the PDF graphic that shows the top 50 in full but I thought it’d be interesting to see what publications were covered. Here’s a graph I quickly made showing the publications represented and how many journalists from each publication are featured.
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Despite Waugh coming out on top, he’s the only journalist from PoliticsHome to be featured. The Guardian, as you’d might expect, top proceedings with eleven journalists (the only publication to break double figures) and the BBC, as you might expect, come second with seven. There’s much to read though in the rest of the chart. Sky News, who recently gave their journalists new rules for the social media platform, are only represented by three journalists. The Financial Times, possibly due to the growing attention on the economic markets, come third with six journalists.
So yes, we’ve not learnt a great deal, but it’s still interesting nonetheless.
