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Twitter The Most Followed Social Media Site on Twitter?

Social-MediaOften, we judge someone’s influence on Twitter by the number of followers he or she has. Although we should not solely use this to measure influence, it is to a certain extent accurate.

For the fun of it, we gathered the necessary information of each social media site that is on Twitter, and ranked them accordingly.

Note: We don’t take founders or any personal accounts as the social site’s main account. For example, we are not taking into account Digg’s founder, @kevinrose but the official account, @Digg.

Twitter Standing
1. Twitter

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Followers: 2,272,802

Bio: Random stuff about Twitter’s staff, office and updating its users with technical problems and solutions.

Remarks: It doesn’t make sense if Twitter is not on top.

2. YouTube

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Followers: 139,866

Bio: Tweets on YouTube news, trends, and — of course — videos.

Remarks: 4th in web traffic ranking but 2nd in Twitter.

3. Facebook

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Followers: 125,672

Bio: Give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

Remarks: Facebook is the number one social networking site, which also likes birdie backgrounds.

4. MySpace

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Followers: 39,183

Bio: MySpace is a technology company connecting people through personal expression, content, and culture.

Remarks: 100k behind Facebook in terms of followers and biting the dust in terms of web visitors.

5. Digg

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Followers: 30,325

Bio: This is a way to update you on all things Digg, big and small. If you need help, contact support@digg.com – Thanks!

Remarks: Number one social bookmarking site in and out of Twitter

6. Flickr

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Followers: 9,214

Bio: The official Flickr Twitter page

Remarks: Still the undisputed champion of social photo sharing.

7. StumbleUpon

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Followers: 7,791

Bio: [BLANK!]

Remarks: StumbleUpon didn’t know what to put for its bio. Come on, it is just 140 characters!

8. Delicious

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Followers: 4,342

Bio: I’m Britta (community manager) or another team member. We listen to people talking about Delicious, and we respond. Yay. See also: http://support.delicious.com

Remarks: Delicious isn’t that delicious on Twitter.

9. Reddit

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Followers: 3,150

Bio: We finally caved. This is the official twitter account for http://reddit.com

Remarks: Certainly the cutest of all but definitely not the most followed :(

Web Traffic Standing

We have taken the top 5 and placed their Compete’s web traffic rankings into one view. As expected, Facebook emerged as champion and ironically (but obviously), Twitter came in last.

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About Willis Wee

Founder of Penn Olson who is also an entrepreneur since 2005. He has had experience in crafting social media strategies for organizations such as Marriott Vacation Club, James Cook University, Reach Singapore and Unilever. Contact him at willis[at]penn-olson[dot]com

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  • lanagalileo

    I think Youtube will take the lead soon. Twitter brand is going down, there are more and more advertisers and less regular users. Youtube have much more real users, persons that watch videos and do not try to sell anything.

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