Honoured to be in the Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers as Listed by Forbes Magazine

Haydn Shaughnessy researched and created the list using PeekYou ‘s social pull metric – which, roughly speaking, measures the number of people in your second degree networks who are identifiable and active. 

He said " I don’t think you can separate popularity from influence in this new media world. To suggest that one is better than the other or to suggest that popularity does not reflect influence seems to me a tricky claim."

Excluded from this list writers where we have not been able to identify a minimum of 50% of followers as real people.

Everyone on the list has followers who we can identify more often than not, and their followers’ followers similarly have real identities.

The list also excluded people who are only curating content. All the people on this list create content. 

The study is supported by PeekYou,  Leximancer and Global Dawn. 

In the study he took 40 of the top 100 to analyse and collated their blog material up to a total of 50,000 words each dating from December 2011 backwards.

This list excludes people who have very close cross-over, i.e. writers who, by and large, follow people who follow them.

He also extended the scope of the list by including people whose mission is clearly social media marketing and not just social media as a topic.

The full report with infographics will be published shortly

If you want to view the list click on the "Resource" link which takes you to the Forbes article.