MinnPost has an article about the Top 100 Minneapolis Twitterers by Graeme Thickins. (Sounds like a fictional name, doesn’t it?) The online app that arrives at such rankings is called Twitterholic. Here’s the page for Minneapolis Twitterers.
Turns out that Dave Matthews is #100 on the Top 100 list of all Twitterers on Twitterholic today. Several others I follow are in the Top 100 – John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Mashable, Barack Obama (who is #1), the New York Times. The list is updated daily and is dependent upon how much a person tweets. I started following Rachel Maddow based on the Top 100 list. (You know, it’s darned hard to find people to follow by name now that Twitter got rid of this portion of its search feature. You’ve gotta pick people up however you can.)
Of course, I had to mess with Twitterholic to see how I ranked. I’m ranked at 230,110 on Twitterholic. (Out of how many Twitterers total? – That’d be useful to know.) And I’m ranked 2nd out of Twitterers from Central Minnesota. There are only three of us with a location of Central Minnesota, so I won’t let that second place ranking go to my head.
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December 17, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Ed Kohler
Graeme does sound like a fictional name, and even after meeting him, he seems fictional. Total character.
December 17, 2008 at 11:51 pm
woowooteacup
Well, now you’ve got me more even curious about Mr. Graeme Thickins, Ed. Hmm, a fictional, non-fictional character.
December 18, 2008 at 6:25 am
Graeme Thickins
hello from Bloomington, Mary and Ed, where I just woke up, pinched myself, and I think I’m still real
I once had a guy say, when he heard my name: “Wow, that sounds like something right out of Shakespeare!” … which made me start thinking, hmmm, maybe this moniker mom and dad stuck me with way back in Perth, Western Australia, isn’t so bad
thanks for citing my article — it was just something I rushed out under deadline on Monday (for http://www.Minnov8.com originally) … just had the idea and scrambled it together … found the array of people tweeting here in the big city to be kinda wild
and it turned out I wasn’t following many — including you, woo woo! I am now…
cheers,
Graeme
http://www.twitter.com/graemethickins
December 18, 2008 at 7:12 am
Graeme Thickins
I didn’t mean to imply you’re on the Minneapolis Twitterers list, Mary (since you obviously don’t live here in the city) … but that blog post I did helped me connect with and follow people elsewhere in Minnesota, too! the Twitter people-search feature may be broken, but writing about Twitter sure seems a good way to find interesting folks tweeting out there
Graeme
December 18, 2008 at 10:21 pm
woowooteacup
Hi, Graeme. Glad you’re still real and that you have a distinctive name that is a conversation starter.
I’ve been wanting to find different ways to aggregate bloggers and Twitterers and other social media users by location, if only to find out who else is doing these things close to me. Greater chance of running into people I meet online in the flesh some day. I was happy to have found MinnPost a few months ago and then Justin Piehowski’s series Minnesota Blog Cabin and now your post about Minneapolis Twitterers.
What I’m discovering about my particular central Minnesota location is that there doesn’t appear to be a whole lot of people (except kids) who are using Web 2.0 technologies with any regularity. Anytime I get into a conversation about Web 2.0 with locals, they seem to know so little that I’m often considered an expert – and I’m no expert. Really. It’s an odd phenomenon. There have got to be more people in my county using these web apps, I just need to figure out how to find them.