Barack Obama is Most Followed on Twitter

Posted on March 10th, 2008
By Todd Zeigler in Marketing, Politics, SMS, Social Networks, Web 2.0

Want further proof of Barack Obama’s popularity online? According to the site Twitterholic, Obama has more followers than any other Twitter user (followers are people who sign up to receive a user’s Twitter updates through the service). Here is a chart showing the top 10 users:

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Despite this popularity, Obama’s team doesn’t use the service that aggressively. They have only posted 78 updates. The second most popular user, Robert Scoble, has posted 7,499 updates.

You can visit Obama’s Twitter page here and Twitterholic here.

Update: Twitdir is another great resource for looking at data on top Twitter users.

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  1. Bruno

    Twitdir offers the same information, but you get all the information (followers, following, updates, favorites) in a single image : http://twitdir.com/index.php?t.....opfollowed

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