Reader Steven Woods had a great question that I think might be useful to others, so I’m sharing it in a post (thanks for the question,Steven!):
Have you seen any good tools for understanding who is the most influential in a given subject? Measurements and/or ranking of network/relevance/retweets?
Here are a few tools that can help find the influencers for a subject or in your network:
Mr. Tweet will analyze your network and followers and suggest who you should be following back as well as influencers outside of your network.
TwitterGrader will give you a suggested list of people to follow based on keywords in your own tweets.
Twellow won’t necessarily give you influencers, but it is a directory of tweeters by subject, so it can help you find people in an industry to follow.
TweetScan, TwitScoop, TweetDeck and Twitter all give you the ability to search on a keyword and see what people have said about it. I happen to monitor a few keywords using TweetDeck and have found it useful for finding new people to follow and connect with.
If anyone has any other tools or methods, please feel free to share.
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