If you're a brand, who are the people you should ideally try to get on your side? Or at the very least, try to not get on the bad side of?
It's not just the marketer in us that wants to know - but the ego-surfing social media person too. We've always answered that question internally by going back to two globally well-respected tools: Klout and PeerIndex. Both have slightly different approaches to calculating one's social influence - you can read about their approaches here and here.
And all we've done here is to start with an initial list of a few hundred people or brands of Indian origin on Twitter, find their Klout and PeerIndex scores and, with their permission (thank you folks!) publish a simple average of the two here. We'll be the first to admit, many names may be missing - do send those to us, either by email to info@pinstorm.com or tweet us @pinstorm - and we'll add them over time. (As of now, we're somewhat thrilled to see some of our own: @inkv, and @maheshmurthy feature on this list of top influencers - we must be doing something right!) We would like to thank the fine folks at Tweeple and media2win for their list data; not to forget all those of you who wrote in / tweeted to us and have helped making the list more relevant.
Your messages of mild criticism and insane delight are also welcome :-) By the way, these scores are polled automatically via APIs once a day, so the ranking will change from day to day - do come back to see it regularly. Also feel free to bookmark this page. You may also notice that you can sort the columns by clicking on the headings.
- The Pinstorm TeamHope you find this, if not useful, at least mildly distracting during your workdays!
| Rank | Handle & Name | Followers | Follows | Tweets | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Shashi Tharoor |
1,264,095 | 208 | 9,050 | 80.625 |
| 2 |
Priyanka Chopra |
2,068,351 | 138 | 5,934 | 80.06 |
| 3 |
Ram Gopal Varma |
262,259 | 45 | 2,240 | 78.085 |
| 4 |
Hrithik Roshan |
1,451,011 | 39 | 889 | 77.65 |
| 5 |
Sonam Kapoor |
1,013,778 | 219 | 5,108 | 77.19 |
| 6 |
Kiran Bedi |
367,499 | 10 | 4,274 | 76.25 |
| 7 |
Farhan Akhtar |
688,886 | 42 | 1,409 | 76.145 |
| 8 |
Akshay Kumar |
1,056,176 | 6 | 1,125 | 75.65 |
| 9 |
Amitabh Bachchan |
2,062,614 | 212 | 11,706 | 75.58 |
| 10 |
Siddharth |
336,532 | 63 | 5,001 | 75.045 |
| 11 |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
1,183,133 | 16 | 70 | 74.98 |
| 12 |
Salman Khan |
1,748,851 | 5 | 1,061 | 74.9 |
| 13 |
Dalai Lama |
3,681,564 | 0 | 721 | 74.88 |
| 14 |
Preity zinta |
1,309,291 | 33 | 6,073 | 74.56 |
| 15 |
Madhuri Dixit-Nene |
448,137 | 0 | 175 | 74.215 |
| 16 |
SHAH RUKH KHAN |
1,881,278 | 53 | 2,984 | 74.195 |
| 17 |
RITEISH DESHMUKH |
684,695 | 97 | 4,574 | 73.845 |
| 18 |
Neil Nitin Mukesh |
240,918 | 113 | 4,037 | 73.57 |
| 19 |
Bipasha Basu |
464,577 | 67 | 1,555 | 72.71 |
| 20 |
boman irani |
379,302 | 50 | 2,441 | 72.69 |
| 21 |
Aamir Khan |
1,729,098 | 5 | 82 | 72.685 |
| 22 |
Rajdeep Sardesai |
405,420 | 271 | 8,940 | 72.575 |
| 23 |
Virender Sehwag |
674,187 | 2 | 425 | 72.56 |
| 24 |
Subramanian Swamy |
50,046 | 73 | 10,320 | 72.11 |
| 25 |
Deepika Padukone |
1,648,359 | 22 | 508 | 71.98 |
| 26 |
Narendra Modi |
487,822 | 197 | 861 | 71.59 |
| 27 |
Mrs.Sushma Swaraj |
208,997 | 0 | 1,634 | 71.475 |
| 28 |
SHILPA SHETTY |
603,305 | 43 | 1,297 | 71.47 |
| 29 |
Kamaal R Khan |
38,279 | 15 | 1,477 | 71.415 |
| 30 |
Vijay Mallya |
921,842 | 50 | 613 | 70.9 |
| 31 |
Uday Chopra |
306,927 | 121 | 5,114 | 70.805 |
| 32 |
sanjay dutt |
322,973 | 14 | 96 | 70.54 |
| 33 |
arjun rampal |
459,667 | 30 | 1,783 | 70.08 |
| 34 |
barkha dutt |
492,376 | 141 | 42,070 | 69.56 |
| 35 |
Javed Akhtar |
240,754 | 19 | 1,860 | 69.265 |
| 36 |
Lara Dutta Bhupathi |
661,751 | 32 | 1,509 | 68.71 |
| 37 |
Chetan Bhagat |
725,155 | 55 | 5,512 | 67.635 |
| 38 |
Ayesha Takia Azmi |
169,794 | 85 | 5,371 | 67.035 |
| 39 |
Yuvraj Singh |
1,017,215 | 97 | 2,229 | 66.84 |
| 40 |
latamangeshkar |
430,240 | 7 | 898 | 66.83 |
| 41 |
Anupam Kher |
556,364 | 41 | 5,201 | 66.795 |
| 42 |
SANJAY MANJREKAR |
59,298 | 25 | 2,412 | 66.67 |
| 43 |
Sidhartha Mallya |
201,470 | 23 | 2,999 | 66.38 |
| 44 |
Vivek Oberoi |
277,250 | 56 | 13,884 | 66.365 |
| 45 |
Konkona Sensharma |
367,654 | 386 | 1,908 | 66.335 |
| 46 |
Harsha Bhogle |
309,940 | 53 | 7,734 | 66.06 |
| 47 |
virat kohli |
175,360 | 25 | 330 | 65.95 |
| 48 |
zaheer khan |
376,394 | 50 | 378 | 65.92 |
| 49 |
Dabboo Ratnani |
72,466 | 309 | 2,128 | 65.74 |
| 50 |
sachin tendulkar |
2,006,833 | 8 | 257 | 65.69 |
| 51 |
Ramesh Srivats |
32,728 | 210 | 10,666 | 65.495 |
| 52 |
Genelia D'souza |
599,137 | 65 | 3,233 | 65.4 |
| 53 |
Abhishek Bachchan |
1,128,620 | 119 | 14,650 | 65.335 |
| 54 |
anand mahindra |
447,211 | 77 | 3,459 | 65.285 |
| 55 |
shantanu mukherji |
39,139 | 33 | 1,617 | 65.105 |
| 56 |
Shreya Ghoshal |
789,984 | 226 | 10,217 | 65.075 |
| 57 |
Omar Abdullah |
110,425 | 60 | 4,473 | 64.93 |
| 58 |
A.R.Karthick |
30,966 | 28,612 | 83,605 | 64.9 |
| 59 |
Azmi shabana |
123,043 | 38 | 1,790 | 64.805 |
| 60 |
Rudra Pratap Singh |
184,020 | 44 | 330 | 64.705 |
| 61 |
vir sanghvi |
541,358 | 18 | 2,686 | 64.7 |
| 62 |
Sidin Vadukut |
28,733 | 1,390 | 40,840 | 64.085 |
| 63 |
pragmatic_desi |
13,928 | 128 | 55,488 | 63.455 |
| 64 |
Ranganathan Madhavan |
292,061 | 48 | 2,628 | 63.205 |
| 65 |
Karan Johar |
827,243 | 161 | 2,130 | 63 |
| 66 |
Vir Das |
35,970 | 69 | 1,471 | 62.8 |
| 67 |
taran adarsh |
128,266 | 103 | 7,997 | 62.795 |
| 68 |
Dino |
194,371 | 89 | 2,724 | 62.68 |
| 69 |
Sonu Niigaam |
216,185 | 50 | 1,387 | 62.63 |
| 70 |
Sussanne k roshan |
217,897 | 54 | 623 | 62.59 |
| 71 |
Shahid Kapoor |
1,062,841 | 53 | 2,831 | 62.585 |
| 72 |
Shekhar Kapur |
161,026 | 45 | 9,359 | 61.695 |
| 73 |
Pritish Nandy |
169,660 | 161 | 33,538 | 61.58 |
| 74 |
Madhavan Narayanan |
15,362 | 810 | 50,711 | 61.57 |
| 75 |
CherianTinuAbraham |
68,687 | 74,013 | 29,967 | 61.44 |
| 76 |
Gul Panag |
281,116 | 384 | 42,277 | 61.265 |
| 77 |
vishal gondal |
22,397 | 51 | 3,153 | 61.025 |
| 78 |
Lalit Kumar Modi |
451,876 | 45 | 3,957 | 60.775 |
| 79 |
ashabhosle |
209,837 | 9 | 1,745 | 60.665 |
| 80 |
Malini Agarwal |
29,122 | 1,470 | 29,763 | 60.635 |
| 81 |
Nitin Pai |
13,667 | 267 | 41,923 | 60.4 |
| 82 |
Ishant Sharma |
138,916 | 29 | 61 | 60.39 |
| 83 |
Kartik Murali |
84,011 | 38 | 1,232 | 60.21 |
| 84 |
Agnivo |
3,366 | 414 | 190,163 | 60.21 |
| 85 |
|
127,562 | 69 | 7,903 | 60.14 |
| 86 |
calamur |
8,427 | 438 | 54,031 | 59.98 |
| 87 |
Aakash Chopra |
73,445 | 56 | 16,612 | 59.905 |
| 88 |
Nimish Dubey |
1,511 | 282 | 20,636 | 59.03 |
| 89 |
Alok Kejriwal |
2,581 | 4 | 2,467 | 58.95 |
| 90 |
Chinmayi / Chinmayee |
58,087 | 119 | 39,832 | 58.925 |
| 91 |
Venkat Ananth |
9,245 | 1,325 | 140,255 | 58.92 |
| 92 |
Yogesh M. A. |
756 | 2,000 | 23,148 | 58.675 |
| 93 |
Shobhaa De |
122,459 | 62 | 491 | 58.64 |
| 94 |
Sundar Raman |
61,755 | 28 | 2,315 | 58.605 |
| 95 |
Sachin Kalbag |
10,673 | 145 | 19,061 | 58.54 |
| 96 |
Vidyut |
3,410 | 114 | 62,275 | 58.385 |
| 97 |
Karthik Srinivasan |
7,053 | 1,286 | 45,446 | 58.3 |
| 98 |
primary red |
3,011 | 275 | 47,973 | 58.155 |
| 99 |
Pankaj Udhas |
2,657 | 388 | 11,474 | 58.15 |
| 100 |
Ashwin Sanghi |
127,451 | 105,301 | 21,969 | 58.11 |



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