Last updated on : Wednesday, 22^nd February 2012

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!

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Rank	Handle & Name	Followers	Follows	Tweets	Aggregate
1	ShashiTharoor Shashi Tharoor	1,264,095	208	9,050	80.625
2	priyankachopra Priyanka Chopra	2,068,351	138	5,934	80.06
3	RGVzoomin Ram Gopal Varma	262,259	45	2,240	78.085
4	iHrithik Hrithik Roshan	1,451,011	39	889	77.65
5	sonamakapoor Sonam Kapoor	1,013,778	219	5,108	77.19
6	thekiranbedi Kiran Bedi	367,499	10	4,274	76.25
7	FarOutAkhtar Farhan Akhtar	688,886	42	1,409	76.145
8	akshaykumar Akshay Kumar	1,056,176	6	1,125	75.65
9	SrBachchan Amitabh Bachchan	2,062,614	212	11,706	75.58
10	Actor_Siddharth Siddharth	336,532	63	5,001	75.045
11	msdhoni Mahendra Singh Dhoni	1,183,133	16	70	74.98
12	BeingSalmanKhan Salman Khan	1,748,851	5	1,061	74.9
13	DalaiLama Dalai Lama	3,681,564	0	721	74.88
14	realpreityzinta Preity zinta	1,309,291	33	6,073	74.56
15	MadhuriDixit1 Madhuri Dixit-Nene	448,137	0	175	74.215
16	iamsrk SHAH RUKH KHAN	1,881,278	53	2,984	74.195
17	Riteishd RITEISH DESHMUKH	684,695	97	4,574	73.845
18	NeilNMukesh Neil Nitin Mukesh	240,918	113	4,037	73.57
19	bipsluvurself Bipasha Basu	464,577	67	1,555	72.71
20	bomanirani boman irani	379,302	50	2,441	72.69
21	aamir_khan Aamir Khan	1,729,098	5	82	72.685
22	sardesairajdeep Rajdeep Sardesai	405,420	271	8,940	72.575
23	virendersehwag Virender Sehwag	674,187	2	425	72.56
24	Swamy39 Subramanian Swamy	50,046	73	10,320	72.11
25	deepikapadukone Deepika Padukone	1,648,359	22	508	71.98
26	narendramodi Narendra Modi	487,822	197	861	71.59
27	SushmaSwarajBJP Mrs.Sushma Swaraj	208,997	0	1,634	71.475
28	TheShilpaShetty SHILPA SHETTY	603,305	43	1,297	71.47
29	kamaalrkhan Kamaal R Khan	38,279	15	1,477	71.415
30	TheVijayMallya Vijay Mallya	921,842	50	613	70.9
31	udaychopra Uday Chopra	306,927	121	5,114	70.805
32	duttsanjay sanjay dutt	322,973	14	96	70.54
33	rampalarjun arjun rampal	459,667	30	1,783	70.08
34	BDUTT barkha dutt	492,376	141	42,070	69.56
35	Javedakhtarjadu Javed Akhtar	240,754	19	1,860	69.265
36	DuttaLara Lara Dutta Bhupathi	661,751	32	1,509	68.71
37	chetan_bhagat Chetan Bhagat	725,155	55	5,512	67.635
38	Ayeshatakia Ayesha Takia Azmi	169,794	85	5,371	67.035
39	yuvsingh09 Yuvraj Singh	1,017,215	97	2,229	66.84
40	mangeshkarlata latamangeshkar	430,240	7	898	66.83
41	AnupamPkher Anupam Kher	556,364	41	5,201	66.795
42	sanjaymanjrekar SANJAY MANJREKAR	59,298	25	2,412	66.67
43	sidharthamallya Sidhartha Mallya	201,470	23	2,999	66.38
44	vivek_oberoi Vivek Oberoi	277,250	56	13,884	66.365
45	konkonas Konkona Sensharma	367,654	386	1,908	66.335
46	bhogleharsha Harsha Bhogle	309,940	53	7,734	66.06
47	imVkohli virat kohli	175,360	25	330	65.95
48	ImZaheer zaheer khan	376,394	50	378	65.92
49	DabbooRatnani Dabboo Ratnani	72,466	309	2,128	65.74
50	sachin_rt sachin tendulkar	2,006,833	8	257	65.69
51	rameshsrivats Ramesh Srivats	32,728	210	10,666	65.495
52	geneliad Genelia D'souza	599,137	65	3,233	65.4
53	juniorbachchan Abhishek Bachchan	1,128,620	119	14,650	65.335
54	anandmahindra anand mahindra	447,211	77	3,459	65.285
55	singer_shaan shantanu mukherji	39,139	33	1,617	65.105
56	shreyaghoshal Shreya Ghoshal	789,984	226	10,217	65.075
57	abdullah_omar Omar Abdullah	110,425	60	4,473	64.93
58	arkarthick A.R.Karthick	30,966	28,612	83,605	64.9
59	AzmiShabana Azmi shabana	123,043	38	1,790	64.805
60	RpSingh99 Rudra Pratap Singh	184,020	44	330	64.705
61	virsanghvi vir sanghvi	541,358	18	2,686	64.7
62	sidin Sidin Vadukut	28,733	1,390	40,840	64.085
63	pragmatic_d pragmatic_desi	13,928	128	55,488	63.455
64	ActorMadhavan Ranganathan Madhavan	292,061	48	2,628	63.205
65	kjohar25 Karan Johar	827,243	161	2,130	63
66	thevirdas Vir Das	35,970	69	1,471	62.8
67	taran_adarsh taran adarsh	128,266	103	7,997	62.795
68	DinoMorea9 Dino	194,371	89	2,724	62.68
69	sonuniigaam Sonu Niigaam	216,185	50	1,387	62.63
70	sussannekroshan Sussanne k roshan	217,897	54	623	62.59
71	shahidkapoor Shahid Kapoor	1,062,841	53	2,831	62.585
72	shekharkapur Shekhar Kapur	161,026	45	9,359	61.695
73	PritishNandy Pritish Nandy	169,660	161	33,538	61.58
74	madversity Madhavan Narayanan	15,362	810	50,711	61.57
75	tinucherian CherianTinuAbraham	68,687	74,013	29,967	61.44
76	GulPanag Gul Panag	281,116	384	42,277	61.265
77	vishalgondal vishal gondal	22,397	51	3,153	61.025
78	LalitKModi Lalit Kumar Modi	451,876	45	3,957	60.775
79	ashabhosle ashabhosle	209,837	9	1,745	60.665
80	MissMalini Malini Agarwal	29,122	1,470	29,763	60.635
81	acorn Nitin Pai	13,667	267	41,923	60.4
82	ImIshant Ishant Sharma	138,916	29	61	60.39
83	kartikmurali Kartik Murali	84,011	38	1,232	60.21
84	Aagan86 Agnivo	3,366	414	190,163	60.21
85	V1SH4L	127,562	69	7,903	60.14
86	calamur calamur	8,427	438	54,031	59.98
87	cricketaakash Aakash Chopra	73,445	56	16,612	59.905
88	nimishdubey Nimish Dubey	1,511	282	20,636	59.03
89	rodinhood Alok Kejriwal	2,581	4	2,467	58.95
90	Chinmayi Chinmayi / Chinmayee	58,087	119	39,832	58.925
91	venkatananth Venkat Ananth	9,245	1,325	140,255	58.92
92	glocalsources Yogesh M. A.	756	2,000	23,148	58.675
93	DeShobhaa Shobhaa De	122,459	62	491	58.64
94	ramansundar Sundar Raman	61,755	28	2,315	58.605
95	SachinKalbag Sachin Kalbag	10,673	145	19,061	58.54
96	Vidyut Vidyut	3,410	114	62,275	58.385
97	beastoftraal Karthik Srinivasan	7,053	1,286	45,446	58.3
98	primary_red primary red	3,011	275	47,973	58.155
99	boozeandshooze Pankaj Udhas	2,657	388	11,474	58.15
100	ashwinsanghi Ashwin Sanghi	127,451	105,301	21,969	58.11