Last updated on : Monday, 21^st May 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	1,334,936	233	10,263	80.03
2	aamir_khan Aamir Khan	2,170,246	6	88	77.84
3	RGVzoomin Ram Gopal Varma	307,067	43	2,630	77.79
4	MadhuriDixit1 Madhuri Dixit-Nene	595,926	0	575	76.705
5	priyankachopra Priyanka Chopra	2,388,451	149	6,240	76.34
6	virendersehwag Virender Sehwag	883,120	2	486	76.055
7	BeingSalmanKhan Salman Khan	2,166,312	6	1,093	75.9
8	Actor_Siddharth Siddharth	403,267	42	5,468	75.65
9	sardesairajdeep Rajdeep Sardesai	451,962	301	10,384	75.58
10	akshaykumar Akshay Kumar	1,358,261	6	1,203	75.455
11	realpreityzinta Preity zinta	1,576,412	33	6,815	75.325
12	thekiranbedi Kiran Bedi	408,263	12	5,702	75.15
13	YUVSTRONG12 Yuvraj Singh	1,300,662	105	2,389	75.13
14	iHrithik Hrithik Roshan	1,842,138	40	926	74.8
15	shrutihaasan shruti haasan	243,019	70	3,962	74.38
16	FarOutAkhtar Farhan Akhtar	890,734	38	1,547	74.21
17	DalaiLama Dalai Lama	4,251,134	0	769	73.855
18	TheShilpaShetty SHILPA SHETTY	795,395	46	1,418	72.905
19	msdhoni Mahendra Singh Dhoni	1,362,615	16	71	72.61
20	sachin_rt sachin tendulkar	2,342,310	8	284	72.455
21	NeilNMukesh Neil Nitin Mukesh	288,750	144	5,672	72.455
22	narendramodi Narendra Modi	637,826	233	1,143	72.015
23	iamsrk SHAH RUKH KHAN	2,330,320	55	3,114	71.935
24	kamaalrkhan Kamaal R Khan	51,150	20	1,829	71.695
25	sonamakapoor Sonam Kapoor	1,247,093	247	5,481	71.525
26	bipsluvurself Bipasha Basu	611,157	66	1,890	71.47
27	TheVijayMallya Vijay Mallya	1,133,018	54	722	71.17
28	Riteishd RITEISH DESHMUKH	820,036	105	4,849	71.145
29	kjohar25 Karan Johar	1,023,892	182	2,288	70.89
30	Swamy39 Subramanian Swamy	67,680	90	12,781	70.785
31	bomanirani boman irani	485,561	56	2,607	70.535
32	LalitKModi Lalit Kumar Modi	482,771	67	7,054	70.425
33	deepikapadukone Deepika Padukone	1,965,290	26	526	70.21
34	rampalarjun arjun rampal	546,367	36	1,865	69.905
35	SushmaSwarajBJP Mrs.Sushma Swaraj	246,753	0	1,966	69.225
36	cricketaakash Aakash Chopra	88,978	58	18,595	69.16
37	bhogleharsha Harsha Bhogle	366,346	61	9,222	69.16
38	duttsanjay sanjay dutt	474,805	14	98	69.07
39	iPoonampandey Poonam Pandey	156,961	61	3,332	68.68
40	udaychopra Uday Chopra	347,361	139	5,565	68.62
41	SrBachchan Amitabh Bachchan	2,649,729	297	13,072	68.495
42	sidharthamallya Sidhartha Mallya	250,686	21	3,599	68.27
43	mangeshkarlata latamangeshkar	541,190	7	946	67.525
44	AnupamPkher Anupam Kher	691,419	46	5,865	67.455
45	DuttaLara Lara Dutta Bhupathi	803,336	38	1,588	67.37
46	chetan_bhagat Chetan Bhagat	876,351	55	5,751	67.37
47	TheMehulPatel Mehul Patel	111,891	2,146	14,135	67.115
48	Ayeshatakia Ayesha Takia Azmi	217,539	72	6,313	66.99
49	sanjaymanjrekar SANJAY MANJREKAR	73,433	30	2,873	66.775
50	LakshmiManchu Lakshmi Manchu	99,350	104	4,100	66.32
51	imVkohli virat kohli	289,195	25	346	66.165
52	RpSingh99 Rudra Pratap Singh	202,240	52	363	66.01
53	rameshsrivats Ramesh Srivats	38,687	216	11,143	65.99
54	taran_adarsh taran adarsh	147,412	131	8,983	65.74
55	tanuj_garg Tanuj Garg	35,771	243	10,917	65.72
56	arkarthick A.R.Karthick	32,547	30,184	94,851	65.68
57	AzmiShabana Azmi shabana	149,661	44	2,203	65.58
58	singer_shaan shantanu mukherji	49,830	33	1,985	65.56
59	BDUTT barkha dutt	572,556	147	45,965	65.55
60	anandmahindra anand mahindra	493,457	87	3,840	65.54
61	Javedakhtarjadu Javed Akhtar	284,334	19	1,878	65.445
62	mitul807 Mitul Dadhania	5,343	1,046	4,079	65.36
63	vivek_oberoi Vivek Oberoi	337,335	56	14,186	65.075
64	Aagan86 Agnivo	3,328	403	205,153	64.95
65	sidin Sidin Vadukut	33,384	1,453	46,324	64.655
66	dgopinath1996 Gopinath Dhandpani	2,165	1,899	19,505	64.555
67	pragmatic_d pragmatic_desi	16,012	137	62,225	64.43
68	vishalgondal vishal gondal	22,202	69	3,988	64.425
69	madversity Madhavan Narayanan	17,292	894	59,079	64.285
70	sonuniigaam Sonu Niigaam	331,765	49	1,421	64.275
71	rodinhood Alok Kejriwal	3,120	6	3,103	64.26
72	roomynaqvy Roomy Naqvy	29,254	32,259	27,912	64.115
73	SachinKalbag Sachin Kalbag	12,598	151	23,052	63.995
74	GulPanag Gul Panag	336,762	446	48,086	63.945
75	virsanghvi vir sanghvi	558,056	19	2,781	63.875
76	ashwinsanghi Ashwin Sanghi	127,423	126,732	27,411	63.765
77	PMOIndia Dr Manmohan Singh	98,318	12	413	63.625
78	shekharkapur Shekhar Kapur	180,399	45	10,727	63.585
79	kartikmurali Kartik Murali	111,560	45	1,535	63.565
80	juniorbachchan Abhishek Bachchan	1,350,623	139	15,199	63.34
81	GautamGhosh Gautam Ghosh	9,089	504	43,744	63.155
82	glocalsources Yogesh M. A.	1,017	1,441	27,597	62.825
83	shahidkapoor Shahid Kapoor	1,284,193	55	2,926	62.82
84	jaydipparikh Jaydip Parikh	5,090	400	17,532	62.795
85	calamur calamur	9,756	494	63,351	62.545
86	rajupp Raju	6,646	2,838	29,423	62.46
87	PritishNandy Pritish Nandy	193,619	152	35,647	62.435
88	gupshupblog Sunil Jain	10,318	10,123	44,290	62.405
89	Maheshbhupathi Mahesh Bhupathi	214,642	117	2,819	62.375
90	Vidyut Vidyut	4,300	172	78,824	62.16
91	bankerrahul Rahul Banker	8,435	3,095	71,220	61.955
92	acorn Nitin Pai	15,372	286	47,350	61.935
93	JamshedWadia Jamshed Wadia	20,722	16,946	10,017	61.725
94	ikaveri kaveri ahuja	12,923	760	132,027	61.71
95	DabbooRatnani Dabboo Ratnani	86,011	298	2,233	61.49
96	LHInsights Lighthouse Insights	1,457	239	13,628	61.34
97	janakiramm Janakiram MSV	1,829	475	2,361	61.31
98	ImIshant Ishant Sharma	172,185	33	93	61.265
99	DinoMorea9 Dino	221,524	98	2,785	61.03
100	venkatananth Venkat Ananth	10,190	1,362	152,797	60.895