10 most influential journalists on Twitter

Each week, we rank the top 10 most influential journalists on Twitter. This is not a list of the most active or the most followed journalists. This is a list of the most influential ones. While our rankings take into account a journalist's total number of followers (25 percent of ranking) and total number of tweets (25 percent of ranking), the most important factor is the daily average of the number of times a journalist's tweets have been re-tweeted by other Twitter users (50 percent of ranking).

Top 10 Most Influential Journalists on Twitter for the week of 9/11/09
Data Collected and Analyzed by Scooping the News 9/9/09 - 9/11/09

1. Ana Marie Cox (broadcast journalist with Air America radio)
Last Week: 3, Peak: 1, Weeks on Chart: 5
re-tweet 24-hour average: 164, re-tweet 24-hour high: 265

2. George Stephanopoulos (broadcast journalist with ABC)
Last Week: 1, Peak: 1, Weeks on Chart: 5
re-tweet 24-hour average: 70, re-tweet 24-hour high: 87

3. Bill Simmons (electronic journalist with ESPN)
Last Week: 7, Peak: 2, Weeks on Chart: 4
re-tweet 24-hour average: 195, re-tweet 24-hour high: 415

4. David Pogue (print journalist with The New York Times)
Last Week: 4, Peak: 4, Weeks on Chart: 3
re-tweet 24-hour average: 119, re-tweet 24-hour high: 171

5. Larry King (broadcast journalist with CNN)
Last Week: 2, Peak: 1, Weeks on Chart: 4
re-tweet 24-hour average: 57, re-tweet 24-hour high: 65

6. Jack Gray (broadcast journalist with CNN)
Last Week: 10, Peak: 6, Weeks on Chart: 5
re-tweet 24-hour average: 31, re-tweet 24-hour high: 57

7. Ann Curry (broadcast journalist with NBC)
Last Week: 6, Peak: 1, Weeks on Chart: 3
re-tweet 24-hour average: 151, re-tweet 24-hour high: 265

8. Anderson Cooper (broadcast journalist with CNN)
Last Week: 9, Peak: 7, Weeks on Chart: 4
re-tweet 24-hour average: 79, re-tweet 24-hour high: 142

9. Nicholas Kristof (print journalist with The New York Times)
Last Week: 8, Peak: 8, Weeks on Chart: 3
re-tweet 24-hour average: 28, re-tweet 24-hour high: 65

10. Greg Mitchell (print journalist with Editor & Publisher)
Last Week: -, Peak: 6, Weeks on Chart: 2
re-tweet 24-hour average: 141, re-tweet 24-hour high: 309

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