TV's top Twitterers

Television people are obsessed with numbers. Their newscasts are ranked by how many people watch. The news anchors and reporters themselves are assigned a mysterious “Q-rating”, based on their so-called likeability. Even the cities they work in are ranked according to population. For some, hopscotching to the number one market—New York—is the top priority.

Along comes www.grader.com with a set of tools to evaluate just about anything online. Whose Facebook page is the best? Will your press release be effective? It’ll even take a stab at grading your personality, although I take exception to my score of 43 out of 100. Now, the site tackles Twitter-- the social networking tool of the moment.

Enter anyone’s Twitter name and a few moments later a number of statistics appear on screen. You’ll find out where you stand among more than two million Twitter users, also known as “Tweeple”. Better yet, find out where the Phoenix television personalities rank among their peers. In some cases, their Twitter names are readily available. Others have no discoverable Twitter account. And then there are impostors- “fans” who use a celebrity’s name to post fake “tweets”.

The site uses a complex formula to rank each personality. Factors include how many people the news reporter follows, how many “followers” the news person has and how many “tweets” have been posted. The Rank is a number from 1 to 2,204,232 (at last count); the Score is the Rank expressed as a percentage of the whole. This top-ten list makes the best possible effort to be as complete as possible and weed out the phonies or the people with the same name as those on television. So without further ado:

Mirror, Mirror on the virtual wall.. who are the most Twitterific of them all?

                                                     Source: www.twitter.grader.com  

Click here for a full list of all the Phoenix TV Tweeple!