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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?

Top Ten Tweeple
Personality Channel Twitter Name Rank Score
Beverly Kidd 3 beverlykidd 2,622 99.9
Carey Pena 3 careypena3tv 5,523 99.8
Rick D'Amico 10 rickdamico 46,470 98.1
Brahm Resnik 12 brahmresnik 47,709 98
Tim Vetscher 15 tim_vetscher 59,929 97.5
Katie Raml 15 katieraml 67,049 97.2
Melissa Blasius 12 melissa12news 75,536 96.9
Daphne Munro 15 smartshopper 77,771 96.8
Kevin Kennedy 12 12newskevin 83,894 96.5
Jenn Burgess 15 jburgessabc15 83,992 96.5

                                                     Source: www.twitter.grader.com  

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

 
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, Phoenix Television Examiner

Scott Davis is a Phoenix native who's been working in the television business more than 20 years. Friends call him the "Kevin Bacon of Phoenix Media" for his six-degrees from virtually everyone on local TV and radio. If he doesn't have the scoop yet, he soon will.

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