Top 100 Most Listed People on Twitter

Twitter lists have been available for a couple of months now and when they were introduced were considered to be a significant step forward for the fluttering bird. In this way, you could organize your interaction and group together people who you were interested in or following according to genres or other categorization. When you create Twitter lists, the individual Twitter streams of the users are brought together so you are getting all your like-minded information, notifications, ideas and thoughts together in one place. Lists may be appropriate for members of your family, your sports teams, your business niche. Within a group you can include people who you are not actually following and you can then surreptitiously monitor competitors’ streams without them knowing that your doing so and without actually following them.

As Twitter lists emerged and became more popular, Listorius emerged to tell us all about it. They bring us a curated collection of lists from within a wide array of categories and you can also see how many people are actually following those lists. It is possible to look through lists according to keyword tags and is also possible to see how many people are included on lists.

You may have heard of #follow Friday’s, which was a trend early on among tweeps to suggest various interesting people for others to follow. Twitter lists are basically an extension of this philosophy and you can recommend cool people by creating a list of these characters. Other people can then view your list and opt to follow the people on it or follow the list in its entirety.

Does it follow that the more lists you are mentioned on, the more popular you are? We bring to you the list of the top 100 most listed people on Twitter, as published by Listorius, to whom we give thanks for this contribution. You will see Pete Cashmore of Mashable at the top, with Guy Kawasaki, a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine second. As you can see, there are not many "household names" here, at least at the top. Do you know who Ray Beckerman is? He is a business lawyer in New York City, involved with the recording industry.

There are a number of Internet marketing related individuals and entities toward the top of the list, no doubt partly due to IM’s fascination with everything Twitter. Having said that, it would be interesting to analyze just why some of these names appear on so many lists. People with the most Twitter followers, such as Ashton Kutcher, Barack Obama and Ellen DeGeneres are on the list, albeit further down. For example, Ellen is at number 80. Liverpool Supporters and LFC Liverpool FC are very highly placed. Could the appearance of some of these names be part of a concerted effort just to ensure that they are on this list? Listorius does point out this compilation is based on lists aggregated within its system.

Here is the list:

1 Pete Cashmore on 1,015 lists
2 Guy Kawasaki on 781 lists
3 Liverpool Supporters on 753 lists
4 Chris Brogan on 587 lists
5 RayBeckerman on 580 lists
6 Tips, Tools, Status on 561 lists
7 Reg Saddler on 543 lists
8 Robert Scoble on 536 lists
9 TechCrunch on 529 lists
10 Susan Elaine Cooper on 467 lists
11 LFC Liverpool FC on 451 lists
12 Kim Sherrell on 443 lists
13 Jonathan Nafarrete on 438 lists
14 Patrick LaForge on 434 lists
15 Darren Rowse on 426 lists
16 Jason Pollock on 406 lists
17 Gary Vaynerchuk on 401 lists
18 Dr. Jefferson Boggs on 397 lists
19 Richard MacManus on 394 lists
20 Jonathan Wilson on 392 lists
21 Brian Solis on 381 lists
22 Adam from Twibes on 371 lists
23 Twitter on 367 lists
24 Alyssa Milano on 348 lists
25 Tim O’Reilly on 336 lists
26 Laura Fitton on 328 lists
27 ashton kutcher on 327 lists
28 Eleesha on 323 lists
29 Anthony Stevens on 322 lists
30 Barack Obama on 322 lists
31 Jay Rosen on 314 lists
32 Liz Strauss on 311 lists
33 LoriMoreno on 307 lists
34 Calvin Lee on 307 lists
35 A Googler on 299 lists
36 Bella on 298 lists
37 Zappos.com CEO -Tony on 294 lists
38 Sharon Hayes on 291 lists
39 Larry Wentz on 290 lists
40 Glen D. Gilmore, Esq on 289 lists
41 Kevin Rose on 287 lists
42 chetan on 284 lists
43 Evan Williams on 281 lists
44 Dan Schawbel on 280 lists
45 Chris Pirillo on 280 lists
46 Listorious on 278 lists
47 The New York Times on 276 lists
48 Chuck Blakeman on 275 lists
49 Liverpool FC on 274 lists
50 Scott Monty on 273 lists
51 Shelly Kramer on 272 lists
52 Steve Rubel on 271 lists
53 CHRIS VOSS on 270 lists
54 Sarah Evans on 267 lists
55 Wired on 265 lists
56 Social Media Mind on 261 lists
57 Jean-Luc Raymond on 261 lists
58 Mari Smith on 261 lists
59 Scott Stratten on 260 lists
60 Annie Strack art on 259 lists
61 CEO of Great Innovus on 256 lists
62 Aaron Lee on 255 lists
63 Leslie Blanchard on 254 lists
64 CNN Breaking News on 252 lists
65 Anita Nelson on 251 lists
66 Brett Petersel on 250 lists
67 Gary Arbaugh on 248 lists
68 Adam Ostrow on 245 lists
69 Bebe Le Blanc on 243 lists
70 Social Media Today on 242 lists
71 Michael Bermant, MD on 241 lists
72 Joel Mackey on 241 lists
73 The Onion on 241 lists
74 Lotay on 240 lists
75 Iconic88 on 240 lists
76 David Armano on 240 lists
77 Biz Stone on 239 lists
78 Social Media News on 238 lists
79 9swords on 237 lists
80 Ellen DeGeneres on 237 lists
81 TweetDeck on 236 lists
82 mlomb on 235 lists
83 Veronica Belmont on 235 lists
84 Mediabistro on 235 lists
85 Blair Semenoff on 234 lists
86 Diana Adams on 232 lists
87 J.K. on 231 lists
88 Jeff Keni Pulver on 231 lists
89 Breaking News on 230 lists
90 Liverpool FC on 229 lists
91 Ruhani Rabin on 229 lists
92 Oprah Winfrey on 229 lists
93 Brian Clark on 229 lists
94 Claudio Sennhauser on 228 lists
95 Stephen Fry on 228 lists
96 Jack Dorsey on 226 lists
97 Jeremiah Owyang on 222 lists
98 Deepak Chopra on 221 lists
99 Beth Kanter on 218 lists
100 YouTube on 217 lists