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30 Responses to “50 Irish Influencers To Follow On Twitter”

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   Joe Drumgoole | August 14, 2009 at 9:09 am

   Hi Lauren,

   Thanks for the link juice.

   Joe.

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   Darragh | August 14, 2009 at 9:54 am

   Interesting list! Is it ranked at random/in order of something or just as you found them?

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     Niall Harbison | August 14, 2009 at 11:16 am

     Yeah totally random Darragh. No order to it, just an overall top 50
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     Darragh | August 14, 2009 at 11:37 am

     Cool, Niall, thanks. Thanks too for the inclusion. It’s a great post to get attention alright.

     In terms of “influence”, I think it would be great to get a handle on why someone is an “influencer” and what that means, even to you writing the personal list. I know the list muct have taken a while too but for example, I’d like to have seen:

     Marketing ppl – make you aware of good campaigns, give good advice
     Journalists – good comments on topical stories, willing to communicate if you have something to say
     Business people – good advice and helpful
     Social people – People who know people and can introduce
     Websites – people interacting on behalf of their site, sharing interesting things they’re publishing/doing or have found – could also have Automated in there.
     Can help you – People who run events, do PR, give advice, give courses
     Organisations/Companies
     In the media – people like Rick, like Ray, like morning_ireland and breakfastnt and so on

     and most importantly

     Are fun to follow

     Now of course you’re going to come back to me and say “well if you want that, create it”
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     Niall Harbison | August 14, 2009 at 11:43 am

     No it is a good point Darragh. The post took me 3 hours to write and is based on personal opinion. There is an excellent categorization of different folk on Twitter by Lexia http://golez.net/irish-twitter-index/ and as far as I know she adds to it as she finds more people so that is probably more relevant. Would be great to have a more detailed tool though alright.
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   mcawilliams | August 14, 2009 at 9:56 am

   Wow how suprised am I to see myself here, thank you Niall for the inclusion.

   John

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     peter donegan | August 14, 2009 at 5:56 pm

     woo000oot ?!!
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   Dave Scanlon | August 14, 2009 at 10:03 am

   Just squeezed in Was wondering where all the new followers were coming from…

   Thanks L + N!

   Dave

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   Aaron | August 14, 2009 at 10:07 am

   Good list, glad to see a number of wannabes didn’t make the cut

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   keith bohanna | August 14, 2009 at 10:19 am

   What do they say about club’s who let you in

   keith

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   Marcus Mac Innes | August 14, 2009 at 10:26 am

   @dscanlon actually I think I just squeezed in

   Thanks Niall for the mention.

   Marcus

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   Dave Allen | August 14, 2009 at 10:34 am

   Good list, and you were never going to please everyone but @conoro should be in the Top 5, nevermind the Top 50!!

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     Niall Harbison | August 14, 2009 at 11:18 am

     Yeah I agree Dave that @conoro could be in there but there were a number of people like him who had companies (@loudervoice) and I didn’t want to add the same person twice. I thought with the review element of his site he had a lot more influence from the @loudervoice twitter account
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   Orlaith Finnegan | August 14, 2009 at 11:20 am

   Personally I think that list is complete tosh. Some noteworthy inclusions of course, but some..well ahem random selections (the nod to your own CEO, ranked above @darraghdoyle on the list, that was meant as a joke right?)

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     Niall Harbison | August 14, 2009 at 11:46 am

     In fairness it says at the top of the post that it is not ranked in any way at all. It is also personal opinion so I am sure lots of other people’s posts would look a lot different to mine
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    Eddie | August 14, 2009 at 11:29 am

    A few random includes there alright, but some genuinely influential folk too. What criteria did you use?

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    Kilian Doyle | August 14, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Not that I’m complaining, but why am I on there? Seems bizarre even to me.

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    Damien Mulley | August 14, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Will I make it into an SZ post for a third week? Tune in soon!

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    GG | August 14, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    Darragh’s post about qualifying what’s influential is valid, other than that your list is quite meaningless. What influence have these people had? It just seems like more shoe gazing Irish blogosphere back patting …Yawn

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    Pat Phelan | August 14, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    That fecking Ray Foley
    Nice list, very handy

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    peter donegan | August 14, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    brilliant stuff love it!

    nice one niall mate

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    rfwine | August 17, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Thanks a million for the link Niall – nice list !

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    Marie | September 14, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    Thank you kindly for the add, and thank god it’s random because I certainly wouldn’t come anywhere no. 4 on the influencers list in order of importance! I too would like to see a definitive and handy list of relevant categories actually. Something I can use to group easily in Tweetdeck maybe?

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    eddieagogo | October 15, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Sharon_Corr has more followers than most of these yet did not make your list. Why not?

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    Ronan | November 3, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    Great list. Could do with @darraghdoyle who commented above. Man is a legend. More of a legend than I anyhow.

    @movies_ie Does that count? Or @culch_ie They’re not really people though.

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    Ronan | November 3, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    Silly me. Forgive that mistake. Didn’t see Darragh at #11. How did I miss that? Sheesh.

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