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50 Irish Influencers To Follow On Twitter
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Finding people to follow on Twitter is easy enough but to show its real power we have selected 50 of the most powerful and influential users of the service that you should be following in Ireland. There are plenty of lists that show who has the most followers and who tweets the most but this list is based on influence and when you take into account that the following 50 people have over 100,000 followers (mostly Irish) you can see just how influential the list actually is. You might also want to take into account that the people on this list have their voices heard by over a million (conservative estimate) Irish people every month (Radio, TV, Blogs, Newspapers and websites). The real power is that you are only a couple of clicks away from starting to engage with these influencers so go ahead and start a conversation with them and you will be surprised just where it might take you…
DJ Ray Foley is an avid Twitter user
1. @rayfoleyshow
King Of The Afternoon. The Big Show. Midday on Today FM.
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2. @patphelan
MAXroam & Twitterfone founder, CEO at Cubic Telecom. eliminate your roaming bill at maxroam.com blogs at patphelan.net
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3@nialler9
Music blogger, freelance music journalist and web designer.
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4@PixieVonDust
Editor of Gadgetrepublic.com. I also write tech for Irish Independent and do some radio here and there.
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5@jdrumgoole
CEO and founder CloudSplit.com. Founder, PutPlace.com. Cloud guy. Technology guy on The Right Hook (Newstalk 106). Entrepreneur. Loud mouth.
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6@anbordbia
Bord Bia is the Irish food, drink and horticulture industry’s trade development & promotion body. Our mission is to grow the success of world-class Irish food.
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7@mcawilliams
I am a very noisy Tweeter, but have been told I can be funny, aggresive and sympathetic, what a mix you know you want to follow me.
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8@damienmulley
So far this is the oldest I’ve been
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9@trusttommy
15 year old Irish blogger. Off chocolate for 2009. I like to think I’m a low volume tweeter but I’m really not.. 
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10@seanfee80
CEO of lookandtaste.com
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11@darraghdoyle
Boards.ie Community Manager, blogger on Culch.ie and sharer of awful jokes.
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12@Topgold
Leave me a creative text (+353861743369) if you want to learn Moodle or adopt a homeless dog.
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13@sabrinadent
Blogging, web design, marketing, communications
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14@krishnade
Digital marketing, marketing in a recession, online reputation, social media speaker, author, commentator, blogger, podcaster,executive career personal brand
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15@the_irish_times
Offical feed from The Irish Times newspaper in Ireland
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Irish TV and radio personality George Hook
16George Hook
Irish radio and TV personality
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17@ManuelTheWaiter
Manuel T. Waiter is 36 years old and bitter, a contented sort of bitter
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18@rfwine
Enthusiastic Independent Wine Reviewer
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19@adrianweckler
Journalist and tech editor in The Sunday Business Post.
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20@beautie
Beaut.ie is a popular blog with the Irish Ladies
Beaut.ie is a popular blog with the Irish Ladies
The Irish Beauty Blog
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21@smallsips
Talks trash about grape juice over at Irish wine blog www.sourgrapes.ie
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22@boards_ie
Boards.ie – Now We’re Twitterin’
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23@morning_ireland
88.2 to 90fm: Ireland’s most listened-to radio programme
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24@twentymajor
Blogger
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25@alexiagolez
I am the frenzy, I am the lightening.
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Keith Bohanna founder of DB Twang
co-founder of dbTwang, internet consultant, micro enterprise passionist, foodie
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27@adammaguire
Irish technology/media journalist and blogger
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28@kilian_doyle
Irish Times journalist
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29@dickobrien
Newspaper hack, semi-retired blogger and cycling fanatic
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30@breakfastnt
Presenters of Breakfast on Newstalk106-108fm.
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Popular RTE DJ Rick O'Shea is an avid twitter user
Radio presenter, blogger, writer, movie lover, Liverpool fan. Recently rated one star by
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32@joelennon
Author of upcoming Apress book, Beginning CouchDB
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33@suzybie
Blogger
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34@paschald
Fine Gael Senator for Dublin Central.
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35@ciarancuffe
Green Party TD for Dún Laoghaire
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Popular Irish review site Loudervoice
LouderVoice – Reviews for Your Web-site
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37@antonmannering
Entrepreneur, Networker. CEO of Udoogoo. Do the odd event and networking too.
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38@iia
A business association for Irish businesses using the Internet
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39@johnpeavoy
Technical Solutions Sales Director with global experience of manufacturing, outsourcing & telecoms
40@joescanlon
Expert of Nothing
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41@ccrossan
New startup – www.weddingdates.ie
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42@revahealth
Father, CEO and Founder of RevaHealth.com
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43@jasonroe
Freelance Developer, Project Manager & all round SEO Expert. I’m currently looking for exciting new projects to work on. Contact me today!
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Blogger at center of recent row with Ryainair
44@johnnybeirne
Founder of downloadmusic.ie, textatrack.co.uk and textatrack.com
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45@gracesmith
A 26 year old Freelance Web and Graphic Designer in ? with web standards and social media. An unashamed Apple Fangirl. My gallery project: www.cssloaf.com
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46@paddydonnelly
An Irishman in Belgium who really lives on the Internet. I’m a web designer and illustrator who co-created The Big Word Project.
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47@doneganland
the thoughts and ramblings of landscape gardener, designer and freelance writer Peter Donegan
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48@pauloflaherty
Irish, Blogger, Vidcaster, Consultant, Chancer
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49@dscanlon
eBusiness Executive, Enterprise Ireland
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50@marcusmacinnes
Founder and CEO of Pix.ie – Photo Sharing Platform based in Ireland
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The list has been compiled based on my own personal opinion of using Twitter over the last year and is by no means the definitive list. There will be some who feel they belong on the list (add yourself in the comments and I may turn it into a top 100 soon) and there will no doubt be a couple that I have completely forgotten and how I follow everyday and who will be offended, I apologize in advance.
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Hi Lauren,
Thanks for the link juice.
Joe.
Interesting list! Is it ranked at random/in order of something or just as you found them?
Yeah totally random Darragh. No order to it, just an overall top 50
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”
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.
Wow how suprised am I to see myself here, thank you Niall for the inclusion.
John
woo000oot ?!!
Just squeezed in
Was wondering where all the new followers were coming from…
Thanks L + N!
Dave
Good list, glad to see a number of wannabes didn’t make the cut
What do they say about club’s who let you in
keith
@dscanlon actually I think I just squeezed in
Thanks Niall for the mention.
Marcus
Good list, and you were never going to please everyone but @conoro should be in the Top 5, nevermind the Top 50!!
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
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?)
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
A few random includes there alright, but some genuinely influential folk too. What criteria did you use?
Not that I’m complaining, but why am I on there? Seems bizarre even to me.
Will I make it into an SZ post for a third week? Tune in soon!
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
That fecking Ray Foley
Nice list, very handy
brilliant stuff
love it!
nice one niall mate
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Thanks a million for the link Niall – nice list !
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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?
Sharon_Corr has more followers than most of these yet did not make your list. Why not?
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.
Silly me. Forgive that mistake. Didn’t see Darragh at #11. How did I miss that? Sheesh.
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