Stick to my 5 rules to find influential people on twitter that matters to you
Any brand or local business can use some help from highly influential people on twitter, but, how do you find them? Imagine this: you a UFC/MMA fan and have a blog/online community which you dedicate to this subject with your own unique vision, you are dying to get the words out to other UFC fans. What is the best way to do this?
Simple. The following is a few manual tips that I find extremely useful to me.
Rule 1. Discount the actual twitter user influence ranking apps, such as twitterscore, twinfluence. etc. Ranking by twitter username is absurd to say the least.
Rule 2. Start with quality twitter search engine, I recommend using topsy.com, tweetmeme.com
Rule 3. find influential people about the TOPIC that interests you, then find the highly influential people that topsy.com and tweetmeme.com provides. Notice that they are not perfect but it gives you tremendous insights about who people listen to on twitter.
Rule 4. Filter/choose/target the influential people with your judgment and common sense: algorithms used in Topsy or tweetmeme is great, but not perfect. You need to think with your own head
Rule 5. Retweet and initiate contact with them, see if there is mutual benefit.
For now, there are not many automated tools let people do all these in one punch. But they will eventually come in a better, improved format.
