The Twitterati: 20 top biofuels observers shaping opinion via Twitter
The Twitterati - 20 who are influencing your company’s image – whether you know it not
Most of us, if we spend any time at all thinking about Twitter, wonder exactly what it is.
Another time-drowning web fad? A way to feel like you have a connection to Shaquille O’Neal? A brand-shaping viral communications tool which has 27 million monthly unique users in the US and is receiving 33 million website visits?
Probably a combination of all three. One thing is for sure, a number of writers, renewable energy fans and industry executives have adopted the tool, and their “tweets” gain attention, shape perception, and contribute increasingly to the transmission of ideas throughout the industry.
Who are the leading practitioners of the art – the Twitterati that are shaping the biofuels landscape with their bursts of 140-character or less messages – sometimes as many as 50 or more per day to hundreds , thousands, or tens of thousands of followers.
How it works. One of the advantages of twitter is its simplicity – no need to set up a blog, a website, or even learn much about the web. Just go to twitter.com, set up an account, and start posting anything you like as long as its 140 characters or less and meets a decency standard.
What’s a tweet? An individual message. Who sees it? Your “followers” , or people following a given topic.
That’s about it – not much to it. It’s simplicity is part of its power. And, within the world of Twitter, who are the 20 who command attention when it comes to biofuels. Here’s a nonscientific selection of some of the brightest, the biggest, and the best.
1. Vinod Khosla – writing as vkhosla – 31454 followers – 65 tweets
2. Solazyme – writing as SOlazyme – 8968 followers – 785 tweets
3. Robert White (RFA) – writing as fuelinggood – 4490 followers – 5421 tweets
4. Green Portland Info – writing as Green Posting – 4170 followers – 972 tweets
5. Renewable Energy World – writing as REWorld – 3619 followers – 2355 tweets
6. Missy Ruff – writing as renewablefuel – 2,839 followers – 4,063 tweets
7. Chuck Zimerman & AgWired – writing as AgriBlogger – 2,135 followers – 6,847 tweets
8. Sean O’Hanlon (ABC executive director) writing as Sean_OHanlon – 1244 followers – 1761 tweets
9. Ashley Morrison – writing as EthanolFuel from Omaha, NE – 1,034 followers
10. RFA – 1,134 followers – 1709 tweets
11. AlgaeBiofuels – 863 followers – 16,374 tweets
12. Peter Went – writing as Energy_Risk – 719 followers – 11,855 tweets
13. Todd Neeley – writing as ethreporter – 688 followers 1129 tweets
14. Domestic Fuel – writing as DomesticFuel – 500 followers
15. Bob Dinneen (RFA) writing as ethanolbob – 421 followers -571 tweets
16. ACE – writing as blend_ethanol from Sioux Falls, SD 388 followers
17. POET Ethanol – Writing as ethanolbyPOET – 336 followers – 487 tweets
18. Matt Hartwig (RFA) – writing as matthartwig – 246 followers – 401 tweets
19. Todd Taylor – writing as cleantechczar – 216 followers – 624 tweets
20. Meghan Sapp – writing as SugarOnline – 174 followers – 391 tweets
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