delman’s new Tweet measurement tool, TweetLevel, can calculate someone’s importance on Twitter. The algorithm driving the service takes into account the quality and quantity of someone’s tweets, how engaged and trusted a tweeter is, as well as how popular they are.

The ten most influential Irish celebrity Twitter users (tweeters) are:

  1. 1. Graham Linehan, TweetLevel score = 73
  2. 2. Rick O’Shea, TweetLevel score = 65
  3. 3. Dave Moore, TweetLevel score = 63
  4. 4. Mark Little, TweetLevel score = 59
  5. 5. Nicky Byrne, TweetLevel score = 59
  6. 6. Mark Feehily, TweetLevel score = 53
  7. 7. Sean Moncrieff, TweetLevel score = 51
  8. 8. Dermot Whelan, TweetLevel score = 49
  9. 9. Ray Foley, TweetLevel score = 45
  10. 10. Des Bishop, TweetLevel score = 45

f you’d like to try and join these people and climb to the top of the list simply go to tweetlevel.com. “Brands can learn from how celebrities are using Twitter and realise that if they want to influence people, they need to engage in an open and ongoing dialogue with consumers online,” said Mark Cahalane, MD, Edelman.

Watch Graham Linehan talking about using Twitter to counter right wing lies about health care systems in the US and the UK.

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