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 Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: Gervais is the new king of Twitter |
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Stand aside Stephen Fry...
| Quote: | Move over Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais is the most influential comedian on Twitter.
The Life’s Too Short creator has topped a Chortle survey of the Top 50s comics on the microblogging site, knocking Fry into second place.
And it has taken him just eight months to achieve that.
Although Gervais has fewer followers – 2.5million compared to Fry’s 4.5million – our chart has been compiled using a measure of how much influence each comic has.
We have used the Klout score, which takes into account how widely tweets are retweeted and responded to, so measures more active engagement rather than just number of followers. Every Twitter user has a Klout score of between one and 100 – and with 86 points Gervais outranks Fry.
They are followed by Alan Carr, James Corden and Simon Pegg.
Fry, sometimes dubbed ‘the Patron Saint of Twitter,’ topped a similar survey of comedians run by the Peerindex site in January last year – but Gervais only joined in October. He previously said he ‘didn’t see the point’ of Twitter, but quickly embraced it.
Gervais said today: 'It's a great honour to be the most influential comedian on Twitter. I haven't felt this proud since I was named "Most interesting man in telesales, 1996."'
Our full top 50 is below. Klout scores have been rounded, which is why all the people listed with the same score aren't equally ranked.
The 50 most influential comics on Twitter
Ricky Gervais 86 Stephen Fry 81 Alan Carr 80 James Corden 80 Simon Pegg 79 Russell Brand 77 Dara O Briain 76 Sarah Millican 75 Graham Linehan 74 Jonathan Ross 74 Charlie Brooker 74 Jack Whitehall 73 Al Murray 71 Leigh Francis 71 Peter Serafinowicz 71 Chris Addison 70 Eddie Izzard 69 Mark Gatiss 69 Armando Iannucci 69 Jimmy Carr 68 Ross Noble 68 Rufus Hound 68 Tim Minchin 67 Robin Ince 66 David Baddiel 66 Dave Gorman 66 Miranda Hart 65 Alan Davies 65 Richard Herring 65 Rob Brydon 64 Mat Horne 64 Jack Dee 64 David O'Doherty 64 Russell Howard 63 Sue Perkins 63 David Mitchell 63 Bill Bailey 62 Josie Long 62 Mark Steel 61 Stephen Merchant 60 Sharon Horgan 60 Boothby Graffoe 60 Bob Mortimer 60 Tony Cowards 59 Marcus Brigstocke 59 Omid Djalili 59 Mark Watson 59 John Cleese 58 Alexander Armstrong 58 Rebecca Front 58
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http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/06/21/15636/gervais_is_the_new_king_of_twitter
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