The Most Powerful Women on Twitter – Who’s Tops on Twitter Grader?

Twitter Grader has created a list of the 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter – and look who’s in the top 20 as of right after midnight, August 6. Dharmesh Shah (@Dharmesh) of Twitter Grade and HubSpot told Katrina that the list is a work in progress and Katrina pointed out a few women belong on the list including several who outrank her, so this will quickly change, but it’s still nice to see. Twitter Grader is a fun and interesting indicator of who twitter’s movers and shakers tend to be.

Also of note: After months listed as the #4 most powerful Dallas tweeter, @ActionChick moved up to #1 when Twitter Grader improved how they calculated ranks by city and later to #3. Southwest Airlines may have over a million followers, but their twitter account doesn’t engage in a lot of exciting conversations that bring together a wide variety of people.

All of these in the Top 20 have scores of 100 out of 100 on Twitter Grader’s rating system. What does that mean? It’s not just that they have a lot of followers, although that does figure into their scores. They have more followers than the number they themselves are following, they update frequently, they get RT’d by many others, and those who recently RT’d or mentioned them include folks with higher scores themselves.

Rank		Name	Bio		Followers	Updates
1		jansimpson (JanSimpson) Coming Soon W…	Just Being Me,Support Operation Rescue: Restoring the American Dream! Great Individuals who will make an immediate impact!		77,096	100,804
2		sharonhayes (Sharon Hayes) sharonhayes.com	Entrepreneur, Motivator, Domains Domainate.com, Email Marketing Listcast.com, @reply 4 follow ♥ music news tech fitness coffee green REI travel sushi smiles		68,621	46,447
3		marismith (Mari Smith) facebook.com/…	Social Media Speaker & Trainer | Chic Geek & Facebook Passionista! | Author of @FacebookMktg | Spiritual Truth-Seeker | Bubbly Scottish-Canadian ♡’s San Diego☼!		72,417	43,749
4		pistachio (Laura Fitton) oneforty.com/…	@oneforty makes Twitter work for YOU. i’m the CEO/Founder oneforty.com & co-author Twitter for @Dummies. Much excitement & geekiness about where this all leads.		62,873	32,829
5		kanter (Beth Kanter) www.bethkante…	Social Media, Nonprofits, and Networks		352,404	19,613
6		jasminevillegas (JASMINE V) www.jasminevm…	Im just a simple girl living out my dream 🙂		209,983	17,533
7		lorimoreno (LoriMoreno) LoriMoreno.co…	Escaped Corp World as Attorney Now *•.♥ #LOVE ♥.•* Life World ✈ w Mac iPad iPhone Entrepreneur All Parties & Culture Dance Sports ♥ Success Connector Muse		44,274	107,154
8		actionchick (Katrina Hill) www.actionfli…	Action Flick Chick interviews/news/views/reviews. G4TV’s Next Woman of the Web champ. Webcomic star. Wallpaper by Bui Brothers @RocketLlama @ListerArt		68,830	22,133
9		lizstrauss (Liz Strauss) www.successfu…	Founder of SOBCon, brand strategist, It’s only fun when it’s brilliant strategy, high return, AND connects customers in a meaningful way.		48,148	41,521
10		marketingprofs (Ann Handley) www.marketing…	Head of content, editor, social media, marketing, great food, good wine, writer: ContentRulesBook.com		68,067	16,855
11		prsarahevans (Sarah Evans) sevansstrateg…	I like to tweet about a lot of things, especially how technology affects communication. #journchat #beatcancer #USrun #crisisovernight #socialgood		47,436	19,056
12		alyssa_milano (Alyssa Milano) Alyssa.com	☮, ♥, and BASEBALL. This is my official page. I tweet a lot. Consider yourself forewarned.		988,043	11,202
13		adventuregirl (adventuregirl) www.adventure…	Hi Everyone! Travel Expert- Adventure Girl at your service!		1,495,047	10,669
14		vallkiryaa (Kristall ) escorregandon…	I’m singer. I like to write poems and doing draws too. Love art and Nature. Love meet new people and find new friends!^^		47,365	15,341
15		ijustine (iJustine) ijustine.com	I am the internet! Apple fan, Youtuber, technology lover and avid twitter! Be my friend!		1,186,684	10,173
16		karaswisher (Kara Swisher) www.kara.allt…	Columnist, BoomTown, AllThings D.com		692,224	9,684
17		adriannecurry (Adrianne Curry) www.myspace.c…	Bi Polar Angst Ridden Child of The 90’s obsessed w/fantasy 80’s movies		110,080	9,390
18		missrogue (Tara Hunt) www.horsepigc…	CoFounder/Shwowp, Author/The Whuffie Factor, Owner/Citizen Space, Mom/@taquitotadito & @ridley		33,998	31,723
19		shellykramer (Shelly Kramer) www.v3im.com	Marketing/brand strategist, idea generator, creator of buzz ‘n awareness, scribbler, social media lovah+information junkie. Luv MilkDuds+Beer		32,823	77,548
20		juliaroy (Julia Roy) juliaroy.com	Senior Manager of New Media at Coach, Inc., digital influencer and internet lover. Follow to see what I am reading, writing and doing. All tweets are mine.		45,628	9,480

Addendum:
Over the following 24 hours, the numbers changed, all right. Katrina went down to #26 but is at this time (1:11 a.m. Central 8/7) #8 on the Women’s list. Rank on all of twitter is presently #107 out of 7,538,384 after reaching #583 in the middle of the day – none of which is shabby at all. We know what her specific twitter activities were, so we have a pretty good explanation for each fluctuation in those numbers.

Please note: We’re just saying that these numbers are interesting.

@actionchick: Seriously, numbers are just indicators of what’s going on. They mean TOO many diff things & should not themselves be goals.