Top 50 Twitter users in Yorkshire

Twitter has been in the media far too much recently as it continues to become much more mainstream. There are now an estimated 5,000-10,000 new followers joining Twitter every day.

My colleague Paul Crouch has been compiling some information on the Twitter users from Yorkshire for a project he is working on and I thought it could be useful to people looking for Yorkshire users. The list he has generated has more than 500 users, so I have just taken the top 50 as of today.

Please be aware this isn’t a definitive list and the situation changes by the second – so it can never be fully up-to-date. It has been compiled using Twitterholic. Paul selected each of the main towns and cities in Yorkshire and printed lists of these and then combined them. He then sorted the lists by the amount of followers. As there isn’t a system which calculates users by region this is about as accurate he could get at present without inserting every single village and town name. It still took several hours to compile and sort but please accept my apologies if we have missed anyone off. Please feel free to add yourself to this list by adding a comment below clearly stating how many followers you have and where you are based.

Don’t worry if you didn’t make it I only made a lowly 32nd place anyway.

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  andymurd

  February 11th

  Cool, I’m number 18.
  I hope all you Yorkshire twitterati are going to Leeds Twestival, there really is no excuse.

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  Alex

  February 11th

  I have 253 follows and I’m in Yorkshire … http://www.twitter.com/azp74

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  Amy Johnston

  February 11th

  This is an interesting post.
  However, it does open the debate as to what consists ‘top’ Twitterers? Is it simply number of followers or should it take into account quantity of tweets, number of RTs and links or even the quality of tweets?
  Would be interesting to look at this for future posts about ‘top’ Twitterers.

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  Chris Norton

  February 24th

  @alex and @andymurd thanks for your comments.
  @Amy Johnston this list was calculated from combining several lists generated from Twitterholic. Paul selected all of the main conurbations and then added them together and sorted by the number of followers. I realise this isn’t ideal but it is a good start.

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  tracy sheldon

  September 11th

  hello
  I am sheldon1creates based in Huddersfield with 1354 followers
  cool idea would be good to have more detail