New Delhi: Twitteet, a social media analytics firm has released the ranking report of India’s Top 200 journalists by Twitter engagement. This is the first kind of report in which Indian journalists across media are being done to track the extent of engagement on Twitter.
The ranking report has been prepared as per journalists engagement on Twitter for the month – December 2020.
Twitteet’s report tracks engagement– the total likes, retweets and replies of every tweet , daily, weekly and monthly and it also includes reports on the engagement ratio – which is the engagement over the total followers of each journalist.
Twitteet tracks over 1000 Indian journalists daily, collating this data and running analytics to showcase the top 200 journalists basis their engagement with followers. The methodology is transparent and is available on the website www.twitteet.com
Deepak Chaurasia of NewsNation TV tops with a phenomenal 21 lakh (2.1 million) engagements. Sushant Sinha is at #2 with 12 lakh engagements. Editor-in-chief of India TV Rajat Sharma with nearly 10 lakh engagement is at #3; Independent journalist Sakshi Joshi is at #4 with 6.4 lakh engagements and Punya Prasun Bajpai at #5 with 62 lakh engagements.
Here are the Top 10 Journalists:
1. Deepak Chaurasia (NewsNation TV)- 21 lakh engagements
2. Sushant Sinha (Independent journalist )-12 lakh engagements
3. Rajat Sharma (Editor-in-chief of India TV)- 10 lakh engagement
4. Sakshi Joshi (Independent journalist)– 6.4 lakh engagements
5. Punya Prasun Bajpai (Independent journalist)- 6.2 lakh engagements
6. Shefali Vaidya (Independent journalist)- 5.93 lakh engagement
7. Rana Ayyub- 5.24 lakh engagements
8. Sreedhar Pillai – 4.4 lakh engagements
9. Rubika Liyaquat (ABP News)- 4.12 lakh engagements
10. Prashant Kanojia- 4.10 lakh engagements
Full list of 200 scribes with good Twitter engagement:
Below is the list of 200 journalists as per their engagement on Twitter for December 2020.
On launching first of its kind report, Twitteet co-founder Sandeep Amar told Newsroompost, “The idea of Top 200 journalists came from many journalists, who asked us to release a data driven ranking mechanism on twitter. We track over 1000 journalists on daily basis. We have been reporting the top 10 engaging individuals in multiple categories.We have collated data for December 2020, and run multiple analytics for the journalist community and entire ecosystem related to media and journalists to showcase this Top 200 Journalists report, we hope you enjoy it.”
Top 10 journalist as per engagement ratio:
Prashant Kumar with an engagement ratio of 3.78 is at the top of the list of “Top 10 journalist as per engagement ratio”, Deepak Chaurasia – 2.88 bags 2nd position and NDTV India’s Umashankar Singh 2.18 is placed at 3rd.
