Justin Bieber has been declared by the Most Influential Twitter Celebrity by Forbes magazine. The Canadian singer topped the list of celebrities with klout or social media influence.
In a study undertaken by Klout for Forbes magazine, Bieber rose as the top celebrity on Twitter to have the most klout. Bieber scored a perfect score of 100 on klout scale.
Klout is basically a measure of the "impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph," as the research firm Klout defined it.
The novelist Paulo Coelho ranked second with a klout score of 96. Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers is third with a score of 92. The klout score is arrived using an algorithm which takes into account 35 factors, such as a celebrity's number of retweets and followers. Bieber has more than 6 million followers which may have boost his klout score.
Here are the complete list of Forbes' Top 20 Most Influential Twitter Celebrity:
1. justinbieber 100
2. paulocoelho 96
3. joejonas 92
4. kanyewest 90.9
5. DalaiLama 90.6
6. nickjonas 90.1
7. ladygaga 89.6
8. ConanOBrien 89
9. iamdiddy 88.9
10. yelyahwilliams 88.8
11. BarackObama 88.5
12. KimKardashian 88.5
13. Tyrese 87.9
14. federicodevito 87.7
15. joseserra_ 87.1
16. TheEllenShow 87.04
17. AngelaSimmons 87
18. katyperry 87
19. ebertchicago 86.7
20. RickWarren 86.7
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