JureKlepic over at the Huffington Post takes issue with Shaughnessy’s
methodology – measuring influence solely on Twitter, he points out, ignores “the
metrics of comments on their blogs, content quality and other social networks”
- and the PeekAnalytics tool in general, arguing that it doesn’t measure
influence at all. He offers a compelling counter-argument by pointing out the many
people who were not included on the list, and I recommend you check his list
out. Many of my personal favourites are there.
Mark Schaefer’s critique of the list
was also oft-tweeted, and he, too, provides an alternate list of influential
people in social media that the original list did not include, saying “I
have no idea how many Twitter followers these people have. But they have all accomplished something.”
Some, like ErikDeckers at probloggingservice took a softer approach, and of course the
original Forbes post was tweeted many a time.
