FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users
Yuval Atzmon | July 7, 2008 | 9:30 PMI’m still fine tuning my crawler but below you’ll find the top 250 most followed users as calculated from data collected at the end of June. All previously mentioned limitations still apply. The percentage is calculated against the active public users discovered in this crawl, which is 52137 users (8143 users are private, and the current grand total is 60280).
Terminology
I changed my terminology from “active” to “most followed” as it better describes what this is all about. When I use the term “active” I mean “discoverable”, and it doesn’t matter if a person actually does anything on FF as long as his feed keeps flowing in. If she streams her twitter activity to FF but doesn’t set foot in FF, she will still be picked up by my crawler because her twitter activity contributes to her FF feed.
Margin of error or coverage limitations
Occasionally FF users mention how many followers they have. I tried comparing these numbers with my limited data and it seems to fit well within the estimated 15-20% margin.
For example, take a look at this entry and notice the numbers reported there by Susan Mernit and Jeremiah Owyang. Susan reports 1290 followers, I was able to discover 1055. Jeremiah reports 1979 followers, I was able to discover 1578.
Also, as far as the “big guys” go, I’m sure I’m missing a lot more than 15-20% which is natural given their popularity. There are probably a lot of dormant/inactive users who simply follow Scoble and Arrington without contributing anything to the feed (which makes them non-discoverable by my crawler).
The top 250
So, here is the top 250 list. As you can see, it goes “long tail” pretty fast.
| User | Followers | % of Total | |
| 1 | scobleizer | 9889 | 18.97% |
| 2 | techcrunch | 6626 | 12.71% |
| 3 | leolaporte | 5240 | 10.05% |
| 4 | jasoncalacanis | 5068 | 9.72% |
| 5 | davew | 4347 | 8.34% |
| 6 | laughingsquid | 3966 | 7.61% |
| 7 | loic | 3884 | 7.45% |
| 8 | petecashmore | 3277 | 6.29% |
| 9 | bret | 3222 | 6.18% |
| 10 | steverubel | 3199 | 6.14% |
| 11 | chrisbrogan | 3131 | 6.01% |
| 12 | l0ckergn0me | 3092 | 5.93% |
| 13 | fredwilson | 3090 | 5.93% |
| 14 | paul | 2690 | 5.16% |
| 15 | factoryjoe | 2582 | 4.95% |
| 16 | thomashawk | 2558 | 4.91% |
| 17 | veronicabelmont | 2221 | 4.26% |
| 18 | jzawodn | 2211 | 4.24% |
| 19 | louisgray | 2095 | 4.02% |
| 20 | elatable | 2025 | 3.88% |
| 21 | dbfarber | 1932 | 3.71% |
| 22 | marshallk | 1711 | 3.28% |
| 23 | dsifry | 1628 | 3.12% |
| 24 | jeffjarvis | 1608 | 3.08% |
| 25 | jowyang | 1578 | 3.03% |
| 26 | jessica | 1354 | 2.60% |
| 27 | rafe | 1294 | 2.48% |
| 28 | brianoberkirch | 1278 | 2.45% |
| 29 | kevinrose | 1265 | 2.43% |
| 30 | shellen | 1239 | 2.38% |
| 31 | kfury | 1160 | 2.22% |
| 32 | ambermac | 1144 | 2.19% |
| 33 | jeffpulver | 1121 | 2.15% |
| 34 | smernit | 1055 | 2.02% |
| 35 | waxpancake | 1006 | 1.93% |
| 36 | chrisheuer | 982 | 1.88% |
| 37 | andrewbaron | 973 | 1.87% |
| 38 | bfeld | 927 | 1.78% |
| 39 | chris | 889 | 1.71% |
| 40 | johnfurrier | 852 | 1.63% |
| 41 | davemorin | 847 | 1.62% |
| 42 | niniane | 837 | 1.61% |
| 43 | joi | 835 | 1.60% |
| 44 | ricmac | 825 | 1.58% |
| 45 | sanjeev | 796 | 1.53% |
| 46 | duncanriley | 793 | 1.52% |
| 47 | spin | 766 | 1.47% |
| 48 | monstro | 762 | 1.46% |
| 49 | erick | 758 | 1.45% |
| 50 | chapman | 756 | 1.45% |
| 51 | gaberivera | 753 | 1.44% |
| 52 | kwerb | 746 | 1.43% |
| 53 | keso | 744 | 1.43% |
| 54 | daveman692 | 741 | 1.42% |
| 55 | barackobama | 736 | 1.41% |
| 56 | davidhornik | 690 | 1.32% |
| 57 | nicolesimon | 688 | 1.32% |
| 58 | tomforemski | 686 | 1.32% |
| 59 | problogger | 669 | 1.28% |
| 60 | davemcclure | 669 | 1.28% |
| 61 | sacca | 667 | 1.28% |
| 62 | trishussey | 660 | 1.27% |
| 63 | eddale | 631 | 1.21% |
| 64 | orli | 630 | 1.21% |
| 65 | costolo | 626 | 1.20% |
| 66 | ana | 620 | 1.19% |
| 67 | mparekh | 606 | 1.16% |
| 68 | jim | 593 | 1.14% |
| 69 | evhead | 592 | 1.14% |
| 70 | quixotic | 591 | 1.13% |
| 71 | jimturner | 590 | 1.13% |
| 72 | kteare | 581 | 1.11% |
| 73 | andybeard | 579 | 1.11% |
| 74 | stevegarfield | 573 | 1.10% |
| 75 | sethgoldstein | 567 | 1.09% |
| 76 | mhmazidi | 561 | 1.08% |
| 77 | tamar | 552 | 1.06% |
| 78 | mathewingram | 551 | 1.06% |
| 79 | donlbe | 547 | 1.05% |
| 80 | tariqkrim | 511 | 0.98% |
| 81 | rohit | 511 | 0.98% |
| 82 | gapingvoid | 510 | 0.98% |
| 83 | warrenwhitlock | 509 | 0.98% |
| 84 | briansolis | 509 | 0.98% |
| 85 | parislemon | 505 | 0.97% |
| 86 | ijustine | 498 | 0.96% |
| 87 | marismith | 496 | 0.95% |
| 88 | kanter | 490 | 0.94% |
| 89 | stoweboyd | 487 | 0.93% |
| 90 | misteroo | 484 | 0.93% |
| 91 | sarahintampa | 483 | 0.93% |
| 92 | karen | 482 | 0.92% |
| 93 | charleneli | 482 | 0.92% |
| 94 | dweekly | 480 | 0.92% |
| 95 | leahculver | 479 | 0.92% |
| 96 | philipp | 476 | 0.91% |
| 97 | corvida | 473 | 0.91% |
| 98 | cathybrooks | 470 | 0.90% |
| 99 | pacificit | 466 | 0.89% |
| 100 | bwana | 459 | 0.88% |
| 101 | marccanter | 457 | 0.88% |
| 102 | patobryan | 457 | 0.88% |
| 103 | kamangir | 457 | 0.88% |
| 104 | missrogue | 455 | 0.87% |
| 105 | tempo | 451 | 0.87% |
| 106 | vanderwal | 450 | 0.86% |
| 107 | rindawahmhoff | 449 | 0.86% |
| 108 | saulklein | 439 | 0.84% |
| 109 | cspenn | 434 | 0.83% |
| 110 | drewolanoff | 431 | 0.83% |
| 111 | msaleem | 430 | 0.82% |
| 112 | schlomo | 427 | 0.82% |
| 113 | mihai | 425 | 0.82% |
| 114 | websuccessdiva | 423 | 0.81% |
| 115 | rklau | 421 | 0.81% |
| 116 | bgolub | 419 | 0.80% |
| 117 | weblaunches | 419 | 0.80% |
| 118 | giovanni | 415 | 0.80% |
| 119 | domino | 414 | 0.79% |
| 120 | emilychang | 413 | 0.79% |
| 121 | veen | 412 | 0.79% |
| 122 | zadi | 410 | 0.79% |
| 123 | iankennedy | 408 | 0.78% |
| 124 | staenman | 406 | 0.78% |
| 125 | rumford | 405 | 0.78% |
| 126 | technosailor | 401 | 0.77% |
| 127 | biznickman | 400 | 0.77% |
| 128 | labnol | 399 | 0.77% |
| 129 | stevegillmor | 398 | 0.76% |
| 130 | genuine | 398 | 0.76% |
| 131 | doshdosh | 391 | 0.75% |
| 132 | engtech | 391 | 0.75% |
| 133 | theinfluencer | 390 | 0.75% |
| 134 | susanbeebe | 387 | 0.74% |
| 135 | katson | 382 | 0.73% |
| 136 | dimitrihage | 382 | 0.73% |
| 137 | carls | 380 | 0.73% |
| 138 | dahowlett | 379 | 0.73% |
| 139 | drsuccess | 378 | 0.73% |
| 140 | robocallaghan | 376 | 0.72% |
| 141 | maryam5063 | 375 | 0.72% |
| 142 | alireza1356 | 373 | 0.72% |
| 143 | jaffejuice | 370 | 0.71% |
| 144 | vjmario | 364 | 0.70% |
| 145 | doughaslam | 364 | 0.70% |
| 146 | evernote | 363 | 0.70% |
| 147 | andykaufman | 362 | 0.69% |
| 148 | rebeccabriggs | 361 | 0.69% |
| 149 | bamdadi | 359 | 0.69% |
| 150 | bourne | 359 | 0.69% |
| 151 | sbooth | 354 | 0.68% |
| 152 | howardrheingold | 353 | 0.68% |
| 153 | whitecrow | 352 | 0.68% |
| 154 | mjesales | 352 | 0.68% |
| 155 | rizzn | 352 | 0.68% |
| 156 | garyvaynerchuk | 352 | 0.68% |
| 157 | williamlong | 350 | 0.67% |
| 158 | eldon | 349 | 0.67% |
| 159 | hardaway | 347 | 0.67% |
| 160 | alexiskold | 346 | 0.66% |
| 161 | willpate | 346 | 0.66% |
| 162 | justinkan | 346 | 0.66% |
| 163 | jerrym | 346 | 0.66% |
| 164 | dotben | 342 | 0.66% |
| 165 | christinelu | 341 | 0.65% |
| 166 | peter | 341 | 0.65% |
| 167 | anjrued | 341 | 0.65% |
| 168 | mager | 340 | 0.65% |
| 169 | danraine | 337 | 0.65% |
| 170 | alexdc | 336 | 0.64% |
| 171 | dhinchcliffe | 335 | 0.64% |
| 172 | jeffnolan | 334 | 0.64% |
| 173 | nlbctim | 332 | 0.64% |
| 174 | mattcutts | 332 | 0.64% |
| 175 | shermanlive | 332 | 0.64% |
| 176 | dannysullivan | 331 | 0.63% |
| 177 | ryancarson | 329 | 0.63% |
| 178 | gartenberg | 329 | 0.63% |
| 179 | creativesage | 328 | 0.63% |
| 180 | e3r | 326 | 0.63% |
| 181 | stevenhodson | 321 | 0.62% |
| 182 | artbushkin | 320 | 0.61% |
| 183 | mazoox | 319 | 0.61% |
| 184 | foadsa | 318 | 0.61% |
| 185 | charlieanzman | 317 | 0.61% |
| 186 | bhc3 | 316 | 0.61% |
| 187 | susanbratton | 315 | 0.60% |
| 188 | 1938media | 315 | 0.60% |
| 189 | jjprojects | 309 | 0.59% |
| 190 | andycarvin | 307 | 0.59% |
| 191 | shey | 307 | 0.59% |
| 192 | dsearls | 307 | 0.59% |
| 193 | aydin | 307 | 0.59% |
| 194 | pmarcablog | 307 | 0.59% |
| 195 | shankman | 305 | 0.58% |
| 196 | evanwolf | 304 | 0.58% |
| 197 | chrisgarrett | 303 | 0.58% |
| 198 | alexw | 302 | 0.58% |
| 199 | georgesharik | 301 | 0.58% |
| 200 | mbites | 300 | 0.58% |
| 201 | zefrank | 293 | 0.56% |
| 202 | 1fathi | 293 | 0.56% |
| 203 | vahid | 293 | 0.56% |
| 204 | chrisabraham | 292 | 0.56% |
| 205 | gregarious | 292 | 0.56% |
| 206 | webleon | 291 | 0.56% |
| 207 | hunterwalk | 290 | 0.56% |
| 208 | geoffliving | 290 | 0.56% |
| 209 | rycaut | 289 | 0.55% |
| 210 | peiman | 288 | 0.55% |
| 211 | sarahcuda | 287 | 0.55% |
| 212 | jabancroft | 286 | 0.55% |
| 213 | rexhammock | 284 | 0.54% |
| 214 | shashib | 284 | 0.54% |
| 215 | jasonw22 | 282 | 0.54% |
| 216 | derek | 282 | 0.54% |
| 217 | kashani | 282 | 0.54% |
| 218 | kosmar | 282 | 0.54% |
| 219 | jasongoldberg | 282 | 0.54% |
| 220 | digidave | 280 | 0.54% |
| 221 | mommycast | 280 | 0.54% |
| 222 | ckieff | 280 | 0.54% |
| 223 | davidjhinson | 279 | 0.54% |
| 224 | divedi | 279 | 0.54% |
| 225 | adamostrow | 279 | 0.54% |
| 226 | moniquebriand | 278 | 0.53% |
| 227 | philrosenberg | 275 | 0.53% |
| 228 | dkaye | 275 | 0.53% |
| 229 | sthayden | 275 | 0.53% |
| 230 | fenng | 273 | 0.52% |
| 231 | vakster | 273 | 0.52% |
| 232 | waynesutton | 272 | 0.52% |
| 233 | ginger | 271 | 0.52% |
| 234 | olegus | 271 | 0.52% |
| 235 | kriskrug | 270 | 0.52% |
| 236 | sanford | 270 | 0.52% |
| 237 | baratunde | 269 | 0.52% |
| 238 | kveton | 269 | 0.52% |
| 239 | altaide | 269 | 0.52% |
| 240 | rohitbhargava | 269 | 0.52% |
| 241 | aglick35 | 268 | 0.51% |
| 242 | davidberkowitz | 267 | 0.51% |
| 243 | benyoskovitz | 267 | 0.51% |
| 244 | maryamsharif | 267 | 0.51% |
| 245 | tomraftery | 267 | 0.51% |
| 246 | mspeiser | 265 | 0.51% |
| 247 | andybeal | 265 | 0.51% |
| 248 | cherylwhite | 264 | 0.51% |
| 249 | mikejones | 264 | 0.51% |
| 250 | ontarioemperor | 264 | 0.51% |
a-lists are for suckas. and playboys. ;)
kk+ | July 8, 2008 | 5:16 AMa-lists are for suckas. and playboys. ;)
You have me with 688, while FF reports to me
Nicole Simon | July 8, 2008 | 8:42 AMYou have me with 688, while FF reports to me 836. I assume with me you have something you do have with most non english based users: the non english part is not visible to you. I seldomly like or comment on german items, because it will irritate my english only subscribers.
Seeing that kosmar seems to be the other German user in here (it is early in the morning without much coffee) and not many other non english natives I guess that is the cause as usual. You should though be able to find a lot more of them though when you crossscan the rooms as well? Ping me and I can five you a list of users you are probably missing out on.
Nicole, my crawler is language agnostic. It doesn't look at
User21 | July 8, 2008 | 8:53 AMNicole, my crawler is language agnostic. It doesn’t look at the content. All it does is crawl the public feed (where you’ll find all public entries regardless of their language) and looks for users posting, commenting or liking. When it finds a user it looks at its subscriptions list and goes on from there.
[...] FriendFeed this evening I came upon a post that
Who’da thunk it, two b5-ers in the FriendFeed Top 250 : b5media Team Blog | July 8, 2008 | 10:40 AM[...] FriendFeed this evening I came upon a post that no one in social media can pass up clicking on—User 21 » FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users. Yeah we all want to know where we all [...]
I know that it is language agnostic. Do you believe me
Nicole Simon | July 8, 2008 | 10:56 AMI know that it is language agnostic.
Do you believe me when I tell you that by experience crawlers like this have a language biased problem due to user behaviour adapting to the insufficient functionality of the software? :)
They are in a separate bubble. And only as long as the people living in the other big bubble subscribe to them so you can follow them, your crawler will discover them. :) Now, chances are that you have most users like for example technorati did blogs (back in the day when it actually worked) – but still numbers for non english blogs where always way more down than they should have been.
Example: I post German content to a German room only and nearly never comment / like something from a German user. Similar to that, other German users use the German room as well. Also most German users do not like / comment on english entries. Room entries do not appear on the users time line. How then does your crawler discover them?
Which is why i suggest you do cross check with the rooms as well.
[The room in question is http://friendfeed.com/rooms/germany - saying your crawler is not language biased, you should have 100% of the active users in there in your database. ]
Good point, Nicole. I will certainly look into it when
User21 | July 8, 2008 | 11:05 AMGood point, Nicole. I will certainly look into it when optimizing my crawler.
Thanks.
I'd love to see this list calculated with german users
Alexander Ebel | July 8, 2008 | 12:22 PMI’d love to see this list calculated with german users only ;-)
(read: german-writing users, not just users from Germany).
Hey this list idea is awesome, thank you! Any
Susan Beebe | July 8, 2008 | 4:00 PMHey this list idea is awesome, thank you! Any way to keep the list updated? Currently, this follower info is outdated… This list shows me with under 400 subscribers, when in reality I have nearly 500 followers, so I should be ranked in the top 100, not 134. ;-)
Thanks!
Susan Beebe
@smbeebe
Alexander, as much as I'd love the crawler to able
User21 | July 8, 2008 | 10:05 PMAlexander, as much as I’d love the crawler to able to do linguistic analysis on the content and decide if a certain entry is German, English, Farsi or Hebrew, unfortunately this would take it to a whole new level of complexity which is unrealistic in this case.
Susan, I'm thinking about setting up a site where you
User21 | July 8, 2008 | 10:17 PMSusan, I’m thinking about setting up a site where you could see this data updated.
Regarding your specific ranking, assuming the same 20% margin of error applies to most other users (except maybe the top 10 where the margin is much higher), if I had the real numbers for every user then the list would probably be similar. Higher numbers but similar ranking.
[...] FriendFeed's Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2008 | PAGE PROPELLER NEWS | July 9, 2008 | 12:17 AM[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
searchenginemarketingvox » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2008 | July 9, 2008 | 1:49 AM[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
[...] user base is catching up fast on Twitter. But
FriendFeed spawns yet another A-list no one reads [The 250] : VCsAndAngels - Venture Capital / VCs, Angel Investors, Startup News, Etc | July 9, 2008 | 1:57 AM[...] user base is catching up fast on Twitter. But yesterday, blogger Yuval Atzmon posted an informal FriendFeed 250 that’s already replaced the Twitter Top 100 as the place to be for self-promoters (and for people [...]
[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2008 | July 9, 2008 | 2:13 AM[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
[...] user base is catching up fast on Twitter. But
FriendFeed spawns yet another A-list no one reads [The 250] | Techno Portal | July 9, 2008 | 4:48 PM[...] user base is catching up fast on Twitter. But yesterday, blogger Yuval Atzmon posted an informal FriendFeed 250 that’s already replaced the Twitter Top 100 as the place to be for self-promoters (and for [...]
[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2008 | Techno Portal | July 9, 2008 | 4:52 PM[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
I have 1088 followers on FF by last tally
John Furrier | July 10, 2008 | 1:06 AMI have 1088 followers on FF by last tally
John, the crawler cannot find all users and subscriptions so
User21 | July 10, 2008 | 1:11 AMJohn, the crawler cannot find all users and subscriptions so any stats I produce will never be accurate. There will always be a “coverage margin”, currently estimated at ~20% (in your case 22%). However I am working on better covering the public feed and maybe discover even more of the userbase.
[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
Search Engine Optimization » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2008 | July 10, 2008 | 7:27 AM[...] FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users, User 21 [...]
Doh! I have 316 followers, but I didn't make
Don MacAskill | July 10, 2008 | 10:00 AMDoh! I have 316 followers, but I didn’t make the list. Apparently I suck? :(
http://friendfeed.com/donmacaskill
[...] Right: The most followed users on FriendFeed, from User21.com's
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[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be
Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Launches Frienderati: The Top Friends From FriendFeed | July 14, 2008 | 2:56 PM[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be the most followed individuals on FriendFeed. (Compare to this list on User21). There is a lot of overlap here with another Alltop site, Twitterati, which (you guessed it) shows [...]
[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be
Unfortune | July 14, 2008 | 3:05 PM[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be the most followed individuals on FriendFeed. (Compare to this list on User21). There is a lot of overlap here with another Alltop site, Twitterati, which (you guessed it) shows [...]
[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be
Ajax Girl » Blog Archive » Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Launches Frienderati: The Top Friends From FriendFeed | July 14, 2008 | 4:37 PM[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be the most followed individuals on FriendFeed. (Compare to this list on User21). There is a lot of overlap here with another Alltop site, Twitterati, which (you guessed it) shows [...]
[...] fact, according to this list, there are probably a
Deep Jive Interests » The Problem With Frienderati | July 14, 2008 | 7:20 PM[...] fact, according to this list, there are probably a few bunch that are way ahead of me in terms of [...]
[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be
Our Techno Lyrics » Blog Archive » Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Launches Frienderati: The Top Friends From FriendFeed | July 14, 2008 | 9:22 PM[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be the most followed individuals on FriendFeed. (Compare to this list on User21). There is a lot of overlap here with another Alltop site, Twitterati, which (you guessed it) shows [...]
[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be
Its Rockin » Blog Archive » Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Launches Frienderati: The Top Friends From FriendFeed | July 15, 2008 | 7:43 AM[...] gets on the list, but it appears to be the most followed individuals on FriendFeed. (Compare to this list on User21). There is a lot of overlap here with another Alltop site, Twitterati, which (you guessed it) shows [...]
[...] Atzmon over at User21 also created a FriendFeed list.
Frienderati and The FriendFeed 250 -- bub.blicio.us | July 22, 2008 | 6:00 PM[...] Atzmon over at User21 also created a FriendFeed list. Dubbed the FriendFeed Top 250, it features a list of the most followed personalities on FriendFeed. Yuval is tracking the most [...]
@Don, I have 304 but I didn't make it either.
tinustuff | July 24, 2008 | 10:07 PM@Don, I have 304 but I didn’t make it either. If you scroll up one comment, you’ll see it’s probably the bot.
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I won't mention my login, since leaderboards don't matter to
Some Guy | July 30, 2008 | 6:05 AMI won’t mention my login, since leaderboards don’t matter to me. But I should be mid-list, and the bot has missed me altogether.