Consultant Dan
16 January 2012
Top Twitter influencers on renewables, climate, greens, with an Australian emphasis
I have used a Twitter analysis tool to find out who the influential Twitter voices are on renewable energy and climate issues, with an Australian emphasis. Twitter is very useful for people interested in renewable energy, because the mainstream media does bad reporting of renewable energy issues.
The analysis tool I have used is PeerIndex.
The selection process was to compile several relevant Twitter lists that I am on, which have been created by people that consider authoritative, such as Beyond Zero Emissions.
This compilation list of about 400 Twitter accounts was then filtered to remove accounts that were not directly relevant, for example general news accounts (such as the BBC).
For the list to be valuable, it will be necessary to keep updating it. For example, today I was followed by Svein Tveitdal @tveitdal who I’ve not heard of but turns out to be an influential UN climate guy from Norway, so I’ve added him to my group list.
After these steps I had almost 300 Twitter users uploaded onto PeerIndex, which uses its own script to produce the ranking. (It is possible to manually adjust a PeerIndex group, but I’ve chosen to leave it ‘objective’.)
Have a look at the Top renewables Twitter influencers <bit.ly/RenewableTweeps>.
I don’t know whether PeerIndex is better than any other analytic tool, such as Klout.
Who is missing from the list?
Is a list this long useful?
How reliable is the ranking?
I am currently looking into the global influence of social media on renewables, because I have been asked to post on the blog of one of China’s biggest renewable energy companies.
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