Update: At the suggestion of Anthony Floyd (via Twitter, of course), I’ve added another column to the table below: the number of Twitter accounts that media are following. Some of the numbers are interesting.
I got curious about Twitter numbers this morning, particularly about Twitter numbers for media in Vancouver.
I’m not sure how to characterize what I found: most have followers numbered in the thousands, but not one has enough to fill the local hockey rink. Twitter, for all its power to engage, seems a small part of the social media ecosphere.
The Vancouver Sun (all links go to Twitter pages) has the most followers (7,286) of all of the media companies I looked at. The city’s other paid daily, The Province, is sixth on my list, with 2,740 followers. Interestingly, that’s fewer than either Vancouver Sun managing editor Kirk LaPointe (2,817) and digital life writer Gillian Shaw (3,315).
This list is by no means complete; it’s meant more as a snapshot of some of the local media. As well as print, it includes a couple of local magazines and some web-only entrants in the keeping-you-informed field.
| Publication | Followers | Following |
|---|---|---|
| Vancouver Sun | 7,286 | 13 |
| Georgia Straight | 5,893 | 5,593 |
| BC Business | 4,798 | 928 |
| 24Hours | 4,316 | 4,214 |
| Vancouver Province | 2,740 | 516 |
| VanCityBuzz | 2,401 | 2,628 |
| Now Public | 1,517 | 318 |
| News 1130 (radio) | 548 | 85 |
(Note: the numbers were current as of about 9:15 this morning; by 9:35, the Vancouver Sun number had actually dropped by two, and BC Business was up two. Twitter numbers are somewhat fluid: I could spend the rest of the day keeping them updated.)
I’m not drawing many conclusions from these numbers: this was only, at this point, an hmmm-I-wonder itch that needed to be scratched.
I wasn’t trying to be comprehensive, and I don’t hold out the examples I chose as the best-and-brightest: I was trying to look at a range of publications to get some sense about the way Twitter is being used by media and by readers. I cant understand bu thanks for post, maybe usefull
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Thanks for the comment. I don’t disagree that VanCityBuzz could use an editor, and I probably could have found other examples of non-traditional media, such as The Tyee (followed by 2,819; following 762) or a neighbourhood blog, such as Kitsilano.ca (followed by 1,790; following 1,462).
I wasn’t trying to be comprehensive, and I don’t hold out the examples I chose as the best-and-brightest: I was trying to look at a range of publications to get some sense about the way Twitter is being used by media and by readers.
- Mark
I’m surprised that anyone would consider Vancity Buzz to be a legitimate media site. It’s such a poor example of journalism: badly edited with milquetoast coverage of boring subjects that have already been re-hashed to death.