@LinkedinQueen:twitter   Congratulations to be included on the Forbes list.
haydn1701.  @haydn1701:disqus did an interesting article for sure.  I also like when he writes: 

“…I don’t think you can separate popularity from influence in this new media world. To suggest that one is better than the other or to suggest that popularity does not reflect influence seems to me a tricky claim.”

What surprises me is that a respected journalist publishing in a respected media outlet like Forbes uses a technology like PeekYou that does not even publish information that tells us how they arrive at the score.

Is this another navel gazing metric similar to the Klout Score that also leaves one baffled?
Great list, love to be on it. However, does being higher on this list – means I would be influential and I am not –  really tell me something I need to know.
More importantly, will it help me sell more screws, screwdrivers, consulting services and so forth?

I hope that next time we get this list the author provides us with a definition. For instance, we do this for our product.  You get the full enchilada …. so you can check our algorithm doing your own calculations.

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I wish such lists would do the same and use technology where the inventors tell us exactly how they arrive at their wonderful formulas. 

Cha, M., Haddadi, H., Benevenuto, F., Gummadi, I. P. (2010) Measuring user influene inTwitter: the million follower fallacy (201 KB)