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Top Ten Tweople from Kerala

The twitter, free social networking and microblogging site is spreading like wildfire all over the world including India. India is in the top 5 countries by sheer number of twitter users, behind US, UK, Canada and Australia.Mumbai ranks 31 out of top 50 tweeting world cities. There are hell lots of people from Kerala who tweet. Here is a list of top 10 tweople (people who tweet) I compiled who hails from Kerala. I compiled this list based on the number of followers and the number of tweets they have done so far. The number of followers is the measure of how others value your presence in twitter and the number of tweets is the measure of how active you are in twitter. I am sure I may have missed some one who may be more active. In case you know of someone who is more active than the tweople in this list please let me know.

1 - Shashi Tharoor @shashitharoor

Following - 7

Followers - 19010

Tweets - 729

Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs is the tweople with maximum number of followers in India. Right now he has over 19,000 followers. Tharoor has made it a point to tweet almost daily and his tweets provide insight to the day to day life of a politician/minister.

2 - K Sudhakaran @ksudhakaranMP

Following 3

Followers 818

Tweets 513

Another politician from Kerala in twitter, K Sudhakaran needs no introduction to the people of Kerala. For the communist part he is an evil while for the congress party he is a darling for his courageous fight against communist party in its own den. He is so active in Twitter that he replies to all the tweets addressed to him.

3 - Mani Karthik @ManiKarthik

Following 11714

Followers 13314

Tweets 8223

Mani Karthik with the number of followers, following and tweets should be the super star of all the tweople from Kerala. He takes time to interact with almost every one following him. This is what Mani Karthik tells about himself “ SEO, Pro Blogger, Social Mediaholic. Quit my day job 4yrs back to pursue blogging as a career. Living the dream now.” He blogs at DailySEOBlog and it is one of the blogs I visit daily. Every time I visit that blog I learn something new.

4 - Binny V A @binnyva

Following 1990

Followers 2109

Tweets 5340

Another very active tweople in twitter to follow. Binny is a freelance web developer on the LAMP Platform (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP). He maintains too many blogs/sites and you can see this page that has a summary of all his blogs/sites.

5 - Arun Basil Lal @arunbasillal

Following 4143

Followers 3925

Tweets 8283

This is what Arun has to tell about himself “ProBlogger in the Making. Virtually Married to @MillionClues. Trying to Live the Dream. Always More-Than-Happie-2-Help (~_^)”

6 - Nikhil Narayanan @nikhilnarayanan

Following 902

Followers 1285

Tweets 5866

A blogger for the over six years, Nikhil is very active in twitter also. He blogs at Nikhil’s Musings and his blog posts and tweets are always a treat to read.

7 - Kenney Jacob @kenneyjacob

Following 1195

Followers 1422

Tweets 5011

Serial Entrepreneur, Twitter addict, BarCamper – this is what Kenney has to say about himself. Very active blogger, Kenney is a well known figure across Kerala in the blogsphere.

8 - Jay @crucifire

Following 472

Followers 874

Tweets 13,385

This is what his bio in twitter account “++ MetalHead + QuizFreak + TechoManiac + Satirist + Rebel + Intellectual + Spiritual-Seeker + Crazy + Complex Microorganism + Scorpio + Mallu ++”. I have nothing to add to that.

9 - Leo Mavely @startonomics

Following 398

Followers 942

Tweets 5098

“Entrepreneur - Biomed / Basketball fanatic / Movie buff / Dreamer / Foodie”, he blogs at Startonomics

10 - Anand Subramanian @TheAnand

Following 194

Followers 777

Tweets 3963

May be the youngest in this group, an active blogger who is an internet niche marketer and Social Media Enthusiast “bent on living life than just exist!”

If you know of some other tweople that should have been in this list please mention their twitter account as a comment below.

Labels: Kerala, Top 10, Twitter