This is the fifth in a series of posts looking at Bryce Edwards and Geoffrey Miller’s top 100 tweeters to follow this election. There was much discussion afterwards about the make up of the list, and the lack of female or ethnic members on the list. I have been thinking about it a bit as well, and felt that it was worth taking a bit of a deeper look at some of the people on the list which I have done here. I was going to look at all of the brackets, but I found that I was reaching the same conclusion over and over again. So I am going to skip the rest of the brackets and jump right to my list of top 100 followers.
This top 100 is actually going to be 51 long, as I am leaving out the MPs, as well as the many accounts that don’t really contribute to things. It is also just a list, but not an ordered one. It has been created by taking the ones I agree with from Bryce and Geoffrey’s list, along with some from Stephanie’s and adding a couple of others that I think people have missed out. I am sure that there are others that I have forgotten as well. So I will add to this as I remember people.
1) Whaleoil @Whaleoil
2) David Farrar @dpfdpf
3) Toby Manhire @toby_etc
4) Andrea Vance @avancenz
5) Philip Matthews @secondzeit
6) Hamish Rutherford @oneforthedr
7) John Drinnan @Zagzigger
8) Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ
9) Martyn Bradbury @CitizenBomber
10) Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz
11) David Slack @DavidSlack
12) Lew Stoddart @LewSOS
13) Paora Ropata @kiaora4that
14) Alex Coleman @shakingstick
15) Morgan Godfery @MorganGodfery
16) Giovanni Tiso @gtiso
17) Patrick Gower @patrickgowernz
18) Felix Marwick @felixmarwick
19) Katie Bradford @katieabradford
20) Jessica Williams @mizjwilliams
21) Laura McQuillan @mcquillanatorz
22) Heather du Plessis-Allan @hdpaNEWS
23) Duncan Garner @Garner_Liv
24) Russell Brown @publicaddress
25) Mihingarangi Forbes @Mihi_Forbes
26) Mike Hosking @hoskingonzb
27) John Campbell @JohnJCampbell
28) Wallace Chapman @wallacelchapman
29) Damian Christie @damianchristie
30) Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom
31) Laila Harré @lailaharre
32) Colin Craig @ColinCraigNZ
33) Clint Smith @ClintVSmith
34) Miriam Pierard @miriampierard
35) Andrew Campbell @Andr3wCampbell
36) Graeme Edgeler @GraemeEdgeler
37) Danyl Mclauchlan @danylmc
38) Claire Robinson @Spinprofessor
39) Colmar Brunton @ColmarBruntonNZ
40) Andrew Robertson @Unimatrix_0
41) Elle Hunt @mlle_elle
42) Asher Goldman @AsherGoldman
43) Isabelle @izzyelle
44) Stephanie Rodgrs @stephanierodgrs
45) Aunty Shub @_surlymermaid_
46) Megapope @Megapope
47) Lamia @LI_politico
48) Ben Rachinger @B3nRaching3r
49) France Cook @FrancesCook
50) Queen of Cobden @QueenofCobden
51) Carrie Stoddart-Smith @Ellipsister
