According to Muck Rack, an online networking platform for journalist and bloggers, Anderson Cooper was the most followed journalist on Twitter this year.
The host of CNN’s AC360 saw a 34 percent increase in Twitter followers during 2013, bringing him to more than 4.6 million followers on the social media site.
Muck Rack’s Top Ten Most Followed Journalist on Twitter:
Anderson Cooper
Piers Morgan
Rachel Maddow
Adam Schefter
Larry King
Bill Simmons
Chris Hardwick
Erin Andrews
George Stephanopoulos
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Muck Rack also calculated each of the top ten most followed journalist’s increase in Twitter followers for the year:
At 502, Muck Rack claims the New York Times ranked No. 1 for media outlets with the highest number of “most tweeting” journalists. Reuters, which ranked second with 496 journalists on Twitter, more than doubled its number of journalists who tweet since 2012.
Media Outlets with the Most Tweeting Journalists:
New York Times: 502
Reuters: 496
Associated Press: 482
Wall Street Journal: 418
Bloomberg News: 392
LA Times: 339
Guardian: 293
BBC: 256
CNN: 244
Financial Times: 184
By adding up the total number of followers of all the journalists at each media outlet, Muck Rack ranked media outlets with the most collective followers. CNN took the No. 1 spot with more than 18 million total followers, followed by ESPN with 10.9 million followers which moved up from 6th place in 2012.
Media Outlets with the Most Collective Followers:
CNN: 18,219,432
ESPN: 10,920,743
New York Times: 20,359,464
ABC News: 8,126,836
NBC News: 6,275,320
MSNBC: 5,585,028
Guardian: 5,583,053
Fox News: 4,977,543
BBC: 3,771,413
Yahoo News: 3,600,181
Muck Rack ranked the top ten most followed journalists to join Twitter in 2013 as well, with CNBC’s Melissa Lee at No. 1 after gaining 19,104 followers since joining Twitter in May of this year.
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