See the final list here : j-j.co.za/toptwits

Yesterday’s post (here) attempted to list the Top Twits (by number of followers) in (South) Africa.  If you didn’t read the post yesterday, take a read to see where this all started.  It had some flaws. There were some big names missing. After some manual processing and prompting for various parties, here is the new improved (still very much draft) (South) African Top Twits.  The top 10 has changed a bit, and beyond that even more so. To make yesterday’s top 50 you needed 13 251 followers, today that has jumped to 22 613.

Once again, if there are some big names out there that have been missed please let me know.

Change log :

• Removed duplicated @BusRep, @BibleThoughts now makes it in at number 50 (26/7/2011)
• Added in some more users @Elbaradei, Jacob Zuma (SAPresident), Presidency, MetroFM (27/7/2011)
• Expanded the list to top 60 (so that some didn’t drop out of yesterday’s list)
• Included the date updated field
• Checked the numbers of all the accounts listed against current twitter.com numbers as previous sources were unreliable. Checked the balance of the top 120 as well just in case any jumped up the list, some of which did.

Rank : Followers : Name (Handle) : Location : Date Updated

1 : 1033857 : Pastor Chris (PastorChrisLive) :  Africa : 2011/07/25
2 : 236513 : Bruce Attridge (@Brat13) : Durban, South Africa : 2011/07/25
3 : 203033 : Mohamed ElBaradei (@ElBaradei) : Cairo, Egypt : 2011/07/27
4 : 145251 : Gareth Cliff (GarethCliff) :  South Africa : 2011/07/25
5 : 124477 : Graeme Smith (GraemeSmith49) :  South Africa : 2011/07/25
6 : 119570 : Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) : Los Angelos, CA : 2011/07/26
7 : 98829 : Thato Fresh Sikwane (@DJFreshSA) : ÜT: -26.097024,27.951438 : 2011/07/25
8 : 90441 : AB de Villiers (@Abdevilliers17) : Proudly South African : 2011/07/26
9 : 74208 : Big Brother Africa (BigBroAfrica) :  Africa : 2011/07/25
10 : 71598 : Humor Negro (HumorNegroo) :  Africa : 2011/07/26
11 : 67629 : Steven Pienaar (TheRealStevenPi) : London, England : 2011/07/25
12 : 61092 : Cliff-that's all. (PigSpotter) :  Johannesburg : 2011/07/25
13 : 59573 : Tina Cook (@Tinacook) : South Africa : 2011/07/25
14 : 57888 : 5FM (@5FM) : Johannesburg, South Africa : 2011/07/25
15 : 56528 : Julius Sello Malema (@Julius_S_Malema) : Johannesburg, South Africa : 2011/07/26
16 : 55612 : Dale Steyn (@Dalesteyn62) : Lost in London : 2011/07/26
17 : 50799 : Mark Boucher (@MarkB46) :  : 2011/07/26
18 : 50665 : Helen Zille (@HelenZille) : Cape Town : 2011/07/25
19 : 50109 : Nico Baird (@nicobaird) :  South Africa : 2011/07/26
20 : 47801 : Albie Morkel (@Albiemorkel) : Sa : 2011/07/25
21 : 47666 : Euphonik (@euphonik) : ÜT: -26.146292,28.037067 : 2011/07/25
22 : 46358 : Bryan Habana® (@BryanHabana) : Cape Town : 2011/07/26
23 : 44978 : John Smit (@Johnsmit123) : ÜT: -29.630414,31.119138 : 2011/07/25
24 : 42673 : Emmanuel & Abbie (@LifeCanBeDffrnt) : Centurion, South Africa : 2011/07/27
25 : 41700 : News24 (News24) :  South Africa : 2011/07/26
26 : 41437 : Jacob G. Zuma (@SAPresident) : Pretoria, South Africa : 2011/07/26
27 : 41387 : Herschelle Gibbs (@Hershybru) : ÜT: 28.643284,77.202994 : 2011/07/25
28 : 41374 : JP Duminy (@Jpduminy21) : South Africa : 2011/07/27
29 : 40296 : Social Cancer Cure (@Erica__B) ** unsure if this is SA ** : TwiTTerVerSe : 2011/07/25
30 : 40094 : African Proverbs (@AfricanProverbs) : USA : 2011/07/26
31 : 40049 : Sizwe Dhlomo (@SizweDhlomo) : (not listed) : 2011/07/26
32 : 38225 : Trevor Immelman (@Trevorimmelman) : Right Here : 2011/07/26
33 : 38001 : Victor Matfield (@Victormatfield) : South-Africa : 2011/07/25
34 : 37448 : David Kau (@davidkau1) : Johannesburg, SA : 2011/07/25
35 : 36382 : David Graham (@DavidGrahamSA) :  : 2011/07/26
36 : 35698 : NINJA (DieAntwoord) :  Cape Town : 2011/07/26
37 : 34659 : Anele Mdoda (@Anele) : South Africa : 2011/07/25
38 : 33862 : Business Report (@Busrep) : Johannesburg, South Africa : 2011/07/26
39 : 32238 : Bob Skinstad (@BobSkinstad) :  Cape Town : 2011/07/26
40 : 31753 : Nelson Mandela (@NelsonMandela) : Houghton, South Africa : 2011/07/25
41 : 30839 : Morne Morkel (@Mornemorkel65) : Pta : 2011/07/26
42 : 28506 : Eran Eyal (EranEyal) :  Cape Town : 2011/07/26
43 : 28462 : Leigh-Ann Mol (@LeighAnnMol) : Johannesburg, South Africa : 2011/07/26
44 : 26670 : Johan Botha (@Johan_botha) :  : 2011/07/26
45 : 26325 : Darren Simpson (@Whackheads) : South Africa : 2011/07/26
46 : 26171 : Locnville (@Locnville) : Cape Town : 2011/07/25
47 : 26165 : Cricket South Africa (@Officialcsa) : ÜT: -26.137969,28.061466 : 2011/07/25
48 : 25942 : Lira (@Miss_LIRA) : Johannesburg, South Africa : 2011/07/25
49 : 25861 : Online Beauty (online_beauty) :  South Africa : 2011/07/26
50 : 25591 : sasha martinengo (@F1sasha) :  : 2011/07/26
51 : 23774 : Poppy Ntshongwana (@PoppyIsMyName) :  : 2011/07/25
52 : 23607 : John Robbie (@702JohnRobbie) : Johannesburg, South Africa : 2011/07/25
53 : 22613 : Christian Republic (@BibleThoughts) : Cape Town, South Africa : 2011/07/26
54 : 22530 : Club808 (@Club808) : South Africa : 2011/07/25
55 : 22361 : Pierre Spies (@Pierrespies8) : Pretoria : 2011/07/25
56 : 21742 : 94.7 Highveld Stereo (@947Highveld) : Johannesburg : 2011/07/26
57 : 21694 : mailandguardian (@mailandguardian) : South Africa : 2011/07/26
58 : 21407 : Adesoji Oseni (Adesoji) :  Africa : 2011/07/27
59 : 21113 : PresidencyZA (@PresidencyZA) : Pretoria, South Africa : 2011/07/27
60 : 21082 : METRO FM (@MetroFMSA) : South Africa : 2011/07/27

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