Top 12 Caribbean Twitterers…what does that mean anyway ?

With Twittermania in full swing globally, I wanted to see just how much Twitter has taken hold in the Caribbean. So I used wefollow.com, which is a user-powered Twitter directory to track how many twitterers we had under the Caribbean tag/category.
The top 12 Twitterers list was developed by this single directory using a single determinant- how many followers/subscribers does each Twitterer have. What I found was that the top 12 people/sites/individuals/companies with the most followers in the Caribbean are:
1. PiscesinPurple – 1731 followers
2. DonaldTurnbull -1243 followers
3. Timprescott – 1022 followers
4. Jamaica – 990 followers
5. WeddingMoons – 951 followers
6. Dividivadesign – 895 followers
7. Georgiap – Managing Director, Global Voices, Caribbean citizen – 856 followers
8. ChannelHaiti – L ‘Union Fait la Force – 706 followers
9. UsVirgin Islands – US Virgin Islands news and updates. – 684 followers
10. St Lucia Property -Matching people with properties on the island of Saint Lucia – 520 followers
11. The Royalty Club – 518 followers
12. Caribbean Food TV – 478 followers

At the top of the list is a personal blog, PiscesinPurple.com by a woman named Maria, dubbed Letters from Grenada-Confessions of a reformed tourist. In second place is Donald Turnbull, a Caribbean Diaspora blogger, programmer and entrepreneur who lives in Chicago. In third place is a Bajan dude Timothy A. Prescott who tweets both local Barbados stuff and global things as well. He describes himself as a Creative thinker, product developer, Graphic artist, photographer, sustainable community business consultant, alternative health enthusiast, husband, father. Rounding out the top 5 twitterers is a Twitter account dubbed Jamaica which gives news and updates.

I noted that in the top 5, there are no Caribbean mainstream media listed here. There is only one tourism related twitter account in the Top 5, which is WeddingMoons that is promoting themselves as “The best all-inclusive destination weddings and honeymoons in the Caribbean”, and the brand is the Sandals Hotel chain. They are using it to promote specials offered, features and events and also even more importantly to listen to their customers and give instant response.

Now, I did this exercise mainly out of curiousity and I used only one tracking tool and while not all Caribbean twitterers may be registered with wefollow.com (even as I’d encourage them to be), for me it was enough to at least get an early inkling as who is ahead of the game right now in using this powerful and now globally renowned social media tool and for what purposes. I did this exercise too to see who was on, to check to if mainstream media, tourism interests and Caribbean businesses were using this tool and how.

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