The 75+ most influential wine peeps on social media

There are all sorts of ways to get ranked on some sort of top whatever lists, but we were quite surprised that after reading an article by the our social media mates the Wine Wankers we were actually on a couple of those lists of 'influencers in wine' using social media. We are in amongst some pretty good company and are are little humbled to be there. The Wine Wankers spent a fair amount of effort researching this and as far as we can tell they got it right (our numbers were correct). So congrats to them for their amazing success and we are raising a glass of something nice to celebrate our small success. Cheers to everyone on the list!
Here is an excerpt from their research.

So, here are the 75+ most influential wine entities on the net as at July 14th 2014.
Author: Conrad (of the Wine Wankers)

Over the last couple of months there have been a few “most influencial wine people on the Internet” type lists circulated.  They've all been quite good indicators of wine related influence on the net, within the scope of what qualifies to make each list of course.  I’ll briefly go over two of these…

About Klout -Klout uses various networks to measure influence including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Instagram, Bing, Google+, Tumblr, Foursquare, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress, Last.fm, Yammer and Flickr to derive a score out of 100.  Apparently a score of 63 puts you in the top 1-5% of all entities rated.  Read more about Klout here.

About Kred -Kred only measures social media influence derived from Twitter and Facebook.  It has 2 scores, one out of 1000 measuring social media influence and one out of 12 measuring outreach, ie how “social” an entity really is.  Apparently a score over 750 puts you in the top 1% and a score over 800 puts you in the top 0.1% of all entities on social media.  Read more about Kred here.

So, here are the 75+ most influential wine entities on the net as at mid July 20 (and also a link to the Wine Wankers).

	KLOUT RANKINGS					KRED RANKINGS
Rank	Wine Entity	Score			Rank	Wine Entity	Score1	Score2
1	Wine Spectator	87			1	Ken “alawine” Waggoner	951	10
2	Jancis Robinson	84			2	The Wine Wankers	920	9
3	Decanter Magazine	82			3	The Drinks Business Magazine	914	7
4	Tim Atkin	81			4	Jancis Robinson	905	7
	Jamie Goode	81			5	Rick Bakas	904	9
6	The Wine Wankers	80			6	Wine Spectator	904	5
	Reverse Wine Snob	80			7	Reverse Wine Snob	898	9
	Vinography	80			8	Randall Grahm	895	8
9	Snooth	78			9	Decanter Magazine	895	6
10	The Wine Hub	77			10	Cliff Brown	893	9
	Randall Grahm	77			11	Wine Enthusiast	890	7
12	Andre Ribeirinho	76			12	Wine Twits	889	8
13	Wine Folly	74			13	Tim Atkin	887	8
	Wine Harlots	74			14	Jamie Goode	882	8
15	Paul Mabray	72			15	Wine Harlots	870	8
	Marilena Barbera	72			16	The Wine Hub	868	8
	Fabien Lainé	72			17	1 Wine Dude	860	9
	Dusan Jelic	72			18	Palate Xposure	850	9
	Magnus Reuterdahl	72			19	Natalie MacLean	846	8
20	Ken “alawine” Waggoner	71			20	Robert Joseph	842	8
	Russ Beebe	71			21	Wine Folly	840	8
	Ilkka Sirén	71			22	Snooth	835	6
23	Sip on This Juice	70			23	Andre Ribeirinho	823	8
	Ana Sofia Oliveira	70			24	Dusan Jelic	818	8
	Emmanuel Delmas	70			25	Bruised Grape	816	9
	Vincent Pétré	70			26	Robert Parker Jnr	816	3
	Robert Joseph	70			27	Sip on This Juice	815	9
	Robert McIntosh	70			28	Will Lyons	815	8
	The Drinks Business Magazine	70			29	Robert McIntosh	814	8
30	Grape Friend	69			30	Dr Vino	814	7
	Rick Bakas	69			31	James Suckling	804	7
32	Meg Maker	67			32	Paul Mabray	802	8
	Jasmine Hirsch	67			33	Twe Sommelier	799	8
	Wine Sisterhood	67			34	Emmanuel Delmas	798	8
	Jameson Fink	67			35	Magnus Reuterdahl	796	9
	Peter Handzus	67			36	Vinography	794	6
	John Corcoran	67			37	Marilena Barbera	793	8
	Andrea Petrini	67			38	Meg Maker	792	8
39	Clayton Bahr	66			39	Russ Beebe	788	8
	Wine Twits	66			40	Oz Clarke	788	6
	Simon Woolf	66			41	Wine Sisterhood	787	8
	Elisabetta Tosi	66				Enobytes Wine	787	8
43	Wine Enthusiast	65			43	Michelle Williams	786	9
	1 Wine Dude	65			44	Jameson Fink	786	8
	Ryan Opaz	65			45	Marcy Gordon	784	8
	Wine Consumer Magazine	65			46	Alice Feiring	784	7
	Mario Scheuermann	65			47	John Corcoran	784	5
	Giampiero Nadali	65			48	The Academic Wino	783	8
49	Wine Walkabout	64			49	Vincent Pétré	782	8
	Lynton Manuel	64				Wine Compass	782	8
	Twe Sommelier	64			51	The Drunken Cyclist	779	8
	Gwendolyn Alley	64			52	Travelling Corkscrew	773	8
	Ralf Kaiser	64			53	Jason Solanki	772	8
54	Robert Parker Jnr	63			54	Andrea Gori	771	8
	The Drunken Cyclist	63			55	Grape Friend	771	7
	Travelling Corkscrew	63			56	Ryan Opaz	770	7
	The Academic Wino	63			57	Wine Searcher	769	6
	Adam Japko	63			58	Adam Japko	768	7
	Natalie MacLean	63				Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan MW	768	7
	Christian Schiller	63			60	Hudson Valley Wine Goddess	767	8
	Will Lyons	63				Ilkka Sirén	767	8
62	Wine Searcher	62				Clayton Bahr	767	8
	Dr Vino	62				Peter Handzus	767	8
	Andrea Gori	62			64	50 States of Wine	766	8
	Wisequeen Donna Jackson	62			65	Christian Schiller	763	8
66	Michelle Williams	61			66	Fabien Lainé	763	7
	Frankie Cook	61			67	Jasmine Hirsch	762	7
	Wine Compass	61			68	Wine Walkabout	758	8
	Hudson Valley Wine Goddess	61			69	Elisabetta Tosi	756	7
	50 States of Wine	61			70	Gwendolyn Alley	743	7
71	Oz Clarke	60				Frankie Cook	743	7
	Bruised Grape	60			73	Simon Woolf	742	7
	Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan MW	60			73	Wisequeen Donna Jackson	739	8
	Palate Xposure	60			74	Brett Jones	735	6
	Alice Feiring	60			75	Ralf Kaiser	733	7
	Brett Jones	60
	James Suckling	60				Mario Scheuermann	730	7
	Enobytes Wine	60				Andrea Petrini	727	6
						Giampiero Nadali	722	6
	Cliff Brown	59				Wine Consumer Magazine	642	5
	Jason Solanki	58				Ana Sofia Oliveira	632	5
	Marcy Gordon	56				Lynton Manuel	609	4

We are a little surprised and excited at the same time to be on this list. We are in some pretty cool company. So congrats to those on the list and thanks to the guys at Wine Wankers for putting it together. 

Happy Wine Adventures,

Cheers,

WineWalkabout.net

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