SA Twitter News Ranking [MARCH 2009]

Few care to follow the dozens of news headlines that gets posted in bulk by some news organisations.- MarkLives.com

NVDL: Even MyNews24 at #1 still has WAY less than 1000 followers. That's fiddlesticks, but I guess one has to start somewhere.

clipped from www.marklives.com SA Twitter News Ranking March 2009 Name & URL No Followers No Updates Ranking Change MyNews24 786 438 1 +4 The Times 520 7913 2 -1 Muti 509 29363 3 New Radio 702 450 413 4 New IOL 405 33959 5 -3 News24 305 14795 6 -3 Mail & Guardian 165 581 7 -3 Grocotts Mail 90 233 8 -3 Daily Dispatch 35 247 9 tied -3 Sowetan 35 104 9 tied -3 Bush Radio 21 489 11 New Moneyweb 20 11 12 New SABC News 5 7 13 New MyNews24 has jumped from the 5th spot on Mark’s Twitter News Ranking Index to 1st. In a month. The road to success seems to be very much in line with a recent column MarkLives published on how news organisations can effectively use Twitter. They have a human being posting breaking news updates, replying to reader queries and following followers. In fact they seem to actively search out new readers. The site even jumped the much older @News24 Twitter account which itself has seen somewhat fewer updates than usual. That by the way is a move in the right direction.