Top 10 News Feeds On Twitter
With more and more people getting their news online, Twitter users are starting use news feeds via Twitter to stay up to date. The biggest advantage to following a news feed on Twitter is that you can get news faster than some websites can update them. With the demand for information to be instant, knowing which news feeds to follow makes it easy to stay current. To help you figure out what news feeds you should be following we have compiled the Top 10 News Feeds On Twitter.
The top 10 list was determined based on a Twitter account being primarily a news feed filter. We also factored in the number of followers, how often it was updated as well as the number of retweets an account had. We included the number of updates because although an account may have a large number of followers, the number of updates is just as important. This shows that they are active and are constantly giving updates to their followers. All statistics are current as of May 27, 2009.
Without further ado, here are the Top 10 News Feeds On Twitter
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TIME
Followers: 651,154
Updates: 1,233
Total Score: 22.8 -
The NY Times
Followers: 943,216
Updates: 32,078
Total Score: 13.3 -
CNN Breaking News
Followers: 1,591,318
Updates: 762
Total Score: 12.2 -
BNO News
Followers: 449,294
Updates: 21,314
Total Score: 10.2 -
Mashable
Followers: 708,114
Updates: 15,972
Total Score: 8.8 -
The Onion
Followers: 828,375
Updates: 2,428
Total Score: 7.1 -
Tech Crunch
Followers: 628,118
Updates: 8,739
Total Score: 6.5 -
E! Online
Followers: 583,522
Updates: 9,072
Total Score: 6.3 -
Good Morning America
Followers: 592,924
Updates: 1,007
Total Score: 4.7 -
Nightline
Followers: 512,808
Updates: 1,221
Total Score: 4.1
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