(South) Africa`s Top Twits 31 August 2011 - j
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(South) Africa`s Top Twits 31 August 2011 - j
Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets PastorChrisLive 0 1038830 1056 Brat13 228053 243861 7633 ElBaradei 32 237537 472 Ghonim 647 197573 5595 GarethCliff 51 168158 9306 CarinMB 202 149121 3672 Trevornoah 21 143637 2007 AlMasryAlYoum_A 148 135364 19470 graemesmith49 70 133363 776 _AmrKhaled_ 2 117357 1520 Camfed 36959 117274 1391 DONJAZZY 28549 117072 31661 DJFreshSA 4149 113923 30138 RassdNews 0 113491 49682 YosriFouda 241 105287 1474 Shorouk_News 0 103402 51417 abdevilliers17 73 98625 1778 iamdbanj 1152 95844 542 bonang_m 756 91950 19086 ONtveg 43 87543 16945 bbcarabic 1 86028 35692 farahato 158 85933 2492 wizkidayo 860 85904 17801 Julius_S_Malema 71 81382 1992 MI_Abaga 1055 80826 5358 Justin__Gabriel 171 78387 1374 BigBroAfrica 617 77654 7042 eahram 46 77477 34790 TahrirTv 8 76896 5411 TheRealStevenPi 24 76480 554 HumorNegroo 477 74400 1596 nonhlethema 212 73924 6646 PigSpotter 6 70342 21915 kalnaga 1492 69926 2538 DailyNewsEgypt 15 69297 11177 MarkDimension 73729 68475 2945 AsmaaMahfouz 346 67497 6169 dineoranaka 694 67314 28031 OMGIneverKnew 218 66860 999 5FM 1796 65904 7596 Ayman_Nour 2131 64177 2841 bencnn 346 63733 3086 amrmsalama 450 63472 3821 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 2010/06/06 Greenland Rev Chris Oyakhilome, PhD. President of Believers' Loveworld Inc. aka Christ http://www.christembassy.org Embassy Int'l. Pastor, teacher, healing minister,http://twitter.com/PastorChrisLive TV host and bestselling author 22 2008/05/01 Pretoria Engineer, cyclist, photographer, blogger, Durbanite http://www.thelanternerouge.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/Brat13 0 2010/03/03 Cairo http://www.iaea.org/About/dg/elbaradei/biography.html http://www.taghyeer.net http://twitter.com/ElBaradei 378 2009/03/07 Cairo Constantly Changing, Serious Joker, Internet Addict, Human, Egyptian who loves challenging status quo. http://twitter.com/Ghonim 1723 2008/12/08 Pretoria Defender of the Faithless http://www.garethcliff.com/ http://twitter.com/GarethCliff 1 2008/11/05 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Cape Town, South Africa bred! Los Angeles based and family prioritized. http://twitter.com/CarinMB 2 2009/06/11 Pretoria Are you really reading my twitter bio? Why? Do you even believe these bios? http://www.trevornoah.com Ok well I'm sorry I wasted your time not writing http://twitter.com/Trevornoah one...wow you're still reading?! 0 2009/04/30 Cairo . الصحيفة اليومية األولى في مصر، المصري اليومhttp://almasryalyoum.com http://twitter.com/AlMasryAlYoum_A 0 2009/10/23 Professional cricketer - South African Cricket Captain; Cape Cobra's playerhttp://www.graemesmith.co.za and Sahara Pune Warriors player http://twitter.com/graemesmith49 2 2009/08/19 Cairo http://www.amrkhaled.net/ http://twitter.com/_AmrKhaled_ 10 2009/03/09 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Camfed works to break the cycle of poverty and disease in rural Africa by http://camfed.org educating girls and investing in economic and leadership http://twitter.com/Camfed opportunities for young women 33 2009/07/05 West Central Africa C.E.O Mo'Hits Records, G.O.O.D Music Producer. Dont Try to figure me out. http://www.mohitsrecords.com im not ur average human being. some say im anhttp://twitter.com/DONJAZZY Enigma. 5 2009/02/20 Pretoria Held up to a Mirror Ball at Birth!!DJ-ing since 1986.... Radio since 1992.... h ttp://www.djfresh.dj http://twitter.com/DJFreshSA 2 2010/01/10 Cairo People's Media | إعالم يصنعه الجمھور http://www.Rassd.com http://twitter.com/RassdNews 2 2010/09/11 Cairo -Editor/Presenter, Last Word, ONTV.-Former Chief InvesLgaLve Correspondent http://www.YosriFouda.com and ExecuLve Producer, Al Jazeera. http://twitter.com/YosriFouda 3 2009/05/24 Cairo The No.1 Egyptian Daily Newspaper http://www.shorouknews.com http://twitter.com/Shorouk_News 0 2010/05/03 Greenland Proudly South African http://www.abdevilliers.com http://twitter.com/abdevilliers17 26 2009/06/30 West Central Africa Good music/mo hits records*No 1 Entertainer* http://www.mohitsrecords.com http://twitter.com/iamdbanj 722 2010/07/04 Pretoria 2011's Coolest Female TV Star, Queen of SA Media and 1 of Thee Most Influential http://www.bonangmatheba.com Young SAfricans! And I'm JUST getting started.. http://twitter.com/bonang_m ;-) 81 2010/07/14 Cairo ONtv is a liberal channel that focuses on reviving the EgypLan idenLty andhttp://www.ONtveg.com the values of ciLzenship, freedom and equality. http://twitter.com/ONtveg 0 2007/05/10 Cairo http://twitter.com/bbcarabic 5 2009/04/10 Cairo Internet Marketing Consultant. I am a total social media addict, And Simply http://www.linkedin.com/in/moefarahat I love tweeting!!! http://twitter.com/farahato 2 2009/04/17 London STAR BOY!!!!! http://twitter.com/wizkidayo 21 2010/02/24 Harare I am Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981, in Seshego), a South Africanhttp://www.juliusmalema.co.za/ politician, and the current president of the African http://twitter.com/Julius_S_Malema National Congress Youth League. 4 2009/06/24 West Central Africa null http://twitter.com/MI_Abaga 7 2010/02/19 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Stuck in the matrix..... Again...I don't have FB or Myspace http://www.WWEUniverse.com/JustinGabriel http://twitter.com/Justin__Gabriel 9 2009/06/09 Greenland The only official Twitter account for Big Brother Africa http://www.mnetafrica.com/bigbrother/ http://twitter.com/BigBroAfrica 391 2009/12/16 Cairo Al Ahram is Egyptian publishing & Media house; it is the publisher of the daily http://www.ahram.org.eg Al http://twitter.com/eahram 4 2011/03/17 http://facebook: http://qr.net/b0ce , youtube: http://cutt.us/pO8 / رأسي- 10949 علي النيل سات تردد http://twitter.com/TahrirTv 1 2010/05/14 The Official Twitter Page of Steven Pienaar http://www.steven-pienaar.com http://twitter.com/TheRealStevenPi 1 2010/04/17 Santiago Porque Humor Negro é igual braço: tem gente que não tem. Sigam-me oshttp://bloghumornegroo.blogspot.com maus! (Não sou nazista) http://twitter.com/HumorNegroo 52 2009/04/20 Greenland www.NonhleThema.tv http://www.NonhleThema.tv http://twitter.com/nonhlethema 172 2010/07/28 Greenland Let us help each other expose where they are trapping and setting up roadblocks. http://www.pigspotter.co.za For shirts, check my site. :) http://twitter.com/PigSpotter 170 2009/07/19 Cairo (; Actor/Filmmaker, Proud Egyptian خالد أبوالنجاhttp://blog.nagatime.com/ http://twitter.com/kalnaga 0 2009/04/26 Cairo Egypt's Only Independent Newspaper in English http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com http://twitter.com/DailyNewsEgypt 29 2009/08/02 Cairo I am an artist interested in: web design, philosophy, photography, writing, hypnosis, NLP, self improvement http://twitter.com/MarkDimension 17 2008/12/21 Cairo انسانة عادية ويمكن اقل من العاديةبحلم تكون مصر اقوى بلد في الدنيا في كل المجاالتاللي يتخنقhttp://wolf-inside.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/AsmaaMahfouz 195 2009/05/21 Pretoria R.A.D.I.O - Realise Accept Dineo Is Outstanding!! The devil himself fears me... http://www.dineolive.com http://twitter.com/dineoranaka 176 2010/04/02 West Central Africa Follow for facts you never knew! From weird phobias, to world records, histories, http://www.formspring.me/OMGIneverKnew and most shocking,odd facts! (Ask us any http://twitter.com/OMGIneverKnew fact you want to know, on formspring) 41 2008/10/18 Harare The entertainment powerhouse for South African youth, offering the most http://www.5fm.co.za popular contemporary music and entertainment.http://twitter.com/5FM Find 5FM BB App in Appworld 423 2009/10/08 Cairo Egyptian Politician, Leader of El-Ghad Liberal Party, Former Parliament Member http://www.facebook.com/dr.Aymannour (1995-2005), Presidential Candidate for 2011. http://twitter.com/Ayman_Nour 0 2009/10/19 Cairo http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/wedeman.ben.html http://twitter.com/bencnn 65 2009/06/21 Cairo A film maker and a blogger كاتب و مدون،مخرج سينمائي http://www.amrsalama.com http://twitter.com/amrmsalama Page 1 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 Twitter Name Tinacook Dalesteyn62 helenzille BIGFOLLOW___ VodafoneEgypt olegintwitt euphonik Life_Quotesx djsbuvandal ekaffee BryanHabana markb46 ahmadesseily Johnsmit123 SAPresident sherif_hashim skyjefans nicobaird News24 Albiemorkel CNNWorld theoquotes waelabbas wandecoal taintedtyga minniedlamini aljazeeranet Sandmonkey SizweDhlomo Erica__B jpduminy21 LifeCanBeDffrnt Victormatfield Hershybru darey MasrawyFans davidkau1 AfricanProverbs wentzeldk Laureenraft join1goal ShababLibya beiruta Followed Followers 61917 62366 28 60521 1680 59003 55067 57153 3669 57031 58763 56905 61 55949 867 55773 1 55307 45509 55072 213 53608 105 53415 359 53338 56 53322 3 53078 31 53073 51679 53026 49285 52287 3965 52057 153 50775 0 50708 47750 50026 329 49223 1193 49121 32515 49095 125 48423 0 47318 852 46923 69 46819 45551 45589 147 44111 44969 43845 96 43484 19 43483 2784 43144 10 43083 649 42763 34518 42451 43003 41756 41253 41032 276 40858 303 40705 34278 40560 Tweets 11359 274 1575 9643 14383 5529 12955 15331 34553 11486 3110 1067 5243 990 76 2501 2978 16002 51888 1192 1235 21598 69831 1573 77018 3103 17648 31611 12574 36710 1983 49013 733 10816 29851 60826 9461 1184 14340 38107 1116 16120 24332 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1367 2008/04/14 Pretoria Social Media and Online Marketing Strategist, love working with Innovative http://www.SocialMediaMarketingMentor.com Entrepreneurs, online video http://twitter.com/Tinacook 0 2010/07/20 Greenland http://www.dalesteyn.co.za http://twitter.com/Dalesteyn62 11 2009/02/10 Pretoria Western Cape Premier and Leader of South Africa's Official Opposition Party: http://www.da.org.za The Democratic Alliance http://twitter.com/helenzille 9 2009/07/11 Cairo Autorizar followTT a usar sua conta?Aumenta ate 1200 seguidores no seuhttp://ffolowers.agilityhoster.com twiSer http://twitter.com/BIGFOLLOW___ 68 2009/07/13 Cairo Welcome to Vodafone Egypt’s official twitter account. Here, you can find http://www.vodafone.com.eg out what we’ve been up to. Also you can find us on http://twitter.com/VodafoneEgypt facebook, YouTube /vodafoneEgypt 5 2010/09/07 Cairo Always happy and saLsfied with life.Do not worry, be happy.Internet, Money, http://intwitt.blogspot.com/ Economics, Technologies, Web-design, SMO, SEO, http://twitter.com/olegintwitt SMM 17 2009/02/18 Harare Euphonik is one of South Africa's most succesful young dance DJ's with a reputation http://www.euphonik.dj for being able to please a diverse crowdhttp://twitter.com/euphonik both in the clubs and on the radio. 298 2010/06/02 Cairo A Guy tweeting his thoughts & feelings...Loving to share them with you Guys...Started http://twitter.com/Life_Quotesx tweeting since 25/10/2010... http://twitter.com/Life_Quotesx 0 2009/05/26 Greenland Servant of God!I touch lives 4 a living... http://www.djsbuonline.co.za http://twitter.com/djsbuvandal 0 2009/06/19 Bern I'm working on my Coffee & Health blog, hopefully one of these days I'll link to it. My interest is Coffee, Health, Fitness, Social http://twitter.com/ekaffee Media Marketing and Family 25 2010/03/18 Harare Pro Rugby Player, Proud South African & Blessed Husband. Living Life To the http://www.bryanhabana.com Fullest while living my Dream!!! http://twitter.com/BryanHabana 2 2010/03/04 sportsman who travels a lot... http://twitter.com/markb46 20 2010/09/08 Cairo Only dead fish go with the flow; I'm not dead yet, and I'm not fish either.. http://www.facebook.com/elesseily?ref=ts http://twitter.com/ahmadesseily 0 2009/11/07 Pretoria Springbok Rugby Captain, Sharks Rugby - Husband,father and proud Southhttp://www.johnsmit.co.za African http://twitter.com/Johnsmit123 0 2011/05/09 Pretoria President of the Republic of South Africa. http://www.thepresidency.gov.za http://twitter.com/SAPresident 1 2009/02/21 Cairo Neurosurgeon & iPhone Baseband hacker http://twitter.com/sherif_hashim 1 2009/05/09 Cairo Skyje is a popular social design blog. Tweeting About design and social media. http://skyje.com/ http://twitter.com/skyjefans 1 2007/03/11 Pretoria is a New Learning Consultant, Trainer, Writer, Web Entrepreneur, Researcher, http://www.nicobaird.com Conference Speaker and Apple Distinguishedhttp://twitter.com/nicobaird Educator 1 2008/05/08 Pretoria News24 is Southern Africa and Africa's premier online news resource reaching http://www.news24.com over 2.3 million local users each month. http://twitter.com/News24 0 2010/02/16 Greenland http://www.albiemorkel.co.za http://twitter.com/Albiemorkel 0 2007/06/17 Cairo http://twitter.com/CNNWorld 2239 2010/01/26 Pretoria just call me Theo Terrence Hughes & i'm from JHB SOuth Africa . . . pleasehttp://www.resonancers.com/tweets/theoQuotes check out my favs and Retweet them http://twitter.com/theoquotes 1409 2007/03/25 Cairo Award Winning Journalist and BloggerP.S.: you have to be 18+ to follow!والشللية http://misrdigital.blogspirit.com http://twitter.com/waelabbas 2 2009/04/30 West Central Africa Black Diamond of Africa http://www.mohitsrecords.com http://twitter.com/wandecoal 97 2009/04/03 Pretoria TL Destroyer. » Holler for a followback #TLM #DMF #TEAMBIGMYKE #TeamWolfStamp #TeamPrettyLadies #TEAMCH3Y #TGP http://twitter.com/taintedtyga 0 2010/07/27 Sabc1's Live and Mzansi Insider, Actress, MC and VO artist! Love life, live life and laugh! *coz I can* lol http://twitter.com/minniedlamini 0 2007/05/10 Cairo http://twitter.com/aljazeeranet 44 2007/04/04 Cairo Micro-celebrity, Blogger, acLvist, New Media douchebag, Pain in the ass!Ehttp://www.sandmonkey.org -mail me: Sandmonkey@gmail.com http://twitter.com/Sandmonkey 3 2009/04/28 Harare http://twitter.com/SizweDhlomo 285 2010/04/12 Pacific Time (US & Canada) #CancerAwareness & Supporting #Causes! Love Nature, Animals, #SocialMedia http://www.socialoomph.com/profiles/erica__b & the simpler things in life. What's life without http://twitter.com/Erica__B Laughter, Love, Music & Dancing? 20 2010/08/16 http://www.jpduminy.co.za http://twitter.com/jpduminy21 17 2009/07/12 Pretoria Finding yourself, loving yourself and believing in you ! You are worth it ! http://bit.ly/homepagelcbd http://twitter.com/LifeCanBeDffrnt 0 2009/05/05 Rugby Player http://twitter.com/Victormatfield 5 2010/04/08 Hawaii A traveling cricketer who enjoys a bit of this and plenty of that! Yes pls... http://twitter.com/Hershybru 6 2009/02/21 West Central Africa Singer, Songwriter, Performer, Entrepreneur and Unique Machine... www.dareyonline.com/blog http://www.darey.com www.soulmuzik.com buy Double http://twitter.com/darey Dare via www.itunes.com/darey 1 2009/06/29 Cairo Masrawy.com Official Twitter Feed www.masrawy.com http://www.masrawy.com http://twitter.com/MasrawyFans 6 2009/07/12 Pretoria Comedian, Owns a Modelling Agency, Media Company, Film & Tv Production http://www.jucyafrica.com company, Husband, Father http://twitter.com/davidkau1 0 2008/08/26 West Central Africa Daily African Proverbs from BellaOnline.com's African Culture site. http://AfricanCulture.BellaOnline.com http://twitter.com/AfricanProverbs 20 2009/07/26 Pretoria Skills Development Coach (Management & ICT Systems), Lover of Good Music http://bit.ly/q6x1gW & Literature, Social Media & Internet Marketing, http://twitter.com/wentzeldk Micro-Blogger 8 2010/10/04 Central Time (US & Canada) Mother, photographer, IT, animal, nature, science and music lover. Visionhttp://www.zazzle.com/laureenr - Bridge the gap between mankind and animals. http://twitter.com/Laureenraft 11 2009/08/12 London Education Beats Poverty. 1 Goal at the 2010 World Cup: Education for Allhttp://join1goal.org http://twitter.com/join1goal 2 2011/02/05 Central Time (US & Canada) We are a group of Libyan Youth both in and out of Libya inspired by our brothers http://www.facebook.com/LibyanYouthMovement & sisters in Egypt and Tunisia. We'll do ourhttp://twitter.com/ShababLibya best to bring Libya back Inshallah 51 2009/03/05 Cairo Thoughtpicker first and foremost, blogger, writer, marketer and social media http://thoughtpick.com/ lover... Read my posts at: http://blog.thoughtpick.com http://twitter.com/beiruta Page 2 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 Twitter Name Followed Followers trevorimmelman 120 40459 NelsonMandela 540 40437 loyisogola 2429 40262 soundsultan 1338 39876 Anele 850 39567 AlMasryAlYoum_E 119 39500 3arabawy 445 39399 pbarclaytimes 19 39163 WaelElebrashy 10 38131 SeetherOfficial 198 37895 HendSabry 179 37819 Busrep 38792 37640 SinzuSMG 557 37390 DieAntwoord 23 36645 lulocafe 957 36422 davidgrahamsa 20858 35824 bobskinstad 1176 35606 dougkirchmann 36414 35113 RamyRaoof 125 35058 amrdiab 2 34953 THEBEAT999FM 332 34606 234next 23 33814 WayneParnell 149 33727 bevbrossy 1123 33633 terrypheto 429 33618 mocheddah 577 33470 amremousa 14 33207 CharlizeAfrica 106 32955 Mornemorkel65 70 32628 NigeriaNewsdesk 1 32523 marco_a_f_ 27480 32079 shabab6april 98 32046 KeziahFisher 77 31124 Miss_LIRA 151 30592 gamaleid 1860 30286 LeighAnnMol 821 30062 Whackheads 29 29854 livesabc1 75 29323 dprincemohits 448 28645 xFranco 30021 28602 Connie_Ferguson 155 28274 Johan_botha 22 28251 EranEyal 26056 28215 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Tweets Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 2115 0 2009/06/25 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Masters champ,drummer,family man, http://www.facebook.com/trevorimmelman http://twitter.com/trevorimmelman 633 0 2008/08/07 Cairo The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/ contributes to a just society by promoting the values, http://twitter.com/NelsonMandela vision and work of our Founder. 8897 81 2009/04/21 Pretoria comedian from south africa http://www.facebook.com/pages/LNN-Late-Nite-News-with-Loyiso-Gola/158708727482015 http://twitter.com/loyisogola 25066 15 2009/04/15 West Central Africa http://twitter.com/soundsultan 33679 312 2009/03/25 Greenland Be as interested as you are interesting. http://www.5fm.co.za http://twitter.com/Anele 11561 2 2009/04/30 Cairo The English Edition of Egypt's independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm http://almasryalyoum.com/english http://twitter.com/AlMasryAlYoum_E 59763 442 2007/10/21 Cairo In a dictatorship, independent journalism by default becomes a form of activism, http://www.arabawy.org/blog/ and the spread of information is essentially http://twitter.com/3arabawy an act of agitation. 1298 14 2010/06/03 West Central Africa Chief Football Commentator at The Times newspaper http://www.thetimes.co.uk http://twitter.com/pbarclaytimes 45244 9 2009/09/24 Cairo أسوأ أنواع الفساد ھو الذي يرتدى ثوب الفضيلةhttp://www.waelelebrashy.com http://twitter.com/WaelElebrashy 260 0 2009/04/16 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Rise above this... http://www.seether.com/ http://twitter.com/SeetherOfficial 861 5 2009/06/16 Cairo Tunisian Actress, Lawyer and UN World Food Programme Ambassador.. http://www.hendsabry.com http://twitter.com/HendSabry 21563 0 2009/10/06 Pretoria Business Report is a daily national newspaper and website that covers local http://www.busrep.co.za/ and international business and economic news http://twitter.com/Busrep 17977 93 2009/11/02 West Central Africa http://twitter.com/SinzuSMG 581 1 2009/04/28 Pretoria ZEF NINJA RAP RAVE CREW http://www.dieantwoord.com http://twitter.com/DieAntwoord 41756 18 2009/04/16 Pretoria After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is http://www.lulocafe.com music. http://twitter.com/lulocafe 8136 69 2009/08/21 Pretoria Digital guy at Deloitte Consulting. Always happy when I am with my family, http://dngraham.wordpress.com on my mountainbike, outdoors and drinking redhttp://twitter.com/davidgrahamsa wine. 5716 28 2009/03/18 Harare I am a retired pro rugby player turned broadcaster, happy hubby and dad,http://www.rugbyjourney.com and keen outdoor and general sports fan ! This stream http://twitter.com/bobskinstad is my own. 5544 4 2009/03/17 Pretoria Enthusiast, Entrepreneur, Dream Catcher, Motivator, Strategic, Futuristic.http://kirchie.com Continuity. Creating discussion around #quotes. Partial http://twitter.com/dougkirchmann to DREAMS, STRATEGIES & GOALS 11321 124 2009/03/06 Cairo Human Rights Defender| Online Media| Digital Activism| Digital Security|http://ebfhr.blogspot.com Editor of Egyptian Blog for Human Rights http://twitter.com/RamyRaoof 2401 1 2009/06/10 Cairo Amr Diab, Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist http://www.amrdiab.net http://twitter.com/amrdiab 8295 1 2009/07/01 West Central Africa THE BEAT 99.9FM is THE station to tune to at home, in the car, at work and http://www.thebeat99.com online. A full-service station with entertainment,http://twitter.com/THEBEAT999FM news, sports and exciting shows. 16490 64 2008/12/05 West Central Africa NEXT provides news and information fairly and accurately to the Nigerianhttp://www.234next.com public, the African Continent, and Africans aroundhttp://twitter.com/234next the world. 1362 1 2009/11/23 Cape Verde Is. South African, Chevrolet Warriors and Pune Warriors cricketer. Music lover and average Disc Jockey. http://twitter.com/WayneParnell 10121 1 2008/11/20 Pretoria Online Entrepreneur, Former Maths Teacher & IBM Engineer. Join me & like-minded http://bevbrossy.com folk at the Independent Business Owners http://twitter.com/bevbrossy Network http://toolbox.bevbrossy.com 4482 2 2009/11/06 Greenland Leading Lady. Face of L'Oreal Paris. Story Teller. THS-B&B!!! http://imdb.com/name/nm1965907/ http://twitter.com/terrypheto 4699 9 2009/08/07 West Central Africa Ko Ma Roll!! http://www.facebook.com/mocheddah.diva http://twitter.com/mocheddah 306 5 2011/02/27 Cairo OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF AMRE MOUSSA is @AmreMoussa - Make sure to follow http://www.facebook.com/amremoussa that account. This will be suspended soon. thank http://twitter.com/amremousa You 894 1 2009/09/09 Quito CTAOP is committed to reducing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and sexual violence http://www.charlizeafricaoutreach.org/ among African youth through preventive education. http://twitter.com/CharlizeAfrica 112 1 2010/08/06 http://www.mornemorkel.co.za http://twitter.com/Mornemorkel65 116702 0 2009/11/20 Mountain Time (US & Canada) Breaking news and current events from around Nigeria and abroad. Got a breaking news tip or story idea? E-mail: NigeriaNewsdesk@gmail.com http://twitter.com/NigeriaNewsdesk 22704 6 2009/10/03 Cairo Jesus Cristo é nossa Unica Esperança! http://marcofernandes.maisblog.net http://twitter.com/marco_a_f_ 2312 9 2009/06/24 Cairo .facbook.com/shabab6aprilOfficial Facebook fan page حركة المقاومة المصريةhttp://6april.org http://twitter.com/shabab6april 4873 73 2009/06/03 Cairo Architect, BAS(Uct) B. Arch(SA),Entrepreneur,Director of 3 Companies,South http://www.keziahfisher.com African Singer, http://twitter.com/KeziahFisher 4171 36 2009/07/06 Pretoria Multi platinum selling, multi-award winning singer, songwriter, producer.http://www.misslira.co.za Motivational Speaker, Actress and Entrepreneur. http://twitter.com/Miss_LIRA 13652 302 2008/06/22 Cairo Lawyer and Executive Director ANHRI.NET الشبكة العربية لمعلومات حقوق اإلنسانhttp://www.anhri.net/ http://twitter.com/gamaleid 5462 1 2009/03/08 Pretoria 5FM News Presenter, 5FM Website Administrator, Animal Whisperer, Clown. http://www.5fm.co.za http://twitter.com/LeighAnnMol 1609 0 2010/04/20 Pretoria 94.7 Highveld Stereo Breakfast Xpress Host & on 94.5 KFM. Stand-Up Comic. http://www.highveld.co.za Professional Husband 2Bombshell @punkygp.http://twitter.com/Whackheads Former Wedding DJ & Shelf Packer 1264 3 2009/09/22 South Africa's premium music show, providing insight into the Local and international Music Scene. Every Friday Live Sabc 1,http://twitter.com/livesabc1 21:00, Mzansi Fo Sho 15375 5 2009/06/30 West Central Africa *** http://twitter.com/dprincemohits 1553 5 2009/06/17 Pretoria CRM Twitee, Tweeter, Entrepeneur, Technologist, Consultant, Blogger, Web http://francobadenhorst.wordpress.com Guru in training... http://twitter.com/xFranco 4781 0 2009/06/22 Greenland Entrepreneur, Actress, Health Ambassador, Spokesperson, Daughter, Wife, http://www.iamconnieferguson.com Mother. Passionate about Women's Issues. http://twitter.com/Connie_Ferguson 571 343 2010/04/09 Current @rajasthanroyals player!! http://twitter.com/Johan_botha 10867 37 2009/01/21 Pretoria Co-Founder of evly.com & Springleap.com. Founder of Techgater.com. Entrepreneur. http://www.springleap.com Tech presenter on Radio 702, Cape Talk. http://twitter.com/EranEyal Practitioner of Shaolin Kung Fu & Bagua Page 3 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 Twitter Name Followed Followers Officialcsa 454 28136 Locnville 244 27969 lassecgen 2 27787 702JohnRobbie 3628 27747 Club808 147 27628 RobbieHunter 81 27501 pierrespies8 36 27471 f1sasha 1245 27289 DRSIDMOHITS 1380 27265 Omawumi 276 27261 Dostor 1 27005 Zeinobia 3827 26852 clairemawisa 793 26724 PoppyIsMyName 935 26609 mailandguardian 276 25758 SirUTI 306 25737 arabist 547 25636 online_beauty 28667 25614 shannonkook 166 25325 Paulkagame 0 25066 MetroFMSA 183 24946 KTNKenya 84 24931 Monasosh 570 24486 BibleThoughts 9129 24371 egyptgovportal 348 24181 jackparow 1080 24090 salmasaid 266 24035 tshirtterrorist 26401 24009 PresidencyZA 18 23966 947Highveld 269 23779 Timeslive 789 23582 khayadlanga 745 23534 elnadeem 1981 23468 anhri 121 23389 UyandaM 773 23374 kirik 138 22569 heatsouthafrica 2289 22568 wael 1228 22242 Parlotones 71 22046 ianinegypt 154 22007 atdigit 24129 21933 Gsquare86 453 21895 casperrasper 206 21822 Tweets 9183 3755 8289 3264 780 2185 464 34336 3093 6135 12008 78068 27118 16288 10058 3001 11722 8334 2820 1250 569 3986 25881 3331 299 558 9674 2785 1442 1596 25472 43552 1270 1389 21329 34664 7635 26507 1817 1748 5101 21972 3434 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 2009/06/09 Greenland The official Cricket South Africa Twitter profile. CSA are the custodians of http://www.cricket.co.za cricket in South Africa. http://twitter.com/Officialcsa 0 2009/03/17 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Running To Midnight - 01/07/11 http://www.locnville.com http://twitter.com/Locnville 13 2009/06/09 Cairo Secretary General of the League of Arab States. Profile run by Media Dept. http://www.facebook.com/arab.league at LAS. Contact: media_general.dept[at]las.int http://twitter.com/lassecgen 0 2010/03/19 John Robbie hosts the breakfast show, 6am - 9am, on Talk Radio 702. http://www.702.co.za http://twitter.com/702JohnRobbie 4 2010/07/28 Harare Official Club 808 TwiSer PageCatch Club 808 19:30 CAT on e.tvFollow e.tv http://www.etv.co.za @etvsa http://twitter.com/Club808 0 2009/04/08 Amsterdam Professional cyclist Team Radio Shack http://www.robbiehunter.net http://twitter.com/RobbieHunter 210 2010/08/12 Pretoria One life, live it GREATLY. http://www.pierrespies.co.za http://twitter.com/pierrespies8 181 2009/03/15 Harare 5FM Music DJ Supersport F1 TV Anchor http://www.f1sasha.com http://twitter.com/f1sasha 0 2009/06/11 West Central Africa Rapperterntsinger, entertainer, entrepreneur, and all around nice guy :D http://www.officialdrsid.com http://twitter.com/DRSIDMOHITS 2 2009/03/17 West Central Africa A sassy and power house singer from the jaws of West Africa! http://www.facebook.com/pages/OMAWUMI/91796800959?ref=ts http://twitter.com/Omawumi 1 2009/03/08 Cairo an Egyptian independent Daily News http://dostor.org http://twitter.com/Dostor 322 2007/01/06 Cairo Egyptian blogger http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/Zeinobia 282 2009/03/18 Pretoria Sometimes salty, sometimes sweet, never bitter... http://www.codeteen.com http://twitter.com/clairemawisa 10 2009/02/21 Greenland 5FM DJ, Club DJ, Voice Over Artist, MC, Model. BRING IT! http://www.5fm.co.za/djs/Poppy http://twitter.com/PoppyIsMyName 5 2008/10/14 Pretoria Get personalised tweets from the Mail & Guardian team. For an automated http://www.mg.co.za feed of all our stories follow @mgfeed. http://twitter.com/mailandguardian 1 2009/06/20 West Central Africa BORN AUGUST 3RD 1982,STARTED THE HUSSLE FROM HIGH SCHOOL..ROSE http://www.facebook.com/pages/Uti-Nwachukwu/32032902362 TO FAME IN BIG BBA3 BUT EXPLODED WHEN HEhttp://twitter.com/SirUTI WON BIG BROTHER AFRICA5!ALREADY AN AMBASSADOR OF VARIOUS 849 2007/12/18 Cairo The site on Arab politics and culture. Tweets with links are not necessarilyhttp://arabist.net/ endorsements - I often tweet stuff I hate. http://twitter.com/arabist 0 2009/07/24 Pretoria Beauty Online http://www.onlinebeauty.co.za http://twitter.com/online_beauty 37 2008/08/18 Quito Shannon Kook-Chun. South African. Actor, and aspiring dancer, writer, photographer http://garygoddardagency.com/clients/shannon-kook-chun and artist. Open to the ride and smiling http://twitter.com/shannonkook for some fire. Random&moving around. 1 2009/05/04 Pretoria President of the Republic of Rwanda, write to: paulkagame@gov.rw http://www.paulkagame.com http://twitter.com/Paulkagame 2 2009/02/25 Greenland METRO FM is South Africa's biggest Urban radio Station with over 5 Million http://www.metrofm.co.za listeners! http://twitter.com/MetroFMSA 33 2010/02/17 Nairobi Official feed for Kenya Television Network: Your Authoritative Channel. Breaking http://www.youtube.com/ktnkenya News. Top Stories. Related to @StandardKenya http://twitter.com/KTNKenya and @RadioMaisha 1119 2007/07/15 Cairo and at night I chase away the army و بالليل بأطارد العسكر, الصبح بأجري ورا الفراشاتhttp://ma3t.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/Monasosh 0 2009/04/16 Greenland Christian Republic is a place where Christians can meet to discuss the foundations http://www.christianrepublic.co.za of life which we believe are based on thehttp://twitter.com/BibleThoughts love of Jesus and God. 1 2009/09/07 Cairo بوابة الحكومة المصرية لتوفير الخدمات األلكترونيةhttp://www.egypt.gov.eg http://twitter.com/egyptgovportal 0 2010/03/07 Greenland Jack Parow in jou moeder se huisie! Ek is die original donker dodgy afrikaans http://www.jackparow.com rapper... heavy uitgeskollie! http://twitter.com/jackparow 8 2007/04/04 Cairo I'm nobody's little weasel http://atralnada.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/salmasaid 5 2009/01/12 Pretoria Tshirts To Die For! http://www.tshirtterrorist.co.za http://twitter.com/tshirtterrorist 0 2009/05/18 Pretoria This is the official Twitter page of The Presidency of the Republic of Southhttp://www.thepresidency.gov.za Africa http://twitter.com/PresidencyZA 21 2009/05/22 Cairo Joburg's no.1 Hit Music Station http://www.highveld.co.za http://twitter.com/947Highveld 0 2007/06/20 Pretoria Links to the breaking news from www.timeslive.co.za Also the home of the http://www.timeslive.co.za/ Sunday Times and The Times. @ us with alerts and http://twitter.com/Timeslive feedback 709 2008/08/10 Greenland Subliminally funny. Struggling womaniser. Acceptable Schizophrenic. Humourist. http://www.news24.com/Content/Columnists/Khaya-Dlanga Seriousist. Typoist. Never eats black Jelly Babies. http://twitter.com/khayadlanga 0 2007/11/13 Cairo Nadeem Centre for the rehabilitation of victims of violence and torture | مركز النديم للعالج والتأھيل النفسي لضحايا العنفhttp://alnadeem.org http://twitter.com/elnadeem 3 2008/06/21 Cairo Arabic Network for Humanrights Informationالشبكة العربية لمعلومات حقوق اإلنسان http://www.anhri.net http://twitter.com/anhri 34 2009/06/03 Greenland Entrepreneur| Founder &Designer: Diamond Face Couture| Brand Ambassador: http://www.uyandambuli.com LaMer & @OATamboWalk| Coms Strategist| http://twitter.com/UyandaM FULL TIME HUSTLER & L 2 2007/04/19 Tokyo 投資業務とコンテンツ開発が仕事のメイン。独立してから16年目、法人は設立 http://kirik.tea-nifty.com/ http://twitter.com/kirik 13 2009/02/11 Pretoria heat magazine - celeb news and entertainment. South Africa's only weekly http://heat.co.za glossy magazine. http://twitter.com/heatsouthafrica 756 2007/03/14 Cairo My family, poliLcs and technology...note: if i tweet too much, too liSle, u don't http://waelk.net like me; u can unfollow me at your will, no quesLons http://twitter.com/wael asked 0 2009/03/02 Pretoria South African Pop/Rock Band. http://www.facebook.com/theparlotones http://twitter.com/Parlotones 0 2009/05/15 Cairo Ian is a writer and video reporter/producer based in the Middle East.ianinegypt@gmail.com http://eg.linkedin.com/in/ianjameslee http://twitter.com/ianinegypt 2 2009/03/30 Cairo Site: atstudio.kiev.ua Blog: fashionsexy.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/atdigit 155 2009/03/13 Cairo Socialist Activist http://theangryegyptian.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/Gsquare86 3 2009/01/22 Cairo My life is twittersweet http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Casper-de-Vries/23478654432?ref=ts http://twitter.com/casperrasper Page 4 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 Twitter Name Followed Followers cobuspotgieter 122 21645 trevorgumbi 611 21638 ThePPCWorld 22882 21476 WiseWordzDaily 364 21473 andybudd 469 21388 Adesoji 21121 21300 MTVbaseAfrica 3037 20989 dailynation 9 20973 faf1307 122 20948 jeannieous 580 20510 nawaat 410 20458 MarkPilgrimZA 119 20400 monatov 7 20248 jordysmith88 18 20125 uchejombo 862 20016 unathimsengana 204 19866 CNNInsideAfrica 116 19688 justinharrison 25 19659 siasduplessis 157 19633 Elshaheeed 198 19196 bellanaija 1120 19087 steve_hofmeyr 79 19061 hillsongsafrica 23 19024 IdolsSA 433 18971 norashalaby 416 18742 Vodacom 3479 18223 butch_james 54 18134 bokrugby 229 18104 big_edlange 19984 18063 akianastasiou 586 17992 ushahidi 124 17841 jimsciuttoABC 92 17794 Oscarpistorius 170 17639 IOL 14432 17628 melbala 474 17622 ewnupdates 4478 17562 jennifer_su 310 17514 woolworths_sa 4523 17505 MobilePunch 171 17462 Quicktellpro 18225 17069 RachelBrookesTV 688 16947 Mabalemoloi 315 16923 deejayneptune 405 16886 Tweets 4536 20129 59 43595 11864 4011 4862 13451 1567 1803 7074 3854 104 513 7553 2085 536 512 5070 4819 5408 5732 824 3422 7240 6925 218 2522 2906 13078 2591 2143 1717 81191 18238 42314 3056 6720 1600 469 6200 2454 18476 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 2 2009/04/06 Pacific Time (US & Canada) I can count all the way to 10 without stopping. True story. http://www.cobuspotgieter.com/ http://twitter.com/cobuspotgieter 2 2009/08/12 Pretoria stand-up comedian, @headlinemzansi scriptwriter & voice-over artist, proud father of Jamie & Jodie Gumbi. For bookings, contact http://twitter.com/trevorgumbi @No1miranda 0 2009/03/19 London I am a search engine marketer specializing in paid search (PPC) and natural http://www.linkedin.com/in/jozwiakdawid search engine optimization (SEO) http://twitter.com/ThePPCWorld 570 2009/05/14 Nairobi GOOD friend knows if u like Coke or Pepsi.A GREAT friend adds the VODKA http://formspring.me/Wisewordzdaily that GREAT FRIEND will be me http://twitter.com/WiseWordzDaily 210 2006/12/12 London User Experience Designer, partner at @clearleft and curator of @dconstruct http://www.andybudd.com/ and @uxlondon http://twitter.com/andybudd 8 2008/11/26 Central Time (US & Canada) i love helping people. Your success is my motivation http://facebook.com/adesoji http://twitter.com/Adesoji 4 2009/03/23 Harare THE OFFICIAL MTV BASE AFRICA TWITTER.FOLLOW & UNITE AFRICA THRUhttp://www.mtvbase.com/site.php MUSIC http://twitter.com/MTVbaseAfrica 0 2009/03/23 Nairobi Daily Nation http://www.nation.co.ke http://twitter.com/dailynation 2 2010/04/20 Professional cricketer-south africa,titans,lancashire and chennai super kings http://twitter.com/faf1307 1 2009/04/10 Greenland Jeannie D is the vivacious presenter on Top Travel and Top Billing South Africa http://www.jeannied.com on Travel channel and Wealth tv USA http://twitter.com/jeannieous 5 2008/06/04 Greenland Un blog collectif animé par des Tunisiens. Lancé en 2004, Nawaat.org a été http://nawaat.org/ inaccessible en Tunisie et cela jusqu'au 13.01.11.http://twitter.com/nawaat 0 2009/04/19 Pretoria Proud daddy to Tayla-Jean & hubby to Nicole. I'm also that bald dude on radio http://www.markpilgrim.co.za & television. Oh, and a Voice Artist, Motivational http://twitter.com/MarkPilgrimZA Speaker & MC. 4 2011/03/24 Cairo انفجار ضحك اسبوعي على النت مع منى ھال اللي عاملة بلبال.. منى توفhttp://youtube.com/TheMonatov http://twitter.com/monatov 1 2009/07/13 Greenland Professional Surfer http://www.jordysmith.com http://twitter.com/jordysmith88 6 2009/08/21 West Central Africa Actor/activist/producer/living,loving n working/ luv myGOD,myJOB,my9ja,myFans http://www.uchejombotv.com n Football.manU/barca/interM/ this twitter http://twitter.com/uchejombo page Is 4 THE REAL UCHE JOMBO 0 2010/09/22 Village Girl Who Found Gold http://twitter.com/unathimsengana 1 2009/07/15 Quito CNN's Inside Africa reports on economic, social and cultural affairs in Africa. http://cnn.com/insideafrica http://twitter.com/CNNInsideAfrica 1 2008/03/12 Pretoria Internet Marketing | Business | Life http://www.justinharrison.com http://twitter.com/justinharrison 1 2010/04/28 Cairo 5fm Mornings Sports guy, avid Magpies supporter, Blitz reporter + Ginger!http://www.5fm.co.za Views are my own and not my employers. For bookings http://twitter.com/siasduplessis contact @melissamdoyle 1 2010/06/21 An Egyptian young man killed by Police .. شاب مصري قتلته الشرطة المصريةhttp://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed http://twitter.com/Elshaheeed 0 2008/08/12 Hawaii The No. 1 Entertainment, Lifestyle & Fashion Website in Africa. We have ahttp://www.bellanaija.com fab team of editors that keep things fresh! http://twitter.com/bellanaija 9 2010/02/04 Pretoria Author, angry activist, talkshowhost, bookworm & daddy - with 2 million CDs http://stevehofmeyr.co.za sold and a 3x SAMA award winner (also Best Selling http://twitter.com/steve_hofmeyr South African Artist 2004). 1 2009/03/01 Athens Hillsong Church Cape Town | www.hillsong.co.za http://hillsong.co.za http://twitter.com/hillsongsafrica 0 2010/03/19 Harare The official Twitter feed for the South African version of reality TV singinghttp://www.mnet.co.za/idols search, Idols! http://twitter.com/IdolsSA 1 2009/02/22 Harare Archaeologist http://www.almahrusa.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/norashalaby 0 2008/04/28 Pretoria Welcome to Vodacom SA's official twitter account. Here, you can get the http://www.vodacom.co.za latest product news, find out what we’ve been uphttp://twitter.com/Vodacom to and what we’re planning. 0 2009/04/04 Rugby player, Sugar ad. agency. http://twitter.com/butch_james 3 2009/05/04 Pretoria The Official Twitter page of SA Rugby and the Springboks. http://www.sarugby.co.za http://twitter.com/bokrugby 0 2009/11/12 Pretoria Married 46 years, 2 children, 6 grandchildren, Very Blessed. I want to share http://www.south-african-holidays.co.uk my knowledge of South African holiday destinations http://twitter.com/big_edlange with prospective visitors 76 2008/05/24 Pretoria ® Host Tech Show Technobyte @ Talk Radio 702 ™ Greek Geek Ð Weirdo http://www.702.co.za/profiles.asp?id=4 Š Trafficologist Ç Columnist ã Radio Presenter http://twitter.com/akianastasiou 40 2008/01/20 Nairobi We are a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free andhttp://www.ushahidi.com open source software for information collection,visualization http://twitter.com/ushahidi and interactive mapping. 1 2009/02/27 Central Time (US & Canada) ABC News Sr. Foreign Correspondent http://www.jimsciutto.com http://twitter.com/jimsciuttoABC 0 2010/05/17 Track Athlete. 400m Specialist. PB of 45.07sec http://www.oscarpistorius.com http://twitter.com/Oscarpistorius 0 2007/01/17 Pretoria Online News Presence http://www.iol.co.za/ http://twitter.com/IOL 59 2009/04/01 Pretoria Singer.Model.Actress. This product is meant for educational purposes only.Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead,http://twitter.com/melbala is purely coincidental. 1 2009/02/09 Pretoria - Eyewitness News. In touch. In tune. Independent. http://www.ewn.co.za http://twitter.com/ewnupdates 7 2009/01/19 West Central Africa TV News Anchor (Summit TV/Sky News), Radio Presenter, 5 FM The Hollywood http://www.jennifersu.com Report - Gareth Cliff Mornings (S. Africa), TVhttp://twitter.com/jennifer_su Presenter, SABC 3 Expresso, Corporate MC 5 2009/11/27 Pretoria We're a SA born and bred retailer dedicated to everyone with a passion for http://www.woolworths.co.za quality and style. Chat to us on Twitter - we'll respond http://twitter.com/woolworths_sa 8am to 5pm, Mon to Fri. 0 2009/03/14 West Central Africa This is the mobile service of Punch Newspapers, Nigeria http://www.punchng.com http://twitter.com/MobilePunch 0 2009/03/08 Pretoria This Autoresponder Service Takes eMail Marketing to Extremes. Sign up for http://quicktellpro.com/blog/ a FREE account, for real no cost... http://twitter.com/Quicktellpro 0 2009/01/21 West Central Africa Broadcast journalist for Sky Sports, Sky News, BBC. Love all sport especially http://www.rachelbrookes.co.uk cricket and F1. Rubbish Poker player. Views are http://twitter.com/RachelBrookesTV my own etc etc 1 2009/04/24 Part time adult. Full time dysfunctional person. Gareth Cliff, 5FM Mornings http://www.5fm.co.za 06H00-09H00. http://twitter.com/Mabalemoloi 4 2009/03/16 London Award winning renowned Int'l DJ Neptune. Radio,Club DJ,Producer doinghttp://www.djneptune.tv it big in Nigeria, West Africa and beyond. Bookingshttp://twitter.com/deejayneptune +2348025282300/djneptuneent@gmail.com Page 5 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 Twitter Name Followed Followers trevormadondo 2470 16866 proverbmusic 650 16682 michalakfred 80 16639 kenyanpundit 688 16479 garyplayer 77 16417 NeelsDL 16358 16337 vuzutv 743 16336 EtisalatMisr 1897 16332 SBTRKT 220 16251 Guerrillawar 17857 16244 make_money101 16177 16184 RediTlhabi 379 16134 Damonkalvari 116 16104 BigProfit 17450 15860 DesKellyDM 252 15807 francoishougi 62 15683 DENRELE_EDUN 525 15630 EMGooru 16414 15597 jodenecoza 10518 15578 Supersportrugby 39 15577 waynegturner 16958 15493 MandyWiener 626 15484 geoffreygordon 14721 15475 Fifaworldcup14 16192 15302 AfricanoBOi 392 15280 HenriqueRifth 140 15157 alykhansatchu 14972 14969 goldfishlive 1003 14956 Firstladyspeaks 618 14817 kidsdirect 15905 14817 jo_annstrauss 900 14786 ibieberlately 9388 14735 Ebuka 358 14704 FHMSouthAfrica 465 14649 2oceansvibe 1174 14642 dailymaverick 1389 14621 keepachildalive 6938 14614 sowetanlive 3576 14585 globaleducation 106 14441 prodankiesan 64 14416 whiteafrican 567 14415 iYassin 301 14413 CosmopolitanSA 154 14387 Tweets 23432 10892 531 12370 205 8 5772 4088 1796 20363 764 461 4775 7161 4196 220 9982 55 14025 3544 906 5331 7669 9885 25326 20819 88194 3756 10048 10949 2799 14833 36317 1496 9557 4140 1161 6928 176 916 11409 6309 3583 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 4 2009/03/13 Harare CEO of Flowa Media and Vandal Authentic Wear, a strong force in the Multimedia http://www.flowamedia.co.za Industry, Social Media Guru, Entertainer,http://twitter.com/trevormadondo Presenter, MC and IT GURU... 16 2009/03/13 Pretoria SA Idols Host, 94.7 Highveld Stereo Radio Presenter, Recording Hip Hop Artist, http://www.proverbmusic.com Husband, Father, Voice over artist, Miss SA Host, http://twitter.com/proverbmusic Volvo Car SA Brand Ambassador 1 2010/03/07 London OFFICIEL TWITTER RUGBYMAN 2.0, Professionnal rugby player for sharks rugby. Web entrepreneur, co-founder of NEEZZ.com http://twitter.com/michalakfred 4 2007/12/31 Harare Mama, Google Policy Manager Africa, co-founder Ushahidi.com & Mzalendo.com, http://www.kenyanpundit.com Afropolitan, Kenyan. Views = mine. http://twitter.com/kenyanpundit 0 2009/03/26 Eastern Time (US & Canada) The Black Knight, Golf Legend, Grand Slam Winner, Philanthropist, Father,http://garyplayer.com Golf Course Designer & Fitness Fanatic. http://twitter.com/garyplayer 1 2009/12/29 Pretoria I design ready made websites and have a passion for technology. My siteshttp://de-lange-marketing-solutions.com are for sale on flippa.com. I have qualifications inhttp://twitter.com/NeelsDL SEO and SEM. 10 2009/06/19 Pretoria Watch awesome South African video content on DSTV, web and mobile. http://www.vuzu.tv http://twitter.com/vuzutv 210 2010/04/26 Cairo Leading 3.75G mobile network in Egypt. African Mobile Operator of the year http://www.etisalat.com.eg for 2009 & 2010. Get updates, ask questions, win http://twitter.com/EtisalatMisr prizes, or just say hello! 4 2009/05/12 West Central Africa subtract' http://www.sbtrkt.com http://twitter.com/SBTRKT 23 2009/02/25 Harare Guerrilla Warfare is a lifestyle and the lifestyle we portray is being fresh, authentic, http://Stevieboi.com intelligent, & being positive.Email: guerrillawarfareclothing@gmail.com http://twitter.com/Guerrillawar 0 2009/07/19 Pretoria There are so many ways to make money online; one of the more popular http://makemoney-onlineblog.com “work from home” ideas is to join an affiliate program, http://twitter.com/make_money101 that way you can work from home. 0 2010/03/25 Pretoria Redi is on Talk Radio 702 in Gauteng & 567 Cape Talk in Cape Town 9am-12noon http://www.702.co.za weekdays. Her TV show is on Mzansi (DSTVhttp://twitter.com/RediTlhabi Chan 107) every Thurs @ 7.30pm from 1 Sep. 12 2009/04/08 Greenland Assistant to Executive Producer, Thabo Modisane - 5fm Mornings http://twitter.com/Damonkalvari 0 2009/02/18 Pretoria Find out how to make money without spending a cent http://bit.ly/cp2hub http://bit.ly/cp2hub http://twitter.com/BigProfit 28 2010/06/03 West Central Africa Sports Columnist of The Daily Mail. Presenter talkSPORT The Press Pass Sundays http://www.justgiving.com/des-kelly 6pm, Jaguar Sports Academy Member. Patron http://twitter.com/DesKellyDM of GB Paralympic Blind Football team. 2 2010/08/13 http://twitter.com/francoishougi 6 2009/03/25 West Central Africa Showbiz personality;On-air personality,actor,model,creative writer,crazed out dancer,personal clothier,lousy cook,chatterbox,spunky,unpredictable http://twitter.com/DENRELE_EDUN and a saint! 0 2010/02/02 Pretoria Email Marketing Gooru @ http://www.imnicamail.com/ - All the best features http://www.imnicamail.com/ of all the major AutoResponders, at half the http://twitter.com/EMGooru price! 5 2009/02/20 Pretoria Born and bred SA, social influencer, blogger & speaker with a passion for http://projectme.co.za watching people flourish and for eating ice cream.http://twitter.com/jodenecoza #followSA 0 2009/07/07 Pretoria Bring the latest Rugby updates to Rugby fans around the world through allhttp://www.supersport.com/rugby platforms! Be sure to also follow supersportcomhttp://twitter.com/Supersportrugby 5 2009/02/28 Harare I am passionate about photography, radio and my Kindle. I am a radio producer http://www.21steps2perfectphotos.com and presenter in Cape Town who is fascinated http://twitter.com/waynegturner by social media & internet marketing. 3 2009/02/11 Greenland Eyewitness News Reporter and author of Killing Kebble http://www.ewn.co.za http://twitter.com/MandyWiener 61 2008/10/10 Pretoria Explorer,Twitter Fanatic, Entrepreneur, Web Creative, Google-ist I can find http://www.blazewebstudio.co.za/marketing_guide anything, Artist ,Technical Geek, I like following people http://twitter.com/geoffreygordon to learn new things. 3 2009/08/26 Lisbon The unofficial guide to the FIFA World Cup 2014. Here you find news fromhttp://fifaworldcup14.blogspot.com FIFA.com and other stories about football, the greatest http://twitter.com/Fifaworldcup14 sport! 69 2009/01/20 Mountain Time (US & Canada) Comedian/Actor/Internet PersonalityBookings/Info contact:info@bryanoji.com http://www.youtube.com/user/AfricanoBoiShow http://twitter.com/AfricanoBOi 10 2009/07/04 Brasilia Eu sou para cada pessoa aquilo que ela acha que eu sou, mas o que para mim importa é o que eu estou a procura de ser e isso http://twitter.com/HenriqueRifth eu ainda não sou. 212 2009/02/19 Nairobi http://www.rich.co.ke Banker Interest rate Macro Geopolitical Africa thathttp://www.rich.co.ke kind of thing http://twitter.com/alykhansatchu 12 2008/10/28 Pretoria Electro-Jazz Duo http://www.goldfishlive.com http://twitter.com/goldfishlive 76 2009/11/06 West Central Africa Performing artist, designer,content provider, motivational speaker Tutti Dolce http://www.facebook.com/sashaspeaks,www.eclecticbysasha.com,www.facebook.com/samsungmobilenigeria and Samsung Mobile Ambassador http://twitter.com/Firstladyspeaks 53 2009/05/29 Pretoria Proudly South African Kids Directory http://www.sachild.co.za http://twitter.com/kidsdirect 39 2009/04/10 Greenland Live, laugh, love! http://www.jo-annstrauss.com http://twitter.com/jo_annstrauss 457 2010/09/18 West Central Africa Dreams do cometrue, you just have tobelieb.If you wantsomething bad enough,fight for it.Don't letanyone tell you that youhttp://twitter.com/ibieberlately 47 2008/12/25 West Central Africa Evolving! It's a process... http://www.ted.com/ http://twitter.com/Ebuka 0 2009/02/11 Pretoria FHM - It's a guy thing http://fhm.co.za http://twitter.com/FHMSouthAfrica 56 2009/02/16 Pretoria Work is a sideline, live the holiday http://www.2oceansvibe.com http://twitter.com/2oceansvibe 0 2009/09/04 Pretoria The news and analysis website South Africa never knew it needed and now http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za can't live without. http://twitter.com/dailymaverick 0 2008/11/20 Eastern Time (US & Canada) KCA provides AIDS treatment, orphan care, nutrition and support for children http://keepachildalive.org and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and http://twitter.com/keepachildalive India. 0 2010/05/07 Pretoria New Sowetan account. Same tweets, different name. We bring you a unique http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/ perspective of SA and Int news. We are 'In thehttp://twitter.com/sowetanlive know, on the Move'. 3 2009/04/07 Harare Global Campaign for Education. A worldwide movement to achieve Education http://www.campaignforeducation.org for All. http://twitter.com/globaleducation 0 2009/10/21 Greenland Musician,Entrepenuer. http://www.tsrecords.co.za http://twitter.com/prodankiesan 8 2007/09/21 Nairobi Where Africa and technology collide... Co-founder of Ushahidi, iHub Nairobi http://www.whiteafrican.com and AfriGadget http://twitter.com/whiteafrican 0 2010/03/07 Cairo Geek, tech addict, Apple fanatic, photography lover, coffee drinker. http://mohammedyassin.com http://twitter.com/iYassin 1 2009/05/13 Pretoria COSMOPOLITAN magazine is the number one young women's magazine in http://www.cosmopolitan.co.za South Africa; an indispensable read for an army of http://twitter.com/CosmopolitanSA loyal Fun, Fearless Females. Page 6 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 Twitter Name Followed Followers mobinil 213 14353 donnette 8026 14209 lesleerussell 15484 14181 ZeinabSamir 312 14170 rob_vember 611 14153 lionsrugbyteam 15362 13977 lonwabotsotsobe 116 13925 googleafrica 47 13890 jacques_rudolph 211 13683 NoraYounis 232 13577 loyisomusic 337 13408 EgyTweets 0 13282 andilencube 142 13274 CapeTown 9410 13218 kenyaairways 5539 13184 springleap 13355 13125 followf1 13276 13051 wdfavour 7739 13020 patsymcox77 164 13003 bigconcerts 56 12989 stephen_marcus 12717 12961 Samcowen 198 12954 AfricaFreak 11187 12952 grantnash 1201 12934 howdous 12335 12865 Trafficsa 19 12693 Gary_Kirsten 21 12689 sabc3topbilling 55 12630 allafrica 489 12569 helpfatloss 13481 12565 capetownmag 8121 12559 radio702 1784 12553 RiaadMoosa 206 12527 actionwealth 13481 12389 zapiro 78 12383 Channels_TV 40 12377 mmbangwa 132 12363 Slapman4u 13855 12272 ferialhaffajee 388 12259 Dannykmusic 92 12149 mslelob 1422 12124 Hulisani_R 341 12105 Generalpype 7828 11998 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Tweets Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 7478 10 2010/03/30 Cairo The leading mobile service provider in Egypt. We are on twitter because we http://www.mobinil.com wanna hear what you have to say about everything http://twitter.com/mobinil that's going on! 82812 111 2009/01/18 Cape Verde Is. ಠ_ಠ WAHmom, homeschool fanatic, webby, blogger, I write Educ + homeschool http://staidenshomeschool.com books http://twitter.com/donnette 2604 1 2009/03/07 Pretoria Taking eMail Marketing to Extremes QuickTellpro's new Autoresponder service http://quicktellpro.com will save you 60% on Aweber pricing http://twitter.com/lesleerussell 25488 235 2007/01/05 Cairo Proud Egyptian - blogger [bentmasreya.net] - Design director at Supermama http://www.supermama.me - my Portfolio [http://krop.com/zeinab] & I wish http://twitter.com/ZeinabSamir i live in Alex or Aswan! 11957 5 2009/04/23 Pretoria broadcaster http://www.robvember.com http://twitter.com/rob_vember 8174 0 2009/03/30 Hawaii Lions Rugby News http://www.lionsrugbyteam.com http://twitter.com/lionsrugbyteam 320 0 2010/07/12 Sports freak. Esp Cricket http://twitter.com/lonwabotsotsobe 329 0 2009/07/16 Google Africa Team http://google-africa.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/googleafrica 1156 11 2010/06/04 Cricketer, fly-fisherman, adventure traveller, mountain biker http://twitter.com/jacques_rudolph 4698 92 2007/04/04 Harare Cairo based journalist and blogger http://www.almasryalyoum.com/ http://www.norayounis.com http://norayounis.com/ http://twitter.com/NoraYounis 2611 1 2009/05/11 Pretoria I sing, write songs, produce for other artists and occasionally win awards http://www.loyisomusic.com http://twitter.com/loyisomusic 395172 0 2009/08/04 London A bot that collects Tweets about Egypt. Post: '@EgyTweets STOP' to have it ignore your Tweets. Or '@EgyTweets START' to http://twitter.com/EgyTweets have it RT your Tweets again. 5352 9 2009/03/25 Greenland I've been so many places in my life and time I've sung a lot of songs,I've made http://www.andilencube.co.za some bad rhyme I've acted out my life in stages http://twitter.com/andilencube with 10 thousand people watching 20586 698 2007/09/22 Pretoria Experience Cape Town via residents & visitors: Events, News, Advice. Ad hoc http://bit.ly/atcapetown Initiative of private citizen. Sister of @JoziZA Web: http://twitter.com/CapeTown atcapetown.co.za 841 4 2008/12/31 Nairobi The Pride of Africa Follow us and let us Help.Customer Relations E-mail customer.relations@kenya-airways.com http://www.kenya-airways.com http://twitter.com/kenyaairways 3722 29 2008/01/27 Pretoria Springleap is an online t-shirt design community that hosts bi-weekly competitions http://www.springleap.com where you can win US$500+, royalties and http://twitter.com/springleap more! #tshirtdesign #tshirt 508 0 2009/06/07 Pretoria The number one F1 newsline on Twitter, UNOFFCIAL! http://wefollow.com/followf1 http://twitter.com/followf1 5415 7 2008/09/06 West Central Africa Author, Musician,Christian Pastor, and International Prophetic Teacher with http://wdfavour.com a terrific passion for Jesus Christ. Founding Pastor, http://twitter.com/wdfavour Citizens Family Inc., Nigeria. 4564 439 2009/12/17 Pretoria KZN RE/MAX Franchise owner,Retired cricketer,golfer,husband,proud Dadhttp://wwww.remax.co.za & poor guitarist! http://twitter.com/patsymcox77 992 0 2009/06/05 Greenland South Africa's premier live music promoter. http://www.bigconcerts.co.za http://twitter.com/bigconcerts 9763 1 2008/12/08 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Creator and Developer of Mbono.net - SoulSpace for Dreams, Intention and http://mbono.net New Creation. International presenter and seminar http://twitter.com/stephen_marcus leader in Freedom Through Releasing 8035 41 2009/02/04 Pretoria 38--2kids,1husband,loads of animals, breakfast xpress 94.7 http://www.samcowen.com http://twitter.com/Samcowen 2006 93 2009/02/01 Brussels African Safari and Wildlife Specialist at your Service! Has had the chance to http://www.africafreak.com live in Africa for almost 24 years! Visit AfricaFreak.com http://twitter.com/AfricaFreak for more details. ;) :) 6167 1 2009/03/16 Greenland Grant Nash-Im the guy that talks kak on 5FM 12h00-15h00. http://twitter.com/grantnash 223238 1 2008/05/27 Pretoria Web Designer,Blogger.Internet entrepreneur.Anything Google,Internet,Broadband. http://www.howdo.us http://twitter.com/howdous 14725 19 2009/05/20 Pretoria Nationwide #Traffic updates for #SouthAfrica, tweeted as it happens ~ a fully interactive service ~ ~ want route advice ? send http://twitter.com/Trafficsa a tweet to @TrafficSA 8 0 2011/05/19 Greenland http://www.garykirsten.com http://twitter.com/Gary_Kirsten 2858 1 2009/08/17 Greenland The Best of the Good Life http://www.topbilling.com http://twitter.com/sabc3topbilling 17497 1 2008/10/10 Pretoria http://allafrica.com http://twitter.com/allafrica 10289 0 2009/06/05 Pretoria To lose fat you need my help... http://fatloss-help.com http://twitter.com/helpfatloss 6565 8 2009/01/15 Pretoria CapeTownMagazine.com is Cape Town's leading online mag, bringing youhttp://www.capetownmagazine.com the freshest news, events, things to do, specials and http://twitter.com/capetownmag giveaways! 9631 3 2009/01/22 Greenland Alastair Teeling-Smith is Programme Manager of Talk Radio 702 and tweets http://www.702.co.za on what's happening on 702. Your feedback, advice, http://twitter.com/radio702 suggestions and comments welcome! 1408 4 2009/05/21 Greenland Comedy doctor - Keepin u in sLtches (doof doof tching) http://www.riaadmoosa.co.za http://twitter.com/RiaadMoosa 99 1 2009/07/07 London Businessman, Fund Manager, Ambassador of Possibility. Author, Speaker,http://www.actionwealthsystem.com Philanthropist, and Humanitarian http://twitter.com/actionwealth 555 1 2008/04/26 Amsterdam Get notified as soon as the latest cartoon is published. http://www.zapiro.com http://twitter.com/zapiro 1523 2 2010/03/22 West Central Africa Channels Television is one of the 13 independent television stations currently http://www.channelstv.com broadcasting in Nigeria. http://twitter.com/Channels_TV 5999 0 2009/04/23 Harare Hubby,dad of 2,played cricket for Zim(loved it), I chat about it on Supersport.North Star Alliance ambassador(AIDS prevenLon) http://twitter.com/mmbangwa 1814 6 2009/09/22 Pretoria SEO working online mostly, self employed , have a beutifull son http://blog.linkaffiliates.net http://twitter.com/Slapman4u 1931 5 2009/11/13 Pretoria Ferial Haffajee is editor of City Press in South Africa. She believes Africa will http://www.citypress.co.za be a Bric - the future that is currently defined byhttp://twitter.com/ferialhaffajee Brazil, India and China. 3347 0 2009/03/08 Pretoria Proud South African, singer, songwriter, producer, businessman, co founder http://www.dannyk.com and ambassador of SHOUT !! http://twitter.com/Dannykmusic 47341 155 2010/02/08 Pretoria Proudly African. My thoughts & opinions change from time to time and that's http://www.JustCurious.co.za merely a consequence of having an open mind. http://twitter.com/mslelob Oh, and I tweet a lot :-) 14895 231 2009/06/01 Harare Freckled God-loving Entertainer/Corporate Ladder Climber/Success Enthusiast/Love-a-good-laugh http://www.facebook.com/Hulisani.Ravele Venda Princess (,) http://twitter.com/Hulisani_R 3078 11 2009/05/15 West Central Africa Reggae/Dancehall/HipHop/RnB/Soul Recording Artiste. Contact & Bookings: http://www.facebook.com/generalpype Podium Vybez\XXL Untertainment: ayrotimi@gmail.com, http://twitter.com/Generalpype @ayorotimi,+234803 303 6635 Page 7 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 Twitter Name Followed Followers liezelv 724 11956 Kerrymcgregor 133 11906 djmilkshake 109 11847 noeleen3talk 83 11836 High_n_Wild 11335 11798 jrsohot 320 11777 thegautrain 316 11768 nelio26 12095 11718 hlelomasina 240 11553 fatloss_help 12135 11479 ventertainment 1758 11458 successandmoney 12088 11411 socialstarman 12650 11343 KimSchulze 137 11326 Preciouskofi 499 11293 elanaafrika 4555 11290 FULLSCRNMOBIADS 12241 11177 Prime_Circle 5 11176 beingmusic 10702 11162 945kfm 8425 10944 therealpsyfo 406 10870 joeyrasdien 297 10771 Lead_SA 446 10698 TannieEvita 194 10683 Rustytheron 22 10668 RykNeethling 315 10609 sabreakingnews 86 10572 shugasmakx 1542 10517 nelsonmendela 5 10463 abc2mp3 10600 10416 MyANC_ 6488 10416 dstv 168 10407 AlviroPetersen 58 10404 justplaintwit 459 10336 3rddegree_etv 3 10332 THESTORMERS 222 10291 kurtofficial 35 10269 FloLouw 111 10243 HillsofAfrica 10529 10215 Keegandaniel 64 10209 aweber_less60 11170 10201 springleaping 10566 10191 MarketSuccessor 11467 10135 Tweets 15633 3476 5101 1829 6873 7832 7438 400 10041 3043 5126 60 9158 17333 6281 3546 5252 2538 1912 4679 10534 3234 1102 264 118 1164 36814 4608 1 211 1268 13442 1878 2736 83 1082 914 899 12876 814 281 823 690 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 4 2009/03/11 Harare Presenter #Expressoshow #945KFM MC&VoiceArtist|Model|Triathlete&IRONMAN| http://www.liezel.co.za KnickName=Giraffe|#longestlegsinafrica http://twitter.com/liezelv #CosmoTwitterQueen #TableMountAmbassador|I 6 2009/04/20 Pretoria Shmodel and Mom - both very busy jobs :) http://www.kerrymcgregor.com http://twitter.com/Kerrymcgregor 8 2009/01/27 Pretoria The Craziest DJ These Days - All round Crazy guy too.I Love music and gadgets. http://www.facebook.com/pages/DJ-Milkshake/232272980580 Catch me on your radio, 5FM Fridays 10PM-1AM. http://twitter.com/djmilkshake 73 2010/10/01 http://twitter.com/noeleen3talk 23 2009/04/23 West Central Africa I'm just an ordinary person living an extraordinary life. http://twitter.com/High_n_Wild 18 2009/05/11 Pretoria The Man who invented the Circle Feel Good MusicAll South African A**hole http://www.feelgoodmusic.co.za http://twitter.com/jrsohot 232 2009/06/04 Pretoria The golden train for people on the move. http://www.gautrain.co.za/ http://twitter.com/thegautrain 0 2009/08/13 Pretoria I am an Internet Marketer focused on helping others succeed online. Herehttp://makeaffiliatemarketingmoney.com/IMA/go_software.php are 2 *FREE* software tools to help you make money http://twitter.com/nelio26 from your sites? Go here now... 1 2009/10/08 Greenland One half of 'The Twinz'. Catch our new reality show 'Blame In On Fame' Monday http://www.campaignforgirls.co.za 5 September at 20:30 on e.TV! http://twitter.com/hlelomasina 0 2009/04/13 Pretoria You don't get fat because of a lack of exercising, that's a myth. You get fat http://fatloss-help.com because you don't eat the right foods at the right http://twitter.com/fatloss_help intervals each day. 2605 2009/03/10 Pretoria Freshest local&international celebrity news&interviews. Mon-Fri on @VuzuTV http://vuzu.tv (Ch 123 @DStv 18:00) Daily repeats: 04:30, 07:00, http://twitter.com/ventertainment 13:30 Omnibus: Saturdays 9-11AM 2 2010/01/14 Pretoria Financial Adviser, Financial & MoLvaLonal Speaker, Real Estate Investor, Aircrak http://www.bigpoweraffiliate.com Enthusiast http://twitter.com/successandmoney 0 2009/08/14 Pretoria Social Media Researcher and Joint Venture Dealmaker http://www.moneycoachingfoundation.com http://twitter.com/socialstarman 0 2009/04/17 Pretoria Welcome to my wonderful world of smut, hilarity and tongues in multiplehttp://www.5fm.co.za/djs/kim_schulze cheeks. Now get me a martini. For more, see: www.lyricallywaxing.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/KimSchulze 6 2009/06/15 West Central Africa Truth...I chose freedom. http://twitter.com/Preciouskofi 2 2009/04/18 Television presenter, and producer. Performer and business owner. www.eaworks.co.za http://www.elanaafrika.com and www.elanaafrika.com http://twitter.com/elanaafrika 0 2010/07/18 Pretoria The next (r)evolution in Mobile Advertising ... PS - we follow back! http://www.fullscreenmobiads.com http://twitter.com/FULLSCRNMOBIADS 4 2009/05/06 Pretoria Proudly South African rock band! http://www.primecircle.co.za http://twitter.com/Prime_Circle 2 2009/07/02 London Music & Yoga: Ambient & Chill-out by Musician/Composer & Yoga Teacherhttp://beingambientmusic.com http://twitter.com/beingmusic 13 2009/04/25 Greenland The Cape's No.1 Hit Music Station http://www.kfm.co.za http://twitter.com/945kfm 3 2009/08/20 Pretoria SID Records. info@sidrecordsmusic.co.za look out for my album MLF and http://www.sidrecordsmusic.co.za Mindloz's album 'Back To Kasi' end of September http://twitter.com/therealpsyfo 2011!!! 57 2009/06/01 Greenland Father,Comedian,Actor,Producer and aspiring Aalim and now Husband again. I also play golf. http://twitter.com/joeyrasdien 228 2010/07/12 Harare http://www.leadsa.co.za http://twitter.com/Lead_SA 2 2010/03/12 Harare http://www.evita.co.za http://twitter.com/TannieEvita 0 2010/07/12 http://twitter.com/Rustytheron 2 2010/06/19 Proudly South African with a wide range of interests. Blessed world traveller, http://www.learntoswim.co.za businessman, inspirational speaker and Olympic http://twitter.com/RykNeethling Gold Medallist 0 2009/04/24 Greenland All the latest breaking news from across South Africa in one stream. http://www.sabreakingnews.co.za/ http://twitter.com/sabreakingnews 3 2009/05/21 Pretoria South African Hip Hop Pioneer & Entrepreneur. Just a guy tryin to make a buck :-) http://twitter.com/shugasmakx 0 2009/04/08 Central Time (US & Canada) Freedom above anything http://twitter.com/nelsonmendela 0 2009/05/23 Harare http://twitter.com/abc2mp3 0 2009/01/08 Pretoria This is the official African National Congress Info feed on Twitter. Follow us to get regular updates on all things ANC. http://twitter.com/MyANC_ 2 2009/01/16 Pretoria DStv is Africa's top entertainment & TV desLnaLon, giving you so much more! http://www.dstv.com Response Lmes: 8AM-5PM weekdays. http://twitter.com/dstv 2 2010/07/12 Proteas cricketer, highveld lions and glamorgan captain. God first! http://Coming.soon http://twitter.com/AlviroPetersen 7 2009/08/12 Pretoria Broadcaster on Jacaranda 94.2 Breakfast, SUPERSPORT anchor, owns JustPlainMedia http://www.justplainmedia.co.za & Productions, Arsenal and Sharks fanhttp://twitter.com/justplaintwit for life! Follow @JustPlainMedia 0 2009/06/17 Pretoria no holds barred http://www.etv.co.za/extended/index/3rd_degree/ http://twitter.com/3rddegree_etv 2 2009/05/08 Pretoria Official page of the DHL Stormers Rugby team http://www.iamastormer.com http://twitter.com/THESTORMERS 13 2009/08/03 Greenland http://www.kurtdarren.co.za http://twitter.com/kurtofficial 1 2009/05/18 West Central Africa South African embarking on an adventure, doing what I love best while kicking http://www.facebook.com/FrancoisFloLouw back in the beautiful city of Bath! But first the http://twitter.com/FloLouw Rugby World Cup with the Boks! 50 2009/02/02 Central Time (US & Canada) Zimbabwean, changing lives one journey at a time through customized African http://www.hillsofafrica.com safari vacations, 2 kiddies & lovely hubby http://twitter.com/HillsofAfrica 0 2010/01/27 http://twitter.com/Keegandaniel 0 2009/05/10 Pretoria This new Autoresponder service will save you 60% on Aweber pricing. 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Visit us today http://blog.monkeyprofit.com at http://blog.monkeyprofit.com http://twitter.com/MarketSuccessor Page 8 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 Twitter Name Followed Followers worldcupcnn 102 10119 NicDawes 478 10090 USEmbPretoria 496 10058 zwaibala 679 10008 prieur 1315 9989 RyanOConnorSA 242 9981 TeeDeluxe 9595 9858 StefanT15 17 9850 davyjacobs82 89 9759 shona_ferguson 85 9741 osdurandt 437 9733 carteblanchetv 26 9626 RobAndersonsays 10629 9590 hayibo 0 9483 BlueCraneSocMed 10351 9465 Alamad_NGO 8532 9454 ideasforafrica 1509 9454 mjamme 3379 9371 apologetics 8181 9344 mar3e 1513 9333 ColinUdoh 914 9330 iamtmashigo 7319 9225 StephenGrootes 199 9221 ComicalTshepo 639 9203 KevinMcCallum 1140 9106 baileyschneider 462 9087 ewnreporter 110 9029 702David 140 9020 KoosKombuis 4771 8998 upgradereality 143 8989 xtrada 10276 8977 SuperSportcom 604 8932 _eeriPinkSpanky 8563 8838 amakhosi_fans 3737 8756 adii 87 8740 MohammadGhorab 8048 8740 golfman90 8266 8728 Huisgenoot 327 8720 primrosecrous 297 8706 OnAfricanSafari 7760 8613 brucebusiness 79 8602 simondingle 251 8482 Sureshnie 575 8457 Tweets 2543 4883 25390 2824 2983 7312 881 706 2461 3825 381 863 1442 681 5956 50 1244 10903 8431 43619 20712 20040 3115 8303 40869 13889 6628 483 2268 5729 972 11389 15722 20155 13926 21091 60 6472 4438 7844 1474 13299 7959 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 233 2009/11/21 Central Time (US & Canada) All the latest news on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa from CNN International http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/worldcup/http://twitter.com/worldcupcnn including live match tweets and RTs of CNN's team in SA. 2 2009/06/01 Harare Editor, the Mail & Guardian http://www.mg.co.za http://twitter.com/NicDawes 0 2009/04/20 Pretoria United States Diplomatic Mission to South Africa http://www.facebook.com/USinSouthAfrica http://twitter.com/USEmbPretoria 0 2009/05/07 Producer. Singer, Songwriter. A Humanitarian. Oscar for Best Film Score is where I'm headed. http://twitter.com/zwaibala 0 2007/12/02 Pretoria I am an investment manager based in Cape Town. I blog my views on international http://www.investmentpostcards.com financial markets at: www.investmentpostcards.com. http://twitter.com/prieur 11 2009/03/10 Pretoria media man, animal and wine lover, and speed enthusiast! http://twitter.com/RyanOConnorSA 0 2009/07/13 Pretoria Artist. Co-Founder of Springleap.com - Artist empowerment and reward site http://www.springleap.com http://twitter.com/TeeDeluxe 0 2010/09/22 Harare http://twitter.com/StefanT15 10 2010/09/28 Greenland Cricketer. Chevrolet Warriors Captain, Mumbai Indians. Married to @LizJ28, http://bigsportsmanagement.co.za Father of Lilly xxx Big fan of Roland Deschain ofhttp://twitter.com/davyjacobs82 Gilead.. Ka » Ka-tet 5 2009/07/20 Pretoria Husband, Father, Entrepreneur, Actor... Beloved let us LOVE one another http://www.shonaferguson.co.za for LOVE is of GOD & every one that loveth is bornhttp://twitter.com/shona_ferguson of GOD & knoweth GOD. 1 2009/08/11 Greenland Ex old Springbok Prop Forward who is now learning to farm was fortunatehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Os-du-Randt/99569939659 enough to win the RWC in 1995 & 2007 http://twitter.com/osdurandt 0 2010/03/11 Pretoria Carte Blanche is South Africa's longest running invesLgaLve journalism programme. http://www.carteblanche.co.za http://twitter.com/carteblanchetv 36 2009/03/06 Pretoria helping new marketers to make money. using honesty. http://workfromhomemembership.com/blog http://twitter.com/RobAndersonsays 0 2009/03/15 Pretoria We are about satire, nothing else. Recently been brought back through the http://www.hayibo.com graciousness of Andrew Fehrsen and the good people http://twitter.com/hayibo at Cape Media. 0 2009/08/14 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Social Media Consultants http://bluecraneimpactmarketing.com/ http://bluecraneimpactmarketing.com/ http://twitter.com/BlueCraneSocMed 0 2010/04/18 West Central Africa NGO promoting nomadic womens and girl's education programs in Niger http://alamad.org and the Sahara. http://twitter.com/Alamad_NGO 32 2009/04/15 Quito Offer your voice and your vision to develop creative & practical plans for Africa’s http://www.AfricaRuralConnect.org economic and agricultural future. http://twitter.com/ideasforafrica 7 2008/04/20 London Citizen of the world, seeking positive narratives for Africa by speaking & writing. http://www.mariemejamme.com CSR & Global Development critic. I believe http://twitter.com/mjamme that I'm here because you are. 385 2008/12/23 London I am passionate about separating facts from fiction in this age of information http://www.gadel.info/ chaos. Let's meet on Facebook http://facebook.com/mydelali http://twitter.com/apologetics 659 2008/10/07 Cairo Egyptian blogger/Digital Journalist/Free Thinker/Human Rights and political http://Egytimes.org Activist/Veterinarian http://twitter.com/mar3e 101 2009/11/21 West Central Africa Award-winning Nigerian football writer. TV analyst. Press Officer, Nigeria national football team. Opinions, unless otherwisehttp://twitter.com/ColinUdoh stated, are mine 48 2009/05/14 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Free Minded Self Aware Workaholic. Founder/CEO of @ShigoCreatives http://www.shigomedia.com http://twitter.com/iamtmashigo 7 2009/11/11 Pretoria Reporter for EWN. Loves politics. And politicians. Writes for The Daily Maverick http://twitter.com/StephenGrootes 43 2009/02/11 Pretoria Interests: Football, jokes and chicken in no particular order...stand up comedian... Bookings@tshepomogale.com http://twitter.com/ComicalTshepo 4 2008/12/02 Pretoria Chief Sports Writer - The Star newspaper, Joburg. http://www.iol.co.za/ http://twitter.com/KevinMcCallum 145 2008/10/30 Greenland Radio Presenter on @947Highveld, TV Presenter, Voice over artist, emceehttp://www.baileyschneider.co.za & blogger. Completely addicted to Vanilla Tea, Toblerone, http://twitter.com/baileyschneider Shoes and my Blackberry :-) 1 2010/09/17 Pretoria Updates from the Eyewitness News team - always factual, sometimes funny, http://www.ewn.co.za often insightful. http://twitter.com/ewnreporter 0 2009/08/04 Pretoria Host of Talk Radio 702's 4pm-6pm show, Lions fan, space junkie, author ofhttp://www.702.co.za sports trivia books, sometime TV presenter. http://twitter.com/702David 445 2009/04/12 Pretoria Koos is a South African author, columnist, and cartoonist who can also play http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/kooskombuis a few chords on the guitar. Read his novel, Twitter http://twitter.com/KoosKombuis Dawn, tweet by tweet! 1 2008/07/22 Greenland Making a Difference to The World One Article At A Time www.UpgradeReality.com http://www.upgradereality.com http://twitter.com/upgradereality 0 2009/02/20 Greenland Business man with a few websites, a blog and some affiliates which I'm managing. http://turbocash.us http://twitter.com/xtrada 3 2009/04/09 Pretoria Bringing the best of sports entertainment on all media platforms. http://www.supersport.com http://twitter.com/SuperSportcom 65 2010/06/09 Greenland (A vision ALL across the WORLD) #TFB #TPM #Team@Bonang_M#TeamWolfstamp #Teamusher Web:www.sap.com http://twitter.com/_eeriPinkSpanky 0 2010/09/15 Everything Kaizer Chiefs Football Club. Amakhosi 4 Life!! http://m.kaizerchiefs.com http://twitter.com/amakhosi_fans 37 2007/10/17 Pretoria Entrepreneur, co-founder of WooThemes and general creator of Rockstarhttp://adii.me Awesomeness! http://twitter.com/adii 2 2008/09/29 Cairo Proud Egyptian, Online Product Manager @BasharJobs, Online Marketer,http://www.BasharJobs.com/ and wanna be Entrepreneur. http://twitter.com/MohammadGhorab 0 2010/01/27 Harare Total cracked on golf. Love the game, the people (most of them), and of course http://physicsofgolfswing.com when I play really well love it even more! http://twitter.com/golfman90 1 2009/03/10 Harare Huisgenoot is deel van elke Afrikaanssprekende se daaglikse lewe. Dit is ook http://www.huisgenoot.com die grootste tydskrif in Suid-Afrika. http://twitter.com/Huisgenoot 128 2009/06/15 Pretoria A Proud Mother of 2, Blessed Wife, Businesswoman, GOD's Jewel & Guiding http://www.hohupsa.co.za Light! Proverb 31 v 10-31 Woman! I believe inhttp://twitter.com/primrosecrous GOD! Keep it 100% Real with Me. 0 2009/04/25 Pretoria Luxury Travel. 11 Years of sharing the best Africa has to offer in pristine wilderness. http://www.best-south-africa-tours.com South African Tour Operator. http://twitter.com/OnAfricanSafari 0 2010/07/16 Athens On the beach - Twitter cold turkey http://twitter.com/brucebusiness 3 2008/02/06 Pretoria Filling the gaps between people and technology. Host of (tech)5 on 5FM and http://simon.co.za/ the ZA Tech Show netcast. Journalist at Finweek http://twitter.com/simondingle Magazine. Speaker and MC. 2 2009/03/17 Pretoria Host of 5fm Top 40, Presenter on TV(5) lover and testdriver of cool cars and http://www.5fm.co.za maker of hot curry:) http://twitter.com/Sureshnie Page 9 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 Twitter Name Followed Followers freshlygroundsa 2967 8451 zarsushiking 52 8447 trendssthafrica 1769 8434 wynand_olivier 30 8405 ThatKoula 495 8387 dionchang 156 8386 voaafrica 630 8374 safa_net 2253 8367 worldcupking 2 8356 lxcoza 9212 8345 maltyren 747 8343 lukewatson6 817 8294 obiasika 930 8269 USArmyAfrica 1622 8245 KickOffMagazine 293 8215 alandeklerkmktg 8572 8186 greenpeaceafric 4078 8181 EFTSuzanne 8185 8174 guru_earth 8829 8170 sabcnewscom 6 8104 petergrant_ 172 8064 tracymcgregor 97 8027 arnocarstens 547 8026 spitorswallow 7915 7964 itumelengkhune 11 7931 UArainbow 4623 7924 followthebounce 858 7920 sagoodnews 93 7904 MichelleJayes 8029 7864 RJBenjamin 1182 7861 ardmatthews 124 7843 simphiwedana 220 7798 DewaldPotgieter 24 7762 darylimpey 162 7747 gussilber 6831 7703 hmeguid 1150 7644 RubyGold 2343 7629 GoToSouthAfrica 4769 7621 BBCAfricaHYS 4467 7576 genevievemorton 177 7569 justproteas 269 7541 uncomman 7494 7514 ChrisRoperZA 521 7490 Tweets 1424 705 7485 62 1289 1983 9542 811 258 471 3338 4854 4181 28746 5214 11441 2651 3872 4361 6740 380 990 2662 12522 342 18192 12028 948 3104 3502 1359 11245 429 1396 15074 5137 26094 2348 8146 3101 1317 3023 11706 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 5 2009/03/13 Pretoria Freshlyground is a South African band with an eclectic and distinct sound.http://www.freshlyground.com http://twitter.com/freshlygroundsa 7 2011/01/06 King of Entertainment,Party Human Being,ZAR owner http://www.zaronline.co.za http://twitter.com/zarsushiking 0 2010/11/03 Pretoria Real-time South Africa Twitter trends http://trendsmap.com/local/south+africa http://twitter.com/trendssthafrica 3 2010/08/16 Pacific Time (US & Canada) http://twitter.com/wynand_olivier 0 2009/04/24 Greenland Radio and TV presenter, running fanaLc and lover of all things chocolatey!94.7 Highveld Stereo: Sundays 10am-2pm http://twitter.com/ThatKoula 49 2009/04/23 Pretoria observer, trend analyst - forever curious. Founder of Flux Trendsblog: #alienadventures http://www.fluxtrends.com - dionchang.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/dionchang 2 2009/04/21 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Africa news from the Voice of America. More news at voaafrica.com http://www.voaafrica.com http://twitter.com/voaafrica 0 2009/05/28 Harare The official twitter page of the South African Football Association http://www.safa.net http://twitter.com/safa_net 0 2010/05/24 Quito A special account, Tweeting while SI's Peter King is at the World Cup from June 10-26. http://twitter.com/worldcupking 0 2008/03/24 Pretoria Web marketing, SEO and WordPress specialist based in Johannesburg, South http://digireports.com Africa. http://twitter.com/lxcoza 3 2009/07/24 Greenland your mommy's favourite kak praater http://www.5fm.co.za http://twitter.com/maltyren 9 2010/02/12 London Living in the land of Kings... ; ) http://twitter.com/lukewatson6 8 2009/04/09 West Central Africa Ceo of Storm 360, Focused on Driving Sports, Music & Entertainment Projects http://www.storm360degrees.com out of Naija to the world. http://twitter.com/obiasika 7 2009/02/09 Amsterdam U.S. Army Africa TwiSer Feed: News, images and video from AFRICOM andhttp://www.usaraf.army.mil other media sources related to Africa. http://twitter.com/USArmyAfrica 0 2009/05/07 Greenland South Africa's football authority: Soccer at its best! Latest soccer news and http://www.kickoff.com inside info. Be ahead of the game. Tweeted by @KickOffCooper http://twitter.com/KickOffMagazine and @ProjectJennifer 2 2009/10/12 Pretoria http://earnprofitafterfixingdebt.com http://twitter.com/alandeklerkmktg 87 2009/03/11 Pretoria Greenpeace Africa is an independent campaigning organisation acting to http://bit.ly/sK4vt change attitudes and behavior, to protect the environment http://twitter.com/greenpeaceafric and promote peace. 3 2009/01/13 Pretoria Passionate EFT Reiki Allergy Antidotes and Hypnosis holistic practitioner and http://www.EFT-Scripts.com author - I follow you back! http://twitter.com/EFTSuzanne 0 2009/10/03 Pretoria Defender of Trees; Blessed are those who are gentle. They will inherit the earth; Never does nature say one thing and wisdom http://twitter.com/guru_earth another. 2 2009/03/18 Pretoria SABC News.com is the online news portal of South Africa's public broadcaster. http://www.sabcnews.com http://twitter.com/sabcnewscom 0 2010/07/10 Pretoria http://www.facebook.com/#!/PeterJohnGrant http://twitter.com/petergrant_ 1 2009/04/20 Model, designer & a girl that lives life to the fullest! http://www.tracymcgregor.co.za http://twitter.com/tracymcgregor 28 2009/04/05 London Solo Singer/songwriter’ and singer of Springbok Nude Girls. New solo album http://www.arnocarstensmusic.wordpress.com 'Wonderful Wild' out now. Available on iTunes,http://twitter.com/arnocarstens Amazon, and in all good music stores! 1 2009/01/10 Pretoria South African wine news, shaken and stirred ... http://winetimes.co.za http://twitter.com/spitorswallow 1 2011/08/03 Greenland Kaizer Chiefs and Bafana Bafana Goalkeeper. Nike,Kiwi,Vaseline for Men,KFC, UHLSport Ambassador. Rhapsody's Restaurant http://twitter.com/itumelengkhune Shareholder 920 2009/07/09 West Central Africa Love God, Family, People & World, dear Friends. Passionate to make our World http://greenharmonyhome.com/ Greener&Better, designing Green Passive Houses http://twitter.com/UArainbow & http://passivehouse-igua.com/ 83 2009/12/01 Greenland Doing it for the fans. Twitter profile of thebounce.co.za. Sporting-go-to profile http://www.thebounce.co.za for big game updates, sporting insights and ahttp://twitter.com/followthebounce whole lot more. 46 2008/11/03 Pretoria Highlighting South Africa's progress and positive developments. Concentrating http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/ on solutions not problems. http://twitter.com/sagoodnews 9 2008/07/31 Greenland I work from home and love what I do. I love to help people achieve success http://www.Online-Income-Business.com http://twitter.com/MichelleJayes 0 2008/11/09 Pretoria Soul Singer, music producer, songwriter & vocal coach! My other half is @shayneybelle http://wefollow.com/RJBenjamin :) http://twitter.com/RJBenjamin 7 2008/08/19 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Lead singer, Just Jinjer! Kiter, SUP'er, surfer, sailor and proud South African. http://www.ardmatthews.com Download 'free' music from my site :) http://twitter.com/ardmatthews 27 2009/04/09 Greenland I am a griot in the tradition of repositories of Africa's teachings. I sing libations http://www.simphiwedana.com and my GODS deem it be so... http://twitter.com/simphiwedana 1 2010/06/15 Harare The last living member of the rhymenoceros clan. http://twitter.com/DewaldPotgieter 0 2009/04/10 Harare Age 26 years - Pro Cyclist for Team NetApp http://www.darylimpey.com http://twitter.com/darylimpey 38 2008/06/26 Harare I play with words, and sometimes work with them too, as a Journalist/Author/Scriptwriter/Speechwriter/TweetWriter. http://gussilber.posterous.com http://twitter.com/gussilber 318 2009/05/12 Cairo Love people, fascinated by art, love to exercise my five senses! http://about.me/hmeguid http://twitter.com/hmeguid 2 2008/08/31 Pretoria editor http://www.timeslive.co.za/ http://twitter.com/RubyGold 1 2009/04/21 Pretoria The official twitter account for South African Tourism. http://www.southafrica.net http://twitter.com/GoToSouthAfrica 10 2009/05/12 London Connecting Africans, wherever you are. Join us and discuss what matters http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/africahaveyoursay to you. We are LIVE on the BBC World Service every http://twitter.com/BBCAfricaHYS Tue, Wed, Thu at 1600GMT. Tweet back. 0 2009/04/28 West Central Africa I am a model and I'm talented at parallel parking and making napkin roses, http://www.facebook.com/watch.genevieve and hosting dinner parties, all very important things http://twitter.com/genevievemorton in life! 0 2011/01/19 Pretoria Where fans get to voice their opinion and support the South African cricket team. Tweets by @JesseJamesSA http://twitter.com/justproteas 2 2008/11/27 Pretoria Critical Thinking Teacher, Online Marketer, Blogger, Bohemian, Animal Lover, http://blog.justd.ws Philosopher and Fool... http://twitter.com/uncomman 33 2008/05/23 Pretoria Editor of www.mg.co.za - the Mail & Guardian Online. Blog: www.chrisroper.co.za http://www.chrisroper.co.za http://twitter.com/ChrisRoperZA Page 10 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 Twitter Name Followed Followers dieheuwels 89 7488 thomasmsengana 703 7487 c_live 1191 7471 zagenieprofits 7341 7427 SHASHINAIDOO 144 7362 RugbyFifteen 440 7343 wwfsouthafrica 45 7309 valarcher 7782 7232 teajhb 8124 7225 suretips 8080 7211 NadiaNeophytou 1132 7207 VC4Africa 1329 7203 afromusing 663 7152 roxy_louw 124 7145 arthur2point0 7137 7143 thatomoeng 816 7143 mymarrakesh 387 7118 joomlatips 313 7073 kojobaffoe 1316 7034 trendsjoburg 1424 7034 justcuriousza 444 6970 sacricketblog 376 6949 JustWP 644 6935 racuda 6992 6895 southafricans 2429 6889 zuraidajardine 198 6878 robcrilly 859 6873 colinmosssa 112 6850 freelifepower 7433 6823 tjserfontein 7196 6809 30DayFacelift 4282 6808 thatnicole 457 6790 ChristopherM 355 6771 artsouthafrica 127 6767 Rolandschoeman 204 6750 zulika2 6709 6743 xbox360gamersa 372 6685 jj_ufs 76 6684 lindimazibuko 318 6670 philjansen 6368 6655 cn 4600 6609 BMW_SA 290 6602 EZeeGardening 6440 6592 Tweets 3514 870 11688 8 2021 28999 386 13724 4164 573 12526 15336 6087 1276 13156 10413 5791 1605 54335 5188 5917 4030 4145 277 1172 1880 8544 1752 26987 10287 5152 21859 20714 436 1972 20 2376 85 2897 18353 12328 97 37137 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 7 2009/03/09 alt pop band, South Africa! http://www.facebook.com/dieheuwels http://twitter.com/dieheuwels 1 2009/08/04 Hawaii http://twitter.com/thomasmsengana 65 2008/09/29 Greenland Hip-Hop Power Nights 5fm (98.0)Mondays 22pm. THE TASTE-MAKER mixtape, http://www.djc-live.blogspot.com now Clap! www.5fm.co.za admin@vthseason.com http://twitter.com/c_live 0 2010/01/24 Pretoria We take the SH.. out of your ..IT. One click & we're there! http://www.zagenie.com http://twitter.com/zagenieprofits 2 2010/03/04 Owner of Alushi Management, TV personality and Model http://alushi.co.za http://twitter.com/SHASHINAIDOO 9 2010/01/19 Pretoria Tri-NaLons | Six-NaLons | IRB Rugby World Cup | IRB Sevens 7 | SuperRugby http://www.RUGBY15.co | CurrieCup | VodacomCup | SchoolRugby | VarsityCup http://twitter.com/RugbyFifteen | RuggaStats 0 2009/05/15 Greenland WWF is one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation http://www.wwf.org.za organizations, with almost five million supporters. http://twitter.com/wwfsouthafrica 1 2009/04/27 Pretoria Get FREE Raw Recipe eBook on my site--100+ Recipes + testimonials, color http://www.GreenSmoothie.com photos, kitchen tour. HEAL your Self, your Familyhttp://twitter.com/valarcher and Mother Earth with LIVING foods! 0 2009/09/07 Pretoria Enthusiast. Husband. Father. Driven by setting goals and achieving them. http://kirchie.com/teatw Visionary. Business Builder. Motivator. Traffic Engagement http://twitter.com/teajhb Architect. Follow TEA! 0 2009/03/27 London I am a young entrepreneur and a blogger from Africa. I share tips on blogging, http://www.sociatic.com social media and entrepreneurship on my blog, http://twitter.com/suretips Sociatic. 0 2009/01/23 Greenland South African Journalist based in New York - love music, theatre, film andhttp://www.missntertainment.com being in the Big Apple! http://twitter.com/NadiaNeophytou 1 2008/12/17 London VC4Africa.biz - Africa's largest venture capital community, investors and entrepreneurs, http://vc4africa.biz/ dedicated to building business on the http://twitter.com/VC4Africa continent. 1287 2007/07/04 Central Time (US & Canada) Global citizen with geeky tendencies. Co-Founder of Ushahidi, Senior TEDhttp://www.afromusing.com Fellow, Cosmic girl, collects solar gadgets. Tweets=mine. http://twitter.com/afromusing 8 2010/07/27 Surfer turn model,Blue Crush 2,EXFOLIAC Suncare fluid,Oakley international http://www.roxylouw.com athlete,KAUAI health food,FHM 100sexiest winner,Proudly http://twitter.com/roxy_louw SOUTH AFRICAN!! 10 2008/07/12 Pretoria South African developer of The Social Media Starter Pack, an interactive course http://www.fluence.co.za on Social Media basics and fundamentals. http://twitter.com/arthur2point0 4 2009/02/09 Greenland Thando wa mama http://twitter.com/thatomoeng 13 2009/03/22 Casablanca Owner of @PeacockPavilion, a boutique hotel in a Marrakech olive grove.http://www.moroccanmaryam.typepad.com Penning a book on Moroccan interior design for ahttp://twitter.com/mymarrakesh US publisher. Blogger & photographer. 4 2008/12/05 Pretoria Joomla tips and trix. Brought to you by @prothemer http://www.joomlatips.com http://twitter.com/joomlatips 429 2008/09/06 Harare Editor: Destiny Man (www.destinyman.com), Writer, Blogger, Retired Poet, http://www.kojobaffoe.com Entrepreneur, Dreamer, Budding iPhoneographer http://twitter.com/kojobaffoe (www.flickr.com/photos/kojobaffoe) 0 2010/07/30 Pretoria Real-time Johannesburg Twitter trends http://trendsmap.com/local/za/johannesburg http://twitter.com/trendsjoburg 34 2009/10/24 Pretoria SA's finest Entertainment Hub! Fresh, Opinionated, Honest, Always in Thehttp://www.JustCurious.co.za Know! It's just Entertainment Beyond The Usual & http://twitter.com/justcuriousza our readers/bloggers seal the deal! 4 2009/01/19 Pretoria Insight. Opinion. Analysis. http://sacricketblog.com http://twitter.com/sacricketblog 2 2010/10/18 Pretoria Bringing the passion back into the game! http://justwpblog.co.za http://twitter.com/JustWP 0 2009/03/25 Harare http://twitter.com/racuda 2 2009/04/22 Alaska Join the South African Twitter Network and connect with your fellow countrymen/women. http://twitter.com/southafricans 1 2010/05/20 Greenland Don't worry about a thing,'cause every liSle thing is gonna be all right. http://twitter.com/zuraidajardine 1 2008/04/14 Islamabad Pakistan correspondent of The Telegraph, Africa-phile, author of Saving Darfur http://www.robcrilly.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/robcrilly 25 2009/06/23 Pretoria Comic/actor/writer/producer/wearer of hats. Nice-ish guy. Managing partner http://www.colinmoss.com in Gathered Moss Productions. Easily distrac... http://twitter.com/colinmosssa 0 2009/02/28 Pretoria Affiliate Marketing, Wealthy Affiliate, Internet marketing, work at home, http://www.workathometop10-4.com top 10 work from home businesses, reviews, internet http://twitter.com/freelifepower marketing products, 1 2009/09/01 Mid-Atlantic Expert Network Marketer helping People Master Social Media with Wisdom http://wisdomwith.sponsordaddy.me http://twitter.com/tjserfontein 0 2009/04/18 Harare Facial exercises can make you look 10 to 15 years younger in 30 days! Check http://www.facelift-without-surgery.biz/nonsurgicalfacelifts.html out the book called Facelift Without Surgery athttp://twitter.com/30DayFacelift the website! 98 2009/05/19 Pretoria Go-getter girl with the worlds best dimples. Genuine. Have a brain and not http://www.facebook.com/ThatNicole5fm afraid to use it. Heard on 5FM late nights. Seen on http://twitter.com/thatnicole the road running uphill 0 2007/10/01 Cairo The Internet swallowed me! www.imod.co.zawww.christophermills.co.za http://imod.co.za/ http://twitter.com/ChristopherM 0 2008/07/14 Pretoria Art South Africa is South Africa's leading art and design magazine publishing http://www.artsouthafrica.com opinions that matter! http://twitter.com/artsouthafrica 1 2009/08/11 West Central Africa Olympic Gold Medallist, World Champion, World Record Holder, Avid Golfer http://www.rolandschoeman.co.za and Proudly South African http://twitter.com/Rolandschoeman 0 2009/02/10 Pretoria You miss 100% of the shots you don't take! http://www.gpfmortgage.co.za http://twitter.com/zulika2 1 2009/05/23 Pretoria South African Xbox 360 Gamer http://wefollow.com/Xbox360gamerSA http://twitter.com/xbox360gamersa 7 2010/12/23 Greenland http://twitter.com/jj_ufs 10 2009/02/17 Pretoria Member of Parliament for North Durban; Democratic Alliance National Spokesperson; http://princessshorty.wordpress.com/ baker, mover, shaker; hopeless romantic. http://twitter.com/lindimazibuko 62 2009/10/12 Pretoria I am an Internet Marketer, giving tips and advise on Small Business,Internet http://philjansen.com Marketing,Self Improvement and Spiritual Marketing. http://twitter.com/philjansen Passion Soul Winner for Jesus! 25 2007/04/07 Pretoria CoFounder @bwcom (acquired by 24.com). Publisher @bandwidthblog @carblogcoza. http://chrl.me/q2a1JL Founding member @thetouchlab. 2008 http://twitter.com/cn Young Entrepreneur of Africa runner up. 0 2009/02/02 Pretoria The official twitter channel of BMW South Africa. http://www.bmw.co.za http://twitter.com/BMW_SA 5 2009/06/18 Harare Gardener, graphic designer, artist, writer, photographer, foodie, blogger. http://gardeningiseasy.blogspot.com Day job: responsible tourism development & marketing http://twitter.com/EZeeGardening consultant Page 11 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 Twitter Name Followed Followers SuperSportCric 223 6566 eco_preneur 5491 6491 gibbs_scott 127 6457 reinhardtgallow 6999 6457 marwame 282 6437 sexylegsandbod 6229 6436 4tahir 5929 6378 the_blog_guru 6926 6332 incrtronics 6318 6301 jurgenphoto 5846 6245 capetowntourism 2165 6234 DaveDuarte 771 6224 ewntraffic 13 6214 playboymagsa 229 6201 ZeldalaGrangeSA 109 6196 kaizer_chiefs 5002 6192 terryp12 6002 6188 StencilLady 6441 6179 jppietersen14 94 6155 obox 265 6150 thabomodisane 257 6133 NOTa_webber 6820 6128 shakasisulu 1418 6127 Shimbin 6441 6092 akingband 7 6069 damstarfatboy 567 6036 bangersandnash 735 5940 gurthro 43 5940 overlandsun 5813 5904 _South_Africa_ 5542 5898 kenya_tweets 1479 5872 Naomiestment 5735 5847 womenshealthsa 480 5843 farmafrica 4658 5826 niccisaintbruce 460 5803 LookandListenSA 4563 5795 danielleguizio 207 5780 shapshak 661 5764 GaryGoldrugbyiq 70 5742 ericajohn1 5472 5740 jasonelk 61 5717 amrsalama 561 5707 watkykjy 84 5702 Tweets 15312 1051 2376 12575 7423 3976 3753 7966 717 11827 3460 5473 3788 2036 2018 677 12016 6141 119 21425 1486 290 20548 1239 526 5241 18179 549 713 1629 8560 2349 2586 2880 5014 486 8055 18020 1138 32001 9727 3717 10421 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 2 2009/07/07 Pretoria We love cricket here at SuperSportCric! 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Wordpress. http://twitter.com/eco_preneur Let's collaborate! 93 2010/05/24 Captain of Team Flame Cycling in The Mother City http://www.justgiving.com/scottscaliforniabikeride http://twitter.com/gibbs_scott 0 2008/09/19 Greenland The Super Affiliate Coach http://www.affiliateteachings.com http://twitter.com/reinhardtgallow 2 2009/12/23 Cairo writer, reader, chocolate eater, revolutionary, and, being engaged to the http://marwaelnaggar.com weird & wonderful @shereef_ismail, I'm the luckiest http://twitter.com/marwame woman alive 2 2008/12/14 Pretoria I am a grumpy 49 year old man, I love airplanes, but don't like to fly, I hatehttp://sexylegsandbody.blogspot.com two faced people, I love guns, fast cars & ladies with http://twitter.com/sexylegsandbod long well shaped legs! 136 2009/09/07 Mumbai Techie, Blogger,College student, and Traveler. ⁀↘‿↗⁀↘‿↗⁀↘☛#teamautofollow http://technophah.com #tfb http://twitter.com/4tahir 4 2009/05/05 Pretoria Build your own Website. I have been online since 1997 and have lived of my http://joueiewebwerf.com Internet income for the last 10 years. You can now http://twitter.com/the_blog_guru do it in 12 months. 0 2010/04/11 Wholesale Consumer Electronics, Cell Phones, Gadgets, Car Audio / Car DVD, http://www.incredibletronics.com Digital Cameras, MP4 Players, Spy Cameras, Security http://twitter.com/incrtronics Products, etc. 2 2007/11/08 Pretoria Photographer, runner, bon vivant http://www.jurgensphotography.com http://twitter.com/jurgenphoto 0 2008/12/15 Greenland Destination Marketing Organisation for Cape Town. Sharing all the reasons http://www.capetown.travel why we (and the world) love Cape Town http://twitter.com/capetowntourism 5 2007/03/13 Pretoria Digital Business Educator. My life is my lab. http://www.daveduarte.co.za http://twitter.com/DaveDuarte 0 2009/09/07 Pretoria EWN's traffic feed. Call us on 083 91 DRIVE ( 083 91 37483) or sms on 31702 http://www.ewn.co.za/trafficewn.asp http://twitter.com/ewntraffic 10 2010/11/26 Pretoria The official Twitter page for PLAYBOY South Africa. Founded in 1953, PLAYBOY http://www.playboy.co.za magazine is the best-selling monthly men’s magazine http://twitter.com/playboymagsa in the world! 2 2011/02/15 Harare Tweets by me are my personal views and do not represent the NMF or Mr Mandela's views in any way http://twitter.com/ZeldalaGrangeSA 0 2011/02/21 Pretoria Kaizer Chiefs Football Club | Official Kaizer Chiefs TwiSer Account | markeLng@kaizerchiefs.com http://www.kaizerchiefs.com | www.facebook.com/kaizerchiefs. http://twitter.com/kaizer_chiefs © Kaizer Chiefs 2011 0 2009/05/26 Pretoria Semi-retired, mad about my family, marketing, flying, video, guitar music http://www.terrychat.com and golf http://twitter.com/terryp12 0 2009/03/27 Pretoria My name is Leslee Russell and I've been making and selling Stencils for more http://wallandmural-stencils.com than 10 years! http://twitter.com/StencilLady 0 2010/10/27 Hawaii Born in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Profesional Rugby player, Sharks and Springbok winger.Currently living in Durban Kwa-Zulu http://twitter.com/jppietersen14 Natal. 977 2008/05/14 Pretoria Co-founder of Obox, I make things. http://davidperel.net http://twitter.com/obox 1 2009/03/14 Pretoria http://twitter.com/thabomodisane 0 2009/07/24 Pretoria http://twitter.com/NOTa_webber 351 2009/03/10 Harare Just an Afrikan with a Vision of the Greatness of Afrika. A Lover of Sun, Song, http://www.facebook.com/shaka.sisulu Dance, Sea, People, Ideas, Child, Inspiration, Woman, http://twitter.com/shakasisulu words, Afrikan Soil & Love 62 2009/03/06 Harare I coach people to create themselves economic freedom through establishment http://72065.iamagel.com/ of business from home http://twitter.com/Shimbin 0 2009/03/10 Greenland We are a 4 piece Pop Rock band. http://www.myspace.com/akingband http://twitter.com/akingband 29 2009/05/28 Pretoria NorthWest South Africa's fatboy rapper/Bcom marketing student/highergradehustler http://www.colorsuperpeers.co.za not gonna say im the best there'll ever http://twitter.com/damstarfatboy be, just tryna be the best i can be! 1 2009/02/27 Harare I smell like alcohol....a lot.Online Strategist, King Of TwiSer, creator of SA’shttp://www.bangersandnash.com favourite 2nd best entertainment blog, lover of women, http://twitter.com/bangersandnash excels in awesome. 6 2009/06/07 Greenland Rugby Player http://twitter.com/gurthro 1 2009/02/06 London Gwyn and Ryan raising money for SolarAid by traveling overland from London http://www.overlandinthesun.com to Cape Town, in a Toyota Landcruiser with Solar http://twitter.com/overlandsun Power 0 2009/02/20 Pretoria A Grateful Soul and Magnificent mind, in a Body, in the Best Country on Earth http://bit.ly/bN5hFy in these exciting times. http://twitter.com/_South_Africa_ 59 2010/08/08 Nairobi Kenyatweets.com is a website that helps you keep track of what's being said http://kenyatweets.com about Kenya in the TwitterSphere. Kenya through http://twitter.com/kenya_tweets the eyes of tweeps! 56 2009/06/02 Pretoria Freelance writer, photographer and blog consultant, 2010 SA Best Photographic http://www.naomisnotes.com Blog Finalist, passionate about nurturing talent http://twitter.com/Naomiestment and spreading inspiration 1 2009/08/03 Pretoria It's Good To Be You! http://www.womenshealthsa.co.za http://twitter.com/womenshealthsa 12 2009/04/07 London FARM-Africa works at a grassroots level with rural communities in easternhttp://www.farmafrica.org.uk Africa, providing long term solutions to poverty. http://twitter.com/farmafrica 392 2009/04/10 Pretoria I run www.shopvamp.com ✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ http://www.citykidssting.com http://twitter.com/niccisaintbruce 0 2009/12/02 Pretoria #1 Music DVD Gaming & Digital store in South Africa http://www.lookandlisten.co.za http://twitter.com/LookandListenSA 125 2008/10/11 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Jesus in a hotdog suit http://twitter.com/danielleguizio 1347 2008/03/15 Riga Editor of Stuff magazine http://twitter.com/shapshak 23 2009/08/20 Pretoria Follow Springbok assistant coach Gary Gold via his unique coaching website, http://www.rugbyiq.com www.rugbyiq.com - Raise Your Game! http://twitter.com/GaryGoldrugbyiq 0 2009/08/18 Greenland I like to help myself and other tweeters to succeed. I am an enthusiastic go http://bit.ly/U1PBZ getter and will direct you to the way to enlarch http://twitter.com/ericajohn1 your willy. 0 2007/12/29 Pretoria CEO of Zoopy. Tune in to bite-sized mobile videos of the latest news, sports http://www.zoopy.com and entertainment. | My personal multimedia blog http://twitter.com/jasonelk is at http://www.jasonelk.com. 2 2009/04/08 Greenland أحد مؤسسين شبكة رصـد، قسم االذاعة والتلفزيون، طالب بكلية االعالم، عمرو سـالمة القزازhttp://www.lesa-3aish.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/amrsalama 4 2007/04/11 Pretoria Polluting the South African interwebs since 1995. http://www.watkykjy.co.za http://twitter.com/watkykjy Page 12 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 Twitter Name Followed Followers DombeyaWine 3937 5698 justneem 5986 5689 laurenbeukes 201 5652 EroticHeat 6162 5647 expressoshow 149 5631 vbtunisia 2 5609 toniekonig 6167 5605 kaliefie 6225 5601 africam 4443 5600 aloive 5791 5590 irinnews 112 5525 MaxduPreez 115 5484 kankowski 39 5480 cameronolivier 1688 5455 FredBardy 5572 5453 schalkbrits 100 5424 Ramiii 193 5409 MTNSouthAfrica 994 5398 jeanesterhuizen 309 5395 vemmasa_verve 6163 5392 bradbarritt 157 5389 Ebtsama 4834 5353 youtubegeeks 6093 5353 matthewbuckland 676 5339 flipvandermerwe 109 5335 mikestopforth 816 5335 DavidDonde 5602 5308 vodacom111 4422 5289 capetalk567 366 5282 rossskeate 216 5282 Craighaywood 4463 5275 art2gee 2046 5271 yvetinsa 5909 5243 karabo_n 431 5201 addicted2jb 2858 5176 vidaecaffe 1116 5166 phillipdewet 278 5144 khadijapatel 820 5141 SamWilson1 624 5139 juicyjemma 2106 5135 ByLasKo 198 5079 elizepotgieter 5574 5046 ezemoneytonight 5159 5046 Tweets 3718 259 23321 5590 2021 2121 1131 1637 11341 105 5459 335 113 34763 7715 371 26981 3531 21731 8780 1262 18909 27892 4785 320 18015 2344 15603 5084 3173 7 3936 828 8599 18367 654 5302 21397 20978 4547 10579 826 2364 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 5 2009/01/29 Harare Making, drinking and enjoying great wines in Stellenbosch, South Africa's http://www.dombeyawine.com spiritual home of wine http://twitter.com/DombeyaWine 0 2008/11/08 Eastern Time (US & Canada) We're a North Carolina company that makes Neem body care products and http://justneem.com plants trees in Africa. http://twitter.com/justneem 80 2009/04/13 Pretoria Writer (aka glorified typist) of novels, including Zoo City and Moxyland, short http://www.laurenbeukes.com stories, screenplays and magazine articles http://twitter.com/laurenbeukes 1 2009/01/18 Harare My sensual erotic. stories I have written and images that did it for me.... http://tremblingfluidheat.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/EroticHeat 3 2010/09/29 Greenland We delve into a new kind of morning on SABC 3 with Katlego, Liezel, Ewanhttp://www.expressoshow.com & Kia! http://twitter.com/expressoshow 11 2009/05/12 West Central Africa The source for entertainment ! http://vBtn.me/vbtunisia http://twitter.com/vbtunisia 3 2008/08/20 Pretoria I'm an SEO expert. I use Social Media and SEO to build poweful digital marketing http://MainStreetMarketing.co.za campaigns for Real Estate Agents and Localhttp://twitter.com/toniekonig Business in South Africa. 70 2009/05/18 Greenland Servant of Christ, ex-pastor, passionate about renewal of society, social justice, http://www.facebook.com/johan.vandermerwe combating aids, poverty, etc. Loves theology, http://twitter.com/kaliefie [esp. arty] films. 1 2008/12/11 Greenland A LIVE 24/7 Interactive African Wildlife Safari. Wild animals in their natural http://www.africam.com habitat with streaming video and stereo sound. http://twitter.com/africam #wildlife #travel #animals 0 2009/05/20 Greenland MyHomeBiz offers all South Africans a passive income opportunity for life! http://www.the7figurebizonline.com http://twitter.com/aloive 0 2008/09/16 Nairobi The world's leading provider of specialist humanitarian news and analysishttp://www.irinnews.org/ http://twitter.com/irinnews 0 2009/06/26 author and columnist http://twitter.com/MaxduPreez 1 2009/09/07 Springbok and Sharks player living in Durban, South Africa. http://twitter.com/kankowski 32 2008/12/03 Pretoria I'm a designer/developer at theClassifieds.co.za, father to a beautiful daughter http://www.cameronolivier.com and a lover of God. http://twitter.com/cameronolivier 9 2008/05/24 West Central Africa KowaC8 Creator, Musician, Wordsmith, Strategist @work. Fusing Common http://www.facebook.com/FredBardy Sense & Technology as Musical Translations of our http://twitter.com/FredBardy Experiences in Ahaba. #LightUpNigeria 1 2009/06/20 London Living life! http://twitter.com/schalkbrits 261 2007/03/16 Cairo I work in the Radio . Trance is not music . Apple Fan Boy Listen to my show http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramimohsen/ on @NogoumFM 100.6 , FROM 2-3 PM for the best http://twitter.com/Ramiii Lounge / fusion tracks 0 2010/03/01 Pretoria http://www.mtn.co.za http://twitter.com/MTNSouthAfrica 82 2009/03/30 Pretoria SABC News TV & Radio Journalist | News Bulletin Writer for Goodhope FM http://www.facebook.com/jean.esterhuizen | Beyoncestan aka Killerbee| Rihanna & Gaga Fan http://twitter.com/jeanesterhuizen | I TWEET IN MY OWN PERSONAL CAPACITY. 0 2009/05/28 Pretoria Vemma VERVE - Boost of healthy energy http://darrylc.vemma.com/verve/ http://twitter.com/vemmasa_verve 6 2009/06/30 London Pro Rugby player at Saracens, previously of the Sharks...enjoying the ride! http://twitter.com/bradbarritt 2 2009/10/04 Cairo نافذتك على- نقاش جادابتسامة- اسالميات- برامج- العاب- اغانى- موقع ومنتديات ابتسامةافالمhttp://www.ebtsama.com/new/ http://twitter.com/Ebtsama 0 2009/04/06 Pretoria Thanks for following me on twitter. I am a Youtube Fanatic,SEO Junkie and Social Media Evangelist. http://twitter.com/youtubegeeks 6 2008/03/15 Pretoria MD CreativeSpark, Memeburn.com, ex-24.com/News24, ex-M&G Online http://www.matthewbuckland.com head, blogger: matthewbuckland.com, scifi & gadget http://twitter.com/matthewbuckland fiend, sport lover, dad of 2 1 2009/06/03 Rugbyplayer, Financial Advisor @ Sanlam Jenwil Blue Star. For any appearances http://www.jenwil.co.za contact colleen.schutte@essentiallygroup.com! http://twitter.com/flipvandermerwe 13 2007/03/07 Pretoria Dad, drummer, believer, marketer, sports fan (@ZASport), film freak, poker http://www.mikestopforth.com amateur, proud South African. Founder of @cerebra, http://twitter.com/mikestopforth @27dinner. Incomplete blinker. 1 2008/05/19 Pretoria Coffee Evangelist, pseudo journalist, talk show host and sometime marketing http://www.daviddonde.com/wp anarchist. Now a purveyor of TRUTH. http://twitter.com/DavidDonde 5 2010/10/08 Pretoria The official Vodacom channel dedicated to customer service. We're onlinehttp://www.vodacom.co.za from 7AM - 10PM, 7days a week. http://twitter.com/vodacom111 137 2009/04/25 Harare Cape Town's No.1 News and Talk Station http://www.capetalk.co.za http://twitter.com/capetalk567 4 2009/06/17 Paris Originally from Cape Town, I now live in Durban and play rugby for The Sharks. http://RossSkeate.com Find out more about that @ RossSkeate.comhttp://twitter.com/rossskeate 0 2009/04/05 Pretoria Marketer, Author, Programmer, Speaker, Coaching http://www.craighaywood.com http://twitter.com/Craighaywood 207 2008/09/08 Hawaii Run World Wide Worx, publish Gadget magazine, write books on urban legends http://www.gadget.co.za and tech topics. Chelsea and Wits U fan, SF,http://twitter.com/art2gee comics and retro tech. 1 2010/04/13 Born for adventure. Online Entrepreneur and Fitness Fanatic.Living with an http://www.internetopportunities.co/19831 abundance mindset. http://twitter.com/yvetinsa 52 2009/10/05 Amsterdam Tv presenter/ Radio presenter on Voice of Wits/ Voice-over artist/ MC/ BA student/ Aspiring actress and a sucker for love, literature http://twitter.com/karabo_n and the Arts 37 2010/03/27 Pretoria We're addicted to the BIEB! He's RTed us twice ; ) NEVER SAY NEVER♥live http://tl.gd/39g7j5 http://twitter.com/addicted2jb 4 2009/03/26 Pretoria http://www.vidaecaffe.com http://twitter.com/vidaecaffe 1 2010/01/07 Pretoria Deputy editor of The Daily Maverick and father to two cats who are routinely photographed to within an inch of their lives.http://twitter.com/phillipdewet 106 2008/12/05 Pretoria Journalist with The Daily Maverick . Opinions my own. Retweets not endorsements. http://khadijapatel.com Terms and Conditions Apply. Not a registered http://twitter.com/khadijapatel financial services provider. 840 2008/04/29 Pretoria Editor-in-Chief: Women24, Parent24 and Food24. Feminist, anarchist andhttp://www.women24.com renegade parent, raging against the dying of the http://twitter.com/SamWilson1 strobe light. 12 2010/04/15 Pretoria Miss July for Playboy SA! Blogger, socialite, fashionista, shoe-addict, go-getter, http://on.fb.me/qbeOPv radio regular & full-time model in the making. http://twitter.com/juicyjemma This is my journey. Buckle up! 958 2009/08/30 Paris Journaliste et vidéo-blogueur.Peace, Power & Respect. http://www.bylasko.com http://twitter.com/ByLasKo 0 2009/05/30 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Business owner and entrepreneur. I love living life love my family and myhttp://bit.ly/mWfaOw dogs http://twitter.com/elizepotgieter 0 2010/08/21 Pacific Time (US & Canada) When To start Online income as a part time job, The best way is to make http://your-plaza.com it free at the first, and here is the best place to grab http://twitter.com/ezemoneytonight %100 free tools to start with Page 13 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 Twitter Name Followed Followers venatoria 5510 5043 arnojordaan 153 5040 comradesipho 487 5035 TheGabi 812 5019 Masr 864 4995 followchintan 2004 4938 walterpike 4070 4930 CellC 644 4915 hartleyr 539 4880 africanewsfeed 28 4871 leratommoloi 392 4851 weight_loss_web 5350 4817 duane_vermeulen 28 4793 wsjafrica 651 4783 mkaigwa 2119 4767 lwazimvovo 75 4751 anthonydacruz 5119 4750 lloydcele 3959 4722 7okaha 108 4679 Elmakapelma 1162 4667 patriciadelille 130 4666 justinhartman 2705 4652 texasinafrica 206 4623 missiondiary 4446 4615 futurecapetown 3507 4612 FoodBlogCT 4986 4606 gbishopsa 4646 4557 elbaradie 695 4533 mark_keohane 314 4520 derikmocke 4631 4515 francisotolo 4977 4513 jcwLIFE 26 4507 capetownfreeway 2 4502 mikeasaunders 3874 4495 allforafrica 676 4490 bigjoevn 40 4487 ReagenAllen 2783 4454 golddust7 4755 4447 TimothyMoloi 4537 4442 brentrussell 173 4434 allcapetown 1801 4396 derekwatts 30 4374 afrigadget 36 4362 Tweets 1193 1196 16340 62786 24429 5629 9525 5642 2386 5608 13049 11226 130 2548 8890 182 369 1881 28014 6038 296 5752 14315 2311 16468 1342 738 27 2767 9330 4719 871 18944 4808 1145 161 8804 69 1585 380 6135 280 326 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 4 2009/02/12 Brussels Venatoria Network CEO.Online brands architect (Internet MarkeLng, Webhttp://www.houssemh.com Technologies). http://twitter.com/venatoria 2 2009/10/02 South african artist http://www.arnojordaan.co.za http://twitter.com/arnojordaan 152 2010/03/21 Pretoria Wordsmith. Columnist. Counter-revolutionary. Social democrat. Part-timehttp://about.me/comradesipho bitter cynic. http://twitter.com/comradesipho 207 2009/02/12 Pretoria I am what I am, I am my own special creation! http://gabiville.tumblr.com http://twitter.com/TheGabi 12 2007/08/15 Cairo انت اللى شايف الدنيا غلط.. اسمى مش مقلوبhttp://masr.ws http://twitter.com/Masr 2 2008/12/23 Pretoria iOS (iPhone/iPad) Developer. Learning Cocoa. Like to follow like-minded people. http://www.lotofwallpapers.com http://twitter.com/followchintan 2 2007/12/27 Pretoria Founder: PiKE |New Marketing & of the Digital Academy. Social Media participant http://www.pike.co.za & guide. Pro Speaker, Blogger. http://twitter.com/walterpike 4 2009/05/18 Pretoria Cell C looks to the future to bring you the technology of tomorrow today.http://www.cellc.co.za That's why, above all, we are a provider of possibilities. http://twitter.com/CellC The power is in your hands! 2 2007/08/21 Greenland Editor of the Sunday Times http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley http://twitter.com/hartleyr 0 2008/11/17 Amsterdam AfricaNews is the most compelling interactive Africa community, sharing http://www.africanews.com news, photos, videos, mobile reports and the untold http://twitter.com/africanewsfeed stories by African reporters. 873 2010/02/26 Pretoria God's favourite daughter! http://twitter.com/leratommoloi 0 2009/05/23 Pretoria Lose all your excess weight today http://weightloss.onlinebeauty.co.za/ http://twitter.com/weight_loss_web 0 2010/05/20 http://twitter.com/duane_vermeulen 0 2010/03/15 West Central Africa The Wall Street Journal - Africa http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-africa.html http://twitter.com/wsjafrica 4096 2008/10/07 Nairobi Strategist, CreaLve & Speaker. Working with brands, agencies & nonprofits http://about.me/mkaigwa to communicate to a new generaLon of Africanshttp://twitter.com/mkaigwa online. 2 2010/03/02 Greenland Play rugby for the Sharks, Originally from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape http://twitter.com/lwazimvovo 1 2007/05/19 Pretoria An ex chef still in love with food. http://tastebuddelights.com http://twitter.com/anthonydacruz 0 2010/08/23 Greenland DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW!!!!!!!!Idols VI Runner Up, For bookings visit www.lloydcele.com http://www.lloydcele.com or contact roy@respectmusic.co.za http://twitter.com/lloydcele 34 2011/01/22 Cairo tweets 21+ أنا بتويت إذا أنا موجودhttp://www.2alamen.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/7okaha 14 2009/03/03 Greenland Lady Rugga @SupersportRugbyDJ @5FM (4-7am,w/ends) & host of @Studio1_ http://elmasmit.co.za/ on @MKtv_ These views are my own. http://twitter.com/Elmakapelma 1 2011/02/22 Pretoria Mayor of the City of Cape Town.Email: mayor.mayor@capetown.gov.zaPhone: http://www.da.org.za 00 27 21 400 1322 http://twitter.com/patriciadelille 71 2007/03/13 Pretoria CEO and co-founder of @Afrigator and @SocialCodebiz. Both keep me really http://justinhartman.com busy http://twitter.com/justinhartman 4 2009/04/20 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Assistant political science professor at Morehouse College. I study community http://texasinafrica.blogspot.com responses to state failure & conflict in centralhttp://twitter.com/texasinafrica Africa. Also pirates. 10 2008/06/04 Mexico City Missionary, Church Planter, Pastor. training and planting Churches. Lovinghttp://www.living4Jesus.org Jesus with All my heart. http://twitter.com/missiondiary 65 2009/04/13 Pretoria IDEAS OUTLET: a social media movement aimed at inspiring citizens and stimulating http://futurecapetown.com debate about the present and future Cape http://twitter.com/futurecapetown Town. 2 2010/01/30 Pretoria entertaining blog based in Cape Town on food related topics as well as restaurant http://foodblog.cape-town.info specials, news and event updates. Find marketing http://twitter.com/FoodBlogCT resources @FoodBlogCT_MKTG 0 2009/09/09 Pretoria Wordpress, Blogging, Online research, SEO insights, Sports enthusiast http://wpdiscover.com http://twitter.com/gbishopsa 1 2009/12/16 Greenland 2011 محمد البرادعى من اجل رئاسة مصر فى/ الحملة الشعبية المستقلة لدعم وترشيح دhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123551066565 http://twitter.com/elbaradie 7 2010/04/21 Pretoria Sportswriter, publisher and rugby talk show host and dad to Oliver and Julia http://www.keo.co.za http://twitter.com/mark_keohane 1 2009/04/28 Pretoria Write articles on Employee Engagement, Emotional Intelligence, Stress Management, http://www.sustainable-employee-motivation.com/ Leadership Development, Change Management, http://twitter.com/derikmocke Teambuilding & Employee Motivation 10 2008/08/09 West Central Africa Entrepreneur, Founder, edupreneur, bootstrapper, visionary & innovator.http://www.francisotolo.com Work on sustainable business, ideas, StartUps & what http://twitter.com/francisotolo practically works and betters life. 2 2009/07/06 Pretoria A Talkshow host with Talk Radio 702,writer, runs an author event company, http://www.702.co.za/pages/shows/jenny.asp mad about everything & has interviewed everyone http://twitter.com/jcwLIFE from Bill Clinton to James Patterson! 16 2010/06/24 Pretoria We report on traffic flows on most of Cape Town Freeways. We cover the N1 to the Tunnel, N2 to Sir Lowry's Pass, N7 to Potsdam, http://twitter.com/capetownfreeway R300 and M5 between N1 and N2. 2 2008/04/09 Pretoria CEO @digit_lab, Blogger, Keynote Speaker @tomorrowtodayza and Learner http://www.mikesaunders.co.za in all things on the new media (SEO, Social Media, http://twitter.com/mikeasaunders Mobile & Blogging) 0 2008/12/22 Eastern Time (US & Canada) All for Africa develops solutions for communities designed to generate long-term http://allforafrica.org sustainable revenue streams to fund localhttp://twitter.com/allforafrica development programs in Africa 0 2010/06/18 Paris Pro rugby player,eternal optimist who loves life!!! http://bit.ly/aI3zP6 http://twitter.com/bigjoevn 398 2008/12/03 Mid-Atlantic Blogger | Indigenous | Legal | Politics | I love my PC my friends live in it |http://about.me/reagenallen Will use tasteful words, I might have to eat it later™ http://twitter.com/ReagenAllen 0 2009/04/19 Pretoria medic turning life coach trainee, energy worker, network marketing, intl. http://vgovender.successuniversity.com/specialoffer travel, http://twitter.com/golddust7 115 2009/03/16 Pretoria Soweto born singer! Listen to my debut album LOVE THAT MUSIC at www.timothymoloi.bandcamp.com. http://www.youtube.com/user/TimothyMoloi Follow me on Facebook http://twitter.com/TimothyMoloi at www.facebook.com/pages/Timothy-Moloi. 8 2009/03/16 Paris Husband to a loving wife, Father to a little Princess, Professional rugby player in France. Love Harley's, Sport, Family and Jesus! http://twitter.com/brentrussell 1 2009/12/29 Pretoria http://twitter.com/allcapetown 14 2010/08/05 ✔ Verified Account. Anchor of M-Net's Carte Blanche for 23 years...sincehttp://www.derekwatts.co.za the age of 16. All views expressed are personal. http://twitter.com/derekwatts 0 2008/04/16 Quito Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity http://www.AfriGadget.com http://twitter.com/afrigadget Page 14 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 Twitter Name Followed Followers Mtwfeek 340 4360 fbclubafrica 20 4349 mcleodd 295 4349 msheshtawy 385 4336 Authopublisher 3947 4331 africatechie 1503 4322 luxafricatravel 1674 4311 KatyKatopodis 600 4275 gbengasesan 755 4271 ana_elbaradei 1 4268 SouthAfricaStay 1454 4254 gerthough 4369 4249 adidasza 338 4247 qbase28 4 4214 TankLanning 400 4181 fromtheold 2263 4179 hurricanevaness 254 4159 JackPuzzle 4144 4151 samsungmobilesa 1754 4114 nollynolz 618 4113 sandtoncity 1508 4084 kirstybisset 780 4063 Houeida 632 4046 chadsaaiman 335 4030 dannicholl 166 3994 IvoVegter 1138 3989 abramjee 578 3982 melattree 1555 3978 verashni 501 3971 StandardBankGrp 2808 3967 Afrigator 3816 3958 uyspj 300 3958 justinspratt 340 3943 moseskemibaro 2472 3935 ianfsa 792 3919 AnilSalick 4104 3907 alechogg 3783 3900 Dazmsmith 4213 3900 tshegomlp 359 3893 oudjoe 4306 3892 robstokes 388 3873 HarounKola 2933 3871 sanetwork 3516 3829 Tweets 48329 2199 9378 17645 9091 7860 263 1282 8775 3295 5020 1705 1040 409 13647 4393 5844 2083 1597 11010 2619 14677 5543 12215 6750 22196 3029 25888 7101 7425 24992 451 6809 4125 4398 2055 2045 30434 12804 5730 3929 10402 1547 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 20 2007/11/29 Cairo Retweet doesn't mean acceptance ! http://www.facebook.com/mtwfeeq http://twitter.com/Mtwfeek 0 2009/03/12 West Central Africa Helping you improve your business in Africa http://www.flyingblueclubafrica.com http://twitter.com/fbclubafrica 5 2007/12/19 Pretoria Technology journalist and entrepreneur living in South Africa. Editor of www.techcentral.co.za http://www.techcentral.co.za (on Twitter @TechCentral) http://twitter.com/mcleodd 29 2009/10/06 Kuwait A proud EgypLan, An Engineer trying to be a journalist and photographer.http://msheshtawy.com/ A believer with a mind full of ideas. FreedomOfSpeech http://twitter.com/msheshtawy supporter and a Blogger : 8 2010/08/23 Pretoria Self publishing expert blogger. Collaborate with me now hSp://authopublisher.com/blogging-2/blog-tribe-collaborators http://authopublisher.com http://twitter.com/Authopublisher 6 2010/01/23 West Central Africa African Tech Entrepreneur. Tweet about technology in Africa, Corruption http://africanentrepreneur.blogspot.com/ and African politics. Blog about the daily reality ofhttp://twitter.com/africatechie doing business in Africa. 4 2009/09/25 Harare Luxury Africa Travel is your personal concierge for luxury travel services tohttp://www.luxuryafricatravel.com Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Islands. http://twitter.com/luxafricatravel 1 2009/10/08 Editor-in-chief Eyewitness News, obsessed with news, current affairs, chocolate, my two boys, family and good friends! http://twitter.com/KatyKatopodis 2 2009/03/06 West Central Africa Nigerian. Social Entrepreneur. ICT for Development (ICT4D) Consultant. http://www.pinigeria.org http://twitter.com/gbengasesan 2 2011/03/12 Cairo حملة بھدف إيصال الصورة الحقيقة عن البرادعي.. حملة أنا البرادعي البرادعي كما يجب أن تعرفهhttp://www.facebook.com/ana.elbaradei http://twitter.com/ana_elbaradei 8 2009/04/07 I'm Dorothee, tweeting about South Africa and some of the greatest places http://www.southafrica-stay.com to stay in the Rainbow Nation. http://twitter.com/SouthAfricaStay 72 2008/05/18 Pretoria Article Writer - Website Marketer - Website Promoter - Child of God http://gerthough.com http://twitter.com/gerthough 0 2011/02/28 Greenland The official adidas South Africa twitter account. Follow for all the latest product http://www.adidas.com/za information, competitions and information http://twitter.com/adidasza on adidas South Africa athletes. 0 2009/05/25 Pretoria The biggest youth slot in South Africa! Live weekdays 4-5.30pm exclusive http://www.facebook.com/qbase28 to SABC2. http://twitter.com/qbase28 17 2009/04/08 Pretoria A thirsty beer and rugby enthusiast, with a penchant for the digital media,http://www.frontrowgrunt.co.za but not at the expense of family and friends http://twitter.com/TankLanning 2 2008/04/08 Pretoria http://twitter.com/fromtheold 3 2009/03/27 Pretoria Editorial Director, Editor SA Cosmopolitan, Blogger, Rubber ducky. Makeshttp://hurricanevanessa.com a good pasta and chocolate cheesecake. http://twitter.com/hurricanevaness 13 2010/11/05 Greenland Any direct message I recieve I will ReTweet but first you have to Follow me http://bit.ly/r2oYVx then I will Follow you back. http://twitter.com/JackPuzzle 1 2009/06/19 Pretoria This is the official Twitter channel for Samsung Mobile South Africa. http://www.samsung.com/africa_en http://twitter.com/samsungmobilesa 4 2009/02/13 Greenland Actress,TV Presenter, MC,Researcher,Singer,PR jounior consultant,OAKLEY Ambassador,Writer,Fashionista,vo artist and a child http://twitter.com/nollynolz of GOD:) 0 2009/06/18 Harare Well known shopping centre that attracts both national and internationalhttp://www.sandtoncity.co.za vistors. Visit www.sandtonista.co.za http://twitter.com/sandtoncity 87 2009/05/24 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Distinctly average attitude towards conformity. Patron Princess. Comic Sans http://www.fhm.co.za/social/profile/KirstyB must perish! http://twitter.com/kirstybisset 126 2007/03/02 Rome I am a magician, I make you disappear! http://www.afkar.tn http://twitter.com/Houeida 13 2009/03/26 Greenland Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Soldier.THE FLIGHT (2011) now available at Look&Listen http://www.facebook.com/chadsaaiman Stores Nationwide.For Bookings contact http://twitter.com/chadsaaiman Tony Blonde on (+27)74 196 6790 0 2009/04/18 Harare CEO of Skududu Media and Hazard Golf Clothing; MC, writer, presenter and http://www.dannicholl.co.za manic traveller. http://twitter.com/dannicholl 0 2007/12/19 Pretoria Columnist. Stirrer. A sniveling sycophant. A rotten little shill. An agenda, Ihttp://ivo.co.za/ haz it. http://twitter.com/IvoVegter 6 2010/08/03 Head of News and Current Affairs : Primedia Broadcasting. Chairperson National Press Club. http://twitter.com/abramjee 740 2008/03/06 Pretoria Marketing & digital consultant who is fascinated by the bright, shiny thinghttp://about.me/melattree called the internet. Passionate about developing http://twitter.com/melattree smart 'Information curation' stuff. 11 2008/10/07 Pretoria Columnist and Deputy Editor: M&G Online http://www.mg.co.za/verashni http://twitter.com/verashni 0 2009/07/15 Pretoria Welcome to the official Standard Bank Group on Twitter http://www.standardbank.com http://twitter.com/StandardBankGrp 2 2007/08/16 Pretoria This is the official Afrigator account. We post the best links from Africa and http://afrigator.com respond to your requests! http://twitter.com/Afrigator 3 2009/06/21 Pretoria Vodacom CEO http://twitter.com/uyspj 135 2007/07/27 Greenland CEO @ Quirk; co-founder of web incubator ISLabs & community initiativehttp://www.sandboxsavant.com GeekRetreat. Sit on Silicon Cape board. Educatedhttp://twitter.com/justinspratt in Finance and Economics. 19 2007/12/30 Nairobi africa 2.0 entrepreneur, writer, speaker, e-consultant, proud dad, techblogger, http://www.moseskemibaro.com dotsavvy founder and dealfish east africa country http://twitter.com/moseskemibaro manager. 4 2009/02/03 Pretoria The IanF Show, Voice Overs & Tequila... Mad About Good Radio! http://www.facebook.com/theianfshow http://twitter.com/ianfsa 30 2009/01/26 Pretoria Expert Facilitator, Professional Speaker, Business Strategist and Writer. Committed http://www.anilsalick.com to sharing about Authenticity, Freethinking http://twitter.com/AnilSalick & Inspiration. 7 2008/07/29 Pretoria Writer, broadcaster, thinker; lives by choice in the KZN Midlands, South Africa; http://www.moneyweb.co.za tweets market updates and references to hishttp://twitter.com/alechogg own and other useful articles 1440 2007/11/03 Harare SmartR Media. Authoritative. Bullet the blue sky. red espresso. Marmalade. http://about.me/darren.m.smith Zebu. Dark chocolate. Double Jameson on ice. Jonathan http://twitter.com/Dazmsmith Livingston Seagull. Blue. Rock. 22 2009/11/10 Greenland I have Faith in my God,passion8 about people and things that i Love..Im not perfect but Im principled. My mission is Branding, http://twitter.com/tshegomlp watch me evolve on @Qbase28 :) 2 2009/10/02 Pretoria http://www.wozahost.com http://twitter.com/oudjoe 0 2008/04/01 Pretoria Internet entrepreneur, eMarketing geek, cricket fan and fishing nut http://twitter.com/robstokes 153 2007/06/13 Pretoria eco geek, rainbow guru, blogger, social entrepreneur, seo, sem, smm, kahuna, http://harounkola.com yogi, sufi, mystic. i love to serve existence! http://twitter.com/HarounKola 76 2009/06/02 Pretoria TweeLng & RetweeLng mostly for the greater good of our Rainbow NaLon. http://twitter.com/sanetwork May also randomly assist with crowd sourcing! http://twitter.com/sanetwork Page 15 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 Twitter Name Followed Followers food24 1179 3815 davidmillersa12 52 3807 mandyldewaal 655 3806 red_elvis 2821 3799 bvmujati 111 3793 assembly_ct 851 3791 maddoxp1 4257 3791 dana_hughes 639 3773 kinzard 3957 3768 yfmtraffic 1 3760 africagathering 950 3660 numetro 1026 3637 breytonpaulse 100 3621 janbraai 171 3589 jhblive 3207 3576 raouldejongh 482 3571 toksvdl 795 3562 victordlamini 1374 3552 brodiegal 649 3547 africasoccer 34 3534 Bruceps 493 3504 carlyw226 562 3493 Shine2010 3681 3491 tunisiawatch 208 3487 nokiarsa 174 3483 geoffreyyork 1105 3481 cnbcafrica 12 3466 brankobrkic 756 3452 dionwired 581 3451 CwBrazendale 3757 3403 Paul_rotherham 64 3399 Mohamed_Mnafeg 3746 3398 spillly 134 3390 LiamLynchPhoto 451 3385 RelaxWithDax 318 3368 Pigspotkzn 24 3346 Rababoush 414 3317 iDisrespectHoez 223 3311 markctn 1359 3290 rbjacobs 2206 3279 maggiev 1027 3277 brendanjack 403 3243 RichardHardiman 1335 3225 Tweets 4090 258 10377 13731 1982 3283 41 4846 756 26158 2618 3806 490 3606 857 8186 1103 27172 35331 76504 3889 6244 1781 726 2794 2883 888 4824 3799 62 2059 540 31929 22157 7825 3850 30094 48875 1116 11103 10397 1608 5280 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 2009/02/18 Pretoria SA’s leading online foodie site – with recipes, restaurants and awesome blogs! http://www.food24.com http://twitter.com/food24 2 2011/01/17 Professional Cricketer in South Africa and passionate Sharks supporter. http://twitter.com/davidmillersa12 7 2008/04/17 Pretoria Writer. Thought Activist. Journalist. http://mdw.typepad.com http://twitter.com/mandyldewaal 61 2009/03/01 West Central Africa Time flies when you're in a coma. http://twitter.com/red_elvis 19 2010/04/25 London 260 pounds 6 feet from the ground... http://twitter.com/bvmujati 128 2009/03/27 Harare Cape Town's Live & Electronic Music Venue http://www.theassembly.co.za http://twitter.com/assembly_ct 0 2009/07/22 Pretoria http://twitter.com/maddoxp1 6 2009/03/01 Nairobi Reporting from Africa for ABC News http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_correspondents&bio_id=111 http://twitter.com/dana_hughes 0 2010/05/26 Pretoria Sneaker Crazy, Nature Freak, Tennis and Cape Argus Lover http://kswisssneakerstore.com http://twitter.com/kinzard 1 2009/04/09 Pretoria Brings you traffic updates in the Gauteng area as they happen. To send ushttp://www.yworld.co.za traffic incidents e-mail: yfmtraffic@yfm.co.za http://twitter.com/yfmtraffic 1 2009/01/20 London First all-inclusive platform featuring doers, thinkers technophiles, developers, http://www.africagathering.org entrepreneurs to come and share ideas abouthttp://twitter.com/africagathering Africa. 7 2008/01/29 Pretoria more entertaining, South Africa - DVD, Cinema, Gaming, Blu-Ray http://www.numetro.co.za http://twitter.com/numetro 5 2009/09/14 Pretoria Rugby, http://www.breyton.co.za http://twitter.com/breytonpaulse 3 2009/05/18 Pretoria The man behind National Braai Day. The celebration of the nation. http://braai.com http://twitter.com/janbraai 0 2009/04/22 Pretoria Your online guide to things to do in Johannesburg. http://www.jhblive.com http://twitter.com/jhblive 51 2008/08/27 Pretoria Food, Wine, People. Biking, running, swimming & laughing. Music, balance http://www.urban-ninja.co.za and a sense of purpose. Attempting to be the worlds http://twitter.com/raouldejongh first carbon neutral athlete. 5 2010/09/17 Greenland Love life http://www.ciplamedpro.co.za http://twitter.com/toksvdl 43 2009/02/03 Pretoria Travel Addict, Columnist, Communicator, Chairman of Chillibush Communications, http://victordlamini.com/ Portrait Photographer, Music and Art Collector http://twitter.com/victordlamini 63 2009/02/09 Pretoria Journalist, writer, editor & author of The Joburg Book and Inside Joburg. Useless http://www.africanmagic.co.za blogger and former mag hag, Jewish mother, http://twitter.com/brodiegal singer, horse rider & boxer. 0 2009/06/26 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Live soccer scores from the Confederation of Arican Football. http://www.worldsoccertweets.com http://twitter.com/africasoccer 248 2009/03/18 Greenland Editor, Business Day, Johannesburg. Former editor Financial Mail & Business Report. Former Madrid Correspondent & Bonnhttp://twitter.com/Bruceps Corr, Financial Times 0 2008/12/05 Pretoria Media. Journalist. Online. Sports...Arsenal. Currently working as a Sports Reporter http://blog.carlyweinberg.com for the eNews Channel. http://twitter.com/carlyw226 1 2008/09/04 Pretoria Keeping you up to date on the 2010 World Cup. News, videos, interviews,http://www.shine2010.co.za facts and insights into the world’s largest sportinghttp://twitter.com/Shine2010 event. 11 2007/10/25 Paris Pour une TUNISIE Libre et Democratique http://www.tunisiawatch.com/ http://twitter.com/tunisiawatch 7 2009/03/31 Pretoria Nokia South Africa, connecting with people from all over the country, talking tech, music, navigation, apps and more! http://twitter.com/nokiarsa 0 2009/05/27 Pretoria Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail; based in Johannesburg but http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ travelling across sub-Saharan Africa; email address: http://twitter.com/geoffreyyork gyork@globeandmail.com 0 2009/07/16 Greenland CNBC Africa is Africa’s first 24 hour international markets, finance and business http://www.cnbcafrica.com network available on DStv channel 410. http://twitter.com/cnbcafrica 15 2009/01/08 Pretoria An accidental traveller through space/time continuum. Editor of The Daily http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za Maverick, South Africa. http://twitter.com/brankobrkic 1 2009/06/03 Pretoria DionWired is South Africa's premier consumer electronics & appliances store. http://www.dionwired.co.za/ http://twitter.com/dionwired 0 2008/07/11 Pretoria My passion is property and internet marketing. I am also good at Adwordshttp://www.prevent-repossession.co.za and Linkbuilding. But most important to me is myhttp://twitter.com/CwBrazendale Family. 3 2010/03/12 Pretoria A Lefty Made in Stratford, England. Imported to Benoni. Voice Artist, MC,http://www.skynetwork.co.za Radio/TV Presenter. Love Ferrari. Keep Koi. Drinkhttp://twitter.com/Paul_rotherham Tea. Breathe Radio! :) 2 2008/04/18 Paris Author and Internet marketer http://www.GuruReviews.net http://twitter.com/Mohamed_Mnafeg 3 2008/05/16 Helsinki Spillly with 3 L's http://spillly.com/ http://twitter.com/spillly 304 2009/05/07 Pretoria I am a photographer; it's that simple. I am an artist; it's that complicated.http://liamlynchphotographer.posterous.com/ http://twitter.com/LiamLynchPhoto 43 2009/04/15 Pretoria What's what in Cape Town http://www.relax-with-dax.co.za http://twitter.com/RelaxWithDax 3 2010/08/11 Pretoria Automatic retweet service for information relating to traffic and traffic incidents http://j-j.co.za/pigspotkzn in KZN. Visit the website for code of conduct. http://twitter.com/Pigspotkzn 121 2011/02/04 Greenland Utopia Dreamer, Eager to Change, Sarcastic, Optimistic, I hate Lyingأعرفhttp://rabababeda.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/Rababoush 153 2009/03/24 Pacific Time (US & Canada) I play in the NBA...I'm a multi-platinum rnb singer...And I model in McChicken commercials... http://twitter.com/iDisrespectHoez 9 2009/08/29 Pretoria News Editor, Noseweek, Africa's only monthly Investigative Magazine. (Tweeting http://www.noseweek.co.za in my personal capacity) http://twitter.com/markctn 4709 2008/09/29 Pretoria The official FNB Guy. In South Africa, Love our customers & FNB, How canhttp://www.facebook.com/FNBSA I help you? http://twitter.com/rbjacobs 69 2007/10/09 Pretoria ICT/social media 4 learning & Teaching activist + Maths teacher supporterhttp://www.school2.co.za and material developer http://twitter.com/maggiev 0 2009/03/03 Pretoria Film & TV writer, performer, producer, director, voice artist, marketer, content http://www.brendanjack.com/ creator. Author of this book: http://amzn.to/o9RBro http://twitter.com/brendanjack 1 2009/04/01 Cape Verde Is. When the mike is off the twitter happens... http://harderslive.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/RichardHardiman Page 16 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 Twitter Name Followed Followers ilovewonderbra 3298 3222 Africabiz 3715 3217 jamiewhosa 763 3216 Mokgads 1203 3215 Lyndall_Jarvis 145 3203 RichMulholland 169 3195 wasanga_mayhem 1594 3183 sandtontimes 268 3172 nomatq 740 3171 gianvisser 1519 3165 ECR_Newswatch 113 3164 nooredge 3500 3164 stanlouw 3459 3158 ajaxcapetown 2381 3154 NeilManthorp 59 3148 Women24 1220 3129 NMandelaBay 2289 3123 ryansandes 154 3122 MeLuvLife 3027 3114 OneFMKe 2614 3084 onelocation 619 3079 Tech4Africa 2064 3074 itweb 665 3068 rafiq 1422 3063 johnperlman 304 3057 Motribe 64 3031 jasonvonberg 865 3024 innov8ive 1940 3023 vincenthofmann 2643 3023 wooze66 3261 3021 al_hargreaves 33 3016 andyhadfield 871 3014 samanthaperry 1068 3014 tertia 443 3006 jongambrellAP 547 3003 sznq 761 2975 marcforrest 806 2971 africacafe 3204 2957 CindyPoluta 393 2954 paultreu 17 2951 baldaufji 1712 2949 nicharry 270 2945 VisionAfrica 422 2938 Tweets 2065 15612 4972 14771 1140 9237 36776 4618 61021 2631 4093 1722 1441 1084 185 2893 1057 1346 3866 10647 668 1715 3276 27723 736 76 12197 23179 12000 3925 239 9077 29161 14598 2956 40419 15688 2661 5464 1614 15781 12857 8069 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 2010/09/13 Pretoria The official Wonderbra South Africa Twitter account. You're an original. Own http://www.wonderbra.co.za/ it. http://twitter.com/ilovewonderbra 1 2009/08/15 London We bring Africa Businesses and Business opportunities to your office and http://madeinafrika.biz home, Africa is the way forward http://twitter.com/Africabiz 0 2009/06/16 Harare Food writer, food designer, food entrepreneur. I love my wife, my bulldoghttp://www.aficionado.co.za/jamiewho and...obviously...food. But never all at once. Thathttp://twitter.com/jamiewhosa would be gross. 39 2010/02/19 Pretoria Lifestyle Writer at City Press.For any info on health, travel, food, arts, culture, http://likerofthings.tumblr.com/ entertainment, fashion, beauty, etc. email mokgadi.seabi@citypress.co.za. http://twitter.com/Mokgads 1 2009/03/18 Greenland Born and raised capetonian...otherwise known as Jarvie !!!! http://twitter.com/Lyndall_Jarvis 2218 2007/03/18 Pretoria A guy, some tattoos, and a big mouth. http://richmulholland.com http://twitter.com/RichMulholland 69 2010/06/14 Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife.Ok I'm lying|Information http://www.blackbacon.tumblr.com Sciences and PMG Honours Graduate|THIShttp://twitter.com/wasanga_mayhem IS TWITTER!!*kicks u in the chest* 0 2010/02/01 Greenland #1 source of Sandton news, nightlife, shopping, people, hotels & restaurants http://bit.ly/blXO8o in Africa’s richest square mile. Contact us: sandtontimes@gmail.com http://twitter.com/sandtontimes 24 2009/03/16 Greenland Im African by birth, Xhosa by culture and Cosmopolitan by choice. http://twitter.com/nomatq 151 2009/03/16 Pretoria CEO of Afrihost. My strict 'no promotion in my bio' policy means I can't say http://www.afrihost.com how ridiculously awesome Afrihost is. I love God,http://twitter.com/gianvisser my family & entrepreneurship 0 2008/09/10 Pretoria KZN-based news from Durban's No.1 radio station http://blog.ecr.co.za/newswatch/ http://twitter.com/ECR_Newswatch 1 2008/11/24 London DeeJay/Producer.Freaks Culture Records A&R. 'Mindfreak Show' Host on Proton http://www.facebook.com/djnooredge Radio http://twitter.com/nooredge 5 2009/04/15 Pretoria Social Media Strategist, Marketing Consultant & Trainer @VIRAConsultinghttp://www.facebook.com/viramarketing | Pro Bono Mystery Shopper | Recovering Gourmet http://twitter.com/stanlouw | Land-locked Spearo | 10 2010/01/20 Pretoria The latest news from Ajax Cape Town F.C. playing in the PSL League. Go Urban http://ajaxct.com Warriors!!! http://twitter.com/ajaxcapetown 0 2009/05/13 Harare http://twitter.com/NeilManthorp 2 2009/03/31 Pretoria Where SA women chat. http://www.women24.com http://twitter.com/Women24 1 2009/05/19 Pretoria Friendly people, great beaches, Big 7 game viewing, history, culture, sports, http://www.nmbt.co.za 2010 and IRB Sevens host city and so much more. http://twitter.com/NMandelaBay The perfect destination. 0 2010/08/07 Pretoria Trail Runner.. Outdoor lover.. Living my dreams.. http://www.ryansandes.com http://twitter.com/ryansandes 285 2010/04/30 Cairo I'm 24, EGYPTIAN & PROUD...Try'n not 2 give a fu*k about anything ♥ Shoes, http://www.formspring.me/Shimaz Soccer, Music, Winters, My Room, Pasta, Jasonhttp://twitter.com/MeLuvLife Mraz & Hamza Namira 3 2010/09/13 Nairobi hSp://www.facebook.com/onefmke97.1 fm.Nairobi’s Premier All Local And http://www.1fm.co.ke Urban Radio StaLon Now Streaming Live on http://twitter.com/OneFMKe 0 2009/04/03 London Updated by Steve Villiers :: onelocation.com :: Worldwide (in a few weekshttp://www.onelocation.com ;-) Holiday Rentals Direct from the Owner http://twitter.com/onelocation 1 2010/01/15 Pretoria Tech4Africa is a web and emerging technology conference, bringing globalhttp://tech4africa.com/ perspective to the African context. http://twitter.com/Tech4Africa 1 2009/03/12 Pretoria The Technology News Site http://www.itweb.co.za http://twitter.com/itweb 254 2007/03/13 Pretoria Marketing Technologist @mihswat, founder@ Web AddiCT(s); & http://dev.idrive.co.za http://www.webaddict.co.za TED Fellow, dreamer http://twitter.com/rafiq 0 2010/05/04 Pretoria As the founder of The Dreamfields Project, I help spread the word of this http://www.dreamfieldsproject.org/ enriching initiative, share football news, events and http://twitter.com/johnperlman insights. 0 2010/07/09 http://www.motribe.com http://twitter.com/Motribe 73 2009/02/08 Greenland Online producer/host. I love anything music, entertainment and travel related. http://jasonvonberg.wordpress.com Exploring the online marketing industry too.http://twitter.com/jasonvonberg Gots to think longevity here! 44 2009/02/10 Pretoria =^..^= | honest to a fault. one of my greatest pleasures in life is adding value http://www.mostlyharmless.co.za to others through sharing, educating & humorhttp://twitter.com/innov8ive 1 2008/05/28 Pretoria Strategy Director at Inquisition - Tweet about about Social Systems, Sociology, http://inquisition.co.za Metal Artists, what I'm reading, Qualitative Research http://twitter.com/vincenthofmann & Good Design. 1 2009/03/20 Greenland work addict by day, when is night? typographic traveller by dream, flickrdicted, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffanytp/ flow communications director http://twitter.com/wooze66 1 2010/12/25 Greenland Playing rugby for the Sharks, loving life, and proudly South African http://twitter.com/al_hargreaves 132 2008/01/26 Pretoria Digital Native. Sports Fan. Loud Mouth. http://www.andyhadfield.com http://twitter.com/andyhadfield 3 2008/03/17 Pretoria ICT journalist. Curious person. Editor of Brainstorm magazine and generalhttp://www.brainstormmag.co.za secretary of the Professional Journalists' Association http://twitter.com/samanthaperry @projourn 14 2007/02/25 Pretoria Mother, author, blogger and baby-maker. The Queen of Everything. http://about.me/tertia http://twitter.com/tertia 115 2009/07/10 West Central Africa I am the chief correspondent in Nigeria for The Associated Press. http://bit.ly/aSLlbi http://twitter.com/jongambrellAP 6429 2008/05/27 Pretoria Business & Web focus. Search & Tech. Feisty. Often laughing...Even when I'm not. Eclectic tweeter. http://twitter.com/sznq 705 2007/07/26 Pretoria Dad to 3 gorgeous kids // Top Blogger in KZN // iPhone & iPad fundi and fanatic http://MarcForrest.com // Mobile Product Manager @ Private Property http://twitter.com/marcforrest // QR Code fan 0 2009/05/23 Pretoria The best African Restaurant in Cape Town http://www.africacafe.co.za http://twitter.com/africacafe 0 2009/04/18 Greenland Sports anchor on 702 and 94.7. Sport is my passion. Radio is my life. Mother of 2 girls. Views are my own and not my employers. http://twitter.com/CindyPoluta 3 2009/11/05 Greenland Paul Treu is currently coaching the Springbok Sevens team and has notched http://www.paultreu7s.com up numerous victories in the International Rugby http://twitter.com/paultreu Board’s World Sevens Series. 6 2009/03/05 Greenland Africa Bureau Chief, Christian Science Monitor. Mandolin player, Africa optimist, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa dad. Music blogger at guitarsafari.posterous.com http://twitter.com/baldaufji 3496 2007/04/07 Pretoria Founder of Motribe.com, mobile enthusiast, passionate South African. http://motribe.com http://twitter.com/nicharry 3 2009/07/09 Nairobi Vision Africa is a UK based childrens charity working to give a brighter future http://www.vision-africa.org to orphaned and destitute children in Kenya. http://twitter.com/VisionAfrica Page 17 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 Twitter Name Followed Followers rushay 2455 2918 henkneuhoff 3107 2914 sboshmafu 598 2912 gnuboss 3204 2909 simonebiz 1140 2903 oppikoppifest 102 2901 kenyaimagine 2202 2880 capetraffic 131 2879 ndumisongcobo 126 2868 MoEltaher 208 2861 cityofct 50 2851 Saturnan 2122 2839 naijatechguide 1162 2832 maxkaizen 2073 2831 jpnaude 656 2828 markhaze12 289 2825 phelob 619 2820 mediaclubsa 1018 2819 JennyMorrisChef 2084 2809 madayo 500 2787 Truevine 3549 2778 francoisvancoke 201 2776 karolinasky 832 2759 pauljacobson 1273 2749 charlysbakery 989 2748 rootsofafrica 1232 2735 amandasevasti 348 2719 bluebulls 1 2710 siliconcape 112 2698 royblumenthal 2534 2694 tembisa 280 2688 ghdsouthafrica 491 2662 AdriaanBasson 384 2659 AngieKhumalo 293 2644 mohammedyassin 231 2642 gabyrosario 1538 2639 synout 2762 2636 afairweather 541 2634 StdBankCricket 805 2626 craigbjacobs 722 2617 cokeyfalkow 448 2609 pauldesousa 2482 2603 onhismind 2791 2602 Tweets 40726 692 28058 7033 21113 532 3432 2509 2314 3252 1314 34181 1332 2556 3933 3667 7624 1351 3819 3659 56 390 6546 21117 3558 418 10364 39 1117 26908 27993 513 1053 7223 8322 9056 96 4387 10981 6789 5729 591 230 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 152 2008/06/22 Pretoria ▌│█│║▌║││█║▌│║MANUFACTURED AND ASSEMBLED IN SOUTH AFRICA http://www.rushay.org http://twitter.com/rushay 1 2009/07/21 Pretoria Water Conservationist, Eco Entrepreneur, Registered Financial Advisor, addicted http://www.waterfriendly.co.za to Cycling and Proudly South African! http://twitter.com/henkneuhoff 11 2009/04/19 Greenland Don't assume anything about me, but if you must, assume I'm sexy. http://twitter.com/sboshmafu 3228 2008/03/25 Central America Founder of the Wudang School of Web Mastery, Creator of ZenProfits Blog http://www.bronsonharrington.com Marketing Blueprint, webmaster, SEO director, blogger, http://twitter.com/gnuboss boyfriend & social media nut. 9 2007/09/04 Pretoria Simone Puterman aka Attila the Sub, managing editor at @bizcommunity,http://www.bizcommunity.com @SciFiZA member, gym rat & *gasp* Woolies Nutties http://twitter.com/simonebiz addict (move over, Chuckles). 2 2011/05/09 Oppikoppi music festival just outside Northam, South Africa. Oppikoppi 17http://www.facebook.com/oppikoppifestival Unknown Brother done and dusted. Now rest, Oppikoppi http://twitter.com/oppikoppifest 18 is 9,10,11 Aug 2012 3 2008/06/11 Central Time (US & Canada) You can also find us on FB: http://ht.ly/58xFN largest Kenyan citizen journalist http://www.kenyaimagine.com site| Analysis| Opinion| Debate| Progressivehttp://twitter.com/kenyaimagine . Email: editor@kenyaimagine.com 0 2009/12/01 Harare #capetraffic tweets from the crowd to help you get around in Cape Town...from http://www.facebook.com/capetraffic 01/03/2011 facilitated by @CapeTown withhttp://twitter.com/capetraffic help from @marcel_perform 2 2010/02/15 Pretoria Writer, columnist, blogger, radio presenter, screenplay writer, husband, father and general loiterer-about and imbiber of the http://twitter.com/ndumisongcobo amber nectar of the gods. 13 2007/08/25 Santiago blogger http://egymasr.com http://twitter.com/MoEltaher 1 2010/04/13 Harare Welcome to the City of Cape Town's Twitter page! http://www.capetown.gov.za http://twitter.com/cityofct 0 2009/08/18 Greenland I like to help other people and give of myself. I am positive and enjoy internet http://bit.ly/4RS7V marketing. http://twitter.com/Saturnan 4 2009/05/29 West Central Africa Nigeria Technology Guide for reviews and arLcles on technology, gadgets,http://naijatechguide.blogspot.com and online services. http://twitter.com/naijatechguide 151 2007/02/24 Pretoria Hunter of Genius. Public Lead CreaLve Commons SA: digital ciLzenship & http://maxkaizen.com open access. Researcher|Educator|AcLvist. http://twitter.com/maxkaizen 5 2009/04/01 Pretoria Presenter of Cape Rugby TV. Events MC. SA Blog Awards, Evox 4 Stormers.http://www.jpnaude.com Loves golf, rugby & golf. http://twitter.com/jpnaude 0 2009/05/25 Greenland Idols SA top 6 finalist - hSp://markhaze.comAnd...Lead Singer and Guitarist http://www.markhaze.com for South African Rock band, 12th Avenue. hSp://www.12thavenueband.com http://twitter.com/markhaze12 3 2010/01/10 Pretoria Son, Brother, Uncle, Thinker, Friend, SANBS ambassador, Singer, Songwriter http://balabrothers.com and aspiring Actor... WARNING: I tweet like I speak! http://twitter.com/phelob Follow me to nowhere.. Haha! 0 2009/08/05 Paris The official Brand South Africa media service. Up-to-date news, background http://www.mediaclubsouthafrica.com/ resources, library of over 2 000 high-res photos,http://twitter.com/mediaclubsa & advice for foreign journalists. 22 2009/04/22 Pretoria South Africa's most loved Celebrity Chef http://www.gigglinggourmet.com http://twitter.com/JennyMorrisChef 0 2009/04/22 Quito Journalist & fellow at the New America Foundation. Reporting a book on good http://thebrightcontinent.tumblr.com/ ideas from #Africa. Tweets on global politics,http://twitter.com/madayo development policy, that new hot jam. 1 2009/02/17 Pretoria I am christian guy who loves repairing and modifying gadgets, and livin' life http://lazarusphili.wordpress.com to the max http://twitter.com/Truevine 0 2011/02/07 Harare Ek sing oor die einde van die wereld http://www.vancokekartel.co.za http://twitter.com/francoisvancoke 3 2009/05/03 Harare Business Woman/Model/Actress/Marketing,Events&Promotions agency owner. http://www.runwayprojects.com Im a SHOE obsessed animal lover & I have ahttp://twitter.com/karolinasky passion for the health & fitness industry! 290 2007/01/30 Pretoria Dad, husband, lawyer and a frikkin' big social media and gadget nerd. Wayhttp://pauljacobson.info big. And the legal stuff: http://bit.ly/ghwOSU http://twitter.com/pauljacobson 2 2009/05/16 Pretoria Mucking Afazing Cakes http://www.charlysbakery.co.za http://twitter.com/charlysbakery 6 2008/08/03 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Passionate Evangelist for the causes of Africa. http://www.rootsofafrica.org http://twitter.com/rootsofafrica 2 2007/11/22 Pretoria Social Media Director at Ogilvy PR and occasional writer. Likes blue eyes, http://amandasevasti.com Philip K. Dick and The Simpsons. All opinions are my http://twitter.com/amandasevasti own. 0 2008/09/12 Pretoria Super 14 and Currie Cup Champions (Unofficial account) http://www.bluebulls.co.za http://twitter.com/bluebulls 0 2009/09/01 Pretoria Official Twitter account for the Silicon Cape Initiative http://www.siliconcape.com http://twitter.com/siliconcape 2706 2007/09/27 Pretoria I'm a visual facilitator, making pictures of meetings. I paint the things youhttp://royblumenthal.com/portfolio say. Work internationally. Ph +27 74 104 6386. http://twitter.com/royblumenthal 9 2009/06/15 Greenland Thespian at heart. Practitioner of love. I'm living in your minds rent free. http://www.contractors.org.za http://twitter.com/tembisa 0 2009/01/16 Greenland The home of ghd in South Africa. Tweeted with love by Jenn (and the occasional http://www.ghdhair.com/za ghd guest). http://twitter.com/ghdsouthafrica 1 2010/09/11 Pretoria Assistant editor at City Press and author of Finish & Klaar: Selebi's fall from http://www.citypress.co.za Interpol to the Underworld (Tafelberg) http://twitter.com/AdriaanBasson 33 2009/04/08 Greenland 5fm News Reader and Movie Reviewer. Honda Motorbike Riding Street-Warrior. http://ramblingsmyblog.wordpress.com Adores words and Lover of Film. http://twitter.com/AngieKhumalo 14 2009/01/08 Cairo Co-Founder and Marketing Executive at E-Life Network. Geek, tech addict,http://mohammedyassin.com Apple fanatic, photography lover, coffee drinker.http://twitter.com/mohammedyassin 680 2008/09/18 Greenland Strategist. native.co.za pinterest.com/infowhore Ancora Imparo. http://www.gabriellerosario.com http://twitter.com/gabyrosario 0 2009/01/27 Paris Training & Development. Profiling & Assessments. Team Building. Speaking. http://www.synout.co.za E-learning. Developing your greatest asset: thehttp://twitter.com/synout right people. 356 2007/08/17 Pretoria Digital Platforms Manager @ M&G Online, columnist, movie lover, wannabe http://alistairfairweather.com absurdist http://twitter.com/afairweather 0 2008/03/14 Pretoria Welcome to the official Standard Bank Cricket channel on Twitter http://www.standardbankcricket.com http://twitter.com/StdBankCricket 262 2009/03/21 Pretoria Fundudzi eco warrior, STY(LIST)A events consultant, trend forecaster, broadcaster http://www.fundudzi.com & Land Rover brand ambassador. See www.facebook.com/craig.jacobs http://twitter.com/craigbjacobs for more 10 2009/04/05 Pacific Time (US & Canada) I get paid to think & create things. Writer/actor/comic/Director of New Media http://www.cokeyfalkow.com @ MeritusMedia.com http://twitter.com/cokeyfalkow 0 2008/07/17 London Internet Geek, SEO, Poker, Family. http://www.pauldesousa.co.za http://twitter.com/pauldesousa 0 2009/03/20 Pretoria On-his-mind is a blog with information on how computers work,guides onhttp://on-his-mind.blogspot.com/ how to do things,Gadgets,technology and the best http://twitter.com/onhismind sites on the internet. Page 18 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 Twitter Name MrMoneyOnline ashrafgarda1 Khetha omagazinesa snowgoosesa africanabc exmi djbarneysimon f_van_dango mlsigroup longlostviking GerardRaphael izumou oboxthemes TylerReed JudeVlad ajventer_ shawnjooste ashleymorazzo elanlohmann bigissuesa 340ml nayes1982 blindcripple redbullza alexeliseev deanoelsch ChrisGibbonsSA robbie13flair shebeegee thejolurie gibs_sa KaraboKgoleng Guy superbru afrihost princessnellyk chrismoerdyk travelstart josecuervosa staffordmasie rockingthedaisy beingbrazen Followed Followers 2935 2600 883 2591 1111 2584 400 2571 509 2571 1459 2564 2194 2554 94 2532 215 2531 2073 2528 2868 2526 1952 2522 2426 2519 1150 2509 1786 2503 559 2479 75 2473 134 2466 107 2449 916 2442 374 2432 71 2429 1893 2426 1455 2424 254 2424 172 2422 1579 2419 102 2415 36 2415 652 2412 170 2409 1148 2408 630 2400 413 2375 91 2371 231 2365 387 2354 174 2353 1018 2346 185 2342 412 2340 670 2335 986 2333 Tweets 383 5816 30140 1933 11329 15616 44760 752 5 543 2456 18192 1429 2112 7666 20188 374 10221 4419 15318 4229 1067 26942 33163 1796 1751 16746 271 190 24947 18883 1068 9766 15673 1860 2834 61834 1813 2349 1485 6281 370 3918 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 2009/10/05 Pretoria Internet marketer and online business coach http://www.georgefivaz.com http://twitter.com/MrMoneyOnline 21 2009/03/31 Cairo Host of Special Assignment SABC 3 wed-9.30pm. Media. @Safm sun 9-11am http://ashrafgarda.com ,SAfm's Akernoon Talk Mon-Fri 2- 4pm ,MC, http://twitter.com/ashrafgarda1 Voice Over ArLst 548 2009/05/06 Greenland Our experiences are different. But let's share & make this a magnanimoushttp://www.yeahbo.net experience. Vices: Music | Film | TV | Writing | Photography http://twitter.com/Khetha | Blogging | Social Media 0 2010/09/29 Greenland O is all about living your best life! An intimate conversation with an emphasis http://www.oprahmag.co.za on personal growth, our goal is to help you become http://twitter.com/omagazinesa more of who you really are. 53 2008/02/19 Pretoria Business Director at Quirk Jozi. Passionate about digital markeLng, wine, rugby http://snowgoose.co.za & lizards. http://twitter.com/snowgoosesa 1 2008/10/25 Pretoria Composer, Jingle writer, guitarist, kid's music producer, skeptic, hiker. http://africanabc.blogspot.com http://www.africantreehouse.com http://twitter.com/africanabc 409 2008/03/17 Greenland Freelance writer, full-time fiancée and accidental mother to blue-eyed boymischief. http://www.exmi.co.za/ Pottymouth, kitchen ninja. Likes cusswords http://twitter.com/exmi and cooking. 7 2011/04/21 Greenland Alternative rock and pop DJ... Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem http://www.jacarandafm.com is they forget about the roll. Look everyone, http://twitter.com/djbarneysimon he's coming through the door... 0 2011/07/28 Greenland I'm Freddie Van'Dango full time musician & Idols contestant. I from Jozi where http://www.mnet.co.za/IdolsSA I'm recording my debut album, Red Horizion.http://twitter.com/f_van_dango I can play guitar upside down! 4 2010/01/18 Pretoria iGroup caters to everything from e-commerce and e-mail marketing, management http://www.igroup.co.za to database development,copywriting, design http://twitter.com/mlsigroup and mobile integration solutions. 0 2008/12/08 Greenland Specialist software developer, nerd of dimensions, and of course Long Lost http://www.longlostviking.blogspot.com/ VIKING living in Africa http://twitter.com/longlostviking 212 2009/03/30 Pretoria Digital NeLzen with a voice for twiSer - “Audere Est Facere” \(⊙▂⊙)/http://www.posterous.com/GerardRaphael http://twitter.com/GerardRaphael 0 2008/11/10 West Central Africa Enterprenure, Webmaster,Php Programmer http://jobsngr.com http://twitter.com/izumou 12 2009/06/13 Pretoria Stay up to date with the latest news and links from Obox Themes http://www.obox-design.com/ http://twitter.com/oboxthemes 62 2007/03/12 Harare Entrepreneur & Speaker on all things web and mobile. http://tylerreed.com http://twitter.com/TylerReed 202 2009/05/20 Greenland Un peu de rien, beaucoup de tout..Rédactrice (spécialité: presse féminine)http://judeatestepourvous.wordpress.com/ et CM en freelance. Apple addict. http://twitter.com/JudeVlad 0 2011/07/02 Pretoria I am living life hard and fast from 01h00 to 23h00..................... http://www.surefiregroup.com http://twitter.com/ajventer_ 66 2007/12/24 Pretoria The Mac Guy http://about.me/shawnjooste http://twitter.com/shawnjooste 77 2009/01/17 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Professional fun enthusiast http://twitter.com/ashleymorazzo 121 2008/06/07 Pretoria Ari Gold with a heart - MD Digital AVUSA Group -Corporate Ninja - Warning http://www.linkedin.com/in/elanlohmann – I tweet more about my life than work. http://twitter.com/elanlohmann 2 2009/06/24 Greenland A socially responsible non-profit organisation that enables unemployed/marginalised http://www.bigissue.org.za adults to make a living by selling a three-weekly http://twitter.com/bigissuesa general-interest magazine. 4 2009/02/24 London aka Ricky, bass player for 340ml amongst other things... http://www.340mlmusic.com http://twitter.com/340ml 35 2009/04/06 Pretoria Compulsive communicator living in Port Elizabeth South Africa. Author ofhttp://www.passingtheopenwindows.co.za/ Coffee at Little Angels and many more to come. Wife. http://twitter.com/nayes1982 Mom. Sister. Daughter. Superwoman. 762 2007/07/28 Pretoria Digital brand guy, photographer, sometime blogger, occasional web dev and http://nealtosefsky.info (cricket football mac gadget)fan http://twitter.com/blindcripple 1 2010/07/03 Pretoria Up-to-the-minute updates and action from Red Bull South Africa. http://www.redbull.co.za/ http://twitter.com/redbullza 0 2009/06/19 Pretoria Journalist. Writer. Adventurer. http://twitter.com/alexeliseev 686 2009/05/13 Pretoria It's just me. An advertising-creative, cool-searching, sport-obsessed, wine-sniffing, http://brandhalo.wordpress.com Apple-addicted, party-loving whore. http://twitter.com/deanoelsch 3 2009/09/20 Pretoria broadcaster, journo, writer, MC http://www.chrisgibbons.co.za http://twitter.com/ChrisGibbonsSA 0 2010/10/22 http://twitter.com/robbie13flair 32 2008/03/16 Cairo Social media mafia boss for aqua online. Also is a mess. Not in the 'beauLful http://about.me/sheenagates mess' way, in the 'just stood in dog vomit' way.http://twitter.com/shebeegee 20 2009/03/19 Greenland A rehabilitated Twitterphobe. TV Producer. Inventor of the word 'Cocktonsil'. http://thejolurie.blogspot.com In long term, monogamous relationship with Jose http://twitter.com/thejolurie Cuervo. Mom to @TheYokoLurie & Ono 4 2009/09/11 Pretoria The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) is a leading business school http://www.gibs.co.za that was established in 2000. http://twitter.com/gibs_sa 7 2009/03/25 Greenland Early Breakfast Show host at Talk Radio 702; Books Editor at City Press Newspaper. http://www.karabokgoleng.com Vice President of Alliance Francaise. Thehttp://twitter.com/KaraboKgoleng views expressed here are mine. 207 2007/04/26 Jerusalem The Artist Formerly Known as Chief Geek. Now Co-founder at Props but still http://www.getprops.com a geek http://twitter.com/Guy 2 2009/02/05 London The Official Superbru Twitters http://www.superbru.com http://twitter.com/superbru 1 2009/07/10 Harare We want to delight and astound our clients with incredible ADSL and Webhttp://www.afrihost.com Hosting. Get your ADSL for only R9,50 per GB right http://twitter.com/afrihost now. 36 2009/03/09 Pretoria ♥♥ SPRINGBOKS 2011 ♥♥ #1 Female Promoter, Architecture, Bitchin, Blogging, http://princessnellyk.tumblr.com/ Dancing & always Pouting! http://twitter.com/princessnellyk 1 2010/06/18 Pretoria Marketing analyst, chairman of www.bizcommunity.com. Fellow of the Institute http://www.bizcommunity.com of Marketing Management http://twitter.com/chrismoerdyk 15 2008/08/01 Pretoria We're South Africa's first and largest online travel agency! We'll be sharing http://www.travelstart.co.za the latest specials and interesting articles with you http://twitter.com/travelstart here. 0 2009/09/15 Pretoria Jose Cuervo is the #1 Selling Tequila in the World!F ollowers of JoseCuervoSA http://www.facebook.com/josecuervosa must be 18 years or older. http://twitter.com/josecuervosa 0 2008/10/01 Pretoria Tech Startup Entrepreneur, prof speaker, geek, private pilot, ultralite pilot, http://smasie.blogspot.com scuba diver, snow skier, & luvs disruptive anything...while http://twitter.com/staffordmasie finishing his book... 1 2008/04/04 Pretoria SA's permier eco-friendly music and lifestyle festival hosted in Darling, Western http://www.rockingthedaisies.com Cape from 7-9 October 2011. http://twitter.com/rockingthedaisy 1 2009/02/11 Greenland Blogger, rambler, daydreamer, book junkie, wine drinker, mall walker, word http://www.beingbrazen.com lover, tree hugger and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs http://twitter.com/beingbrazen Page 19 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 818 819 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 839 840 841 842 843 844 845 846 847 848 849 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 859 860 Twitter Name Followed Followers veejay23 1197 2324 justinstanford 310 2322 casspernyovest 253 2313 supastrikas 2523 2313 Fr3dd13 2338 2311 overtonesa 2043 2301 olsmithy 2349 2300 jozigoddess 597 2292 clivesimpkins 1026 2291 FoodWineGuru 298 2291 Brent007 1455 2289 MTVSAIgnite 1928 2280 mpieters 701 2259 siphiwempye 484 2256 christofouche 2465 2253 mvelasep 634 2251 kerimiller 506 2250 dchetty 869 2243 MandyRossouw 175 2234 marioOlckers 2193 2226 africahand 325 2225 stray__cat 2043 2225 Getmore_S 2447 2209 geekrebel 1088 2197 _enzo 2068 2178 foxyblogga 2463 2178 iamadilsa 280 2175 gfunkdj 943 2167 AntonRSA 1438 2163 Zimbandrew 2370 2161 TOMolefe 1210 2158 craigwfsmith 1878 2144 zk 1863 2143 pwruser 2485 2141 King_Mounir 455 2140 lisabreedt 1551 2140 mediamastatrend 2499 2140 eGichomo 378 2139 blacklooks 771 2133 marklives 1382 2124 marlonparker 687 2113 cmeintjes 93 2111 africagoodnews 93 2107 Tweets 399 5404 16599 2473 23989 2738 915 23565 30799 5884 24009 685 7823 2473 6962 56773 7691 13777 694 15516 6552 12689 11527 6183 3132 660 3674 11886 2832 2515 22013 20973 15097 12 74 3766 469 5630 9935 4285 16864 8584 1032 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 2 2009/01/02 Pretoria I have been in Internet MarkeLng business for the past 6 years. My other http://www.ehomebiz4you.net/ markeLng business is here http://twitter.com/veejay23 1 2008/05/25 Pretoria Entrepreneur, venture investor, petrolhead. Founder of 4Di Group, 4Di Capital, http://www.justinstanford.com & others. I like business, VC, startups, food, http://twitter.com/justinstanford music, wine, fast cars & tech. 72 2010/08/26 I grew up in a place called Maftown... lol.. you thought i would say in a fucked http://www.myspace.com/casspernyovest up society huh? lol.... Lets cut the long story short, http://twitter.com/casspernyovest I'MA BE GREAT SOON 1 2009/10/28 Pretoria Supa Strikas is the comic and animated story of the world’s greatest soccer http://www.facebook.com/SupaStrikasFC team and the players’ adventures both on and off http://twitter.com/supastrikas the pitch. Welcome! 0 2009/05/02 Harare Mmmm. Stubborn, Lovable, Loyal, Truthfull, Trusting, Devoted, Easily Frustrated. http://www.SeatiWeb.com http://twitter.com/Fr3dd13 4 2009/04/06 Pretoria SA Music and Entertainment, Videos, Online News, Industry Network, Artist http://overtone.co.za Promotion, National Gig Guide,Direct Artist Bookings, http://twitter.com/overtonesa Events, Online Ticketing 1 2009/01/16 London Just a real guy trapped between all the MLM bots, self proclaimed expertshttp://facebook.com/olsmithy and GURU's here on twitter. To all of you get fucken http://twitter.com/olsmithy real! 111 2009/05/07 Pretoria Social media obsessed. Vanguard of the #badblacks. Truth teller. Dissident. http://zama-in-jozi.blogspot.com/ Writer. Columnist. Bloody happy. Tweeting in my http://twitter.com/jozigoddess personal and awesome capacity. 1 2009/06/28 Pretoria Marketing and communications strategist, speaker, author, coach http://www.clivesimpkins.com http://twitter.com/clivesimpkins 5 2010/05/02 West Central Africa South African Wine and Food Writer and broadcaster http://www.michaelolivier.co.za http://twitter.com/FoodWineGuru 137 2008/09/22 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Former drug addict (methamphetamine) free through the power of God. http://brentsjourney.co.za Now a Christian Drug Counselor, helping others beat http://twitter.com/Brent007 their drug habit. 2 2009/07/16 Alaska Regional arm of MTV Staying Alive Campaign, operating in Kenya, Trinidadhttp://www.staying-alive.org/ignite and Ukraine. http://twitter.com/MTVSAIgnite 24 2008/08/04 Pretoria Tech junkie, gadget lover. Technology analyst in Retail Sector. Editor of http://www.bandwidthblog.com http://www.bandwidthblog.com http://twitter.com/mpieters 2 2009/11/20 Harare -Associate Editor: GQ South Africa-Consultant: Media | CommunicaLons |http://www.gq.co.za Entertainment http://twitter.com/siphiwempye 0 2010/03/03 Pretoria Software Developer, Internet Entrepreneur and Born Again Christian http://www.christofouche.net http://twitter.com/christofouche 73 2009/04/03 Pretoria High-Priest in Cult of Bacon, pop-culture subliminator, ill thought out political http://www.mvelasep.blogspot.com/ stuff, #BadBlack, hack, & rolling through life adding http://twitter.com/mvelasep Oxford commas. 0 2009/04/11 Pretoria Durbanite living in Cape Town, slightly afraid of Jozi. ex-isiZulu teacher. Now http://www.facebook.com/kerimillersa a radio presenter in CPT, weekdays 3-7pm & Sun http://twitter.com/kerimiller 6-9pm.Genuine C List Celeb! Done 10 2008/08/08 Pretoria Web & mobile junky. Car nut. G33k. Cape Town boy who just moved to Jozi! http://dchetty.co.za http://twitter.com/dchetty 4 2010/09/10 Pretoria International correspondent - Media24/City Press/Rapport http://www.mg.co.za/mandy http://twitter.com/MandyRossouw 55 2007/11/22 Pretoria Earthling | Activist | Social Change | Psychology | Philosophy | Ethics | Ex-Theravada http://www.survivalinternational.org/ Bhikkhu | Genocide Awareness | Indigenous http://twitter.com/marioOlckers Peoples Justice | 6 2009/11/12 Central Time (US & Canada) Examining African issues from across the full range of human experience. #CrudeContinent #SahelWatch #PiracyWatch #GreatLakesWatch http://twitter.com/africahand #MaghrebWatch 15 2008/11/24 Rome Founder of Straysoft Startup, 14+ years experience in Business Intelligence http://www.straysoft.com http://twitter.com/stray__cat 0 2009/08/11 Pretoria Getmore ... Your Internet Superstore - sugar and spice and all things nicehttp://bit.ly/xTuvw http://twitter.com/Getmore_S 34 2007/12/13 Pretoria I'm a social entrepreneur bent on making the world a better place with the http://www.geekrebel.com use of technology! http://twitter.com/geekrebel 1 2008/04/06 Pretoria italian wine importer, espresso evangelist, social mediac, tech geek, luxury http://www.melgab.co.za seeker, gym goer, ecovation fan, comics enthusiast http://twitter.com/_enzo and die-hard heavy metal maniac. 0 2009/11/02 Harare Fun, Fun Fun, Online marketing by profession, foxy by night! Eeek http://wpdiscover.com http://twitter.com/foxyblogga 223 2010/03/05 Greenland I AM ... Radio presenter and DJ,Television Creative Director and Producer,Promoter,Voice over artist,soccer,tennis,squash loving http://twitter.com/iamadilsa mofo who paints n keeps fish. 5 2009/05/09 Greenland 19 year old club DJ, Puma ambassador, Producer, Hard worker. Trying to be http://www.soundcloud.com/g-funk-sa the best! Bookings : bookings@greenstarmanagement.co.za http://twitter.com/gfunkdj 3 2009/04/01 Pretoria Blogger, Developer, Social Media Strategist, Digital Marketing Consultant,http://www.antonkoekemoer.com Web Entrepreneur, Web 2.0 Enthusiast http://twitter.com/AntonRSA 1 2009/06/02 Harare Andrew lives in Zimbabwe. http://justandrewinzimbabwe.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/Zimbandrew 379 2009/09/05 Pretoria #writerofthings for @dailymaverick and @zanews. http://boosfromthepews.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/TOMolefe 141 2009/03/04 Pretoria Writer, fantasy novelist, Auto48.co.za contributor, blogger, poker player, http://about.me/TheCraigSmith & coffee addict. My novels: http://bit.ly/redstonebookdep http://twitter.com/craigwfsmith & http://bit.ly/zoodep 170 2007/07/05 Cairo Head of Content & Community @Cerebra|| SM Ideator||Journalist||blogger||writer||social http://www.zahira.co.za media addict||questioner||go-to-person||daughter||sister||friend http://twitter.com/zk 0 2009/01/07 Pretoria http://blog.seo-edge.co.za/ http://twitter.com/pwruser 1 2010/10/11 Cairo الدر-النوبه-اسوان-مصر10-10-54 محمد منير محمد ابا يزيد جبريل متولى http://twitter.com/King_Mounir 81 2009/01/04 Pretoria Co-founder Social Media IQ | Consulting & Training | Graphic Designer. Teach/coach http://socialmediaiq.co.za Social Media in South Africa. Animal &http://twitter.com/lisabreedt Nature lover! 0 2009/10/29 Harare Blogging, web marketing, latest Youtube Trends.. a little shopping too http://wpdiscover.com http://twitter.com/mediamastatrend 17 2009/09/14 Nairobi Blogger | Loves Traveling, Sports, Tech & Photography | Social Media Enthusiast http://egichomo.wordpress.com/ || Be assured of interesting tweets. http://twitter.com/eGichomo 198 2007/06/10 London waiting for wild beasts to vote http://www.blacklooks.org http://twitter.com/blacklooks 2 2008/08/29 Pretoria Design, advertising, marketing and media blog Marklives.com on Twitter.http://www.marklives.com From Cape Town by industry journo Herman Manson http://twitter.com/marklives 42 2008/03/07 Pretoria Social Entrepreneur (CEO- JamiiX), Web and mobile enthusiast, who use technology http://marlonparker.co.za to empower communities, Educator http://twitter.com/marlonparker 43 2008/10/24 Pretoria Pour my love into: www.theprettyblog.com, www.kiki.co.za & www.christinemeintjes.co.za. http://www.christinemeintjes.co.za On a lighter note: photographer.business http://twitter.com/cmeintjes fanatic.blogger.jean addict 28 2009/05/13 Pretoria Offering a fresh perspective on Africa, a continent of hope and opportunity http://www.africagoodnews.com http://twitter.com/africagoodnews Page 20 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 871 872 873 874 875 876 877 878 879 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 900 901 902 903 Twitter Name Ettajdid_TN ka33boura flipsideza hennokruger ImTheMentalist SezLeigh bandwidthblog cluckhoff glaceau_sa talyagoldberg kagisho5fm AntonHarber Unodewaal retiefdan Go2Africa johngore bafana_bafana eon01 mediamattersza forex_wealth robforbesdj carienduplessis ufahari simonwillo metaMeerkat saulkza TechLoy etiennebeneke paul_vestact TerblancheProp derek_hanekom ItsCEOtime psydragonfly trulysafrican travelwithdayo Siimmaaa alfonsothomas AhmedMoneim 27dinner tee_gal irenenell ivok AspasiaKarras Followed Followers 84 2105 876 2090 1639 2084 516 2068 302 2062 1504 2057 1679 2043 601 2043 809 2043 810 2039 226 2036 155 2032 702 2030 22 2028 641 2025 2195 2015 1014 2014 1811 1996 1444 1996 2058 1983 1187 1982 306 1976 75 1976 855 1973 2137 1970 736 1970 365 1968 1434 1967 660 1967 1776 1966 168 1961 4 1957 1772 1945 756 1941 1818 1935 567 1932 26 1931 321 1918 39 1906 176 1896 86 1882 1827 1871 514 1869 Tweets 1593 15761 24991 59638 876 16552 577 4783 2051 19172 6033 63 6670 595 3807 1125 1718 2572 4539 4736 8071 4187 439 24306 7893 8890 4031 24568 4354 1250 1392 172 5884 4446 3611 2782 330 22349 171 13454 3228 413 1195 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 7 2011/01/13 Greenland Mouvement ESajdid luSe pour la démocraLe, le progrès et le modernisme. http://ettajdid.org http://twitter.com/Ettajdid_TN 1 2009/08/22 Vienna I'm a liSle bit of everythingAll rolled into one . I am unwriSen, can't read http://abirturki.blogspot.com/ my mind, I'm undefined http://twitter.com/ka33boura 437 2009/08/26 Pretoria Stereographer, 3D Artist, Making Movies, Joburger stuck in Cape Town, Metal http://about.me/chriscunnington Freak, Total Pumpkins Fan, Avid Slacker!! http://twitter.com/flipsideza 17 2008/07/30 Pretoria Blogger, Desktop Activist, Twitter / Facebook Addict, Music Festival Addict, http://rwrant.co.za Avid lover of South African music, Founder and owner http://twitter.com/hennokruger of Running Wolf's Rant 0 2010/07/24 Pretoria I'm a Mentalist. I mess with people's heads with feats of the mind. See myhttp://www.gilangork.com TV appearances at www.youtube.com/GilanGorkTV http://twitter.com/ImTheMentalist | www.facebook.com/ImTheMentalist 3 2009/04/01 Pretoria Entrepreneur, Business Idea Generator, Business Consulting. Cold, calculating http://www.sezleigh.com and devastatingly efficient.(Tequila Queen) http://twitter.com/SezLeigh 3 2009/04/29 Pretoria Breaking internet news. Gadget reviews. Tech Office photos. Video interviews. http://www.bandwidthblog.com Like us on Facebook: http://bwth.me/p35yuQ http://twitter.com/bandwidthblog Sister blogs @carblogcoza @sport_blog 8 2007/07/27 London Is Head of Brand Strategy at Bozza.mobi. http://cluckhoff.com http://twitter.com/cluckhoff 125 2008/11/24 Pretoria follow glaceau vitaminwater in south africa http://www.glaceau.co.za/blog http://twitter.com/glaceau_sa 1668 2008/09/21 Pretoria I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.. http://shadesofgold.co.za http://twitter.com/talyagoldberg 82 2010/08/03 5fm finest, number 1 knox man of 5fm & hey bathong keep it tseezzz,I pray http://www.5fm.co.za for 5fm more than I pray for myself. Itching to work http://twitter.com/kagisho5fm at 5fm..For Bookings 0891100505 8 2009/02/23 Pretoria Caxton Professor of Journalism, Wits U; Author of Diepsloot (Jonathan Ball, http://www.theharbinger.co.za 2011) http://twitter.com/AntonHarber 10 2007/04/04 Pretoria Director: Social Networks at TRIGGER/ISOBAR. Linked by ISOBAR, the world's http://www.unodewaal.com largest digital network. Also publisher of http://10and5.com http://twitter.com/Unodewaal & whitewater kayaker. 0 2010/08/09 http://www.danretief.com http://twitter.com/retiefdan 0 2009/02/19 Pretoria Go2Africa is an independent, privately owned African Travel Company; this http://www.go2africa.com gives us the luxury of doing things a little differently. http://twitter.com/Go2Africa 1 2009/08/20 Pretoria Love to travel, & create 360° panoramic photo Virtual Tours of South Africa http://JohnGore.co.za (attractions, Hotels, etc.) http://twitter.com/johngore 0 2009/07/11 Pretoria All the news and views on Bafana Bafana http://twitter.com/bafana_bafana 20 2008/08/18 Paris From #Tunisia SoftwareEngineer Freelance Blogger MusicAddicted . #FreeSoftware http://www.webzerone.com Partisan , social networks addicted . #Hacktivist http://twitter.com/eon01 . An open world architect 2 2010/09/07 Debating South Africa's media - An MMA initiative http://www.facebook.com/mediamattersza http://twitter.com/mediamattersza 1 2008/09/28 Pretoria fulltime forex trader over 5 years.developed a revolutionary trading tool: http://www.myfxwealth.com Forex Dashboard identifies strengths and weaknesses http://twitter.com/forex_wealth on all currencies and commodities 30 2009/07/15 Pretoria Nominee: Best Breakfast Show Presenter (MTN Radio Awards 2011). http://twitter.com/robforbesdj 0 2010/09/23 iMaverick politics reporter. Love the job. In fact married to it. Sometimes http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za it cooks for me. Also have an affair with long-distance http://twitter.com/carienduplessis running 533 2010/03/12 Nairobi stories of innovations, from the developing world. [curated by @asayf] http://ufahari.com http://twitter.com/ufahari 1 2009/02/01 Hong Kong Editor of @dailymaverick's First Thing, overnight correspondent for iMaverick http://kingsimon.blogspot.com/ . Box-ticking private school accent like Mmusihttp://twitter.com/simonwillo Maimane. Vice Jesus. 408 2007/08/02 Pretoria Believe in Impact Investing & Indigenous Innovation. Co-lead @ Uthango http://www.metameerkat.com Social Investments. Advocate: Virtual Worlds for Africa. http://twitter.com/metaMeerkat TweetPoet. TweetShrink. 11 2008/01/19 Pretoria Gold award winning Podcaster. I have gadgetitis. Currently at @zapponHQ. http://saulk.co.za I once worked at a lesbian club http://twitter.com/saulkza 2 2008/05/05 West Central Africa West African tech + mobile news, views & analysis ~ Start-up reviews ~ Social http://www.techloy.com media trends + web culture. [Tip us @techloyhttp://twitter.com/TechLoy or email: editor@techloy.com] 8 2009/03/31 Pretoria Passionate SEO, SUP, surfer, diver, LOVE dogs, wine, cooking, birding, mountain http://www.goodseo.co.za/about/ hiking, animal rights, rugby, football, braaishttp://twitter.com/etiennebeneke and Islay Single Malt Whisky. 1 2009/03/03 Pretoria CEO of Vestact (Asset Mngr. in Joburg, NYC). Host of Mad Markets (Tues, http://www.vestact.com 20h30, CNBCAfrica). South African, Dad, runner, orchid-grower. http://twitter.com/paul_vestact Interested in everything. 19 2008/08/16 Pretoria Lawyer, real estate investor and owner of Terblanche Total Property Solutions, http://www.ttps.co.za a dynamic real estate group in South Africa http://twitter.com/TerblancheProp 27 2011/02/07 http://twitter.com/derek_hanekom 0 2010/08/12 http://twitter.com/ItsCEOtime 739 2009/03/25 International Date Line WestVisionary, seeker of inner peace & enlightenment, philosopher, Cordon Bleu http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Orange-Apple-Bakes-and-Cakes-LTD/113424538723920 Chef. I LOVE art, music, food, wine, friends, partying http://twitter.com/psydragonfly & nature 1 2009/05/17 London TrulySAfrican promotes beautiful South Africa - holiday, adventure, relaxation, http://www.trulysouthafrican.com accommodation, unique wildlife, stunning scenery http://twitter.com/trulysafrican and everything in between. 38 2009/06/26 West Central Africa tech entrepreneur, marketing,communications, product devt, social media, http://linkedin.com/in/dayoadefila love music, writer, scifi & loves irregular stuff that http://twitter.com/travelwithdayo works 18 2007/09/27 Greenland ((: أنا ھافضل سيما... أيوهhttp://tafassel.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/Siimmaaa 1 2010/05/07 Professional Cricketer for Somerset CCC. Pune Warriors India http://twitter.com/alfonsothomas 90 2007/08/12 Cairo I'm #Muslim, #EgypLan, #Father and #Husband. Love being #Leader, #Developer http://ahmedamoneim.wordpress.com/ and Seed of #Entrepreneur. http://twitter.com/AhmedMoneim 0 2009/02/23 Pretoria We aim to bring together informed, networked individuals with a common http://www.27dinner.com passion for technology, media and business in anhttp://twitter.com/27dinner informal but valuable real world space. 260 2009/05/27 Pretoria My name is fun and games and I'm cute and I love u♥ ..maziwe ke!! http://twitter.com/tee_gal 9 2009/04/12 Greenland Love Rugby | Love Tigers | Love Snakes | Love Outdoors | Hate Animal Cruelty http://www.irenenell.co.za | Hate Avocado | Hate Bieber http://twitter.com/irenenell 1 2009/01/03 Pretoria IVOK STUDIO - Home Of Photo&PHOTO & FILM EXPO http://www.ivok.co.za http://twitter.com/ivok 5 2009/05/13 Greenland Aspasia is the editor of Marie Claire South Africa. Lover of long swims, runs http://www.marieclaire.co.za and dancefloors http://twitter.com/AspasiaKarras Page 21 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 904 905 906 907 908 909 910 911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 919 920 921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935 936 937 938 939 940 941 942 943 944 945 946 Twitter Name Followed Followers adesojiadegbulu 1601 1867 UrbaneKenyan 837 1867 MarianneThamm 525 1859 leonvdl 1946 1858 jenty 899 1847 mohamed_hammad 1328 1842 malonebarry 408 1836 sahelblog 727 1836 mattduplessis 567 1834 GabiGoldberg 499 1832 mariettedth 1097 1829 zoopy 597 1821 Louise_Marsland 442 1815 Retnev 1728 1813 MarcPerel 233 1810 realjacobzuma 76 1799 RealRobMugabe 54 1794 kalkbaybooks 2003 1788 EveD 448 1787 farrylpurkiss 58 1783 vernonchalmers 2001 1780 ogbongeblog 1457 1760 movida_jhb 246 1756 justin_bonello 226 1754 dkobia 266 1751 chiefntshingila 832 1749 ludz_sa 1552 1746 allankent 429 1743 springboks_ 2 1739 Vodacom4u 1041 1738 niyyie 880 1737 AMG133 191 1736 vincent_maher 666 1730 cathrynr 850 1725 mba_network 1989 1717 MariaPodesta 1104 1714 nihed 1603 1714 africanpenguin 2000 1711 alambchop 1059 1707 phillipgibb 1998 1701 iecsouthafrica 5 1695 NaderGuirat 2000 1688 annaling 272 1681 Tweets 6198 12007 1183 6002 24488 306 3905 3448 14917 17682 5537 2787 4767 2626 14989 918 1368 94 10916 1113 4235 1465 1111 805 1394 33562 32864 8134 6994 754 3237 76259 2135 21722 579 5877 10209 9039 41379 25988 549 299 3680 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 2008/11/03 West Central Africa Internet Entrepreneur, Consultant, Networker, Technology Evangelist, Social http://www.makemoneyonlineng.com Media Techie, I.T Engineer, Business Owner, Music http://twitter.com/adesojiadegbulu lover, Soccer lover, Patriot... 7 2010/01/13 Nairobi I embody the eagle's character. | Business Analyst, Banker. | Interested inhttp://urbanekenyan.wordpress.com Good Governance & passionate about Economics. http://twitter.com/UrbaneKenyan | I eat Chicken and I listen to Jazz! 4 2008/09/23 London Columnist/Arts writer/Stand-up performer/Author/Mom/Dog owner http://twitter.com/MarianneThamm 0 2009/01/12 Pretoria Ex Consultant IT Specialist now Online Entrepreneur sharing an opportunity http://www.leonvdlinde.com to earn money immediately. http://twitter.com/leonvdl 153 2008/03/07 Pretoria Mom, photographer, blogger, Social Media strategist and UX newbie in financial http://jeanetteverster.com services, and shopaholic. My views are my http://twitter.com/jenty own. 5 2008/07/17 Cairo http://twitter.com/mohamed_hammad 3 2009/01/08 Santiago Irish journalist working for Reuters in Uganda and the Great Lakes. Ethiophile. http://blogs.reuters.com/barrymalone/ Probably drinking either coffee or gin so try not http://twitter.com/malonebarry to startle me. 203 2009/07/08 Central Time (US & Canada) I am a PhD candidate in Religion at Northwestern University. I study and blog http://www.sahelblog.wordpress.com/ about Islam and politics in Africa. http://twitter.com/sahelblog 6 2009/01/31 Pretoria hack http://twitter.com/mattduplessis 1433 2008/10/09 Greenland I have a slight obsession with chocolate, happen to be a music addict, a web http://itssimplyheaven.com junkie and a royal Twit. http://twitter.com/GabiGoldberg 10 2009/02/24 Pretoria CEO of Cape Town Tourism, mom, wife, sister, friend, daughter of the Mother http://www.capetown.travel City and lover of life, wine and the Blues. In random http://twitter.com/mariettedth order. 1 2007/03/05 Pretoria Tune in to bite-sized videos of the latest news, sports and entertainment.http://www.zoopy.com All made for mobile, so your phone will love it. Zoopy http://twitter.com/zoopy - The World in 90 Seconds. 62 2009/05/03 Greenland Journalist|editor|columnist|trainer|B2B specialist|media strategist in thehttp://www.bizcommunity.com/blog/louisemarsland media, marketing, advertising industry in South Africa. http://twitter.com/Louise_Marsland Editor: AdVantage magazine 10 2009/03/21 Pretoria Expert on Nothing - I am still learning! http://original-retnev.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/Retnev 2 2008/07/22 Pretoria WordPress, Coldfusion, php, jQuery Developer and co-owner of Obox Themes. http://marcperel.me Keen runner and cyclist. http://twitter.com/MarcPerel 0 2010/02/02 Herdboy turned sex symbol, leader of men and meeter of the queen. http://twitter.com/realjacobzuma 6 2009/03/24 Hawaii African Dictator http://twitter.com/RealRobMugabe 1 2010/08/18 Pretoria The No 1 Book Shop in Cape Town for Book Launches and Book Reviews http://www.kalkbaybooks.co.za http://twitter.com/kalkbaybooks 641 2007/05/11 Pretoria Web strategist, Internet addict http://www.about.me/eved http://twitter.com/EveD 0 2009/05/25 Pretoria I eat eggs like you for breakfast http://www.farrylpurkiss.co.za http://twitter.com/farrylpurkiss 3 2009/02/09 Pretoria Internet Marketing / SEO / Social Media Training Cape Town, Durban andhttp://www.vernonchalmers.com Johannesburg http://twitter.com/vernonchalmers 8 2008/12/12 West Central Africa Jide Ogunsanya. Tech blogger, IT consultant, Social media enthusiast,Infopreneur http://www.ogbongeblog.com ( www.ogbongeblog.com) http://twitter.com/ogbongeblog 1 2010/04/19 Pretoria Movida, Johannesburg's most exciting and electric party experience! Classy, http://www.movida.co.za sophisticated and full of fun! http://twitter.com/movida_jhb 1 2010/11/10 Greenland I'm the guy messing about with the braai, burning the fingers on one handhttp://www.cookedinafrica.com with a beer in the other. Cooking and travelling ishttp://twitter.com/justin_bonello all in a day's work and I LOVE it! 9 2008/05/03 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Staking Africa's claim on the future http://www.dkfactor.com/ http://twitter.com/dkobia 181 2010/04/10 Harare The guy who started Amabele.aka(slacktivist) http://www.amabelegroup.co.za http://twitter.com/chiefntshingila 42 2009/04/30 Pretoria DJ (House & Old Skool Kwaito). Xhosa chick from Mthatha. @StrictlyRhythm http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/LUDZ-Fan-Page/142432979115524 ambassador. Child of God. I http://twitter.com/ludz_sa 31 2007/05/20 Pretoria Head of AtPlay, interactive division for Saatchi & Saatchi SA http://allankent.co.za http://twitter.com/allankent 0 2009/08/26 Pretoria Proud supporter of the South African Springboks - Current Rugby World Cup http://www.rd8a.com Champions. http://twitter.com/springboks_ 3 2011/03/04 Pretoria Vodacom's Official Youth Space...We bring the best to twitter & even better http://www.facebook.com/Vodacom4U deals to u @Vodacom4u. WE ARE UNIQUE & INTEND http://twitter.com/Vodacom4u ON STAYING THAT WAY! JUST 4U:P 0 2009/02/25 Monrovia An Internet Entrepreneur & Technology enthusiast based in West Africa. http://www.davidajao.com http://twitter.com/niyyie 115 2009/03/09 Pretoria Project Designer, CAD Master, Electronics freek, FHM Model whisperer, PS3 http://amg133.blogspot.com owner, Die Hard Liverpool Supporter: My blood http://twitter.com/AMG133 is RED. 9 2008/04/10 Pretoria Founder of Motribe, the mobile social networking platform http://www.motribe.com http://twitter.com/vincent_maher 8 2009/03/19 Pretoria News24 guru http://www.news24.com http://twitter.com/cathrynr 48 2010/08/17 Pretoria Network of business professionals, Prospective Students, MBA students and http://www.mbanetwork.co MBA graduates. Growing Entrepreneurship andhttp://twitter.com/mba_network connecting business 6 2010/07/15 urban culture loving journalist and TV producer, vintage clothes seller... http://www.rage.co.za http://twitter.com/MariaPodesta 32 2007/06/16 Paris http://nihed.com http://twitter.com/nihed 1 2009/04/11 Pretoria Writer (Children's Books - Eco) - Nicole in the Surf is my Turf is out, SAVE http://www.africanpenguin.co.za THE RHINO, GREAT WHITES, CHACMA BABOONS, http://twitter.com/africanpenguin AFRICAN PENGUINS..... 357 2008/07/09 Pretoria reader, writer, digital marketer, communicator, lame joke maker, coffee drinker. http://alambchop.blogspot.com/ A work in progress http://twitter.com/alambchop 14 2008/04/16 Pretoria Fan of my God, my Wife, my Son and now my Daughter. Training for a Triathlon. http://phillipgibb.com/ http://twitter.com/phillipgibb 1 2011/02/04 Pretoria We manage free and fair elections at all levels of government in South Africa. http://www.elections.org.za http://twitter.com/iecsouthafrica 9 2009/09/06 Paris YouTube : hSp://www.youtube.com/NaderGuiratFaceBook FanPage : hSps://www.facebook.com/NaderGuiratOfficial http://www.myspace.com/naderguirat http://twitter.com/NaderGuirat 762 2008/10/22 Pretoria Marketing Manager @ DStv Online | Vertically Challenged | Blonde | Talks http://annaling.posterous.com a lot. http://twitter.com/annaling Page 22 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 947 948 949 950 951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968 969 970 971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 981 982 983 984 985 986 987 988 989 Twitter Name janetvaneeden alunmcdonald Picknpayonline moniquetheron thecapeargus FlySAcoza brentgraham Newsafrika wesleylynch tash_tashb hellpants thescott Amabacha seifnechi martinslabbert melodymaker jimsef cazpi takkie13 Tazkarty gamingsa JouAdel lebza4sho missmillib sokwanele saschoolsports maggsonmedia africaanalyst donpackett JannieMom BwanaChris princesioni RichardWooding idale j_asonhartman gosocialsa charliebryant turenchi ethekwinigirl thandyy julianrademeyer 6000 the_gossip_guy Followed Followers 1642 1681 660 1680 1917 1677 1246 1669 39 1661 1474 1660 1955 1659 2017 1657 1459 1656 140 1653 379 1649 589 1640 1140 1637 104 1636 1997 1635 460 1632 590 1630 824 1626 1855 1626 96 1621 1997 1620 256 1619 736 1615 642 1615 385 1609 171 1608 285 1605 1042 1597 115 1593 274 1590 2001 1585 1223 1585 1999 1579 280 1573 303 1572 2002 1567 1746 1566 370 1566 1925 1562 261 1556 723 1555 823 1551 248 1550 Tweets 10574 1549 49306 22976 837 3132 3788 23570 6497 2805 6553 4862 3720 1771 5202 5454 2732 53897 5348 851 3676 8989 35701 3861 744 1767 266 179 7079 5829 27961 87 19205 10883 180 5777 521 4123 1610 8912 3220 22373 2843 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 32 2008/11/18 Pretoria Janet van Eeden: Screenwriter, producer. playwright and lecturer. Also, all round party animal. Not so much. http://twitter.com/janetvaneeden 0 2009/04/14 Nairobi Working for Oxfam, covering Sudan, Congo, Somalia and everywhere in between. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alunmcdonald/sets/ Views are mine though http://twitter.com/alunmcdonald 0 2009/08/05 Greenland on line shopping http://www.picknpay.co.za/ http://twitter.com/Picknpayonline 81 2008/11/06 Pretoria 2010 SA Blog Awards Winner| PR Online Manager & Facilitator at @RLabshttp://shesthegeek.co.za | Tech Gadget Reviewer | Mom |Blogger| Loves http://twitter.com/moniquetheron all things digital | 0 2010/11/08 Cape Town's premier newspaper, bringing you the day's news since 1857.http://www.capeargus.co.za http://twitter.com/thecapeargus 4 2008/12/29 Harare Cheap Flight / Airfare Search Engine. Car rentals too! ***Auto DM with link(s) http://www.flysa.co.za = UNFOLLOW*** http://twitter.com/FlySAcoza 3 2009/03/17 Pretoria Sports fan, betting blogger and punter – not necessarily in that order! http://goodforthegame.co.za http://twitter.com/brentgraham 1 2009/06/20 London We bring Africa News, World, Sports, Entertainment and Business news tohttp://madeinafrika.info your PC http://twitter.com/Newsafrika 630 2009/01/14 Harare Founder and CEO of realmdigital. We build cool things online. I dig all software, http://www.realmdigital.co.za tech and business related stuff. http://twitter.com/wesleylynch 0 2009/08/24 Pretoria I`m a Proudly South African model who travels a lot. :) http://www.natashabarnard.com http://twitter.com/tash_tashb 5 2009/02/02 Pretoria New improved, Award winning bullshit artist. Same old opinionated knob.http://www.martinevans.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/hellpants 27 2007/03/04 Pretoria Head of Planning at Quirk //Internet geek, music geek, fishing geek, photohttp://bit.ly/thescott geek, vespa geek, design geek. http://twitter.com/thescott 13 2008/01/09 Pretoria Mastering the lean mean meme machine - Mobile http://www.news24.com http://twitter.com/Amabacha 8 2009/06/18 Greenland blogger, cartoonist http://seifnechi.posterous.com http://twitter.com/seifnechi 3 2008/11/27 Pretoria Freelance media and communications practitioner, since 1995. http://www.facebook.com/martinslabbert http://twitter.com/martinslabbert 4 2008/10/01 Pretoria Melody Maker is my real name. Work in social, mobile, digital spaces. Aspiring http://melodymaker.posterous.com photographer & muso. Saved by grace. Love http://twitter.com/melodymaker things that make my heart smile 5 2009/05/09 West Central Africa UK chap with South African wife :) http://twitter.com/jimsef 59 2008/11/10 Pretoria Boy Mom times 2, married to Paul (@paulscott56). Ardent photographer http://www.cazpix.co.za/ of love, life and people big and small. http://twitter.com/cazpi 2 2009/01/16 Pretoria Councillor of Ward 54 which extends from Green Point to Camps Bay. A love http://www.facebook.com/pages/Councillor-Beverley-Schafer-Ward-54/211989518832210?sk=wall of brand marketing, new media, politics and social http://twitter.com/takkie13 change. 0 2010/01/10 Cairo Egypt's leading online ticketing and reservations service. The hottest concerts, http://www.tazkarty.net events, parties, clubs, bars, restaurants & more! http://twitter.com/Tazkarty Part of the MO4 Network. 0 2011/04/10 Pretoria All the latest Gaming News,release dates and other information from the best South African Gaming sites and writers all from http://twitter.com/gamingsa one place. 148 2010/08/06 Greenland EgypLanٍ,Secular,Human rights defender,Agriculture engineer,♥ #Darwish , ♬ #Marcel #Emam #Fairouz #MouniR . http://twitter.com/JouAdel 68 2009/06/01 Greenland BONA! Ke re everyone is a blogger phela, bjale nna ke konyana ya Modimo http://www.justcurious.co.za wa ma Israele. Alo alo http://twitter.com/lebza4sho 39 2009/04/22 Greenland writer, fashion blogger, ari gold wannabe and freelance wheeler dealer. http://www.missmillib.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/missmillib 4 2007/11/10 Harare Promoting democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe http://twitter.com/sokwanele 0 2009/06/26 Pretoria South Africa's biggest school sport site by far! Bringing you up-to-date news http://www.saschoolsports.co.za from SA's school sports fields. http://twitter.com/saschoolsports 4 2009/05/06 Pretoria Co-anchor NewsNight e news channel and presenter Maggs on Media. http://twitter.com/maggsonmedia 9 2009/03/11 business, politics and Africa http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mikedavies2000 http://twitter.com/africaanalyst 1506 2008/05/20 Pretoria || MC || Comedian || Perspective Merchant || Comes with tattoos and ahttp://donpackett.com dodgy haircut. Batteries not included. http://twitter.com/donpackett 595 2008/08/25 Cairo Editor of News24, a technopathy wannaby and a traveller of the progressive http://www.news24.com and new media universes…but I don’t travel enough. http://twitter.com/JannieMom Just personal views here. 989 2009/04/08 Harare I'm just a boy tweeting in front of millions of Twitter girls asking a girl to love http://bwanachris.wordpress.com/?pages-list me and not be an ex. I really am a Tweet man http://twitter.com/BwanaChris with a good endowment policy 0 2009/04/14 West Central Africa An Internet Entrepreneur, Blogger, Business Leader, Career and Life Coach, http://princesioni.com Investor, Affiliate and Network Marketer. Visit my http://twitter.com/princesioni site for more. 145 2006/10/19 Pretoria I develop software. http://www.richardwooding.com http://twitter.com/RichardWooding 17 2008/04/11 Pretoria http://www.mojodojo.co.za http://twitter.com/idale 0 2009/03/06 Greenland SA Idols Winner 2009 http://www.jasonhartman.co.za http://twitter.com/j_asonhartman 158 2011/03/11 Pretoria Making Sense of Social Media in the South African Context...and having Fun http://www.gosocialsa.co.za with it! #usguys http://twitter.com/gosocialsa 4 2008/05/27 Pretoria Writer, photographer and ecopreneur. Interested in sustainability, creativity, http://www.ecopreneur.co.za photography, wordpress and SEO. http://twitter.com/charliebryant 1 2009/04/16 Quito Nigerian News http://www.turenchi.com http://twitter.com/turenchi 2 2009/03/04 Pretoria Writer, photographer, workaholic info-junkie, Joomla & Wordpress fan, blogger, http://www.ethekwiniweb.co.za aging geek, toyi-toying optimist, social media http://twitter.com/ethekwinigirl trainer, web writer. 1 2009/06/19 Greenland Actress, Dancer/Choreographer, Publicist, Lyrist, MoLvaLonal Speaker...I'm http://www.facebook.com/thandymatlaila the official TeeLady I'm here to serve my Lord thru http://twitter.com/thandyy u:-) 0 2009/06/10 Harare Media24 Investigations http://picasaweb.google.com/rademeyerj http://twitter.com/julianrademeyer 25 2009/01/09 Pretoria microbiologist by day, (in)famous blogger by night; broadcasLng live & direct http://www.6000.co.za from Cape Town, South Africa. http://twitter.com/6000 2 2010/01/01 Pretoria Entertainment buff, esoterically minded, radio DJ, avid soapie lover, celebrity http://gossipguy.co.za follower, stalkerazzi, the most connected manhttp://twitter.com/the_gossip_guy in Joburg, not Perez Hilton Page 23 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 990 991 992 993 994 995 996 997 998 999 1000 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027 1028 1029 1030 1031 1032 Twitter Name ericedelstein pedrie6 angelaquintal brettski SafariGuide kingsleyholgate wizzymi andredebeer edpomfret andywandy cathee_a jobsfromantalsa AymanElHattab fred_roed andrevr willemvzyl lefapike nickjackson shanak soumow simonback BrendenNel jhbcultureclub mynameisjerm cerebra rossouwsrstrnts marianna_b simondav AfricaMars Thabo99 pamsykes LeratoTJ pinkhairgirl tanyakovarsky streetlife aurelianxumalo KevBloom HailMaary allaccessmzansi peterdtoit charlotte_niche karynmaughan alreadyinspired Followed Followers 8 1547 16 1545 644 1544 373 1531 829 1530 88 1526 1960 1523 1430 1519 909 1519 490 1518 234 1517 2001 1515 189 1514 622 1509 795 1505 1657 1503 10 1495 476 1494 1988 1489 450 1489 683 1485 293 1484 1341 1484 770 1484 1523 1476 141 1476 367 1469 1026 1469 1988 1468 1805 1468 917 1467 224 1465 1091 1465 732 1465 440 1464 219 1463 103 1461 601 1460 43 1459 375 1459 1922 1451 322 1446 1579 1439 Tweets 3329 57 1115 3819 524 166 209 755 4672 13913 30596 113 10217 4766 30484 1676 241 10349 10627 7301 1789 8641 1468 5216 497 1127 8297 10530 2348 24683 4978 10042 21591 12939 14758 4643 575 12312 365 7084 1334 1712 236 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 2007/05/10 Pretoria evly.com CEO, Serial Internet entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Search & Social http://www.EricEdelstein.com Media obsessed http://twitter.com/ericedelstein 0 2010/09/15 Official Twitter page for South African and Ulster rugby player Pedrie Wannenburg. http://www.cornerflag.net/pedrie_wannenburg.htm http://twitter.com/pedrie6 0 2009/06/22 Pretoria Editor, The Mercury in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (Tweeting inhttp://www.themercury.co.za my personal capacity) http://twitter.com/angelaquintal 14 2008/02/07 Pretoria Married to @kerryhaggard and dad to two little Haggards. Publisher of Connect http://bretthaggard.com and techie journo for @DestinyMan, @ZATechShow http://twitter.com/brettski & Point of View (KayaFM on Fridays) 1 2009/03/12 Stockholm Filled with passion for travel and life in South Africa - Enjoy African affairshttp://safariguideafrica.com/ and insipring others about Africa and to come visithttp://twitter.com/SafariGuide us. 0 2009/06/01 Greenland Explorer http://www.kingsleyholgate.co.za http://twitter.com/kingsleyholgate 22 2009/03/20 Greenland Graphics Designs, Online Typist, Networking Marketing, Php Scripts Installation http://www.wealthropeclub.com and website administration http://twitter.com/wizzymi 359 2008/08/14 Pretoria Working on some New Media things for corporates in a Basement...onlinehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Ince-New-Media/191292620892979 ordering systems, brand management systems, websites, http://twitter.com/andredebeer ezines, social media... 2 2008/04/12 London I campaign on conflict & humanitarian issues & am a general environmental http://www.ch16.org and social agitator - these views are my own (why http://twitter.com/edpomfret would they be anyone else's?) 0 2008/12/17 Greenland Midwife. Lover of sushi. Loud mouth. Stubborn. Comedienne. Believer in http://andywandy.wordpress.com life, love and lost keys. http://twitter.com/andywandy 169 2009/11/28 Greenland Anything I can do, I can do better...* http://twitter.com/cathee_a 0 2011/07/20 Pretoria JOBS JOBS JOBS. This is a direct feed of all jobs we have on our website. http://johannesburg.antal.com http://twitter.com/jobsfromantalsa 2 2009/03/25 Cairo Egyptian,Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional [MVP], http://www.aymanelhattab.com SharePoint, ALM, Published Author,Speaker,Social http://twitter.com/AymanElHattab Media, Internet & more 70 2008/05/15 Greenland CEO of World Wide Creative. Co-founder of The Heavy Chef Project. A marketing, http://www.fredroed.com evangelising, brand building, feeling-lucky-punk http://twitter.com/fred_roed kind of guy 19 2008/03/07 Pretoria Photographer, geek, engineer. Less engineer than before. I'm just makinghttp://about.me/andrevr this up as I go along... http://twitter.com/andrevr 21 2008/03/11 Harare Geek, sushi lover, bibliophile, and Linux / Apple evangelist. http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/ http://twitter.com/willemvzyl 9 2011/07/18 Am 29 years,from kimberley,am in a band called GREEN ORANGE. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lefa-Pike-for-Idols-2011/203090226407447 http://twitter.com/lefapike 830 2007/04/01 Pretoria iA, digital strategy and online project-management. Has a small interest inhttp://about.me/nickjackson everything. Avant-garde. Liberal. Patriot. Is morehttp://twitter.com/nickjackson than likely looking for his keys. 34 2008/08/21 Harare business developer, technology and social media lover, strategist, entrepreneur, http://www.shanakay.com digital agent, web strategist, pet mom/aunt, http://twitter.com/shanak aspiring poet, writer, painter .. 22 2008/04/02 Paris Tunisian Software Engineer based in Paris and San Francisco. @JulienDollon http://about.me/soumow is my Life's co-pilot http://twitter.com/soumow 3 2008/03/12 Pretoria Pounding the pavements and marketing my family's wines. Check out @backsberg http://www.backsberg.co.za and facebook.com/backsberg for more on http://twitter.com/simonback the farm. Based out of Sweden for 2011. 3 2009/04/11 Pretoria Straight shooter, rugby scribe, beer consumer. bull about town. http://www.followfriday.com/followfriday/brendennel http://twitter.com/BrendenNel 2 2009/08/25 Pretoria Tweeting about Joburg culture. http://www.cultureclub.co.za http://twitter.com/jhbcultureclub 0 2009/03/31 Pretoria South Africa's 39th best cartoonist. http://mynameisjerm.com http://twitter.com/mynameisjerm 3 2009/01/06 Pretoria Full service communications agency, specialising in social, mobile and traditional http://www.cerebra.co.za media. http://twitter.com/cerebra 8 2009/02/13 Pretoria Founder of the eponymous restaurant guide, wine author http://www.rossouwsrestaurants.com http://twitter.com/rossouwsrstrnts 248 2008/09/24 Pretoria Online Marketing Consultant/Vampire Diaries Addict/Shopaholic/Chardonnay http://www.mbconsultancy.co.za Drinker/A Russian in Africa/Bridezilla in the making http://twitter.com/marianna_b 0 2008/09/27 Pretoria Travel, Photography, Adventure, Wildlife, Videography, Nature, Exploring,http://blog.getaway.co.za/author/simon-davidsonhttp://twitter.com/simondav Music, Entrepreneurship, Hot Air Balloons, Africa... 7 2008/05/10 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Watch African TV content like TV shows, documentaries, music and morehttp://africamars.com online. Think Hulu/Netflix for Africa! Giving African http://twitter.com/AfricaMars producers a voice! 7436 2009/07/01 Harare Inciting Sensemaking http://twitter.com/Thabo99 179 2008/03/03 Pretoria Writer, digital storytelling facilitator, data geek, skeptic, intellectual omnivore, http://www.pamsykes.com feminist, mom, knitting addict. http://twitter.com/pamsykes 12 2009/08/19 Pretoria Warrior, writer, optimist, editor, columnist, Jazz on the @beat180show on @rhythm100radio: www.r100.mobi and big sis' to http://twitter.com/LeratoTJ @GuguMT 0 2009/06/20 Pretoria I am pink from hair to DOCs & green where it counts. My passion & creativity http://about.me/Sally-Jane makes a difference as I journey thru life with The http://twitter.com/pinkhairgirl Geek and 3 Pinklets 26 2009/05/04 Greenland Mag hag (ed Living and Loving magazine), mom of Max, Comrades runner,http://www.tanyakovarsky.wordpress.com podophobe. Devotee of Glee, Apples, Hello Kittyhttp://twitter.com/tanyakovarsky and Essie nail polish 32 2007/08/26 West Central Africa My name is Oladipo Ademola Esq. How may I pleasure you? http://9jasite.com http://twitter.com/streetlife 9 2011/05/12 Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up!!! Treat me the same way you would like me to treat you:-) http://twitter.com/aurelianxumalo 1 2009/03/31 West Central Africa A South African writer and journalist. First book, Ways of Staying, a narrative non-fiction journey through contemporary SA,http://twitter.com/KevBloom publisher Picador Africa 22 2011/03/23 Quito #FREEBOOSIE.$$$ UGLY HOES DONT GET THE TIME OF DAY. The shit im smokin http://www.HailMaary.Tumblr.com on is so anL-silent. #BadBitchesAndGoodWeed http://twitter.com/HailMaary 2 2009/11/05 Greenland South Africa's best magazine show, ALL ACCESS is back! We’re bigger, better, bolder and from now on channel 107, MZANSI http://twitter.com/allaccessmzansi MAGIC! 143 2008/10/27 Pretoria Co-founder of Social Media IQ and passionate about keeping up with the http://socialmediaiq.co.za evolving modern web and it's personal and business http://twitter.com/peterdtoit application. 1 2009/01/08 Pretoria Speaker, Trainer, Writer, Entrepreneur, Social Media Strategist, Explorer, http://www.nichetraining.co.za Author of I'm Not Afraid of the 'F' Word and an expert http://twitter.com/charlotte_niche in failure! 9 2010/11/20 Legal journalist at ENEWS in Johannesburg. I hang out at crime scenes and occasionally bowling alleys, in an effort to find out http://twitter.com/karynmaughan just what the hell is going on. 0 2009/04/30 Harare I profile bloggers from across the world. http://www.alreadyinspired.com http://twitter.com/alreadyinspired Page 24 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1033 1034 1035 1036 1037 1038 1039 1040 1041 1042 1043 1044 1045 1046 1047 1048 1049 1050 1051 1052 1053 1054 1055 1056 1057 1058 1059 1060 1061 1062 1063 1064 1065 1066 1067 1068 1069 1070 1071 1072 1073 1074 1075 Twitter Name Followed Followers reneeeverett 1333 1439 warwickchapman 509 1435 djspeedsta 328 1433 ndesanjo 1437 1433 VIVACITY_PR 1847 1431 GCTC 269 1430 byronrode 796 1429 katlegosa 368 1428 blech_klem 513 1427 jontyfisher 291 1427 MBenLakhoua 857 1426 angelo2711 1888 1416 sikimgabadeli 486 1414 OoTheNigerian 147 1413 ZiadM 491 1411 craigrodney 189 1409 dinkydot 1998 1405 shahil 1835 1401 Kimilili 1907 1399 Rubyletters 525 1390 cpwaa 18 1389 cliveevertse 1112 1388 osmosisfutzing 1181 1388 hermanschutte 76 1384 andrewtrench 1139 1381 djellipses 492 1380 Christo_Online 1654 1379 crisppysa 344 1379 Marcel_Perform 885 1376 allhail 515 1374 andrewboraine 632 1374 chakersaaf 1980 1374 evnm 830 1368 nomoneyguy 1271 1368 emarketeur 950 1365 johan__ 1471 1364 gregnietsky 1890 1361 vodacomrugga 325 1360 mabine_seabe 950 1359 kangoulya 984 1358 darrynvdwalt 1312 1357 lesterkk 651 1357 wezzo 1425 1356 Tweets 7711 7666 7747 1228 328 4659 20506 46527 10203 6487 9568 32860 898 5524 16920 4895 256 18158 290 71276 363 10651 23307 1262 940 23993 368 17298 16650 15179 499 149 1569 4854 1142 3047 22019 5038 18516 5617 6803 10280 5745 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 12 2009/01/13 Greenland Event Management, Dreamer, Israel, Photography, Jazz, Immortal-JOHN 3:16. http://about.me/reneeverett I was born for such a Lme as this. (RT & Follows http://twitter.com/reneeeverett do not consLtute endorsement) 0 2008/03/03 Pretoria DA Councillor in eThekwini, passionate Democrat and proud South African. http://warwickchapman.com http://twitter.com/warwickchapman 5 2009/11/23 Pretoria 19 year old/Club Dj/Running with the Reps 2nd cast member,Reps Dj/Student/5fm http://www.thereps.co.za Mixshow Dj/Head Honcho & Flud Watches http://twitter.com/djspeedsta Ambassador/Bookings: Djspeedsta@live.com 0 2006/11/23 Eastern Time (US & Canada) politics, technology, citizen media, e-governance, cyber-activism, local content http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/ndesanjo-macha/ http://twitter.com/ndesanjo 1 2009/01/21 http://www.vivacitypr.com http://twitter.com/VIVACITY_PR 4 2008/12/16 Pacific Time (US & Canada) GOLD COAST TRADING - live from the coast - BEFORE 1444 http://www.before1444.com http://twitter.com/GCTC 182 2007/09/18 Pretoria Father. Husband. Professional Photographer. Web & Mac Developer. TaSoo http://www.byronrode.co.za Canvas. http://twitter.com/byronrode 96 2009/05/05 Greenland Been there, done that. http://twitter.com/katlegosa 109 2009/04/05 Amsterdam http://twitter.com/blech_klem 118 2007/08/30 Pretoria Managing Director of Bletchley Park, Dad of Murray, Husband of Caro, Collector http://www.bletchleypark.co.za of Malva Pudding, Lecturer in Racing Pigeon http://twitter.com/jontyfisher Helmet Design. 1 2009/02/14 Paris http://www.sectechno.com http://twitter.com/MBenLakhoua 7 2009/03/27 Pretoria Tactical content, media & PR agency owner in JHB; ex financial journalist.http://www.channelmpr.co.za http://twitter.com/angelo2711 3 2009/05/13 Pretoria Freelance journalist, talkshow host on SAFM (104-107). Love reading, talking http://www.safm.co.za and am just naturally nosey!! http://twitter.com/sikimgabadeli 22 2008/01/08 London Nigerian | ♥'s Startups, Man U and Family| Ex Co founder, OnePage | Kingsman http://myonepage.com/oo | Warwick and UNIBEN Graduate | Quite Random! http://twitter.com/OoTheNigerian | CEO, Solution Y 22 2008/12/31 Cairo Egyptian Geek, not an activist nor a Sports player, not a movie maker nor a writer, but i talk Politics Sports Movies and Books. http://twitter.com/ZiadM 334 2007/12/18 Greenland MD at Cerebra. Creator and defender of outlandish ideas. Thinks he can still http://www.cerebra.co.za skate & snowboard. Can't. Too old. http://twitter.com/craigrodney 1 2008/10/06 Greenland Hello I am a Publisher. I Married My Mother by Hilary Maraney. Japanesehttp://www.dinky-bloc.com I-Novel. http://twitter.com/dinkydot 26 2007/06/09 Pretoria I like wind farms, technology, gadgets, science, engineering, history and politics. http://strangestthings.wordpress.com I also love Jozi: http://findingjozi.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/shahil 0 2008/12/31 Nairobi Community Breakthrough Support Mission has clean water, school, women's http://benando.weebly.com/ enterpise and other projects in Kimilili, Kenya.http://twitter.com/Kimilili 32 2009/02/04 Pretoria Forensic investigator, optimist, writer, lover of arts, books, gadgets, numbers, http://rubyletters.com shoes&bags.OCD&foot-in-mouth sufferer. You'll http://twitter.com/Rubyletters learn to love me:) 1 2009/06/19 http://www.cpwaa.co.tz http://twitter.com/cpwaa 76 2008/03/08 Pretoria 25 year old recovered drug addict\student\hero trying to make a difference http://www.facebook.com/cliveevertse in the world! http://twitter.com/cliveevertse 1264 2007/08/24 Pretoria Disruptivator - osmosis is a viral creative think tank - we are word of mouth social media guerrillas - spiritual not a believer in http://twitter.com/osmosisfutzing abusive christianity 0 2009/02/16 Harare I like pretty code. http://hermanschutte.com/ http://twitter.com/hermanschutte 26 2008/03/11 Harare Media24 Investigations head, Ex-Daily Dispatch Editor, Byte Banshee, Pops http://www.andrewtrench.com to Gemma Bean, Kiefer and the Grubstreet Gal'shttp://twitter.com/andrewtrench Guy. All tweets are my own views. 10 2009/05/31 Spoilt brat.#Teamreps house DJ. Survivor of Chuck Norris roundhouse kick. Bookings: tejeem@hotmail.com http://twitter.com/djellipses 0 2010/03/05 Pretoria Helping you promote your Internet and MLM Business. Generating qualityhttp://www.christofouche.net leads with free traffic. http://twitter.com/Christo_Online 0 2010/02/15 Alaska •ELEGANCE Owner•Radio Personality•Broke Billionaire SA Brand Ambassador http://www.brokebillionaire.co.za http://twitter.com/crisppysa 67 2008/04/16 Pretoria Corporate Magician, Promotions Presenter & Strategist, Entrepreneur, Author, http://www.marceloudejans.info Professional Speaker & Stand-Up Entertainer. http://twitter.com/Marcel_Perform Passion for captivating audiences! 22 2009/04/02 Pretoria Known for talking a load of 'Bull ;) http://allhailinjozi.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/allhail 0 2009/09/08 Pretoria CEO Cape Town Partnership; Adjunct Prof UCT African Centre for Cities; currently http://www.andrewboraine.com designing new Cape Economic Development http://twitter.com/andrewboraine Agency 0 2008/07/30 Paris Yoga, Health, Beauty, EnergyI love yoga, meditaLon and relaxaLon techniques http://www.yoga-health-beauty-energy.com/yhbe/bloginstall/ :) http://twitter.com/chakersaaf 1 2008/10/17 Pretoria Strategy Director for Stonewall Digital Marketing (part of NATIVE) & South African music journalist & radio DJ. http://twitter.com/evnm 1 2008/09/15 Pretoria I am living without spending money for 5 yearshSp://www.adin.co.za/ http://www.adin.co.za http://twitter.com/nomoneyguy 12 2008/03/14 Paris Webmarketing Pro, fond of permission marketing, social media and reputation http://cli.gs/8upzLs management, mobile marketing. Otherwise,http://twitter.com/emarketeur I am always watching for new trends. 79 2007/08/07 Pretoria I develop with ruby (on rails), and have a keen interest in typography & photography. http://www.flickr.com/photos/qoolpix http://twitter.com/johan__ 37 2009/01/25 Harare maintains linux distro with focus on voip. https://plus.google.com/110581177398182709713 http://twitter.com/gregnietsky 3 2010/02/14 Greenland The Official Vodacom Rugby Channel http://www.vodacom.co.za/rugby http://twitter.com/vodacomrugga 54 2009/05/20 Pretoria Politics, current affairs. Not your regular, regular gent. Blogger. Freelancehttp://not-a-politician.blogspot.com/ writer. Razzmatazz ambassador. Not a member of http://twitter.com/mabine_seabe any political party 439 2008/10/16 Paris Powered by YOU, The World is #Free & #OpenSource! #OpenData #OpenGov http://kangoulya.com #HumanRights #Hacktivist #Linux #XenMasterhttp://twitter.com/kangoulya #WebMaster #Debian #AptoSID #eyeOS #XEN #GPLHost 5 2008/12/07 Pretoria Photographer (Surf / Music / Fashion), software/web developer. That's right. http://www.darrynvanderwalt.co.za I'm a slashie. And proud of it! http://twitter.com/darrynvdwalt 6 2009/06/14 Pretoria Journalist and Reporter at eNews. Still trying hard to play nice with all the grown-ups. I tweet in my personal capacity. http://twitter.com/lesterkk 859 2007/03/07 Harare South African Product Manager at 24.com http://www.blacknotes.co.za http://twitter.com/wezzo Page 25 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1076 1077 1078 1079 1080 1081 1082 1083 1084 1085 1086 1087 1088 1089 1090 1091 1092 1093 1094 1095 1096 1097 1098 1099 1100 1101 1102 1103 1104 1105 1106 1107 1108 1109 1110 1111 1112 1113 1114 1115 1116 1117 1118 Twitter Name Followed Followers SAROVAWHITESAND 1992 1349 mylifescape 694 1346 jobsngr 863 1342 yellowllama 692 1333 carla_fourie 287 1331 Moh_Reda87 1000 1328 barryroodt 1154 1327 fam2010wc 2001 1326 mashada 258 1326 wahbi63 1928 1320 SaFootballFans 886 1317 norwin 1996 1314 rose_cohen 485 1311 tomtom_sa 1419 1309 derekabdinor 898 1306 jeanbarker 512 1305 digimates 29 1302 SanaOue 509 1300 craign 1087 1293 aelsadek 349 1290 shauntrennery 763 1288 barrybateman 416 1280 Compume 0 1280 alastairotter 1096 1279 grubstreetSA 224 1279 stevematthewson 1686 1278 stevesmithza 188 1277 Zoddies 670 1277 waylonmurray 213 1271 afrovision 1925 1266 BienneHuisman 586 1266 johannschwella 342 1263 bronyw 1050 1261 beaconza 881 1258 haroonmeer 659 1258 rambowine 1105 1254 BrendanDD 85 1252 QUTIEFACE 468 1252 justinmccall 819 1248 lazygamers 494 1245 parrav 733 1245 MotshidisiM 262 1244 iamclaro 556 1243 Tweets 893 7288 1289 13940 5564 14439 13987 3914 97 643 565 23509 4999 641 7742 7338 1570 2702 6794 13664 12080 1203 141 4935 1058 2429 3785 11098 596 94 4020 7241 25205 12100 380 5422 524 29462 9361 13756 8186 4792 60183 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 112 2009/12/11 Nairobi Sarova Whitesands Mombasa Kenya's best Resort, Fun for all. Your twiSerer http://www.sarovahotels.com/whitesands is Mercy http://twitter.com/SAROVAWHITESAND 370 2008/11/25 Pretoria Digital Strategist at MediaCom. Eternal Optimist. Explorer. iPhotographer.http://definitivelife.blogspot.com Social Creature. Blogger. Art enthusiast. Scuba Diver. http://twitter.com/mylifescape Believer in love. 0 2009/04/25 West Central Africa Nigerian Jobs Posting And updates.Jobs In Nigeria! http://jobsngr.com http://twitter.com/jobsngr 7 2007/04/25 Pretoria DJ, WordPress Guru, Web Designer & Developer, Adobe Community Professional, http://mark.bloomfield.co.za Mac Slut http://twitter.com/yellowllama 10 2008/04/03 Greenland Owner of Twenty3Media, a marketing agency. I tweet mostly about marketing, http://twenty3media.co.za/ business, interesting advertising campaigns http://twitter.com/carla_fourie and my experiences in Cape Town. 351 2011/01/10 Greenland Political Activist, Philanthropist, Psychonaut ,Writer, Researcher, Blogger,http://vini-vidi-vici-a7rar.blogspot.com Internet Addict and Serious Joker http://twitter.com/Moh_Reda87 4 2008/09/05 Pretoria Co-founder of Jumptag Web Development, award winning mobile developer, http://jumptag.co.za provider of interesting links http://twitter.com/barryroodt 1 2009/09/17 Pretoria South African Football Fan. Affiliate Marketer. Travel Packages South Africa. http://bit.ly/come2rsa Tourism. Insurance. http://twitter.com/fam2010wc 0 2008/09/12 Central Time (US & Canada) Africa's Online Community http://www.mashada.com http://twitter.com/mashada 0 2009/09/05 Cairo SIMPLE MAN WITH HIS BIG FAMILY FIGHTING IN THIS LIFE http://twittereffects.com/?rid=102 http://twitter.com/wahbi63 0 2009/03/14 Alaska SA Football Fans.co.za Official twitter stream. Follow us to get latest football http://www.safootballfans.co.za/ news, results, fixtures and MORE!! http://twitter.com/SaFootballFans 30 2008/06/14 Pretoria Blogger mentor to Jarrod (3 years old); Dad. In love with @ledlet. Have fun http://norw.in/jb with photography. Ride a touring bike. Enterprise http://twitter.com/norwin architect at a bank. 4 2008/10/14 Pretoria Writer, columnist and editor of customer magazines. An otherwise indie girl http://blogs.Parent24.com/rosiecheer that's a good enough mother and suburban satirist. http://twitter.com/rose_cohen 2 2009/08/20 Harare European Leader in Portable Car Navigation http://www.tomtom.com http://twitter.com/tomtom_sa 74 2007/08/05 Harare media; management; metaphysix http://derek.abdinor.co.za http://twitter.com/derekabdinor 25 2008/10/02 West Central Africa If you can't say something nice... say something funny. I'm a South Africanhttp://jeanbarker.wordpress.com writer, studying screenwriting/directing (dualMFA) http://twitter.com/jeanbarker at Chapman University, CA, USA. 3 2009/08/17 Pretoria Digicape Apple Premium Reseller's online community. http://www.digicape.co.za http://twitter.com/digimates 15 2009/01/31 International lawyer, interested in social trends and technology, musician http://twitter.com/SanaOue 5 2007/05/15 Pretoria An active .NET and Xbox evangelist from South Africa. Microsoft Xbox MVP http://craign.net/ 2008, 2009. http://twitter.com/craign 235 2009/04/04 Cairo A Computer Science graduate, a Social Media and SEO enthusiast, a blogger, http://aelsadek.tumblr.com/ and a thinker. Also a music addict. Always learning http://twitter.com/aelsadek something new. Feel free to @ me! 2376 2007/03/10 Pretoria Web Developer / Creator / Founder safindit.co.za, locl.co.za and Izimvo.com http://about.me/shaun with interests in family, development, news, location, http://twitter.com/shauntrennery fitness and all things web. 6 2010/06/14 Eyewitness News Pretoria correspondent. http://twitter.com/barrybateman 28 2010/10/10 Cairo Welcome to CompuMe Egypt’s official account. We're a network of Mega http://www.compume.com stores dedicated to the Digital & InformaLon Tech.http://twitter.com/Compume products & services. 4 2008/05/22 Pretoria Part hack, part hacker. A writer, activist and geek with a passion for new media. http://www.mediahack.co.za Works as a consultant and trainer in the news http://twitter.com/alastairotter and media sector. 22 2009/03/08 Harare SA media chewed and digested by a gal who feasted on ink and paper who http://grubstreet.co.za now eats digital doodads http://twitter.com/grubstreetSA 32 2008/03/23 Pretoria Editor, BusinessLIVE http://www.businesslive.co.za http://twitter.com/stevematthewson 4 2010/04/06 Pretoria Writer & editor. Wrote the Herschelle Gibbs book, To The Point. Busy writing http://stevesmithza.blogspot.com Sarel v/d Merwe's autobio. Editor of the Red Bull http://twitter.com/stevesmithza mag, The Red Bulletin. 8 2009/03/17 Pretoria marie claire sa assistant editor ms maya's mom gadget web reality tv addict http://zodwakumalo.wordpress.com/ traveller reader fashion lover online shopper writer http://twitter.com/Zoddies disclaimer: I tweet what I like 10 2011/05/28 professional rugby player http://twitter.com/waylonmurray 1 2008/10/16 Quito Free African Movies in English and French - Social Networking Site for Africans http://www.afrovision.tv worldwide. http://twitter.com/afrovision 13 2009/05/19 Pretoria Sunday Times journalist, music lover & unspectacular cook. http://www.thetimes.co.za http://twitter.com/BienneHuisman 393 2008/09/04 Pretoria Digital guy at 140 BBDO, Founder @10and5.Opinions stated here are purely http://www.10and5.com my own. http://twitter.com/johannschwella 4 2009/02/03 Pretoria Dog lover. Blogger. Twitter fan. TV watcher. Oh, and chip 'n dip addict *grins* http://keepingupwiththewalkers.wordpress.com/http://twitter.com/bronyw ... Runner. Training to run faster than 8mins/km. (I'm not kidding!) 75 2008/08/11 Pretoria Husband and father MD of 1:1 Relationship Marketing, F1 fan, Mobile Junkie, http://therunningcommentary.co.za Twitter Exponent, passionately South African,http://twitter.com/beaconza I love to debate 0 2008/07/26 Harare Security Geek.. http://thinkst.com/blog http://twitter.com/haroonmeer 71 2009/05/01 Harare I am the custodian of a little piece of heaven in Franschhoek. And I adore http://www.hautespoir.com Buchu Brandy http://twitter.com/rambowine 11 2009/01/23 Pretoria I am the editor of the Daily Dispatch in East London, South Africa http://www.dispatch.co.za/ http://twitter.com/BrendanDD 69 2009/06/01 Hawaii Degree-chaser: Academia excites me. My beauty is owed to knowledge,I there4 http://www.facebook/sinenhlanhlaqutiefacemkhize refuse to stop learning by making a successhttp://twitter.com/QUTIEFACE of d impeccable aesthetics of my mind. 61 2008/01/31 Pretoria Product Manager at Avusa Media LIVE, managing TimesLIVE.co.za | SowetanLIVE.co.za http://about.me/justinmccall | General internet loving geek... http://twitter.com/justinmccall 4 2009/02/03 Pretoria Owner of Lazygamer.net, father of 2, husband, creator of virtual beauty and http://www.lazygamer.net lover of beer... Life is good. http://twitter.com/lazygamers 2 2008/12/01 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Communications Manager @ Humanity United, a philanthropic org. Foreign policy nerd and pop culture geek. My views arehttp://twitter.com/parrav not necessarily those of my employer. 16 2009/03/12 Pretoria Young, fun-loving, hard-working and ambitious!! http://twitter.com/MotshidisiM 1013 2009/04/26 Greenland Apparently I live Here...still tryina figure out where Here is. . .I have a great http://031hottest.wordpress.com fear of women who drink whiskey, and those who http://twitter.com/iamclaro run in heels. Honcho La Familia Page 26 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1119 1120 1121 1122 1123 1124 1125 1126 1127 1128 1129 1130 1131 1132 1133 1134 1135 1136 1137 1138 1139 1140 1141 1142 1143 1144 1145 1146 1147 1148 1149 1150 1151 1152 1153 1154 1155 1156 1157 1158 1159 1160 1161 Twitter Name Followed Followers E4PR 1271 1242 southafricadude 1992 1241 trishdonmall 1567 1239 rayjoe 821 1235 zamarcashton 481 1232 angelagillham 584 1230 eatcapetown 499 1229 monk9 1909 1226 west_cape_news 962 1226 atane 391 1225 CPAnetwork 1906 1224 africanrelish 1556 1220 ryanagibson 1672 1220 vCricketKE 28 1216 AlmasiHealth 1468 1210 dstgovza 1381 1201 jackyah333 1009 1201 fredfelton 1982 1194 altersage 1052 1193 minem 1758 1192 toniice 412 1192 lebo_t 217 1191 deonf 34 1188 mossaab 510 1180 shotbeak 1268 1180 jenodjidja 701 1179 tyronevh 698 1178 cookedinafrica 375 1177 simmiareff 97 1175 iAlen 629 1172 kambabe 589 1169 taluta 865 1169 Baby_Birdie 1228 1166 cryskal 252 1162 CapeJason 616 1161 pigspotterkzn 3 1161 solidgame 449 1160 ilovelove215 14 1159 supercopygurl 1015 1158 mark_immelman 382 1157 1NairaPennyBid 1872 1153 staceface248 311 1153 Ushakamarine 1353 1145 Tweets 274 264 631 4278 8584 4853 3665 31 562 24692 650 3047 3140 649 1765 130 4116 5783 2646 4339 44368 44716 27 3043 5825 6147 5369 1085 7075 28166 43120 10324 2894 13151 1237 319 12773 11 6108 3779 23083 30610 1291 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 12 2010/10/24 London E4 PR / E4PR: Public RelaLons Management. ArLste Management. Publicist. http://www.e4pr.com/ CreaLve #PR Campaigns. #PressRelease #Publicity http://twitter.com/E4PR 24 2007/10/24 Pretoria I am a web developer / hoster / designer / entrepreneur / marketer / SEOhttp://blog.sa-nethost.com Consultant etc etc etc in Cape Town, South Africahttp://twitter.com/southafricadude http://blog.sa-nethost.com 115 2009/02/09 Pretoria Virtual Assistant/Support Services business owner, medical/general/legalhttp://conorsadmin.co.za transcriptionist, wife and mother to three lively lovely http://twitter.com/trishdonmall young girls. 34 2009/03/18 Pretoria Freelance journalist, journalism trainer and media consultant. News junkie http://tiny.cc/lz4gi and media addict, old and new. I live in Cape Town, http://twitter.com/rayjoe work wherever the job takes me. 5 2009/05/03 Greenland Editor of Finweek magazine, entrepreneur and trader http://badentrepreneur.bundublog.com http://twitter.com/zamarcashton 21 2008/09/11 Greenland News editor with a passion for whiskey, wine, words and sexy men http://twitter.com/angelagillham 17 2010/08/16 Greenland biting restaurant reviews - Cape Town independent restaurant reviews http://www.eatcapetown.co.za/ http://twitter.com/eatcapetown 0 2009/03/17 Greenland I am an eternal scholar of the amzing thing we call the Universe, looking on http://shados-quotes.co.cc from my front row seat on a space station calledhttp://twitter.com/monk9 Earth! 0 2008/11/03 Greenland Independent news agency, Cape Town, South Africa http://www.westcapenews.com http://twitter.com/west_cape_news 108 2008/04/15 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Audiophile. Minimalist. Hard Bop Disciple. Hepcat. http://atane.net http://twitter.com/atane 0 2009/11/09 London Hi I am Tony My hobby is making money with Forex trading I also love to make http://www.affiliatesecretscpa.com money interent marketing especially with affiliate http://twitter.com/CPAnetwork and CPA marketing 13 2009/06/19 Greenland fan of my family, South Africa, delicious food,culinary tourism, good cooking, http://www.africanrelish.com African Relish & music! http://twitter.com/africanrelish 4 2009/02/15 Alaska Ryan Gibson- Entrepreneur and Idea Man! http://www.ryangibson.net http://twitter.com/ryanagibson 0 2009/06/01 Nairobi A strong contender in the game, Kenya has all the glory of the sun to make http://www.vcricket.com it shine in the cricket domain. To catch live cricket http://twitter.com/vCricketKE score, stay put. 10 2010/07/06 Nairobi Dr Miriam Kinai is a medical doctor and author of many books such as How http://www.christianstressmanagement.com/ to Fight Addiction available at http://christianstressmanagement.shoply.com/ http://twitter.com/AlmasiHealth 0 2009/05/27 Pretoria The Department of Science and Technology http://www.dst.gov.za http://twitter.com/dstgovza 16 2009/01/20 Pretoria Mother x 4 who believes chocolate can fix everything. Obsessive compulsive, open-minded, wicked sense of humour. Curious http://twitter.com/jackyah333 about Life the Universe & Everything 46 2008/12/03 Pretoria Speaker, Author, Blogger, CEO @FalconsCove a digital media agency. Social http://mrmotivatorfredfelton.blogspot.com/ Media is our Biz. Zany producer of @mondaystclement http://twitter.com/fredfelton Owner of @FCoveGiftShop 0 2007/05/12 Pretoria Online Marketing Strategists passionate about SEO, PPC & Social Media; pedantic http://www.altersage.com about Conversion & Design Usability http://twitter.com/altersage 3 2008/11/03 Pretoria Xbox 360 Ambassador, Community Xpert & Community Leader http://wefollow.com/MiNeM http://twitter.com/minem 18 2009/09/18 Greenland Download Moneoa -Life http://t.co/M4jmnof http://www.justcurious.co.za http://twitter.com/toniice 125 2009/07/28 Greenland Big smile ☀ Big mouth ☀ Big personality ☀ Big dreams ☀ Young womanhttp://www.facebook.com/LeboTsatsimpe !! :) http://twitter.com/lebo_t 0 2009/04/07 http://twitter.com/deonf 0 2008/04/29 Paris aTunisian, aGeek, aBlogger, anAmateur Photographer and aGood music listener http://bit.ly/mossaab http://twitter.com/mossaab 25 2008/12/04 Pretoria Graduate in Marketing + Socio-Informatics. Studying some more. When I'm http://simon.delarouviere.com not making sites, I make music and go to gigs. Creator http://twitter.com/shotbeak of Tweekly.fm and TwimeMachine. 1 2009/03/22 Pretoria Not a singer/model/songwriter/producer. I'm into management/PR/DTF marketing http://www.loyisomusic.com in Entertainment. http://twitter.com/jenodjidja 44 2008/10/24 Pretoria PR & communications aficionado http://tyrone.posterous.com/ http://twitter.com/tyronevh 2 2009/06/19 Pretoria Subscribe before our new site goes live and stand a chance to WIN a Cooked http://www.cookedinafrica.co.za in Africa hamper to the value of a R1000! http://twitter.com/cookedinafrica 515 2009/07/02 Pretoria There is no I in Comedy but there is a ME in Mediocre... And that is what you are getting from me. http://twitter.com/simmiareff 8 2008/06/26 Nairobi CEO Wex Communication. Fifi Addict http://twitter.com/iAlen 102 2009/04/11 Pretoria Terrific Teacher, mom of 3, addicted to life, lover of all things fun, adoreshttp://kambabe.blogspot.com/?spref=tw meeting new people, Fabulous Friend and girlfriend http://twitter.com/kambabe of @squidsquirt that's me 437 2008/10/10 Pretoria ArLst, Writer, DreamerPhD in ProcrasLnaLon. Tea drinking hippy wannabehttp://taluta.blogspot.com/ ... family embarrassment & happy to be :D http://twitter.com/taluta 3 2009/04/20 Pretoria Sub editor & columnist (@MH_girlnextdoor) on Men's Health magazine. Passionate http://baby-birdie.blogspot.com/ about Cape Town, food, books, travel &http://twitter.com/Baby_Birdie engaging with interesting people. 1764 2008/06/04 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Crystal. 17. Once a YouTuber. Now just a normal teenager. http://youtube.com/crystalkay14 http://twitter.com/cryskal 210 2008/11/26 Harare Editor of @menshealthza & Editorial Director, longboarder, food & wine lover http://www.mh.co.za & media maven http://twitter.com/CapeJason 0 2010/08/11 See also @pigspotkzn. Automated retweet service for traffic and traffic related http://j-j.co.za/pigspotkzn information in Kzn. View website for code ofhttp://twitter.com/pigspotterkzn conduct. 165 2008/07/25 Cairo A man of many faces: Developer, Comedian, ConversaLonalist, Decider:Mhttp://www.iamcomic.co.za y thought stream - www.iamcomic.co.za http://twitter.com/solidgame 0 2009/06/06 http://twitter.com/ilovelove215 0 2007/11/26 Pretoria Conceptual copywriter &social media ideas girl Jozi.Console game evangelist.Geek http://925rebellion.com/ from birth. Live life like playing Xbox- with http://twitter.com/supercopygurl achievements. 121 2009/11/06 Central Time (US & Canada) Golf Instructor and College Golf Coach. 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Follow us and you could win a Platinumhttp://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za Pass, that's 365 days of FREE adventure! http://twitter.com/Ushakamarine Page 27 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1162 1163 1164 1165 1166 1167 1168 1169 1170 1171 1172 1173 1174 1175 1176 1177 1178 1179 1180 1181 1182 1183 1184 1185 1186 1187 1188 1189 1190 1191 1192 1193 1194 1195 1196 1197 1198 1199 1200 1201 1202 1203 1204 Twitter Name Followed Followers brendahnyakudya 832 1144 sustokes 272 1142 vanclark 799 1140 dasijoe 1040 1139 baasdebeer 1231 1137 benedictkelly 659 1137 ackershd 37 1135 shazster 761 1134 MSMKOKELI 416 1131 xbox360za 647 1130 choome_g 363 1129 MBCFX 1043 1126 thedrumsmith 1321 1124 JacquesR 558 1123 sablogawards 146 1122 sueannejoe 1592 1115 MyPE 0 1108 laurakim123 1147 1107 glugster 1262 1104 jamonwhite 18 1102 nafisa1 115 1099 TahaBattash 2076 1098 GasantAbarder 419 1097 carlspies 509 1095 paigen 815 1094 alanknottcraig 39 1093 bb_aisha 410 1090 aquilasafaris 531 1088 rafiiik 610 1088 BigDaddy_ZA 267 1084 katle_sa 543 1079 zidan_hosam 1761 1079 kiffegrave 232 1078 lonehillestate 57 1078 jvbtrafficguy 1 1072 thendor 527 1070 choc_milk 287 1069 marianpike 1993 1067 hayleym_ 884 1066 southcoastlive 1997 1063 406 856 1062 Selim_Halioui 239 1062 hshimmi 263 1060 Tweets 6042 2175 992 1300 16008 3613 814 2229 1730 1029 44049 1728 2444 5712 259 13491 8423 24110 1421 1610 7247 3926 4579 2841 7320 1560 2801 625 2129 43903 8897 520 4612 1545 565 39025 4660 5954 11634 10291 4468 1679 1065 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 44 2008/11/13 Greenland Editor - The Afropolitan (www.afropolitan.co.za) Zimbabwean born inter-national who loves to write. Mother of many and partner http://twitter.com/brendahnyakudya to one. 59 2008/07/09 Pretoria SocialCRM Presenter/Speaker; Social media & SocialCRM Strategist/Brand Manager at MWEB. Whisky&Brandy Spirits Master. http://twitter.com/sustokes Rocking The Daisies music festival fanatic 1 2007/03/29 Pretoria Head up marketing at Mobiflock | PR peep & freelance journo at Twokatshttp://www.mobiflock.com | Try to stand on a surf board & quaff my way through http://twitter.com/vanclark SA wines (not simultaneously) 490 2007/05/11 Pretoria Online Business, New Marketing, Web and Mobile Technology Consultant.http://www.formfunction.co.za Founder of @FormFunction. A constant learner, http://twitter.com/dasijoe fishing maniac, vet raver & ethics advocate. 5 2009/06/23 Pretoria Music-loving opinionist. Slightly proud member of the human race. Loveshttp://baasdebeer.wordpress.com to RT. Occasionally funny. #iAmAwesomeLikeThathttp://twitter.com/baasdebeer 2 2007/03/27 Pretoria Editor. Journalist and dad http://www.benkelly.co.za http://twitter.com/benedictkelly 0 2011/03/14 former cricket player,works for supersport. http://twitter.com/ackershd 2 2009/02/13 Wellington Tired of psuedo-virtual posturing | Regular person trying to live a better, http://www.sharondavis.co.za more enlightened, life http://twitter.com/shazster 9 2011/01/27 Business Day Political Editor most of the time. Conspiracy theorist. Good sense of rumour. http://twitter.com/MSMKOKELI 0 2010/09/14 Pretoria Welcome to the official Xbox 360 South Africa account. Jump in! hSp://www.xbox.com/en-ZA http://www.facebook.com/Xbox360SouthAfrica http://twitter.com/xbox360za 61 2009/03/31 Greenland Born a writer, evolved into a moron... Working my way back to amazing. Singer http://vintage-lotus.tumblr.com of silent songs. Abstraction is me. A Jedi http://twitter.com/choome_g 8 2010/12/23 London Our clients enjoy No Dealing Desk to trade Forex,Spot Oil,Spot Gold & Silver,Futures http://www.mbcfx.com/SM/web_en.php & Commodities, Equities and Energy from http://twitter.com/MBCFX just one account. 0 2009/07/23 Pretoria I play drums! http://www.thedrumsmith.com http://twitter.com/thedrumsmith 3 2008/12/11 Pretoria Atheist troublemaker. Columnist for the @dailymaverick, lecturer at the University http://synapses.co.za of Cape Town. Contact details: http://about.me/jacquesrousseau http://twitter.com/JacquesR 0 2008/01/18 Pretoria The SA blog awards showcase the very best of South African independenthttp://www.sablogawards.com web publishing in various categories. http://twitter.com/sablogawards 0 2009/05/23 Pretoria Human Resources Geek; Gym bunny; Part-time PDM BA student; Perfect Type A personality; Blackberry Addict http://twitter.com/sueannejoe 4 2008/06/17 Pretoria Port Elizabeth, South Africa News. But wait, there is more. See http://MyPE.co.za/new/2011/06/twitter/ http://MyPE.co.za/ for reasons why I don't http://twitter.com/MyPE follow you. 37 2008/07/12 Greenland Mom to 3 amazing little people, fiancee to my knight, blogger over here harassedmom.co.za http://about.me/laurakima and Tranquil Body Treats shophttp://twitter.com/laurakim123 owner (www.tranquilbodytreats.co.za) 0 2008/08/05 Pretoria http://www.glugster.co.za http://twitter.com/glugster 25 2009/06/11 Pretoria ♫ Singer/Songwriter - Auditions for Band in Cape Town . ♫ http://www.myspace.com/jamonmyspace http://twitter.com/jamonwhite 28 2008/05/15 Pretoria @MyDigitalLifeSA editor. ITWebber. Netjunkie. I like gadgets, technology,http://nafisa.co.za (fast) cars, traveling & trying new restaurants. http://twitter.com/nafisa1 1 2010/01/02 Cairo My Name Is Taha Hussein, From Egypt, Mansoura, Battash http://www.battash.com http://twitter.com/TahaBattash 2 2010/11/04 Cape Argus executive editor. Sanef Western Cape convenor. http://www.capeargus.co.za http://twitter.com/GasantAbarder 1702 2007/11/24 Pretoria Social Business Technologist, Intrapreneur, Cognitive-Edge Practitioner, CTO http://carlspies.com @Genotribe, Agile Systems Thinker, ScrumMaster, http://twitter.com/carlspies Neuro-semantics Trainer, JazzMonkey 3 2008/05/15 London Hi. Nice to tweet you. I'm an advertising copywriter, Sunday Times Columnist, http://www.amillionmilesfromnormal.com blogger and author of two novels - This Way Up, http://twitter.com/paigen and A Million Miles from Normal. 6 2011/02/02 Greenland Founder - World of Avatar. Keen on mobile, Africa, media, political changehttp://www.worldofavatar.com and coffee... http://twitter.com/alanknottcraig 0 2008/04/23 Cairo South African,journalist,procrastinator http://bibiaishawadvalla.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/bb_aisha 1 2010/06/09 Pretoria Experience the Big 5 less than 2 hours from Cape Town http://www.aquilasafari.com http://twitter.com/aquilasafaris 2 2007/11/21 Budapest Tunisian blogger (since 2004), @Ubuntu member, @MozillaTunisia founder. http://rafik.tn/ All views are my own, not of my employer : @UNOCHA. http://twitter.com/rafiiik 83 2009/12/19 Greenland One size fits all, a body for hire, a passionate lover to the loverless AND loverful! http://thegwaifm.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/BigDaddy_ZA 69 2009/06/09 Cairo Struggling hand and ankle model...KAPOW! http://donthaveasite.com http://twitter.com/katle_sa 0 2010/04/05 Cairo blog of Marketing of goods and commercial products and profit from the http://zidanbusiness.blogspot.com/ Internet http://twitter.com/zidan_hosam 134 2008/09/07 Paris Blogueur tunisien qui l'ouvre bien grande,... pour son plus grand plaisir! Ethttp://www.kiffegrave.com je n'offre pas de boules Quies! http://twitter.com/kiffegrave 0 2009/08/26 Greenland One day, I'll have a Techno Band and you're gonna, be, in it' but in the mean http://www.facebook.com/lonehillestate time, join our twitter page! :) http://twitter.com/lonehillestate 0 2010/02/09 Pretoria Johann von Bargen, 'The Traffic Guy' has been on the forefront of Durbanhttp://www.trafficguy.co.za/ Traffic reports. With his seminars on anti-hijacking http://twitter.com/jvbtrafficguy techniques & defensive driving 165 2009/05/23 Pretoria I tell it like it is, Love me or hate me, I won't change 4 YOU!!!!! http://www.031hottest.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/thendor 17 2008/08/04 Pretoria Fantasist. Egoist. Machiavellianist. Bloggist. Narcissist. Exhibitionist. Greatest. http://about.me/chocmilkza http://twitter.com/choc_milk 9 2008/10/01 Athens Curious about everything. Why is my favourite word. I am an acLvist.I tweet http://marianpike.wordpress.com/ in my personal capacity http://twitter.com/marianpike 44 2009/02/14 Pretoria Just an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life in an extra-ordinary country...and http://www.hayleymal.blogspot.com loving every single second of it. http://twitter.com/hayleym_ 7 2009/09/12 Pretoria Pubs, Clubs, restaurant & entertainment. Promo's and specials all for the http://www.southcoastlive.co.za KZN SCoast! Invite ur friends to follow us too! http://twitter.com/southcoastlive 0 2008/10/12 Pretoria Cheers Lets drink to that! http://winetimes.co.za http://twitter.com/406 2 2008/06/27 Paris Consultant en marketing et en communication. http://www.madwatch.net http://twitter.com/Selim_Halioui 2 2009/03/18 Greenland http://twitter.com/hshimmi Page 28 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1205 1206 1207 1208 1209 1210 1211 1212 1213 1214 1215 1216 1217 1218 1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226 1227 1228 1229 1230 1231 1232 1233 1234 1235 1236 1237 1238 1239 1240 1241 1242 1243 1244 1245 1246 1247 Twitter Name squashed_tom GGRage wkvoetbal2010 onelargeprawn dcuthbert nigeria_news norri d7live garymeyerza hansmol ebucks echaras bobmabena hiltontarrant dippies13 ceciliavdm SiyaKHULA LaurenCHolmes Possicon JacquieMyburgh saaleha ncallegari andreas_spath AlanAlston nswza chrishartZA derickhewetson steri_stumpie nevinsp weetnie jail4bail RMulligan africareporter rudimentals zacarshow lisaraleighsa LeonMare missgods SheldonMorais WendyRobb becausei BlueBuzz camgreen Followed Followers 850 1058 587 1057 345 1057 682 1056 361 1053 115 1051 888 1051 2000 1049 397 1048 1164 1048 604 1047 708 1046 764 1037 485 1036 26 1032 690 1027 1030 1025 334 1022 1177 1014 252 1012 873 1006 476 1005 375 1001 918 993 76 993 392 989 1475 988 464 987 559 986 447 985 986 983 894 981 800 977 499 976 141 975 142 974 1121 972 457 965 377 965 804 965 781 963 320 962 762 962 Tweets 5949 929 796 8689 6753 2318 2647 3121 6955 3085 1126 4271 9452 5965 30 14546 3053 2490 7481 769 3644 9871 2756 2459 853 2506 2291 749 10786 9165 12256 620 514 691 1431 2151 1079 3427 2109 7348 10859 279 7637 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 2010/06/24 Pretoria Providing quality social media management services to the South African http://www.thesquashedtomato.co.za food and wine industry http://twitter.com/squashed_tom 9 2010/06/09 Greenland SA's biggest party... 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The end! http://www.ragefestival.co.za http://twitter.com/GGRage 1 2009/04/09 Pretoria Het beste en laatste nieuws over de kaartverkoop, kwalificatie en wedstrijden voor het WK voetbal 2010 direct uit Zuid-Afrika http://twitter.com/wkvoetbal2010 gebracht door KaapstadMagazine.nl 0 2009/01/06 Pretoria Evil curator of the Onelargeprawn blog. http://www.onelargeprawn.co.za http://twitter.com/onelargeprawn 21 2008/04/21 London Documentary photographer, international man of security, lover, and pack http://danielcuthbert.com rat of fine Italian cycles. http://twitter.com/dcuthbert 3 2009/04/23 West Central Africa Nigeria online News Agency http://assemblyonline.info http://twitter.com/nigeria_news 5 2008/01/09 Pretoria South African Entrepreneur, Systems Geek, Automation Fundi, Guitarist, Marketer, http://www.just1.co.za Web Programmer and More ;) http://twitter.com/norri 2 2009/02/18 Greenland All male a'capella group, these boys have redefined a'capella as we knowhttp://www.d7live.com it. Good looks, great tunes, and great guys, they have http://twitter.com/d7live performed with the best... "They 109 2008/11/18 Pretoria Apple aficionado. Aspirant job creator. http://about.me/garymeyer http://twitter.com/garymeyerza 0 2008/05/12 Pretoria MD - Buongiorno SA [PTY] Ltd. Founder/Shareholder of CMD aka Be-Mobile, http://www.buongiorno.co.za http://twitter.com/hansmol 2 2009/07/09 Pretoria eBucks The Reward of Choice http://www.ebucks.com http://twitter.com/ebucks 4 2009/01/04 Pretoria Social entrepreneur from Mozambique. Works in Media, Real estate, BOPhttp://t.co/OUlXHGt finance, Transport, telecoms... A dreamer & an anti http://twitter.com/echaras poverty activist !! 4 2009/03/02 Pretoria I'm not a DJ, I'm not famous, I'm just a developer in charge of News24.I like http://twitter.com/BobMabena my coffee, beer, sport, gadgets and running. http://twitter.com/bobmabena 673 2008/01/23 Harare Product Guy. http://about.me/hiltontarrant http://twitter.com/hiltontarrant 1 2010/10/03 I'm the songbird of my generation http://twitter.com/dippies13 5 2009/06/18 Pretoria Engineer @SKA_Africa. Host @LTAfrikaans. General science & tech lover. http://ceciliavdm.wordpress.com Tweets a lot of rubbish. Proudly South African. http://twitter.com/ceciliavdm 1 2009/06/05 Pretoria Siyakhula = growing financial ctrl! Pastel InCheck FREE-MyBusiness even OnLine! http://www.yorkaccounting.co.za http://twitter.com/SiyaKHULA 1 2009/03/13 Greenland I am the Multimedia Editor of the Mail & Guardian Online and in love withhttp://www.mg.co.za/multimedia life behind the lens. A follower of all things news,http://twitter.com/LaurenCHolmes photo, video, innovative and fun. 462 2008/12/12 West Central Africa A Web Strategist, Entrepreneur, industry analyst, Tech community Organizer, http://possicon.com author and software engineer based in Lagos http://twitter.com/Possicon Nigeria. CEO at http://webtrendsng.com 13 2009/03/13 Chihuahua editor of VISI magazine, SA's decor, design and architecture bible http://www.visi.co.za http://twitter.com/JacquieMyburgh 46 2008/02/20 Pretoria I'm a writer (most times), print designer (some times) and a papyrophile (all http://about.me/saaleha time). http://twitter.com/saaleha 6 2008/06/20 Harare Messaging architect, writer, blogger, gamer, sci-fi geek, comic book nut. http://about.me/ncallegari http://twitter.com/ncallegari 3 2009/02/06 Greenland I manage Lobby Books in Idasa's Cape Town Democracy Centre http://theantidote.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/andreas_spath 69 2008/08/27 Pretoria I'm the co-creator of Tank; a clean, simple and fun way to build a website.http://withtank.com/ http://twitter.com/AlanAlston 2 2010/02/03 Pretoria Nike Sportswear South Africa. http://twitter.com/nswza 67 2009/05/29 Strategist at Investment Solutions & renowned Gold bull. http://www.chrishart.co.za http://twitter.com/chrishartZA 14 2008/11/25 Pretoria An IT professional, cyclist, photographer, Sagittarian, animal lover and vegetarian, http://www.derickhewetson.com I love meeting people with open minds. http://twitter.com/derickhewetson 0 2009/05/20 Greenland Because flavoured milk drinks don't know how to tweet we're doing it forhttp://www.steristumpie.com/ them. http://twitter.com/steri_stumpie 7 2009/04/06 Pretoria Right handed life student who has an opinion about stupidity. Director at http://about.me/nevinpillay a DNA tesLng company. http://twitter.com/nevinsp 24 2009/05/06 Pretoria What can I tell you? I am happily married & have 2 great boys. Business owner & rugby fan. Loves movies, wine, food & life!http://twitter.com/weetnie 5 2008/08/01 London Changing the wwworld with tech, web addict, mac lover, care about Autism http://www.stmworld.co.uk/ & proud owner of a Twitter tie! Creating safer play http://twitter.com/jail4bail areas for children in schools. 2 2009/03/09 Pretoria Online Marketing Strategist, Entrepeneur. Live Large! Yesterday is history,tomorrow http://www.ibizmarketing.co.za is a mystery,today is a gift that's why it's http://twitter.com/RMulligan called PRESENT! 1 2007/03/09 Nairobi Journalist in Africa http://blog.africareporter.net http://twitter.com/africareporter 2 2008/10/19 Mid-Atlantic Eight-piece ska/reggae band from Cape Town, South Africa. 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Franchisor of The Lisa Raleigh Wellness centres. http://www.lisaraleigh.co.za Reason for Darren Scott's weightloss. part ofhttp://twitter.com/lisaraleighsa the Hello Doctor make over team! 8 2008/06/17 Pretoria Love Classical Music.Commission Overload is the most controversial Internet http://su.pr/2c6Ebg MarkeLng training ever and I use it every day! http://twitter.com/LeonMare ~ hSp://su.pr/2c6Ebg 192 2009/03/09 Greenland Dreaming wide awake * Digital Content Chick * I write poetry & prose * I http://www.wellsaid.co.za effect change through youth digital literacy workshops. http://twitter.com/missgods 135 2009/09/07 Paris Eyewitness News Online Editor, Journalist & Broadcaster. I exist on earth http://www.ewn.co.za but live in my head. Deep House touches my soul,http://twitter.com/SheldonMorais friends & family keeping me young. 189 2008/03/15 Pretoria Something in me evidently resists, or wants to resist, joining any good-behavior club that will have me as a member - Christopher http://twitter.com/WendyRobb Hitchens 1 2008/03/17 Pretoria ..causing Kak since 1974 http://becauseican.co.za http://twitter.com/becausei 3 2008/03/05 Brasilia Se o BlueBus é a Revista Caras da propaganda, nós somos o Notícias Populares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism escândalo, fofoca e pornografia. http://twitter.com/BlueBuzz 11 2008/02/26 Pretoria ##Father ##Husband ##Livestrong Leader ##ZA Explorer ##Wine Lover http://www.facebook.com/CamGreenZA http://twitter.com/camgreen Page 29 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1248 1249 1250 1251 1252 1253 1254 1255 1256 1257 1258 1259 1260 1261 1262 1263 1264 1265 1266 1267 1268 1269 1270 1271 1272 1273 1274 1275 1276 1277 1278 1279 1280 1281 1282 1283 1284 1285 1286 1287 1288 1289 1290 Twitter Name Followed Followers Chykere 809 961 tuism 891 960 hughmccabe 185 959 bridgeboytlee 336 957 dyof 44 956 bevmerriman 348 955 palesa08 569 953 simonbotes 892 953 iloveappleshop 1640 952 deem01 1273 946 by_mercia 791 942 jackiejvr 303 940 za5 563 940 ChrisOnderstall 481 939 bidules 300 938 youngblood 726 938 EmperorsPalace 960 936 afromedia 976 931 toritatham 572 931 MyNkosi 273 927 justinarenstein 453 922 xsyn 432 921 djandasa 278 920 BiggestMullet 658 918 acidicice 432 916 wipou 1012 914 Buhlebonga 334 912 miriammannak 1034 910 mauricecarpede 255 908 anib 516 907 gig_tv 1113 906 Evan_Rothman 626 905 jarredcinman 292 905 mishsolomon 652 905 pfangirl 666 905 kadudu 1065 903 osize 504 903 LynneOConnorEWN 107 899 themercurysa 1998 895 blackdelilah 547 892 tim_cohen 628 891 notomodungwa 869 889 krobertr 2000 888 Tweets 8514 8008 319 16549 771 2127 2332 14707 563 68 9727 18716 20320 2468 5369 1681 1401 2877 3829 1 862 6608 16642 2184 41512 590 51889 3934 222 34056 3863 10222 1012 6711 11884 715 3826 782 11551 10005 239 4204 455 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 19 2009/03/27 Technologist, avid 80's funk fan, manchester born, aba brought up, mbaise http://igbopeople.blogspot.com for life! http://twitter.com/Chykere 19 2009/01/12 Pretoria Illustrator, designer, creatings t-shirts. Lead Creative at Omni Science. Digital http://www.tuism.com Solutions. Polymath wannabe, hopefully funny.http://twitter.com/tuism 2 2008/08/29 Athens Internet Marketing Entrepreneur, Consultant, Trainer. Lifelong Learner, Adventure http://www.hughmccabe.co.za Sports, Fitness Conscious, World Traveller, http://twitter.com/hughmccabe Networker, Always Smiling! 4 2009/04/21 Greenland Bridge Ent. partner & HipHop DJ. Next show beSer than the previous http://twitter.com/bridgeboytlee 0 2009/05/23 Pretoria Rock / Radicore. http://www.danceyoureonfire.co.za http://twitter.com/dyof 109 2007/07/23 Pretoria Re-imagining commerce. Co-Founder of @wixelhq & @mooblr. Also loverhttp://www.wixel.net of chaos, cats and funny people. http://twitter.com/bevmerriman 10 2008/09/19 Pretoria mobile tech enthusiast | love music | casual gamer | community managerhttps://plus.google.com/108893898776804692609 http://twitter.com/palesa08 2 2007/08/06 Pretoria Founder of AppCRAFT. I work on all things mobile. http://store.ovi.com/publisher/AppCRAFT http://twitter.com/simonbotes 1 2010/10/01 Pretoria iloveapple.co.za | Slick & Exclusive Apple Accessories delivered throughout http://www.iloveapple.co.za South Africa. iPhone & iPad cases so HOT, they're http://twitter.com/iloveappleshop sure to get you laid! 44 2009/02/18 Athens : Journeys unveiled and deconstructed. Photo: Dee Muller. Cape Town Waterfront http://mindbodywisdom.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/deem01 305 2009/06/15 Pretoria Proudly #SA. Wife, mom. Work in travel - financial side. Enjoy reading, crocheting, http://wwwsoaploversmarket.co.za sewing, writing...making lip balms, glycerine http://twitter.com/by_mercia soaps, body butters etc 29 2008/07/17 Pretoria {I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein}my http://scrappintimes.typepad.com/ life is based on a true story. http://twitter.com/jackiejvr 243 2008/09/26 Pretoria web, mobile, photography, ___________ http://twitter.com/za5 1 2008/08/26 Pretoria South African PR peep in digital comms @FleishmanZA. My tweets are myhttp://www.chrisonderstall.com own opinion and not that of my employer or clients http://twitter.com/ChrisOnderstall 23 2008/05/01 Paris Engineer, Tunisian, intrested in web, blogs, computer vision, software, programming http://bidules8.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/bidules 5 2008/03/05 Pretoria Media junkie | MBA student | Tech entrepreneur http://za.linkedin.com/in/colindaniels http://twitter.com/youngblood 1 2009/09/29 Pretoria Official page: Emperors Palace Hotel Casino Convention Resort combines http://www.EmperorsPalace.com timeless classical elegance and sheer excitement. http://twitter.com/EmperorsPalace 1 2008/03/14 Pretoria Family guy, loves the online world, loves the challenge oh and I love fishing http://www.afromedia.co.za http://twitter.com/afromedia 0 2009/04/05 London Natal girl living in Cape Town. Work at @OgilvyCT. I blog. I love all things vaguely http://www.kissblushandtell.com nice including pugs, fashion, food, travel, stationary http://twitter.com/toritatham and cosmetics 2 2010/09/23 Greenland http://www.mynkosi.co.za http://twitter.com/MyNkosi 32 2008/08/24 Harare African-based media strategist & start-up junky, consulLng for Google & ICFJ http://linkd.in/g6L7iN on invesLgaLve journalism, mobile, & media sustainability. http://twitter.com/justinarenstein 19 2008/03/19 Greenland Some guy, interested in how you process reality. http://guy.cognasium.com http://twitter.com/xsyn 3 2009/10/19 Greenland Radio peronality~tru fm:dj:club owner.Bookings@djandasa.co.za http://twitter.com/djandasa 49 2008/06/05 Pretoria Web designer, photography enthusiast. http://www.mulletized.com/ http://twitter.com/BiggestMullet 51 2009/03/12 Pretoria Senior Consultant, internet addict, mother to an angel in heaven, proud mommy http://www.acidicice.co.za to #Babyice and wife to @rudicowboy http://twitter.com/acidicice 3 2009/07/13 Paris Web Developer, Joomla Expert, Create Social network website http://www.wipou.com http://twitter.com/wipou 53 2009/03/23 Pretoria Journalist by day... Honours student by night! Blogger and serial power dresser! http://www.buhlebonga.tumblr.com *This is my pvt space & these tweets are MY http://twitter.com/Buhlebonga views and MY views alone* 3 2009/07/09 Pretoria Born in The Netherlands, residing in Cape Town, South Africa. Foreign correspondent http://www.miriammannak.com (Financieele Dagblad) + freelance journalist. http://twitter.com/miriammannak Meeste tweets in het Engels 2 2009/04/25 Pretoria http://www.jacarandafm.com http://twitter.com/mauricecarpede 422 2007/05/30 Mid-Atlantic i stumble through life & teh internetz (anitab.stumbleupon.com). i'm a little http://anilikes.wordpress.com/ funny, a lot opinionated and interested in everything... http://twitter.com/anib except crocs. 10 2009/08/03 Pretoria Your Microwave channel.It's all about Independent people, events and the http://gigtv.co.za music that brings them together... http://twitter.com/gig_tv 0 2009/03/16 Pretoria WRC nut, MotoGP fan, mountain biker, book lover & hobby photographer. http://handbrakeshairpins.wordpress.com Editor of Handbrakes & Hairpins rally eMagazinehttp://twitter.com/Evan_Rothman and CAR Magazine South Africa columnist. 0 2008/02/29 Pretoria Chief Inventor at Native http://www.jarredcinman.com http://twitter.com/jarredcinman 2 2009/04/03 Pretoria Journalism MA student and media researcher at Rhodes University; freelance http://mishsolomon.com photographer and journalist. Lover of all things http://twitter.com/mishsolomon 'journalism'. 5 2009/02/03 Greenland Twentysomething writer and web cartoonist with a serious pop culture obsession http://pfangirl.blogspot.com/ (movies, comics, cartoons, gaming and general http://twitter.com/pfangirl fantasy). 0 2009/02/23 Greenland I have outgrown bullshit http://www.yummie.co.za http://twitter.com/kadudu 31 2006/12/15 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Christian, Economist, BI, BA. Interested in Giving and Social Businesses. http://osize.co http://twitter.com/osize 0 2009/10/09 Amsterdam Morning News Anchor on Talk Radio 702 ... mid morning's on Cape Talk too ... Freelance writer on parenting, wife, mother and http://twitter.com/LynneOConnorEWN Chief Cook & Bottle Washer 0 2010/01/05 Pretoria The Mercury is KwaZulu-Natal’s leading morning newspaper. http://www.themercury.co.za http://twitter.com/themercurysa 26 2008/12/27 Pretoria Tax saver by day, sports fan and protector of good food & wine at night...and http://batonage.com day...and weekends... http://twitter.com/blackdelilah 0 2009/07/22 Pretoria South African journalist http://www.timcohen.co.za http://twitter.com/tim_cohen 190 2008/04/19 Pretoria eCommerce worker & enthusiast, online strategist, developer, opensource http://worthanote.com/worthanote & technology enthusiast... http://twitter.com/notomodungwa 3 2009/01/30 Pretoria CELLARY - InternaLonal Online Business - hSp://www.cellary.co.za/karlrohrbeck; http://www.cellary.co.za/karlrohrbeck LinkedIn: hSp://za.linkedin.com/pub/karl-rohrbeck/10/219/363 http://twitter.com/krobertr Page 30 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 1296 1297 1298 1299 1300 1301 1302 1303 1304 1305 1306 1307 1308 1309 1310 1311 1312 1313 1314 1315 1316 1317 1318 1319 1320 1321 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 1327 1328 1329 1330 1331 1332 1333 Twitter Name brownarran leezl HOHOH ekjokenet AfricaFiles bsbrandon5 nieldlr squidsquirt aslam_levy khosiblog skabenga g_masta Chedly nicholas_duncan dulcecafe ianollis kwvwines Theballito nonimbongo uctradio nickvdl iwanp preneil ianduvenage GlendaN durbanjobs danbaileyza NastasyaTay strandloper PhyliciaO kirstenpearson pokenafrica EngNewsZA baldy_za andrew_louw mlearningafrica hwasser socialcompass KERWIN3 hondasa shaunoakes roxyalexdallas danpinch Followed Followers 70 887 1056 886 1134 885 862 882 272 879 103 879 597 879 509 877 566 875 257 873 614 870 1109 869 169 865 349 862 649 861 424 860 385 857 688 854 277 853 157 853 924 851 606 849 507 847 1313 846 1197 845 1129 842 612 840 135 840 771 840 348 834 1081 833 731 832 44 830 717 828 542 826 392 826 273 824 736 824 203 823 20 822 337 819 763 815 404 811 Tweets 1392 2241 2784 313 2061 2725 6075 21458 3811 6247 1114 10439 2129 4577 446 6469 265 2947 30743 2269 15836 4693 17719 4927 2686 3710 2923 1152 6757 645 86 570 3988 8430 3183 62 1587 1137 353 608 1462 5505 1553 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 2009/07/30 Greenland Professional Cyclist riding for Team MTN Qhubeka. Website: www.qhubeka.org http://www.cyclefit.co.za http://twitter.com/brownarran 18 2008/04/14 Pretoria city lover | ocean lover | inquisitive | particular | likes to listen to bands in sweaty nightclubs http://twitter.com/leezl 767 2008/10/05 Pretoria Peace/Culture/Education-Trust through Friendship Peace through Trust– http://worldcupstadium.wordpress.com Dialogue Respect Tolerance Compassion – Listening/Learning/Abundance http://twitter.com/HOHOH /Fun! http://oz1o3.tk 0 2011/07/14 Pretoria Ek vertel afrikaanse grappe dat jy jouself kan nat lag!!! http://twitter.com/ekjokenet 21 2009/09/27 Eastern Time (US & Canada) AfricaFiles: Alternative News, Action, and Information - For Justice and Solidarity http://www.africafiles.org http://twitter.com/AfricaFiles 1 2009/04/04 Pretoria Team Itec Connect-Kathea http://www.brandonstewart.co.za http://twitter.com/bsbrandon5 1383 2008/08/21 Pretoria Geek, linguaphile & aspiring web entrepreneur, interested in Chinese, linguistics http://niel.delarouviere.com and music. A @mihmedialab student at present. http://twitter.com/nieldlr Also makes 8-bit music. 20 2009/03/07 Pretoria The swollen node at the end of the appendix of publishing; dad of three/writer http://squidsquirts.blogspot.com of things/friend of many and happy partner http://twitter.com/squidsquirt to @kambabe 13 2009/02/18 London Digital platform evangelist. WCape Provincial Gov - Website Manager. Husband. http://aslamlevy.co.za Expecting Father. Mind reader… Oh really?…yeah, http://twitter.com/aslam_levy I thought that too at first.. 0 2010/06/04 Pretoria Kaizer Chiefs 1st team couch coach, Kaizer Chiefs blogger, staunch Amakhosi http://www.khosiblog.co.za 4 Life. Views are my own. http://twitter.com/khosiblog 40 2008/08/17 Mountain Time (US & Canada) I am a husband, father, web producer, drupal evangelist, surfer, longskater, http://www.iaminawe.com animator and general creative computer stuff guy. http://twitter.com/skabenga 161 2007/03/27 Pretoria Just a normal guy with an extraordinary vision of what the world could be.http://za.linkedin.com/in/gioghignone Oh and I played in a band or 3 in my time http://twitter.com/g_masta 87 2009/01/28 Paris Web software engineer @ Havas Tunisia, Co-founder of @Pharmabolix, like http://www.pharmabolix.com history, reading, documentary movies & ads, hate http://twitter.com/Chedly facebook, total fun geek, aikidoka... 5 2009/07/30 Pretoria Online marketing go-to guy. Also, creator of @my_Scoop http://nickduncan.co.za http://twitter.com/nicholas_duncan 0 2009/03/25 Pretoria International coffee shop franchise http://www.dulce.co.za http://twitter.com/dulcecafe 12 2009/08/10 Pretoria South African, innovative leader and DA Member of Parliament. DA Vice Chairman http://www.ianollis.com of Gauteng and Shadow Labour minister.http://twitter.com/ianollis Daily Maverick Opinionista 0 2009/12/08 Greenland Words of wisdom from the KWV Wines bloggers in Paarl, South Africa. http://life.kwv-wines.com/ http://twitter.com/kwvwines 3 2009/06/29 Greenland sharing info about Ballito, the north coast and everything great about living http://www.theballito.co.za on the east coast of Africa! http://twitter.com/Theballito 353 2010/02/03 Mountain Time (US & Canada) Family/Cupcakes/Turquoise/Sagittarius/Fashion/Tea/Lover/Princess/Intellects/Lucky/Extrovert/Jewls/Orchids/Lilies/Dark tones/Chocolate/Tinkies/Travel/Memories http://twitter.com/nonimbongo 0 2010/01/18 Pretoria Broadcasting from the beautiful Mother City, UCT Radio 104.5fm is Cape Town's http://www.uctradio.co.za number one campus radio station. Hip, happening http://twitter.com/uctradio & in tune with the youth of today! 4 2008/03/01 Greenland Photojournalist, Energy Specialist, Economist, barefoot runner, currently overweight http://www.nickvanderleek.com Ironman triathlete - the guy behind SHOOT. http://twitter.com/nickvdl DM me for Portfolio rates. 116 2008/02/13 Pretoria Ex-ICT journalist/editor, one-time business unit director and communications http://www.iwantpienaar.com consultant, now turned freelance writer, speaker, http://twitter.com/iwanp social media/digital consultant 198 2009/04/30 Pretoria YFMusic Compiler. Former UJFM rebel. EuroTrashMusic Blogger. Long livehttp://www.eurotrashmusic.co Rock 'n Roll! In search of my Zooey Deschanel.. http://twitter.com/preneil 0 2009/02/17 Pretoria Financial Services Consultant, Culture enthusiast, Adrenaline Freak, who http://za.linkedin.com/in/ianduvenage more than anything loves a good argument... http://twitter.com/ianduvenage 34 2008/11/12 Pretoria Editor of TheMediaOnline. Freelance writer, editor, media strategist. Mother, wife, champagne drinker, reader, dog walker,http://twitter.com/GlendaN worshipper of Burmese cats, atheist. 0 2010/04/27 Pretoria http://twitter.com/durbanjobs 4 2008/09/02 Pretoria I am busy working at GetSmarter heading up new product development and http://www.danbaileyuk.com working on some cool educational products! http://twitter.com/danbaileyza 0 2009/05/21 Harare Journalist - EyeWitness News radio reporter, writer, producer, correspondent, photographer - trotting around Southern Africa http://twitter.com/NastasyaTay and beyond. 16 2007/03/22 Pretoria Father, husband, programmer, photographer http://craniac.net http://twitter.com/strandloper 0 2011/05/28 Editor of The Times, SA. http://www.timeslive.co.za http://twitter.com/PhyliciaO 0 2008/10/07 Greenland Co-creating conscious change, collaboration, Events Manager, storyteller, healer, Intuition http://twitter.com/kirstenpearson 15 2009/03/18 Pretoria Poken let you quickly and easily connect where it matters, in the real world! http://www.poken.co.za Just touch them to exchange contact details with http://twitter.com/pokenafrica social networks. Get one now! 1 2009/11/04 Greenland Engineering News provides up to the minute news on real economy developments http://www.engineerignews.co.za in South Africa. http://twitter.com/EngNewsZA 593 2008/03/28 Pretoria Cyclist, Problem solver, Troubleshooter, Technologist and Software developer http://baldy.co.za http://twitter.com/baldy_za 1 2008/06/06 Pretoria Still to be written. http://andrewlouw.posterous.com/ http://twitter.com/andrew_louw 1 2009/05/21 Pretoria News, projects and research about mobile learning in Africa http://mlearningafrica.net http://twitter.com/mlearningafrica 0 2009/01/17 Professor of Journalism and Media/Cultural Studies, Rhodes University, South http://www.ru.ac.za/jms/staff/mediastudies/hermanwasserman Africa. Editor: Ecquid Novi: African Journalismhttp://twitter.com/hwasser Studies. 37 2009/04/27 Pretoria MBA candidate at the Warwick Business School. Currently writing my dissertation on #SRI. Looking for a position in the CSRhttp://twitter.com/socialcompass / SRI field. 4 2009/10/22 Greenland Reject Your Reality, and Substitute My Own... http://twitter.com/KERWIN3 2 2010/05/19 Pretoria The official Honda Motor Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd Twitter page | Join thehttp://www.honda.co.za Honda Life: Dream, Love, Share http://twitter.com/hondasa 0 2008/01/03 Greenland Quirk's digital powerhouse. Cape Town's Favourite Son. This is Shaun Oakes. http://www.shaunoakes.com http://twitter.com/shaunoakes 175 2008/09/17 Greenland Recruitment Specialist. Life Changer. Natalian Eastern Cape-ian Capetonian. http://twitter.com/roxyalexdallas 1 2008/12/14 Greenland Dan is Creative Director of Atmosphere Communications and also a member http://www.atmosphere.co.za of +one (collaborative King James social mediahttp://twitter.com/danpinch team). Page 31 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1334 1335 1336 1337 1338 1339 1340 1341 1342 1343 1344 1345 1346 1347 1348 1349 1350 1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 1362 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 1368 1369 1370 1371 1372 1373 1374 1375 1376 Twitter Name KingBiyela RailwaysAfrica gilbertsa Nikkimoff ch16org AC_Peters lavidanota vhata cybersass gotpetrolza philly_girl grawatproject GetrudeM greymacpherson genrestories uberfiend c_schwartzel masteringsap CapeAudio leeanneolfsen andyjamesneale rhcerff antonyadelaar moniquelb LanceTheWitten globelister chiefjester just_rugby ltdn stevenmcd mattsuttner anneleem salewine_co_za simongear slicktiger braaibroer feedmymedia megtheron ilovecoffeeblog pinky_smalest Busi_N jonathanancer merylpixelmagic Followed Followers 2000 811 146 811 78 810 1254 808 750 806 1967 801 441 798 594 796 410 794 1433 793 221 792 125 790 1698 789 792 789 1050 785 173 784 15 782 899 782 757 780 404 780 214 778 963 776 582 774 374 774 459 771 943 769 1214 764 78 763 364 763 361 762 392 761 62 759 1515 759 14 757 326 757 8 756 357 753 348 752 164 751 469 750 673 749 922 748 659 744 Tweets 15037 1411 1811 10214 1137 22 15570 2246 5707 19 8738 425 8759 879 293 9418 5 346 72 3971 1374 6249 5958 4669 5378 89 271 1609 24360 11135 3908 380 1072 287 1295 5 501 10229 341 11117 21397 896 1971 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 27 2009/04/21 Pretoria Journalist. Tweeter of controversial tweets. Follower of Manchester United, http://www.news24.com/ Mamelodi Sundowns, and The Sharks. Anti-Aussie http://twitter.com/KingBiyela and Liverpool. 2 2008/11/19 Pretoria http://twitter.com/RailwaysAfrica 0 2010/10/28 Distributor of Gilbert products, proud sponsor of Bulls and Lions. Our range http://www.gilbertsa.co.za of teamwear, clothing and equipment caters forhttp://twitter.com/gilbertsa all levels of rugby and netball 191 2009/02/18 Pretoria Apparently the only Aussie expat in Durban (via HK) husband & 2 TCK's - http://nikkimoffitt.wordpress.com pls bring Vegemite! http://twitter.com/Nikkimoff 1 2010/04/20 Hawaii Channel 16 is a new frontline for responding to humanitarian emergencies http://Ch16.org & conflicts. Find out what’s happening, see where http://twitter.com/ch16org your help is needed & take action. 3 2009/08/10 Pretoria http://www.bemotivatedtoday.com/41581 http://twitter.com/AC_Peters 13 2009/04/03 Pretoria Son of a Cattle Herdsman, African Supremist, Living lavidaNOTA with No http://www.twitter.com/lavidanota Apologies. http://twitter.com/lavidanota 2164 2007/10/19 Pretoria A bounder and a cad. Eats poppadoms without breaking them. Not to be http://vhata.net/ trusted. jonathan.hitchcock@gmail.com http://twitter.com/vhata 6 2008/06/24 Pretoria cyber sass. actress. creatrix, designer. ambiguous, ambivalent, almost, buthttp://www.sassdesigns.co.za not quite ambidextrous. activist. survivor. founder http://twitter.com/cybersass of slutwalk johannesburg. 0 2011/07/14 Pretoria Tweet locations where there are Petrol Garages that have fuel using the hashtag http://www.gotpetrol.co.za #gotpetrol http://twitter.com/gotpetrolza 0 2008/03/28 Pretoria Sift through my insanity and revel in my genius! http://www.gladtobeagirl.co.za/ http://twitter.com/philly_girl 1 2011/02/12 Ryno Zeelie, MaShew Marinus, Rudo Pieterse&Graeme Watkins Make up http://www.graemewatkins.com The Graeme Watkins Project http://twitter.com/grawatproject 14 2009/06/09 Greenland Journalist.Professional Dreamer.Crazy about RSA.Love social media.I suffocate http://www.facebook.com when I dont hear music.Crazy about gadgets.Tweets http://twitter.com/GetrudeM are my opinion & no one else's. 2 2009/01/13 Pretoria Bespoke digital content creation http://greymacpherson.net http://twitter.com/greymacpherson 0 2009/07/12 Pretoria Daily short stories in every conceivable genre. Created by @WombatSam.http://samwilson.book.co.za/blog http://twitter.com/genrestories 4 2009/03/25 Pretoria Smart arsed ad guy, benevolent dictator, single malt fiend,proud member of HedonistsRus. http://twitter.com/uberfiend 0 2011/04/11 Quito PGA Tour Golfer http://twitter.com/c_schwartzel 0 2009/10/28 Sydney Passionate about connecting SAP users, partners and employees to breakhttp://www.masteringsap.com through barriers, engage in brave conversations and http://twitter.com/masteringsap form lasting relationships. 0 2009/03/11 Pretoria The Institute of sound technology http://www.capeaudiocollege.co.za http://twitter.com/CapeAudio 7 2009/03/13 Pretoria An annoyingly happy Blondie with a lifelong feud with Murphy & his pettyhttp://mebelee.wordpress.com/ Laws. Lover of corny Jokes,cream cheese & high heels.Digital http://twitter.com/leeanneolfsen Consultant at Deloitte,SA. 19 2008/05/19 Harare Webdesigner & Developer with a passion for everything web. Co-founderhttp://www.andyjamesneale.com & owner of @joomlajunkies & @prothemer CMS http://twitter.com/andyjamesneale template clubs 8 2008/04/15 Pretoria An online marketer just trying to make his way in the world/cyberspace http://www.propdata.net/ http://twitter.com/rhcerff 199 2008/09/20 Pretoria Digital Research guy at @YellowwoodFA, but tweets are my own. @Hope_Station http://dailytransaction.blogspot.com/ frontman. Dad, believer, peripheral visionary. http://twitter.com/antonyadelaar Distracted by tech, tunes & lenses. 145 2008/08/29 Pretoria nature-loving, picture-taking, collector-of-pretty-things & full-time dreamer. http://ohjustamo.blogspot.com Sometimes I write about social media {http://monique-boucher.blogspot.com} http://twitter.com/moniquelb 2 2010/05/31 Sports Anchor on the eNews Channel, Father to Hannah-Bean Spawn of Witten, writer, musician, Table Mountain Ambassador, http://twitter.com/LanceTheWitten owner of Zorro the Boxer 0 2009/05/17 Pretoria Promoting South African Blogs! http://sablogs.tel http://twitter.com/globelister 5 2009/03/19 Pretoria chief jester at play@work, passionate about getting adults to make work http://www.playatwork.mobi fun through play! http://twitter.com/chiefjester 0 2010/01/17 Pretoria Just what it says on the can: JustRugby. South Africa's alternative rugby voice. http://www.justrugby.co.za http://twitter.com/just_rugby 94 2006/10/18 Pretoria an Alter Native. http://sinah.org http://twitter.com/ltdn 11 2007/08/22 Pretoria Father, Husband, Football lover, Geek, Metal Head http://www.stevenmcd.me http://twitter.com/stevenmcd 23 2009/04/01 Greenland Can't skate, can't dance, can't photoshop. No ugly stalkers please. http://www.mattsuttner.com http://twitter.com/mattsuttner 73 2010/05/04 Sports Industry http://twitter.com/anneleem 0 2010/06/22 Pretoria We tweet deals - follow & save +70%on great SA wine!Delivery free. Premier http://salewine.co.za online wine retailer in S.A http://twitter.com/salewine_co_za 0 2009/02/02 Pretoria Primedia's weather guy, environmental consultant, writer and presenter of http://www.simongear.co.za 50/50. http://twitter.com/simongear 0 2009/01/28 Pretoria Doctor of Spin, Amateur Scriptwriter, Irony Enthusiast, Anti-Christ Of SA Bloggers, http://www.slicktiger.co.za Die-Hard QOTSA Fan, All-Round-Swell-Guy http://twitter.com/slicktiger (Huge in Japan) 0 2009/03/26 Pretoria http://twitter.com/braaibroer 2 2007/08/13 Pretoria Wiki Guru | BuddyPress Social Engineer | WordPress Fanatic http://www.lsdev.biz http://twitter.com/feedmymedia 3 2009/06/23 West Central Africa Project Manager | Social Media | Marketing | Dancing Teacher | Beautician http://megantheron.wordpress.com | Lecturer | Entrepreneur #FIG.JAM http://twitter.com/megtheron 0 2010/02/25 We're about coffee culture. The beans, the people, the experience, the roasters, http://ilovecoffee.co.za baristas, coffee lovers, heck, we might even http://twitter.com/ilovecoffeeblog speak to people who drink tea. 610 2010/07/28 Alaska I believe in God... http://twitter.com/pinky_smalest 68 2009/08/31 Greenland What u c is what u get! I have no clue what it means but I love how it sounds. Shoot me! http://twitter.com/Busi_N 331 2010/02/04 Greenland Journalist, cryptic crossword junkie, Billy Bunter book collector, Billy Bragghttp://jancerjancer.wordpress.com stalker, er, fan and cyclist. http://twitter.com/jonathanancer 9 2008/07/28 Pretoria owner of http://www.pixelmagic.co.za; designer, pixel alchemist and equine http://www.pixelmagic.co.za lover. http://twitter.com/merylpixelmagic Page 32 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1377 1378 1379 1380 1381 1382 1383 1384 1385 1386 1387 1388 1389 1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 1410 1411 1412 1413 1414 1415 1416 1417 1418 1419 Twitter Name Followed Followers gnat_j 356 739 webcentric_sa 1449 737 bergenlarsen 466 735 sandwichbaron 1659 735 welove 1397 735 Zamajobe 2 734 lize_e 1196 733 jasonadriaan 77 732 mbalimcdust 425 727 Jorieanne 436 726 shanslk 668 725 jessicamcd 296 724 joyanne 545 723 littlemisslee86 585 723 nigelbrown1 2001 721 paulafray 704 721 tianatweets 320 721 abongilem 407 719 jacquesnel 654 719 TremendousNet 1172 719 npcsa 2 716 lilphly 270 712 marcashwell 310 709 rc1140 1314 709 michellecound 438 700 AhmedZairi 576 699 DesrieG 233 690 anne_brand 635 688 nnaniquism 564 688 jon_cardinelli 69 687 jacquelineswart 858 685 barrymccallum 512 684 timlunn 563 683 medwassim 753 680 rebeccalweber 601 680 blobby15 88 679 citybowlmarket 313 679 Naboufall 908 679 beachbabe1 957 678 bradseatonsmith 743 678 janvZA 194 677 andrewcrawford 354 675 jhbprincess 310 675 Tweets 21937 645 11666 2423 340 20 1231 12249 4955 12701 7107 15229 14227 6747 248 314 3381 18192 362 1123 75 21362 3161 10249 4802 1317 4425 2343 2138 666 4549 7058 1021 1638 1186 459 386 1540 1227 1631 1456 4218 16045 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 2009/01/18 Pretoria Wife to @pauljacobson. Mom of two! Welcome to my crazy! http://gnatj.com/ http://twitter.com/gnat_j 0 2009/04/01 Pretoria Strategy, Design, Development, Social Media.. and whole lot more! http://www.webcentric.co.za http://twitter.com/webcentric_sa 77 2007/11/19 Pretoria Mysterious with intent. Honest, without boundary. Lovely, sans saccharine. http://www.beyondyournose.com Safe, without suffocation http://twitter.com/bergenlarsen 0 2009/07/13 Pretoria South Africa's Largest Sandwich Group http://www.sandwichbaron.co.za http://twitter.com/sandwichbaron 1 2010/11/18 Pretoria Be inspired to go somewhere you've never been before. http://welove.net http://twitter.com/welove 0 2009/06/26 Greenland Afro-funk Singer, Songwriter & Performing artist... http://www.zamajobe.co.za http://twitter.com/Zamajobe 1 2008/03/29 Pretoria Head of e-media @stellenboschuni, passion for the great outdoors and wildlife http://www.linkedin.com/in/lizeesterhuizen photography, unfortunate sweet tooth http://twitter.com/lize_e 5 2008/12/11 Greenland Owner at builtneat.com. Computer Science student, aspiring entrepreneur http://www.builtneat.com and owner of online properties like locallist.co.zahttp://twitter.com/jasonadriaan which is powered by ISLabs. 29 2009/11/23 Pretoria DA Youth Chair.Cllr in eThekwini.Brought up by TV.Former Ninja.Lover of http://www.dayouth.org.za comics,video games,pop culture & cute stuff.Robot http://twitter.com/mbalimcdust from the year 2050.Twisted. 32 2007/10/20 Central Time (US & Canada) God first. Praise him.“The mission is to bring Christ to the culture,” -Kirk Franklin http://www.facebook.com/jorieanne.morris http://twitter.com/Jorieanne 4 2010/01/05 Pretoria jozi girl_beach bum_audi baby_speed demon_outdoor adventurer_curious!_totally http://thebouquet.co.za think in pictures_ up for laughs_ witty_very http://twitter.com/shanslk much cheeky_misplaced princess* 23 2008/11/20 Pretoria An Event Manager with an OCD for organisation, planning and being meticulous. http://about.me/jessicam Serious lover of desserts and #SexyShoes. http://twitter.com/jessicamcd And reviewer for @GirlGuidesZA 4 2008/11/17 Pretoria woman, mother, friend, lover, copywriter, blogger, photographer, mermaid. http://joyannefaith.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/joyanne 9 2009/04/08 Pretoria Joburg chick wanting to know ppl from our beautiful country&world!Proudly http://about.me/LittleMissLee86 SA'n!Founder of #jozicaringtweeps.Jazz lover.Postcard http://twitter.com/littlemisslee86 collector I 0 2008/09/26 Pretoria Event Organiser, assisting bringing new technology to market http://www.classicevents.co.za http://twitter.com/nigelbrown1 0 2009/09/10 Pretoria Passionate about quality journalism focusing on development in Africa … http://www.ipsnews.net/africa mom, student and fan of Red Hand guitarist http://twitter.com/paulafray 12 2009/02/11 Pretoria Connect magazine and GirlGuides.co.za editor. Videogame lobbyist. Crazyhttp://www.girlguides.co.za/ cat lady. http://twitter.com/tianatweets 5 2009/03/12 Greenland Grocott's Mail News Editor - South Africa's oldest independent newspaper since 1870...follow me, I'll tweet you to nowhere.http://twitter.com/abongilem Tweeting in my personal capacity. 1 2007/11/20 Harare Lover of technology, marketing & business. Cape Town COO @ Africa's leading http://www.native.co.za digital marketing agency, NATIVE. http://twitter.com/jacquesnel 1 2007/12/30 Paris Entrepreneur Web 2.0, Gérant de l'Agence Web Intrepidev®, Spécialiste en http://www.intrepidev.com développement Web, Hébergement et Web Marketing... http://twitter.com/TremendousNet 0 2011/06/08 http://www.npconline.co.za http://twitter.com/npcsa 42 2010/03/08 The one to have around so that you are never bored but always entertained...lol http://www.lilphly.tumblr.com http://twitter.com/lilphly 113 2008/04/01 Pretoria I like to ask why. Addicted to information. Love design. Need music. http://www.ashwell.co.za http://twitter.com/marcashwell 53 2007/10/22 Harare Delta Squad , Bring it on http://republiccommandos.co.za http://twitter.com/rc1140 4 2008/06/14 Pretoria ♥ it consultant ♥ cycling photographer ♥ social media junkie ♥ http://michellecound.tumblr.com http://www.procycling.co.za http://twitter.com/michellecound 6 2008/09/02 Paris Geek amoureux du Web 2.0, de la musique, de l'économie et la finance http://twitter.com/AhmedZairi 15 2009/04/14 Pretoria Marketing | Photography | Pseudo-Geekdom http://about.me/desriegovender http://twitter.com/DesrieG 5 2008/03/26 Greenland Online addict, mother, words worker. http://annetaylor.posterous.com/ http://twitter.com/anne_brand 636 2010/06/18 Womapreneur: MarkeLng Strategist/Glokal Consumer Insights' Lover/Deliverer http://www.mmutsi.co.za of ROI Branding SoluLons...daughter! http://twitter.com/nnaniquism 0 2010/05/04 Senior sports writer for keo.co.za, SA Rugby, SA Cricket, Road To London and http://keo.co.za Sports Club magazines http://twitter.com/jon_cardinelli 39 2009/03/03 Pretoria Instigator, stoker of fires, catalyst for change, rocker of boats, engineer of itch, mind bullet trigger hippy. http://twitter.com/jacquelineswart 10 2009/06/11 Edit stuff, write stuff, ride stuff. http://twitter.com/barrymccallum 32 2009/02/10 Pretoria IT | S/W | Startup | BizDev | Sales | Marketing | Channel | Internet | (Social)Networks http://www.poken.co.za | Poken | 7 countries (so far) | 4th Passport http://twitter.com/timlunn | 3 Children (so far) |... 47 2009/01/28 Paris Computer sciences engineer, Web project manager, Internet technologies and web 2.0 addicted ... http://twitter.com/medwassim 1 2009/02/17 Pretoria Journalist who covers social justice, the environment, arts, and health http://www.rebeccalweber.com http://twitter.com/rebeccalweber 0 2010/11/06 http://twitter.com/blobby15 0 2011/03/23 Greenland City Bowl Market on Hope brings together a variety of fine foods, drinks and http://www.citybowlmarket.co.za people. You will experience an ancient way of shopping http://twitter.com/citybowlmarket in a modern context. 2 2008/04/21 West Central Africa A blog & more about African relationship issue, Sexy secrets, culture & more.. http://www.naboulove.com http://twitter.com/Naboufall 871 2009/02/14 Pretoria Visual Artist | Design Student | MediaJunkie | Typophile | Social Butterfly | Future Trendsetter | Tea Sipper | Chocoholic | http://twitter.com/beachbabe1 Addicted to shoes and poetry 13 2008/08/15 Harare Project Manager for Joe Public. Rock Star in the making, always learning advertising http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyseatonsmith and E-marketing addict, Scuba Dive Master http://twitter.com/bradseatonsmith and adventurer 2 2008/05/29 Pretoria Tech journo at MyBroadband. Gamer, reader, rocker and total computer http://about.me/janvermeulen geek. http://twitter.com/janvZA 16 2008/07/22 Pretoria I'm the creative dude at Native, South Africa's raddest digital agency http://www.facebook.com/4ndrew http://twitter.com/andrewcrawford 9 2008/12/19 Greenland Quite understandably i can't reply to ALL DM's individually. Naturally i read http://www.jhbprincess.co.za them all, so - take the time to masturbate over my http://twitter.com/jhbprincess Blog. xxx Page 33 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1420 1421 1422 1423 1424 1425 1426 1427 1428 1429 1430 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 1440 1441 1442 1443 1444 1445 1446 1447 1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 1460 1461 1462 Twitter Name Followed Followers chrisdawson 430 673 davidmaynier 117 671 photocomment 346 671 BoemRoker 1045 670 privatesale 544 668 bradhabana212 235 667 zanimbongo 215 667 PennyHaw 801 664 nicki_dadic 546 661 africancourtesy 586 659 tcmallinson 1019 658 juanitaw 808 656 seagyn 654 655 matthewsavides 471 653 stateofsa 1969 651 funnypurp 332 646 tim_duplessis 118 646 pamgoldinggroup 17 645 slowfalling 185 635 lizellevrhyn 753 634 Aneshree28 408 630 neo_maditla 334 630 PaulBedford 879 626 mjxone 1946 624 guymclaren 290 622 k_blazze 194 622 safe_place 1886 620 georginaguedes 398 618 LouHildebrand 211 617 AndyvanWyk 159 616 espacemanager 2 616 marclewis2011 161 616 jono1980 591 611 Bensaleeh 1041 610 shauncusters 388 610 rmaclean 195 605 brucecarlstein 526 604 jexx 261 603 Tay_Dlamini 147 600 wobblyonion 343 600 cocktailfrusion 1501 598 ashmatty 509 597 bradykelly 320 597 Tweets 4273 24 2550 2414 417 1299 25092 3452 10296 39 4400 6656 6005 11382 1580 2097 55 154 2825 1494 7490 18721 903 13 6474 28699 122 4250 1437 1326 2373 10305 2493 197 3803 7921 3643 3056 32886 7365 1396 4067 18539 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 224 2007/03/13 Pretoria I'm a bit weird. Not like completely. just the right amount :) http://chrisda.wson.co.za http://twitter.com/chrisdawson 1 2010/12/25 Greenland DA Shadow Minister on Defence and Military Veterans http://twitter.com/davidmaynier 3 2009/02/25 Pretoria A South African based photographic magazine available in print locally at http://www.photocomment.net leading photographic stores, or online for international http://twitter.com/photocomment readers. Its free too. 8184 2009/07/01 Pretoria A true South African seen through foreign eyes. Fighting lions, living in bush, http://favstar.fm/users/BoemRoker mercenary for hire and working on my mating http://twitter.com/BoemRoker call with trustworthy vuvuzela. 60 2008/08/14 Harare Digital Ninja @ Aqua Online http://twitter.com/privatesale 13 2009/05/10 Greenland Abiding. Sports driven. Making supporters get closer to their heros. Giving back to those who never have. Self sustainable. Trust http://twitter.com/bradhabana212 and integrity, primary. 60 2009/10/05 Greenland I'm a happy, pleasant soul ! I ♡ GOD. I ♡ Laughing. I ♡ my family. Most importantly... http://twitter.com/ZaniMbongo I http://twitter.com/zanimbongo 2 2010/08/24 Pretoria Writer of words. Wife of engineer. Mother of teenager. Walker of dogs. Pragmatic, http://pennyhaw.wordpress.com/ optimistic and inclined to flee when reality http://twitter.com/PennyHaw becomes too harsh to bear. 6 2010/08/24 Harare Tattooed wife to @DavidDadic, mum to Luca Jack & #themole, marketinghttp://www.waitingforluca.wordpress.com & digital consultant & social media girl @Werksmans, http://twitter.com/nicki_dadic full-time #Gleek, part-time blogger. 0 2011/03/19 Harare Specialised African & Indian Oceans Tour Operator, Corporate travel logistics http://www.africancourtesytours.co.za organizers & Destination Management - http://www.facebook.com/AfricanCourtesyTours http://twitter.com/africancourtesy 1 2008/06/02 Harare I'm frivolous, flighty, flakey, fickle, flirty and fashionable! But mostly, I'm just http://trinklebean.wordpress.com facetious... http://twitter.com/tcmallinson 7 2008/11/13 Pretoria Always on. Decidedly unhip. Lover of language and taal. A's fave wife. Mama. http://www.twitter.com/juanitaw Reader. @allafrica team member. Shoe-lover.http://twitter.com/juanitaw @SAEditorsForum member. 3 2008/11/02 Pretoria Love Jesus. Love the internet. Love sport. Love the web. Love WordPress.http://seags.co.za Co-founder of @GettingFitSA and @touchies. Alsohttp://twitter.com/seagyn got the @LiverpoolFever! 2 2010/02/27 Sunday Tribune journalist. DUT politics and newswriting lecturer. Sports fanatic. http://www.matthewsavides.wordpress.com Warped mind. http://twitter.com/matthewsavides 0 2011/05/14 Pretoria Tracking the state of South Africa is a full Lme job...hSp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFDfYJdRZfM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-XKyUUoOo http://twitter.com/stateofsa 1 2009/01/07 Paris Just me, in another way http://www.wordwing.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/funnypurp 0 2011/05/22 Tim du Plessis is head: Media 24 Afrikaans titles http://twitter.com/tim_duplessis 1 2009/06/23 Greenland Welcome to the Pam Golding Property Group, the largest independent property http://www.pamgolding.co.za services company in Southern Africa http://twitter.com/pamgoldinggroup 0 2009/08/03 Eastern Time (US & Canada) aid worker in the Horn of Africa. http://twitter.com/slowfalling 1 2009/06/09 Edinburgh A Capetonian with a Scottish disposition - love life - love people - love coffee http://www.lvr-uk.com - hate loud crunchy eating noises in bed! http://twitter.com/lizellevrhyn 16 2009/09/15 Greenland South African woman of words, thoughts and feelings and Content manager http://aneshreenaidoo.wordpress.com at @Nativespeak. http://twitter.com/Aneshree28 40 2009/10/27 Greenland minimalist, journalist. http://www.capeargus.co.za http://twitter.com/neo_maditla 0 2009/02/05 Pretoria Sports Photographer, Writer, Web Developer based in Pretoria, South Africa http://www.actionimages.co.za http://twitter.com/PaulBedford 1 2009/09/11 Paris If you're looking for some brilliant ideas! you've just come to the right place ;) http://twitter.com/mjxone 4 2007/09/24 Pretoria I tweet occassionally, but am no longer a twitter regular, following me may http://guymclaren.com get you some interesting tit bits. That is all http://twitter.com/guymclaren 53 2009/06/23 Greenland http://twitter.com/k_blazze 0 2010/05/28 Pretoria The safety of all children - that’s our top priority for the Soccer World Cup. http://safeplace.co.za/ If lost, all your child needs to find is a Mr Price store. http://twitter.com/safe_place We’ll keep you safe! 205 2009/06/16 Harare Freelance writer. Wife. Mother of two. Work-life balance - I can haz it! There will be food tweets. http://twitter.com/georginaguedes 1 2009/03/09 Pretoria creative director, publisher, editor, reader of books, design and fashion lover, http://www.louisemore.com music listener, student of english. previously known http://twitter.com/LouHildebrand as louise gamble. 1 2010/03/31 Pretoria Eyewitness News reporter and freelance arts reviewer ranting on anything from politics and popular culture to battling the http://twitter.com/AndyvanWyk 3 Cs: chocolate, carbs & cigarettes. 1 2009/06/22 Paris http://www.espacemanager.com http://twitter.com/espacemanager 0 2009/12/21 Greenland Your favourite sports guy on @947Highveld and @Radio702. World Cups http://www.702.co.za cannot come soon enough. A newly married fast talker. http://twitter.com/marclewis2011 1 2008/07/21 Pretoria I'm also called Cash Money. I bring the awesome. http://twitter.com/jono1980 14 2009/07/04 http://saharatourtun.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/Bensaleeh 3 2008/09/03 Pretoria The tallest ginger you'll meet, the sexiest ginger you'll touch and the smartest http://sacricketblog.com ginger you'll chat to. http://twitter.com/shauncusters 5 2007/08/25 Pretoria Take 1 part geek, pinch of Scottish accent,mix 2 cups of South African pride,chop http://www.sadev.co.za & add many intrests & finally cook til cyclist http://twitter.com/rmaclean tan appears.Serve with whiskey 18 2008/10/14 Pretoria E-Marketer / Founder 6AM Media | Car Fanatic & IPhone Freak! living in the http://www.brucester.com SiliconCape & loving it! http://twitter.com/brucecarlstein 0 2008/02/17 Pretoria Writer, creative mind, female jack of all trades, major gadget and technology http://www.modelbase.co.za/16795 junkie, rocker chick at heart. I aspire to one day http://twitter.com/jexx be an oracle. 120 2010/04/16 Greenland Fashion| Wine| Hip-Hop| Sushi| Shoes| Nail polish| Lipstick| Southern Comfort| http://berry-things.tumblr.com Thick bitches| Skinny bitches| ME http://twitter.com/Tay_Dlamini 2 2009/02/27 Pretoria LiSle. Yellow. Different.Managing editor and official breast inspector for Lazygamer.net http://www.lazygamer.net http://twitter.com/wobblyonion 1 2008/11/22 Pretoria the mother of all fashion parties ! http://www.cocktailfrusion.com http://twitter.com/cocktailfrusion 9 2008/08/05 Pacific Time (US & Canada) PR guy for Porter Novelli and music nerd for NadaMucho.com. Husband. Daddy. http://www.nadamucho.com/ http://twitter.com/ashmatty 87 2009/05/21 Pretoria Rocket surgeon,C# developer, and general dude, with side interests in music, http://rocketsurgery.co.za/ movies, books, food, and life in general. http://twitter.com/bradykelly Page 34 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 Twitter Name quinton_o rudolphmuller Peet_van_Aardt sa_poptart mattyza xhosafundis degrumpysmurf idigdesign safreestuff hubreality barbach barryirwin davegreenway w_ann lonehydrangea grumh aaronmg sethhulley aubreykilian pinkerjen StevieGodson thealexparker boastboy panmacmillansa patrickconroysa mahoota11 waldimar Evergleamy biztown_sa minormatters LindoXulu tara_lawson joepietersen StartUpAfrica andrewisiomah kishyr regardt richsch stefjkoekemoer dbntraffic jjcornish labetenoir mamasiwe Followed Followers 605 597 6 595 715 593 191 593 254 592 77 591 355 588 571 585 59 582 632 579 563 577 746 577 272 575 536 575 1063 574 472 570 420 567 89 566 368 565 304 561 617 561 391 561 179 560 150 559 95 557 217 556 414 552 606 551 1983 549 403 547 386 546 413 544 41 543 264 541 519 540 582 540 315 537 513 537 1988 536 690 532 27 531 549 531 303 530 Tweets 1714 54 2467 2592 6068 409 1269 2845 88 333 286 4831 13367 54275 1072 4237 1119 1385 4573 4259 4142 2103 5348 1841 192 5954 381 2583 70 920 3222 6576 198 511 420 6445 915 4281 336 19 75 14304 17061 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 13 2009/06/03 Pretoria Green Freak, Solar Energy Consultant for Tasol Solar Energy Solutions, General http://quintongreenfreak.wordpress.com/ tree Hugger - Supa Positive Guy - Passionatehttp://twitter.com/quinton_o about good healthy drinking water. 0 2009/08/24 Rudolph is the editor of MyBroadband, South Africa’s largest IT website http://mybroadband.co.za/news http://twitter.com/rudolphmuller 3 2010/02/05 Greenland Community Editor: News24.com Part-time lecturer: Stellenbosch University. http://www.news24.com No fan of winter. http://twitter.com/Peet_van_Aardt 24 2010/09/25 Greenland Writer, journalist, pop culture critic. http://twitter.com/sa_poptart 7284 2008/02/15 Harare Web developer, WordPress enthusiast, musician and blogger http://matty.co.za/ http://twitter.com/mattyza 0 2009/08/07 Pretoria Xhosa Fundis - Innovative Language Courses and Learning Materials http://www.xhosafundis.co.za http://twitter.com/xhosafundis 32 2007/07/27 Pretoria Co-Founder at Vottle.com (Online Classifieds) and ISLabs.co.za, Voice Engineering http://www.vottle.com Manager at Internet Solutions, Technologist, http://twitter.com/degrumpysmurf Father of two, Chilli Addict. 33 2008/08/09 Pretoria South African / Developer. Artist. Motion Graphics Designer. Creative Director. http://www.andrewgill.co.za SuperSport / M-Net. http://twitter.com/idigdesign 1 2009/04/21 Pretoria http://www.safreestuff.com http://twitter.com/safreestuff 11 2008/02/14 West Central Africa Welcome to Hubreality Twitter Channel. Glad to share effective strategieshttp://www.andrewisiomah.org on the cutting edge of Technology, Internet Marketing, http://twitter.com/hubreality Life Issues, and Business News. 1 2008/10/22 Paris some personal narratives http://tbarbich.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/barbach 312 2009/07/15 Pretoria Academic,Infosec Person,BSDphile & herder of graduate cats^W students http://twitter.com/barryirwin 1 2009/04/18 Harare Geek, Techie, Blogger, SarcasLc, Awesome. Currently answering all stupidity http://thetechduel.wordpress.com/ with the number 7. http://twitter.com/davegreenway 7 2009/05/10 Pretoria Trying to keep it simple, living each day to the fullest, love travelling, taking http://annmoments.blogspot.com photos, my dogs and all things fun. http://twitter.com/w_ann 0 2009/04/01 Casablanca Science, photos, outdoors, conservation. I'm there. http://www.vanessastephen.com http://twitter.com/lonehydrangea 4 2008/11/13 Pretoria Construction Professional (PrQS), Cricket Fan, Cyclist, DJ and Gadget Nutt http://twitter.com/grumh 0 2009/04/16 Moscow Reuters journalist in Ethiopia http://af.reuters.com http://twitter.com/aaronmg 2 2009/11/24 Greenland Chantal, Livia, Georden. Use to surf for a living. Massive Bok & Sharks fan! Current occupation-Oakley Sports Marketing http://twitter.com/sethhulley 9 2007/01/16 Pretoria OperaLons Manager at Grapevine InteracLve (www.vine.co.za)Tech enthusiast, http://www.dociletree.co.za/ soluLons architect, PHP and Wordpress developer. http://twitter.com/aubreykilian Dad to 3 awesome boys. 10 2009/01/08 Pretoria Manchester girl living in Africa. Web company geek, musical theatre dork,http://pinkerjen.wordpress.com blogging trollop, and all round advocate for pink.http://twitter.com/pinkerjen Footlight fanny for @RocknRougeSA 0 2010/06/24 Pretoria Founder of the annual Soggies (Stamp Out Gobbledygook awards), newspaper http://www.wordnerds.co.za columnist, journalist, book reviewer, word nerd http://twitter.com/StevieGodson 3 2009/04/07 Harare Dad, author of 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, journalist at Business Day. Cricket nut. Proper five-day cricket, if youhttp://twitter.com/thealexparker please. 9 2008/06/12 Pretoria Determined entrepreneur, part-time blogger, addicted to tech and web 2.0, http://www.boastboy.com oh, and a Mac Fanboy! http://twitter.com/boastboy 0 2009/04/10 Pretoria http://panmacmillan.book.co.za http://twitter.com/panmacmillansa 3 2009/10/22 Pretoria Group Head of eNews. TV news is my thing. Strategy, editorial, marketing, branding, operations and training. http://twitter.com/patrickconroysa 96 2009/12/01 Pretoria I'm not DJ Mahoota, Soccer fanatic, Hip Hop head, Sports freak, Co-host of http://www.LNT.com Late Night Tweets (LNT) with Bernard(@Soafo21) http://twitter.com/mahoota11 and goes by the rap alias J Storm 9 2009/06/10 Editor of NewsNow (nn.co.za), SA's new weekly news aggregator. Lover of cities, thunder storms and whichever wine goes with http://twitter.com/waldimar the food. 0 2008/03/10 Pretoria Writer, editor, photographer, drummer, chicken hypnotist. http://kevinogrady.co.za http://twitter.com/Evergleamy 0 2011/03/31 Harare Biztown is where businesses and people meet. Get in touch and build your http://www.biztown.co.za/ business or search for that supplier. http://twitter.com/biztown_sa 9 2009/02/12 Greenland Jackie May, features editor of The Times, needs to watch her step and eathttp://blogs.thetimes.co.za/minor more sweets. http://twitter.com/minormatters 54 2010/09/21 Greenland @FinancialMail, Investigative Financial Journalist. http://www.fm.co.za http://twitter.com/LindoXulu 4 2009/01/12 Pretoria I write erotic literature about midget cowboys,make glitter leggings for my http://about.me/taralawson hamster and take almost nothing seriously. http://twitter.com/tara_lawson 1 2011/06/27 http://twitter.com/joepietersen 0 2008/05/04 Pretoria Turning the Key of African tech & entrepreneurship. Making a difference,http://www.startupafrica.com/ one day at a time. http://twitter.com/StartUpAfrica 5 2009/11/20 West Central Africa Writer, Internet Entrepreneur who writes about the realities of Blogging, http://www.andrewisiomah.org Internet marketing, Advertising and Youth empowerment http://twitter.com/andrewisiomah in Africa. 5254 2006/08/07 Pretoria iOS & Web SuperCoder (I ♥ Ruby, Rails, Objective-C, Cocoa, jQuery); Sharks http://kishyr.ramdi.al and Liverpool FC supporter; Avid Mac OS X fan and http://twitter.com/kishyr proudly South African! 165 2009/01/27 Pretoria I do PR, Communications, and Social Media for HTC and I'm a lazy photographer. http://www.htcblog.co.za http://twitter.com/regardt 440 2009/03/18 Pretoria Non-blogging developer and outdoor sport nut with a desire to be at the http://www.flickr.com/photos/richsch front of the line. http://twitter.com/richsch 8 2010/04/17 Pretoria South Africa, Do Not dream small Dreams. Time to Dream BIG again. If you http://www.findworkforyou.com are 1 of the Serious sms FIND to 34008 . http://twitter.com/stefjkoekemoer R2/ sms 0 2010/01/17 Pretoria Traffic reports online for Durban. Please report traffic using #dbntraffichSp://www.dbntraffic.co.za http://www.dbntraffic.co.za http://twitter.com/dbntraffic 0 2009/07/26 Pretoria Journalist / Speaker. http://twitter.com/jjcornish 12 2008/04/14 Pretoria I'm a Timecop. In my mind.hSp://agonybeSe.tumblr.com/ http://amandacooper.co.za http://twitter.com/labetenoir 25 2009/11/12 I'm Siwe's mom who believes that : Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. - Ralph Waldo http://twitter.com/mamasiwe Emerson Page 35 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512 1513 1514 1515 1516 1517 1518 1519 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 1530 1531 1532 1533 1534 1535 1536 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548 Twitter Name Followed Followers wicusblaauw 27 530 ojg007 1625 528 tedxcapetown 344 527 asteffens 1724 526 joneighgalaxy 1548 525 fakonig 1583 523 Ryk_van_Niekerk 639 522 bryony_w 876 520 imsmith 432 520 unusualdest 473 517 busisiwe_n 52 515 pengelana 294 515 bernarddeclerk 344 514 NizarGhribi 358 514 Tebbbie 274 514 greghurvitz 1999 511 Nickgrubb 325 511 nickyjamo 575 508 mthombothi 233 506 riaanbth 1078 505 ukintunisia 304 504 adele_kruger 355 502 robertoalfonso 463 501 mattgeri 304 498 alanhammond 599 497 crowhurstspa 2001 494 mdcore 702 492 simontzu 451 490 blablablog 899 489 eloiseboezak 1907 485 tarrynharbour 552 483 Dazzler_ 107 480 riaanw 523 480 shaaadz 292 480 wikidknickers 243 473 jjza 1148 472 compl33t 495 471 rosiebrooks 397 468 wandahennig 277 468 wheatlands 790 468 ernieelspga 13 467 brandondee 337 466 looseimpediment 155 464 Tweets 19 407 298 1236 997 188 2155 1132 2218 313 647 10191 5210 2374 35236 2375 1348 1804 483 9104 425 1921 100 3441 426 396 2306 857 1841 472 10203 8785 2296 9602 2030 2977 4229 4142 2964 3329 11 2229 1858 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 2010/06/28 http://twitter.com/wicusblaauw 38 2009/06/23 Pretoria Looking at systems and processes, analyzing the way business are done. http://twitter.com/ojg007 0 2011/01/20 Pretoria TEDxCapeTown 2012 is in the early planning stages. Contact us if you want http://www.tedxcapetown.org to be involved. It's all about playing and life. http://twitter.com/tedxcapetown 6 2009/04/20 Pretoria I am happily married to a stunning woman, with two beautiful kids, that love God. I like socializing with others and meetinghttp://twitter.com/asteffens interesting people. 19 2010/11/07 Pretoria I Am Who I Am||YHWH Image||Chosen||Dream Weaver||No Limits Soldier||Observer||Giver||Lover||Free http://www.facebook.com/joneighglobal.ljm Spirit||Socialhttp://twitter.com/joneighgalaxy Activist||Fine Artist||Centrist||Global Citizen 0 2008/02/23 Pretoria Baby Boomers Natural Cure Survival Guide For Optimum Health... http://www.libidoandhealth.com/blog http://twitter.com/fakonig 4 2009/09/18 Rome Editor of Moneyweb http://www.moneyweb.co.za http://twitter.com/Ryk_van_Niekerk 2 2008/11/06 Greenland Lifestyle, Food, Health Editor for iafrica.com. Addicted to hedonisLc pleasures. http://lifestyle.iafrica.com/ http://twitter.com/bryony_w 126 2008/07/15 Harare Online Marketing Manager for The Unlimted, Winston the Pigeon and well thats it.. http://twitter.com/imsmith 3 2009/04/27 Pretoria A dynamic tour operator with 12 countries to offer you. We have superb product http://www.unusualdestinations.com knowledge, fabulous website and we lovehttp://twitter.com/unusualdest what we do! 0 2011/08/03 Love my Life(and all the ppl in it),Love God and I love Adele http://twitter.com/busisiwe_n 43 39484.57545 Jakarta http://langitmalam.tumblr.com/ http://langitmalam.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/pengelana 151 39546.31076 Pretoria Online Marketing enthusiast/Designer & beer connoisseur. I love fresh airhttp://www.berncreative.com and the sound of the ocean. I do my own stunts. http://twitter.com/bernarddeclerk 0 39832.45722 Paris Computer Engineer, Geek, Gamer, Gourmet, Open Source Advocate, Big anime http://nizar.posterous.com/ fan, And before all... Proud Tunisian !! http://twitter.com/NizarGhribi 406 39939.48438 Pretoria I Am Who I Am, U Dnt Hv To Like/Follow *ME* Ơ. ̮Ơ http://twitter.com/Tebbbie 1 40156.77931 Greenland I rock the radiowaves every morning on 101.9 ChaiFM breakfast radio. Enjoy http://www.gregsrealword.blgspot.com having a lag,talking politics and more!!! join me http://twitter.com/greghurvitz 0 39832.46828 Harare Trying, in a mature way, not to be old. http://twitter.com/Nickgrubb 0 39947.55375 Pretoria Co-owner of Tribeca PR.Love: @spencerjamo; my baby girl; my fam & friends; http://www.tribecapr.co.za holidays, coffee and summer. Champers, cupcakes http://twitter.com/nickyjamo and people who make me laugh 51 39912.37054 http://twitter.com/mthombothi 13 39949.47409 Harare I am a free thinker, beer drinker, trance and down tempo/ lo-fi music fan. Dad of 4. Husband of none! http://twitter.com/riaanbth 1 40225.58398 Dhaka Tweeting about the work of the British Embassy in Tunis. http://ukintunisia.fco.gov.uk/en/ http://twitter.com/ukintunisia 2 40043.34623 Greenland Lover of cats, magazines and sauvignon blanc. Hopeless cook. Work at @OgilvyCT http://www.ogilvy.co.za although feed is personal. http://twitter.com/adele_kruger 0 39884.83625 Quito hSp://www.my-linker.com/hop/twiSerGDI http://twitter.com/robertoalfonso 0 39194.87846 Pretoria Adventurous web and mobile developer. Chief geek at WordPress Geeks among http://mattgeri.com other things. http://twitter.com/mattgeri 3 39524.38949 Pretoria Owner of Portal Publishing, Dad to two daughters, husband to one wife http://www.skillsportal.co.za http://twitter.com/alanhammond 0 40224.49436 Harare We are a Health & Beauty Day spa. http://www.crowhurstspa.com http://twitter.com/crowhurstspa 52 39188.58706 Pretoria Husband, Freelance WebDev, Drummer and amateur Christian philosopher. http://pedantic.co.za I make Let's Play's. I need dark, strong coffee, preferably http://twitter.com/mdcore now. Married to @etakstoes. 20 39366.37995 Pretoria Entrepreneur, strategist, meditatior, lover, thinker. I'm interested in strategies http://www.videoagent.net of personal/collective evolution through mind/body/spirituality/relationship. http://twitter.com/simontzu 0 39979.7489 Pretoria The World We Live In & Life In General http://www.blabla.co.za http://twitter.com/blablablog 253 40067.66049 Harare Head of Employee Engagement at FNB. Mother to my amazing Mia. Married to a sports journalist so media is ingrained in our http://twitter.com/eloiseboezak lives. 16 40103.28839 Pretoria Reader, writer, thinker, dreamer, introvert. Love books, family, South Africa, http://tarrynharbour.wordpress.com clean energy, cats&cricket. Currently teaching http://twitter.com/tarrynharbour English to kids in Korea. 13 39882.81461 Pretoria Voice-over Artist, Model, Londoner at Heart, Pescatarian by choice, Long http://www.Darrenstruwig.com term goal is to become a resident of the UK. http://twitter.com/Dazzler_ 0 39946.61593 London Living in London, playing the media game, loving the online ride. Day job: production chief, Financial Times special reports. http://twitter.com/riaanw 13 39960.68659 Pretoria You are now in the world I'm ruling• I'm the Boss of the WORLD! http://twitter.com/shaaadz 0 39365.35368 Harare rebel without a clue http://wikidknickers.co.za/ http://twitter.com/wikidknickers 792 39597.78707 Pretoria living, studying, working in Durban . . . great place to be http://j-j.co.za http://twitter.com/jjza 0 39897.01872 Pretoria Knowledge and technology addict from South Africa. Product Manager & http://compl33t.com Developer at GivenGain. Editor & Writer at ZADroid.com. http://twitter.com/compl33t Tinkerer. Nice guy. 1 39591.4533 Pretoria Ultimate Lolcat fan (fluent in Lolcat). Brit living in Cape Town. Loves all animals http://www.facebook.com/RosieGraceBrooks and hates most people. Online Content Manager. http://twitter.com/rosiebrooks Can bend fingers wrong way. 27 39896.68369 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Communication, facilitation, social media solutions. USA-South Africa connect. http://www.wandahennig.com Leverage, Ubuntu, Sustainability, Transitions. http://twitter.com/wandahennig 1 39898.33286 Pretoria I am Lynne Smit (previously Wilson) an insatiably curious journalist with a passionate interest in science and technology andhttp://twitter.com/wheatlands development 0 40621.91012 I'm grateful for all my achievements to date..!!! Golf is my life!!! http://www.ernieels.com http://twitter.com/ernieelspga 158 39798.85336 Pretoria Apple Convert, iPhone Activist, Social Media Evangelist. http://about.me/brandondienar http://twitter.com/brandondee 0 39973.83466 Pretoria Golf writer / United fan / Consumer Affairs vigilante / Caddyshack fanatichttp://golfdigest.co.za / Visited six continents / Hero: Eric Theodore Cartman. http://twitter.com/looseimpediment Page 36 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561 1562 1563 1564 1565 1566 1567 1568 1569 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 1580 1581 1582 1583 1584 1585 1586 1587 1588 1589 1590 1591 Twitter Name Followed Followers richardcoote 346 462 bigdavesee 605 460 suhaifa 455 460 dreamfoundry 504 459 admoss 487 458 calasite 228 458 jonathanw 62 458 randomthoughtso 786 456 lukehardiman 460 454 angelsmind 180 453 olgijean 845 452 pearlsbowsNhoes 190 450 rylandfisher 756 450 james_e_s 72 449 AccuWxDurban 566 445 metrobenmore 583 445 kirstenhopwood 597 444 mxc4 407 444 lazytraveller 885 443 roxbradnick 415 443 moodyatlarge 514 440 lindseyyok 169 439 percyzvomuya 202 439 autotradersa 137 438 cobusvw 243 437 janetheard 379 437 JacquesS_Beeld 931 435 ALSITRADER 9 431 photocrest 1752 431 ingridsinclair 301 429 eleanormuller 813 428 cianm 406 427 michelledasilva 523 422 zimscoop 18 421 virtualafrica 228 419 keithcoats 247 417 jeansmyth 405 416 flaubscher 404 415 BruceRelates 307 414 fikilemuhles20 415 414 claire191 473 413 iMonsterHero 59 412 pheroza8084 352 412 Tweets 12816 2926 2315 4521 1947 10532 5075 28154 1566 17140 807 24784 148 198 1332 909 867 6064 1945 14217 1402 7232 3415 157 4506 544 1980 5623 487 3234 139 2540 806 8054 221 779 2012 560 4822 15371 15742 55 13004 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 48 39698.70572 Harare Nerd, (ex)gamer, tree, giant, big feet, big hands. Nuff said. http://www.richardcoote.co.za http://twitter.com/richardcoote 49 39914.46716 Pretoria What this South African sees (& hears ;-) I also manage & book entertainers http://www.aboutentertainment.co.za (incl. musicians, comedians, MC's, DJ’s), Speakers, http://twitter.com/bigdavesee AV Equip, Crew etc 3 39983.45013 Marketing Manager @ Realmdigital. Postgrad in religion & politics. Geek girl. http://www.suhaifa.co.za Loves social media & anything digital. In love with http://twitter.com/suhaifa my best friend @jacquesmillard 60 39471.74778 Pretoria Stream of consciousness. You probably shouldn't take what you read herehttp://www.dreamfoundry.co.za very seriously. http://twitter.com/dreamfoundry 61 39183.51394 Pretoria Yea, well my info goes here... http://twitter.com/admoss 36 39951.8565 Pretoria Wit, Intelligence & Passion! Specialist in Data & Converged Solutions for Vodacom. http://mbamg.wordpress.com Oenophile and #CARMag blogger #Aspergers http://twitter.com/calasite Syndrome #Atheist #Gay 4 39506.34763 Pretoria I am the lead developer @amoebasys, I drink tea, take photographs, growhttp://www.cowandsheep.co.za plants, draw sheep and develop with php, drupalhttp://twitter.com/jonathanw and other stuff... 60 39242.52742 Harare i started at the c-prompt. Writer/IT Manager/Mama/Lover/Yes, really, I am this short. http://twitter.com/randomthoughtso 4 39434.22314 Harare Cubicle Escape Artist http://newrelease.co.za/ http://twitter.com/lukehardiman 13 39900.81706 Pretoria Wife, mom, baker, ADHD champion, wedding planner, blogger, and taSoed http://www.angelsmind.co.za/ cat slave. http://twitter.com/angelsmind 2 39864.58831 Pretoria Head of Social Media and PR @JMClassifieds.Comms poppie✎by day☼ and http://za.linkedin.com/pub/olga-jean-queen/b/a00/828 film fanatic by night http://twitter.com/olgijean 43 39968.15154 Quito I'm Chanda, & I say all the shit you'll never have the balls to .#teamasshole http://pandadroppings.tumblr.com #teamPanda #freegates #teamprettybrowngirls http://twitter.com/pearlsbowsNhoes #teamXULA 0 40029.35839 West Central Africa I'm a journalist and author of the book, Race, among others. http://www.thenewage.co.za/ http://twitter.com/rylandfisher 0 40674.53166 Harare James Etherington-Smith works for MyBroadband and MyGaming as sub-editor http://www.mygaming.co.za and journalist. He holds a degree in Journalism http://twitter.com/james_e_s from the University of Johannesburg. 0 39616.50954 Quito http://twitter.com/AccuWxDurban 0 40071.54932 Greenland glamorous bistro, bar and ultra lounge http://www.metrorestaurant.co.za http://twitter.com/metrobenmore 0 39993.34413 Greenland PR, MarkeLng, Brand PosiLoning & Event OrganisaLon. Interests: Wine, Food, Fashion, Shopping, Travelling http://twitter.com/kirstenhopwood 0 39733.31829 Pretoria Open source, Java, PHP developer, Linux solution and community builder http://www.jumpingbean.co.za/blogs/mark works in Johannesburg but lives in Durban. Migrant http://twitter.com/mxc4 labourer. 0 39945.70296 Greenland I love to travel and see places and would like to guide people as a mate http://www.cheapgetawayafrica.com http://twitter.com/lazytraveller 0 39775.7141 Pretoria Cape Town based web copywriter on a quest for zen, fostering an avid appreciation http://www.roxbradnick.com/ for cocktails, otters and oysters. http://twitter.com/roxbradnick 193 39601.40363 Pretoria Untethered lightning rod for trouble and calamity. Rocker. Roller. Drink-and-lose controller. http://twitter.com/moodyatlarge 222 39723.95843 Eastern Time (US & Canada) peace, love, and football. and everything in between. http://twitter.com/lindseyyok 1 40009.31089 Greenland Football fan, tree planter etc etc http://twitter.com/percyzvomuya 0 40037.48439 Harare Official Twitter Home of Auto Trader South Africa http://www.autotrader.co.za http://twitter.com/autotradersa 357 39572.51641 Harare wannabee theologian, activist, blogger, pastor, teacher and what have you http://mycontemplations.wordpress.com more... http://twitter.com/cobusvw 2 40080.56253 Cape Town journalist, currently assistant editor, head of news, at the Cape http://janetheard.blogspot.com Times. A 2009/10 Nieman Fellow. Tweeting in http://twitter.com/janetheard my private capacity 0 39945.50488 Pretoria Senior Crime Reporter for Beeld in Johannesburg, South Africa's largest daily http://www.beeld.com Afrikaans newspaper. I love writing, photography, http://twitter.com/JacquesS_Beeld film, rugby and tons more... 0 39948.22855 Pretoria Electronic Engineer, futures trader and property investor http://alsi-trader.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/ALSITRADER 0 40443.26223 Pretoria The photographic experts in Kwazulu Natal. Shop 7/8 Christians Village, Hillcrest. http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoworldhillcrest/ Tel: 0317652493 photoworld.hillcrest@gmail.com http://twitter.com/photocrest follow us and we will follow u 12 39874.445 Pretoria Writing right is a rite. http://twitter.com/ingridsinclair 12 39862.6017 Pretoria Enjoying a marketing journey. http://www.redsweetpea.co.za http://twitter.com/eleanormuller 0 39709.30168 Pretoria Husband to Lisa. Father to Sean. Owned by 2 dogs & 2 cats. Proud to be Irish http://cian.posterous.com/ and to call South Africa and Jo’burg home. Co-owner http://twitter.com/cianm of Tribeca Public Relations. 147 39718.62587 Pretoria Freelance designer of print & web & link sharer by day. Creative Thinker, http://michelledasilva.co.za Inventer Artist, illustrator, Photographer, Adventurer http://twitter.com/michelledasilva and Apple fan by night. 0 39897.09647 Eastern Time (US & Canada) Latest scoop on Zimbabwe news http://www.zimscoop.com http://twitter.com/zimscoop 3 39463.66888 Harare Official Tweets from Virtual Africa in #SecondLife, by Uthango Social Investments http://slafrica.wordpress.com in South Africa. Join us on FaceBook http://ow.ly/V1ae http://twitter.com/virtualafrica 0 39941.38321 Keith Coats is an internationally respected leadership expert, author, speaker http://www.keithcoats.com and facilitator. Co-founder of @tomorrowtodayza http://twitter.com/keithcoats 5 40404.43248 Freelance sports journo. EWN Sport Anchor, 567 CapeTalk, 94.5Kfm, ex-BBC, Sunday Times, SA Sports Illustrated and others.http://twitter.com/jeansmyth Views are my own. 150 39276.56515 Pretoria Applying information technology to solve business problems. http://bit.ly/flaubscher_li http://twitter.com/flaubscher 8 40048.91909 Pretoria Journalist, copy-editor & proofreader. Member - Professional Editors' Group and SAFREA Oversight Committee. Avid sharerhttp://twitter.com/BruceRelates of breaking news and resources. 1 39958.40601 Greenland Muhles'Loving sweet lady who wants to inspire people to greatness!Buccaanneer http://www.muhles.com from Conception!Studied at the University http://twitter.com/fikilemuhles20 of Orlando Pirates! Live in Muhleville! 189 39984.83814 Greenland Single mom of a boy, sales person, chocoholic and a lover of good coffee. LOVE my Black Berry. Love to laugh, passionate and http://twitter.com/claire191 caring. Welcome to my world :) 51 40667.93973 Quito ♫♪♬ A Guy Who Love Music ♫♪♬ I Listen To Rap ,Rock, Pop Im Here To Support http://twitter.com/#!/InvincibleEpic Lady Gaga ,Justin Bieber ,Eminem & Lil Wayne. http://twitter.com/iMonsterHero 57 40427.69083 Lover of the finer things in life! ♥ http://twitter.com/pheroza8084 Page 37 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 Twitter Name Followed Followers martincarstens 362 411 pddekock 13 411 cc_monkey 336 409 jobsinafrica 258 409 nicgroom 76 408 platform45 201 408 reneparker 410 408 labourguide 15 406 missmzam 374 406 kwirirayi 110 405 lucasgo 111 404 kamedan_ 105 402 LeClos_Swim 17 402 lukevenediger 267 402 jozigirl 296 401 roy_davies 268 401 donaldjpaul 564 399 nealeforrest 545 399 marybruceza 492 395 myphotographer 90 393 karenlancaster1 388 392 quintinza 518 392 SamyChelly 679 392 tanyapampalone 115 388 flavid 486 387 pauldevilliers 578 387 robbiefleck 73 387 niceshape 1997 386 brettpringle 191 385 roballen101 349 385 njabuloc 513 384 Lesley_Stones 29 382 sugarrushdeals 1969 379 ThabisoSithole 82 378 joyniemack 899 376 Nixiekitty 380 376 dylanbrent 254 373 DuhItsMeKinni 306 371 plumberdurban 1039 371 glamourstarssa 1922 370 loopyoosthuizen 2 369 r0xii 456 366 Rymo91 207 365 Tweets 3411 26465 17098 2506 543 575 4346 140 15621 14369 6230 1865 35 5874 1931 549 2309 3964 4352 3240 527 3551 756 213 2456 758 0 68 2005 1212 3233 437 149 2448 3433 18843 2155 21235 3975 175 0 2260 8335 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 8 39536.67796 Pretoria Hey. http://www.martincarstens.com http://twitter.com/martincarstens 0 40431.29412 Greenland Programming in C#/C++/MQL4/PHP/SQL/etc...Doing development in financial, http://pddekock.com biometrics, email, payment, website, managing http://twitter.com/pddekock and programming in SQL and much more. 14 39903.61933 Pretoria I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner.The butter would probably get on http://ccmonkey.wordpress.com/ my cuffs.One should always eat muffins quite calmly.It http://twitter.com/cc_monkey is the only way to eat them. 0 39896.59574 Cairo Get the latest Jobs In Africa tweeted direct to you from Check4Jobs.com the http://www.check4jobs.com/jobs-in-africa job search engine. http://twitter.com/jobsinafrica 2 40072.89369 Greenland http://twitter.com/nicgroom 0 39628.07791 Pretoria Web development company specializing in Ruby on Rails. http://platform45.com http://twitter.com/platform45 15 39745.4112 Pretoria I love people and lately, quite like technology! http://www.madamgeek.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/reneparker 1 40143.85883 Pretoria The South African Labour Guide. Labour law news, documents, downloads, http://www.labourguide.co.za courses, letters & legislation. http://twitter.com/labourguide 1 39953.35021 Cairo I am because He is. God-fearing and lover of life. Marketing, events and travelling are my passion. LOVE is what i give endlessly!!! http://twitter.com/missmzam 2 39917.80074 Harare I don't mean to brag but I'm kind of a big deal http://www.3-mob.com http://twitter.com/kwirirayi 4 39736.66042 Pretoria Design Director and {sometimes} single dad of two insanely cool small people. http://www.last.fm/user/GoLucas http://twitter.com/lucasgo 3 39887.51483 Paris Web Design / Tech / Computer science / Fun.. http://www.facebook.com/medamara http://twitter.com/kamedan_ 0 40539.62248 World Champion,Commonwealth Champion,Youth Olympic Champion... http://twitter.com/LeClos_Swim 77 39562.40528 Pretoria I'm a programming language enthusiast, and get way too distracted with http://erlangforsceptics.com/ all the cool tech running around. http://twitter.com/lukevenediger 1 39755.65897 Greenland Recovering shopaholic, crazy about travel, wannabee Philanthropist - I am a gypsy at heart. http://twitter.com/jozigirl 5 40410.51076 Pretoria GM of the Vineyard Hotel and Spa. Passion for food and wine. http://twitter.com/roy_davies 6 39917.378 Pretoria Come hounds, and eat flesh http://magiric.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/donaldjpaul 102 39168.5158 Pretoria Systems developer and gadget freek http://twitter.com/nealeforrest 189 40000.57757 Pretoria Information broker by day, free spirit, keen interest in outdoors, building http://lilacandlime.wordpress.com/ conservation, animal rights, environment, human http://twitter.com/marybruceza nature, most quirks of the universe 5 39532.30574 Greenland Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Sun Tzu http://twitter.com/myphotographer 0 40337.57884 Pretoria Social Media MarkeLng made simple for small to medium businesses.SEOhttp://www.karenlancasterblog.co.za web arLcles wriSen for your website or blog as regularly http://twitter.com/karenlancaster1 as you need. 3 40266.30784 Pretoria Sysadmin, Father and owner of the sageek blog http://g33q.co.za. http://g33q.co.za http://twitter.com/quintinza 0 39467.7426 Paris DJ Producer From Tunisia http://samychelly.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/SamyChelly 0 39981.23657 Harare Features Editor, Mail & Guardian http://www.mg.co.za http://twitter.com/tanyapampalone 4 39870.61112 Amsterdam Charismatic, life loving, Ninja admiring, Ambitiously flavorsome, S.O.B. #aircraft http://www.journey2joy.co.za #sales #insurance #Journey2Joy #Newborn http://twitter.com/flavid 16 39977.52962 Pretoria Actuarial Science student at Stellenbosch University. Otherwise friends and http://www.facebook.com/pauldevilliers good music keep me busy. http://twitter.com/pauldevilliers 0 40388.54993 http://twitter.com/robbiefleck 4 40293.78583 Pretoria For you to get to a nice shape. http://twitter.com/niceshape 277 39583.33764 Pretoria Director of Search for @MediaVision, specialist Search Marketing company. http://www.mediavisioninteractive.com SEO addict, PPC fiddler & all round search geek.http://twitter.com/brettpringle 85 39910.35884 Harare Likes good ideas, good actions and good uses of technology for community http://roballen101.posterous.com empowerment http://twitter.com/roballen101 0 39995.58083 Pretoria I'm just a squirrel tryin to get a nut! http://www.facebook.com/itsnjabulo http://twitter.com/njabuloc 1 39965.38596 Pretoria Irrepressible traveller, eternal optimist, and a freelance travel & leisure journalist http://twitter.com/Lesley_Stones 0 40681.7726 Harare We are young, edgy and maintain a fresh outlook on what group buying should http://www.sugar-rush.co.za be; Exactly what YOU want http://twitter.com/sugarrushdeals 1 39935.51005 Pretoria Brother, Son, Uncle, Sports Reporter, Presenter, MC, Mouthfull is what I am. http://facebook.com/sitholet http://twitter.com/ThabisoSithole 10 39877.44728 Greenland Online Content Coordinator, digital designer and part-time model whisperer. http://www.sportsillustrated.co.za http://twitter.com/joyniemack 35 39841.35382 Greenland Quirky, fun loving, life loving, hobbit sized, loves animals, xBox junki. Christian http://nixiekitty.wordpress.com/ trying to walk Christ style Married to the amazing http://twitter.com/Nixiekitty @shaneaddinall 1 39541.28558 Pretoria I'm a unique human being, just like everybody else. http://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanbrent http://twitter.com/dylanbrent 17 40069.99258 Central Time (US & Canada) To be a raging bitch, you have to be clever, and to be clever you have to be smart♥. TwiSer husband @JashyyMontanaa http://twitter.com/DuhItsMeKinni 4 40404.66538 Pretoria I love Durban I bodyboard and listen to Queens of the Stone age. Walker Plumbing http://www.walkerplumbers.co.za & Electrical is my business. I'm a hamperhttp://twitter.com/plumberdurban with extras ! 0 40325.87694 Pretoria The No.1 website for meeting your favourite Glamour Stars live! http://www.glamourstarslive.co.za http://twitter.com/glamourstarssa 0 40428.70148 http://twitter.com/loopyoosthuizen 5 39907.60894 Pretoria I am just me =] Nothing more, nothing less. http://www.redbubble.com/people/r0xii http://r0xii-rubenesque.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/r0xii 0 39952.48141 Paris Life is a carousel http://twitter.com/Rymo91 Page 38 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 Twitter Name Followed Followers 360Naija 1947 364 DJSpindoctor 182 363 kelvinjonck 191 363 intheconnectbox 321 361 RichEdge 585 360 Garsen 642 359 lanceha 129 357 lizaalbrecht 219 357 merajc 217 357 tshidi_lee 299 357 mozami 328 356 crayg 269 354 O_la 315 352 cainslie 205 351 pevideoguy 137 351 brendonambrose 555 350 bhengusiya 216 348 shortsoursweet 358 348 jsookha 1639 347 AnjaCarstens 414 346 NathanAdams1 208 346 darwinshome 415 344 zoopedup 144 344 S_P_S 303 343 wcednews 297 342 webmarketeur 372 342 bengreen_za 361 341 Hairdolly 912 337 jayx 201 337 kolisi1 56 337 Conceptualart 556 336 kevdudley 961 333 slottering 361 333 mrcellaneous 298 332 mariomorgan 95 331 Ondzz 290 329 Westville_BHS 182 329 mandimadeit 474 328 djs_meister 1062 327 freever 355 327 ed_jordan 126 325 ReganThaw 63 325 dave_meyer 139 323 Tweets 6473 245 742 304 1454 39417 996 198 3581 4778 2158 2207 2892 2345 1692 1766 4301 2721 15358 2029 3329 2737 75 571 290 736 1105 1623 2692 101 1501 48 2488 10327 3038 11243 156 4766 6998 684 170 133 2404 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 40136.61723 Amsterdam The Hotest Nigerian Forum! Covers Arts, Events, Entertainments, Information http://www.360naija.com Communication Technology and many more..http://twitter.com/360Naija 0 40186.65141 Greenland Tech House, Funky House and Commercial House http://www.greenstarmanagement.co.za http://twitter.com/DJSpindoctor 0 39204.54128 Pretoria Cell C Online Marketing Manager, Digital Strategist, Proud father to a gorgeous http://www.cellc.co.za piglet, Former amateur jogger. http://twitter.com/kelvinjonck 0 40087.41933 Pretoria http://www.intheconnectbox.co.za http://twitter.com/intheconnectbox 6 39930.35361 Pretoria Sensual, intellectual, self-employed and randy. http://flavors.me/richedge http://twitter.com/RichEdge 379 39332.40459 Pretoria I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore, I am perfect! http://tinyurl.com/d7qzhp http://twitter.com/Garsen 0 39824.49817 Greenland Freelance business, entertainment & technology writer. Writes things about http://www.lanceharris.co.za stuff. http://twitter.com/lanceha 2 39853.82612 Pretoria Head of digital platforms Media24 newspapers http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Blogs/Home/0,7717,,00.html http://twitter.com/lizaalbrecht 1 39561.95705 Pretoria Editor-in-Chief @PhoneReport, supporter @Sporting_CP, opposer of Israeli http://PhoneRPT.com Apartheid in #Palestine http://twitter.com/merajc 20 39940.39922 Greenland EWN-Journalist-Look Alive http://twitter.com/tshidi_lee 691 39289.38507 Pretoria Dont follow me. Im lost too. http://mozami.net http://twitter.com/mozami 21 39603.62231 Pretoria I like writing, SVG, Python, Nintendo DS, XBox, painting, pencil sketches, music, white rock cheese, scooters, girls, Drupal, Stephen http://twitter.com/crayg King, Taoism, virtual pets 3 40063.11156 Pacific Time (US & Canada) I'm extraordinary human in my extraordinary life. Cheers. :D http://carolabasuki.tumblr.com http://twitter.com/O_la 148 39588.47781 Harare Official Twitter account of a nerd. This account has been verified by me ashttp://blog.ainslie.co.za being authentic, so it must be. http://twitter.com/cainslie 2 39077.89918 Pretoria Father, Husband , Video Producer and Sometime Pilot http://www.imagio.co.za http://twitter.com/pevideoguy 15 39873.00604 Pretoria Commerce & Law Student, Geek, Technology Editor of @TechHuman andhttp://www.techhuman.com a connoisseur of fine breakfast cereals. http://twitter.com/brendonambrose 2 40010.55953 Greenland http://twitter.com/bhengusiya 58 39955.69153 Pretoria Banker with an interest in women in business, environmental issues and innovation. http://shortsoursweet.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/shortsoursweet 713 39920.51196 Greenland creating an online presence in an ever changing technological era | photographer http://jsookha.com | web designer | programmer | lecturer http://twitter.com/jsookha 2 39706.39816 London Journalist. Loves running, mountains, Namibia and beer. http://www.nuus24.co.za http://twitter.com/AnjaCarstens 1 39944.44875 Pretoria I write. I radio. I laugh. I tweet. http://nathanadams1.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/NathanAdams1 3 39161.18795 Pretoria Business Intelligence Consultant, front-end engineer, lover, Boston Terrierhttp://darwinshome.za.net/blog owner. A wannabe tech guru extraordinaire… I think. http://twitter.com/darwinshome 0 40526.32443 Greenland Zoopedup is an automotive social network that allows you to create an online http://www.zoopedup.com garage for your car and connect with other drivers. http://twitter.com/zoopedup Our sister network: @blueworld 5 39830.69698 Pretoria writer | editor of the new age online | photojournalist | http://twitter.com/S_P_S 0 40303.52127 Pretoria Western Cape Education Department's Communication Directorate http://wced.wcape.gov.za http://twitter.com/wcednews 8 40507.11082 Paris #Blogueur pro ☆ Rédacteur @Locita ☆ Podcasteur ☆ Chrétien ☆ Je tweete http://www.hsia.fr sur le #Marketing, #Blogging Professionel , #SEO http://twitter.com/webmarketeur ... 10 40303.5283 Husband, father and SOLID #LFC supporter..يير http://www.oh.fokkof http://twitter.com/bengreen_za 8 39945.68502 London Well what u c is what u get...I'm just tryin 2 b the best ME I can b....I vent about being single and men and how much my lifehttp://twitter.com/Hairdolly sux....so be warned.... 13 39183.40013 Pretoria Natural Born Critic http://designsignature.co.za/blog http://twitter.com/jayx 1 40480.50522 Rugby Player http://twitter.com/kolisi1 1 39961.8714 Greenland Fulltime artist/writer/thinker/ideas creator/project creator. http://www.southafricanartists.com/ShowArtist.asp?Code=SNYMA007 http://twitter.com/Conceptualart 0 39940.46351 Pretoria http://twitter.com/kevdudley 1284 39608.51519 Pretoria I'm just an ordinary human being striving for personal and social transformation http://www.opensourcespirituality.org.za/ - a world where ALL people can thrive andhttp://twitter.com/slottering live with dignity. 1299 40037.81465 Hawaii Far be it for me to start making sense at this point. http://twitter.com/mrcellaneous 41 39515.75247 Harare I'm a super chilled dude! ... contract / freelance designer / Morgan Brothers http://www.about.me/mariomorgan Apparel http://twitter.com/mariomorgan 62 40284.61609 Greenland Young and Insane. We're all born mad, some remain so... *shrugs* http://www.ladybutterphly.tumblr.com http://twitter.com/Ondzz 0 39858.7447 Pretoria Incepto Ne Desistam http://www.wbhs.co.za http://twitter.com/Westville_BHS 13 39769.52067 Pretoria Married to @GrahaminAfrica, mommy to Mic and baby Mason. Love to draw, http://www.mandimadeit.com sew, bake and create. I make baby accessories http://twitter.com/mandimadeit which can be found at www.mandimoo.co.za 30 40014.3353 Greenland Bookings: www.binc.co.za / email: yungsuz09@hotmail.com / FB: DJ S_Meister http://facebook.com/sumeer.autar http://twitter.com/djs_meister 3 39576.31765 Pretoria CEO of Blue Leaf Games, a mobile gaming startup and developer of the awesome http://www.blueleafgames.com Moonbase game. http://twitter.com/freever 7 40107.37874 Greenland Musician / Producer / T.V. Presenter / Husband and Dad / Singer-Songwriter http://www.edjordan.co.za / M.C. / Co-Creator of the Beautiful Creatures brand. http://twitter.com/ed_jordan 1 40588.18569 Ewn Reporter based in Cape Town. If there's news, point me in the right direction http://moddermond.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/ReganThaw 66 39577.29306 Pretoria I'm totally into anything. Except meat. And Abba. Founding member of C*nt Rocket. http://twitter.com/dave_meyer Page 39 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686 1687 1688 1689 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712 1713 1714 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 Twitter Name Followed Followers hulyabalikci 210 323 futurebackwards 522 322 craigwilson 200 319 jkretzmer 366 318 ubuntuly 340 318 arkwife 315 317 candytothill 245 317 tonylank 89 317 AyobVania 301 316 BrettGrant 409 316 RuariPlint 88 316 paddycarmody 1001 315 AnrietteC 316 312 lesleyjcox 394 312 robinpietersen 372 311 RyanBrunyee 272 311 aaronmoloisi 30 310 khotsos 176 310 ThisLifeJhb 309 310 mcdoni1 924 307 tunlish 488 306 reegz786 311 305 roymck 546 305 thecheesemonth 281 304 stustake 244 301 bobbygodsell 28 297 katiepossum 449 297 bollacon_9 28 296 rozze2 431 296 MBAC_SA 276 295 aboura195 1091 291 ArjaSalafranca 589 291 aaronmcilroy 92 290 JDean78 341 290 maxgeb 164 290 omart 696 290 agentvladimir 226 289 n1c 106 287 dwellts 249 285 flickris 256 285 pkruger1 351 285 nizarus 69 280 libyaninvest 19 278 Tweets 4219 1219 2058 940 183 4166 574 335 3570 123 1649 1260 15997 223 795 1579 326 14930 1318 2416 2438 4283 1699 299 703 133 1089 159 1743 59 186 950 172 11849 866 4321 941 2458 17202 6712 691 1342 275 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 38 40016.5767 Pretoria Ballerina, analyst, feminist, ♥s Snoopy, lacy dresses, Lindt, languages, recycling, pretty pastries, Paris, pescetarianism, vintage http://twitter.com/hulyabalikci & Gerard Butler. 7 39777.24976 Pretoria I'm an occasional 'tweeter' of things related to Tech, Film & whatever grabs http://www.likeneedwant.com my interest. I also have BMD. http://twitter.com/futurebackwards 3 39899.57553 Pretoria Insert witty, wry and, preferably, flippantly self-deprecating comment here. http://cwil.me/4b0ut http://twitter.com/craigwilson 0 39491.50756 Pretoria Unassuming, genuine, analytical, completely obsessive, geek http://twitter.com/jkretzmer 4 40061.96186 Cairo http://ubuntu.ly/about http://ubuntu.ly http://twitter.com/ubuntuly 18 39605.29701 Pretoria When I die, my headstone will read: Here lies a loyal friend. That's all youhttp://arkwife.wordpress.com need to know. http://twitter.com/arkwife 0 39354.8723 Pretoria consulting and advisory (3bl, bbbee, sustainability, cr) | planning | implementing http://www.candytothill.co.za | writing | reporting | thinking | caring | learning http://twitter.com/candytothill | living 1 39890.07675 Pretoria http://www.tonylankester.com http://twitter.com/tonylank 29 39888.33419 Pretoria afRican, wRiter, Reader, Researcher, poet, puppet master, husband, human, http://ayobvania.yolasites.com heartfelt, faRther-to-be, gRacious, gRateful, godlike http://twitter.com/AyobVania 1 39101.38979 Pretoria Jack of all trades, Master of some.. http://twitter.com/BrettGrant 2 39874.92447 Pretoria Its all about energy http://ruariplint.spaces.live.com/default.aspx http://twitter.com/RuariPlint 4 39917.51898 Greenland Fascinated about user experience: online and off. Will work for food at the http://consumped.wordpress.com intersection of local, social and mobile. http://twitter.com/paddycarmody 170 40047.85132 Pretoria Web designer that enjoys creating XHTML Strict websites with PHP, and mainly http://twitter.com/AnrietteC jQuery. Fiat X1/9 fanatic. Labrador adorer. Warning: http://twitter.com/AnrietteC Twihard beyond repair. 0 39996.56936 Greenland Freelance writer and tourguide http://www.lesleycox.co.za http://twitter.com/lesleyjcox 3 39526.43032 Pretoria Designer, developer and illustrator working in Johannesburg South Africa.http://www.robinpietersen.com/ http://twitter.com/robinpietersen 0 40538.58811 Pretoria A Manager @TuksFM1072.. All for good friends, great music and easy living... http://www.facebook.com/ryan.brunyee http://twitter.com/RyanBrunyee 0 40192.47654 TV presenter, producer,5 languages Voice Over artist, owner of Moloisi Media House, former Special Assignment anchor http://twitter.com/aaronmoloisi 0 39923.45108 Greenland Caramel ............ http://twitter.com/khotsos 1 39870.37749 Greenland A podcast on life in Johannesburg, South Africa http://www.sabcnews.com http://twitter.com/ThisLifeJhb 5 39826.34666 Pretoria Obsessed Runner. Love Nike, Oakley, Apple and any gadgets. Big Lance Armstrong fan. Glasgow Celtic and Manchester United http://twitter.com/mcdoni1 are my teams (in that order) 31 39689.30426 Paris I repost quotes from Twitter as well as from my quote page on Facebook.http://bit.ly/Au92X If you love reading great quotes, especially abouthttp://twitter.com/tunlish love, maybe you'd enjoy following me. 146 39940.72036 Pretoria Java developer with delusions of Flex.. Living the developers dream http://www.reegz.co.za http://twitter.com/reegz786 3 39778.83045 Pretoria News junkie, lapsed vegetarian now addicted to wasabi peanuts http://twitter.com/roymck 8 39997.49907 Greenland All kids deserve a taste of cheese. The Cheese Month is a charity drive which occurs annually. We collect cheese donations and http://twitter.com/thecheesemonth feed kids from poor backgrounds. 11 39896.36231 Pretoria Former Commander in Chief of Stu's take on.... But then I stopped blogging. So now I don't really have anything to write here. http://twitter.com/stustake 10 40382.77737 Trying to be active citizen and co builder of a great South Africa http://twitter.com/bobbygodsell 0 39524.33789 Pretoria journalist, editor, amateur photographer, water baby, laatlammetjie, animal lover, gadget nut http://twitter.com/katiepossum 1 40693.84605 http://twitter.com/bollacon_9 199 39497.72697 Pretoria eCommunications Specialist || Bunny hopping through life. http://www.bunny.web.za http://twitter.com/rozze2 0 39861.57922 Pretoria Music Business Academy is South Africa's first music business school offering http://www.mbac.co.za courses and workshops across a spectrum of disciplines http://twitter.com/MBAC_SA within the music industry 4 39992.18394 Greenland Don't ever say that you're not good enough because if he can't see how amazing you are, then he's the one who's not goodhttp://twitter.com/aboura195 enough. 3 40013.78866 Greenland Author of The Thin Line, a collection of short stories, a poet, travel writer,http://arjasalafranca.blogspot.com reviewer, essayist, editor of Life supplement in The http://twitter.com/ArjaSalafranca Sunday Independent 0 40235.6676 Actor, comedian, pole dancer http://aaronmcilroy.co.za http://twitter.com/aaronmcilroy 123 39535.34862 Pretoria my ruse of being a functional adult seems to be working http://umstheword.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/JDean78 1 39921.50968 Harare Deputy editor of the Financial Mail. Love my mountain bike. Wish I was fly fishing. My wife and daughter rule my world. Loving http://twitter.com/maxgeb everyday. 3 39562.82685 Paris I am a freelance graphic designer. Got a question? Follow me and drop the http://on82.tumblr.com/ rest !!! :P http://twitter.com/omart 5 39573.49154 Pretoria Mad scientist, engineer, adrenaline junkie, internet addict, music lover, raw http://www.mycee.com vegan, Gnostic, Neophyte in training, Gentoo user http://twitter.com/agentvladimir & owner of MyCee Technologies 117 39442.85012 Pretoria while(true){ enjoy($this->life); } http://geekissues.co.za http://twitter.com/n1c 106 40024.52118 Pretoria Alive! End stage kidney failure since tall time ago. Sometimes struggle but have to make it! APD ( Dialysis) friend, Dwell, doing http://twitter.com/dwellts the kidney job! 0 40442.50414 Pretoria Photography, wine, books, F1, NASCAR http://chrisbloom.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/flickris 8593 39906.67571 Greenland http://twitter.com/pkruger1 3 40073.0174 Paris Follow me on ident.ca ;) http://identi.ca/nizarus/ http://blog.nizarus.org/ http://twitter.com/nizarus 0 40010.90722 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Proving current news & information on Libyan market. Membership at thehttp://www.libyaninvestment.com site provides more indepth analysis & details intohttp://twitter.com/libyaninvest business opportunities in Libya Page 40 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets meggwilson 288 277 2154 ace00711 1050 276 662 Yolizama 372 276 2568 Niemandt 46 275 120 syll_ble 134 274 21367 AMNIF 396 270 813 drychilli 160 270 483 ComradeFatsooo 44 269 489 paul_furber 173 269 1486 carelj 115 268 2484 Knife_man 337 268 457 khammami 894 267 787 mammaluciana 34 267 59 isacaza 144 266 513 arnefromsa 306 263 2579 dudu_d 465 261 7760 terrance_b 108 261 7883 dark8lord 592 260 2490 Shaunkrog 504 260 5031 traaidmark 143 260 5211 pedallikecrazy 308 259 25 JudyDitchfield 170 258 483 grahamp47 708 256 692 blifeconnect 388 254 581 mydomar 356 254 9476 saltwag 168 254 364 morne2u 1587 253 1082 ey_africa 23 252 55 sarahemilywild 147 252 362 Hedi_Regaya 112 251 1424 kevinkriedemann 727 251 151 robbyrob2 359 249 2744 charmskil 216 248 22353 frost_01 523 248 5782 conradstrydom 258 247 1097 derrickspies 248 247 2726 izimvo 82 247 435 shelleyelk 174 247 4170 _menahem_ 471 246 625 ayemfayn 107 246 1053 flywombat 628 245 1485 vernonharvey 562 245 1829 Social_Angel 594 244 3134 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 5 39546.3187 Pretoria I am a dancer from South Africa. It's my life! Well...that and shoes...lol http://iaremegg.com http://twitter.com/meggwilson 1 40078.47644 Greenland http://twitter.com/ace00711 1 40046.02654 Eastern Time (US & Canada) African gal, founder of AfriPOP!, ESSENCE.com senior editor, wife, mama,http://www.afripopmag.com blogger, shoe-stan, pop culture fiend http://twitter.com/Yolizama 0 39751.86087 Pretoria http://twitter.com/Niemandt 234 39583.55787 Pretoria Blogger, writer, daydreamer, frugal shopaholic, obsessive worrier. Avatarhttp://www.thesinglesyllable.co.za by http://www.dolldivine.com/pinup.html Have adopted http://twitter.com/syll_ble words: squiriferous, redamancy 0 39837.01388 Hawaii http://www.kalbsouk.over-blog.com http://twitter.com/AMNIF 7 39569.55851 Pretoria The guy standing behind Yuppiechef.co.za pulling a ninja move. http://www.yuppiechef.co.za http://twitter.com/drychilli 0 40091.62397 Harare Comrade Fatso is one of the most explosive spoken word artists in Africa http://www.comradefatso.com today. Backed by his awesome band Chabvondokahttp://twitter.com/ComradeFatsooo he has toured globally. 2 40008.37613 Pretoria Bipolar INTP motorbiking geek journo http://twitter.com/paul_furber 16 39790.28668 Pretoria A fisher of men and of fish. A breaker of computers and holy cows. http://www.weird.co.za http://twitter.com/carelj 1 39863.36193 Paris Concept Artist & 3D modeler http://nadhir-zaiem.webs.com/ http://twitter.com/Knife_man 1 39672.71711 Paris Tunisian #Engineer, Pro #Blogger, Love making hacks and Webaholic. #ENIS http://khammami.blogspot.com/ #Tunisia http://twitter.com/khammami 0 40626.41057 A Marco Conte Italian Restaurant in Durban North, Glenmore center withhttp://www.mammalucianas.com great sea views and even better food and vibe! http://twitter.com/mammaluciana 5 40395.25287 Harare Isaca South Africa chapter. http://www.isaca.org.za http://twitter.com/isacaza 26 39765.80564 Pretoria http://blog.justpulse.com http://twitter.com/arnefromsa 14 39883.91867 Athens Following my yellow brick rd . . . N whipsin niggs at MK vs DC Universe while http://www.dududee.wordpress.com I'm at it. . . :) http://twitter.com/dudu_d 0 39757.69906 Pretoria A guy who likes words. http://twitter.com/terrance_b 153 40081.4434 Athens I'm unusual, not so typical way too smart to be waiting around... I might even http://facebook.com/teamsbuja be a rockstar, if you only knew the real me... http://twitter.com/dark8lord 5 39871.50936 Pretoria Gooner - Spuds beware. Horrors. Black Metal though I love Depeche Mode (work that one out). Interested in Psychology and http://twitter.com/Shaunkrog Philosophical by nature. 9 39219.60112 Pretoria Web Design, Social Media Fan, Artist & occasional Clever Guy http://about.me/traaidmark http://twitter.com/traaidmark 0 39864.86269 Pretoria Cyclist, photographer, internet addict http://twitter.com/pedallikecrazy 3 39894.42535 Pretoria Mom, Actress, Writer, business role player, fun loving South African who wants to go to Macchu Picchu, and walk the El Camino......it's http://twitter.com/JudyDitchfield all about living in joy 3 40030.65027 Pretoria Always up for a beer, maybe 2. http://twitter.com/grahamp47 2 40072.524 West Central Africa To inform readers and to ignite and nourish their interest in all aspects ofhttp://www.businesslife.co.za business from this continent and abroad. http://twitter.com/blifeconnect 18 39690.64823 Harare http://twitter.com/mydomar 1 39819.51436 Greenland New Media Editor at Grocott's Mail, South Africa's oldest independent newspaper http://www.grocotts.co.za http://twitter.com/saltwag 2 39965.61127 Pretoria http://twitter.com/morne2u 0 40730.72503 West Central Africa Doing Business in Africa? Ernst & Young Africa helps companies navigate the http://www.ey.com/za opportunities and challenges of doing businesshttp://twitter.com/ey_africa across the continent. 0 39891.84795 Pretoria Science and Tech Correspondent, Business Day Wanted to be an astronauthttp://blogs.businessday.co.za/sarah/ but found out it involved living in a Lncan for months. http://twitter.com/sarahemilywild So she writes about it instead 78 39345.21207 Paris Auditor, IFRS enthusiast, IBM Lotus user, passion to Excel, Overactive Brain, http://www.hediregaya.com Mac addict. Music lover. Sometimes painter and http://twitter.com/Hedi_Regaya some others writer. Pizzaholic. 3 40296.76387 Writing, publicity & online reputation management, specialising in the creative http://kevinlikes.com industries. African correspondent for Variety. http://twitter.com/kevinkriedemann 35 39907.9637 Eastern Time (US & Canada) #teamXbox360 | #teamAndroid | #teambear |#teamjersey | #teamnewyork http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1218819257&ref=profile | Aim: nyack007 http://twitter.com/robbyrob2 43 40600.66127 I am a mother of two sons..home exec at the moment.:D http://twitter.com/charmskil 19 39777.70676 Pretoria Sports fan, wanna be photographer and lover of all things weird and wonderful. http://www.FrostFoto.co.za http://twitter.com/frost_01 0 39119.29495 Pretoria A little bit of tech, a little bit of chaos. http://www.conradstrydom.com http://twitter.com/conradstrydom 5 39696.68146 Pretoria Taking on the world of business as a media consultant, ensuring your company http://www.derrickspies.co.za gets the maximum exposure at the most affordable http://twitter.com/derrickspies price... 9 40088.39859 Pretoria The official twitter account for the Izimvo blog - the voice of every South African. http://www.izimvo.com http://twitter.com/izimvo 919 39946.54911 Pretoria Journalist, photographer, arLst. 10th dan tweet deleter. Ha! http://www.shelleyelk.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/shelleyelk 4 39689.59531 Pretoria Curious gazer, cynical bastard and caustically opinionated git; founder of twitter.com/_menahem_ http://twitter.com/_menahem_ 144 40045.69807 Istanbul sebeb-i hikmetimi bilmiyorum. http://ayemfayn.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/ayemfayn 10 39984.68019 Pretoria Mad Computer Scientist and ICT megalomaniac. But only on alternate weekdays. Passionate motorcycle maniac. Wombat and http://twitter.com/flywombat aviation protagonist. 41 40047.42613 Pretoria Underwater Photographer with a Day Job to pay for the FeLshes-Raw Food Fan, Gadget Collector, Canon product punter...Cape http://twitter.com/vernonharvey Town wannabe ... 75 40203.39265 Greenland The lil things make me laugh.It's hard 2 please me.I'ma free-spirit & laughaholic.Im jus a gal&that's al i wana be.I'm 'SOCIALhttp://twitter.com/Social_Angel ANGEL' and GOD is alles!!! Page 41 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 Twitter Name ewanm staceysuperr CiciRussell gustav_bertram edenweiss_ miriamjorna propertysoftwar deanlp marktheunissen sandy_goldberg jboriginal louisabouwer ratmo 702tshego dimity_wendy princesspeachsa chrismeistre dylanmarkburke incautius teeibzy Geespotdj twiglets1 jarrod_m jgpage paulvecchiatto1 hermlategan alettagardner anthonyvanbeek lynetteanthony kevintrethewey schang31 aukekini kpayoba markcliff richmclennan bronwenleak iphoneza zakdoc89 Operateur dallacejolly game rontuffin techross Followed Followers Tweets 226 243 4263 383 242 7989 1069 241 56 191 241 980 228 240 3591 271 238 3800 269 238 180 515 237 1921 161 237 911 237 237 764 185 236 1733 158 236 4175 370 235 1977 14 234 5 438 234 359 149 234 404 199 231 1224 274 231 138 198 231 4399 185 231 13297 53 230 497 260 229 1119 296 227 3994 276 227 551 209 227 980 166 226 2362 328 224 1749 209 221 598 270 220 2670 284 219 736 44 219 865 583 218 3188 27 218 19 342 216 2392 137 215 2104 164 213 2832 18 213 368 1104 212 724 171 211 2391 437 210 423 169 210 193 117 210 2316 94 210 2987 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 19 39522.35488 Pretoria http://about.me/ewan http://twitter.com/ewanm 10 40250.4111 Pretoria Wife mom career woman all wrapped up in one little bundle http://twitter.com/staceysuperr 1 40120.37788 Night Editor, The Star http://twitter.com/CiciRussell 113 39666.52361 Pretoria A software hacking, DRM hating, copyfighting, science fiction reading, anime http://gustavbertram.com/ watching, Linux using, economics obsessed, computer http://twitter.com/gustav_bertram scientist in training. 30 39912.02647 Pretoria I met a girl once. She said she liked me http://talkingsinging.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/edenweiss_ 11 40239.59361 Pretoria print & pixels: journalism and IT. and kning and running and cultural observaLons and whatnot.this is my official -public- account, http://twitter.com/miriamjorna hence the full name. 0 39973.44264 Pretoria To help you to convert to a Property Management System that works! http://www.thepropertymanagementsoftware.com http://twitter.com/propertysoftwar 37 40206.44755 Pretoria Yep, that's right. This is me. http://deanlepere.wordpress.com/me/ http://twitter.com/deanlp 11 39508.37322 London Software Developer. http://codebaboon.com http://twitter.com/marktheunissen 43 39769.82564 Greenland Diet and Lifestyle Consultant l Motivational Speaker l Facilitator l Blogger.http://sandygoldberg.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/sandy_goldberg 0 39791.32623 Harare Freelance journalist, editor & photographer, lover of Jozi http://www.flickr.com/photos/jboriginal http://twitter.com/jboriginal 6 39827.47927 Pretoria Mostly harmless... http://louisa123.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/louisabouwer 21 39298.31481 Pretoria Geek and IT Dude http://twitter.com/ratmo 0 40759.54726 Helping you with the journey home on Talk Radio 702. Khosi for Life! http://twitter.com/702tshego 3 40013.64789 Pretoria Fashion designer searching for sustainability. Creative design lecturer & milliner http://www.ecobride.co.za http://twitter.com/dimity_wendy 1 40190.30241 Harare The official Nintendo page of South Africa. Catch the latest on Nintendo, right http://www.nintendo.co.za here! Game releases, updates, PR news, blogs, http://twitter.com/princesspeachsa events, launches, pics and more! 0 39772.39641 Pretoria There is no charge for awesomeness http://www.chrismeistre.co.za/ http://twitter.com/chrismeistre 1 39995.53838 Cairo Me, myself and I... http://www.propell.co.za/ http://twitter.com/dylanmarkburke 121 40598.47413 Pretoria Avid reader, sports fan and occasional carouser. Committed atheist; scourge http://brianbakker.wordpress.com/ of ecomentalists; slayer of sacred cows. Oh yes, http://twitter.com/incautius and I play with words for a living. 317 40044.52272 Pretoria A regular guy from a regular neighborhood with not so regular Tweets! http://twitter.com/teeibzy 0 39869.66284 Pretoria PE's Premier HipHop Dj's wealth of hiphop music knowledge, natural DJ flair http://www.djgspot.co.za & fluent mixing has kept the parties going & crowds http://twitter.com/Geespotdj entertained all over SA & beyond 2 39898.35431 Istanbul On a mission to rid the world of polar fleece http://twitter.com/twiglets1 19 39931.41522 Pretoria Fan of photography, coffee, Star Wars and 70's rock music. http://jarrodmouton.carbonmade.com http://twitter.com/jarrod_m 0 39850.26152 Pretoria True GEEK, Entrepreneur, MD of TheClassifieds, Captain at Snaply.Com and http://www.snaply.com Lover of TheOne http://twitter.com/jgpage 4 39909.8688 Pretoria http://twitter.com/paulvecchiatto1 0 40530.57115 Freelance writer/journalist; previously with House and Leisure, Style, Fine Music Radio and e.tv. http://twitter.com/hermlategan 0 40100.50811 Pretoria Ex-expat, writer, reader, eater, rugby fan. Gone from radio journo for the BBC to the online world in a newsroom in SA. http://twitter.com/alettagardner 2 39578.96102 Pretoria Graphic freak, loves gaming. Every now and then creates a pretty picture.http://www.blahblahblah.co.za :) http://twitter.com/anthonyvanbeek 5 39864.02775 Pretoria Gadget girl, who lives & breathes the mobile and digital space. Tweets about http://mystechblog.com/ anything digital, music, Cape Town, Spas and trying http://twitter.com/lynetteanthony to do the working mum thing :) 26 39392.42817 Pretoria Reason > Faith,StarLng > CompeLng,CreaLng > Consuming,Achieving != BeaLng http://www.drivensoftware.com others http://twitter.com/kevintrethewey 35 39882.77049 Pacific Time (US & Canada) I am writing these things to get them out of my head and to tell myself what's up. http://twitter.com/schang31 23 40276.78899 Greenland I'm the party bear..I'm a twitterholic..I love 3 things in life..my iPod, musichttp://www.facebook.com/auke2 and my lady ..tweet me..ill tweet back..booya.. http://twitter.com/aukekini 1 40742.64376 Pretoria MD of MTN SA, dynamic, innovative, visionary and goes where angels fearhttp://www.mtn.co.za to tread. http://twitter.com/kpayoba 137 39786.49941 Pretoria Work Hard, Play Hard, Stay Humble http://twitter.com/markcliff 0 39912.80245 Greenland Interweb Champion | Extreme Sport Junkie | Family Guy | Proudly South African http://twitter.com/richmclennan 4 39881.74316 Pretoria Editor and avid coffee drinker. Enjoying the challenge of trying to be an individual in a world of 6.7 billion. http://twitter.com/bronwenleak 0 40618.38013 Pretoria For the SA Apple Ethusiast! | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and more| News, Tutorials, http://iphoneza.co.za Reviews, Forums http://twitter.com/iphoneza 45 39879.78297 Harare Geek (computer nerd), useless gamer... confused University Student...... http://twitter.com/zakdoc89 5 40220.56338 Paris Unlike majority of the Tunisians, I'm neither Blogger, nor Geek, nor acLvist :)) I'm simply FREE TUNISIAN.A mateur Photographer/ http://twitter.com/Operateur Freelance Graphic Designer. 15 39834.3264 Pretoria Editor of MarketingWeb & Editor of CitiGaming, freelance writer, wannabe http://www.marketingweb.co.za chef, champagne lover, single mom to 2 Princes!http://twitter.com/dallacejolly 0 40724.75758 We implement social business strategies for Fortune 500 companies. We also build communities online and drive brand loyalty. http://twitter.com/game No, you don't know us... 2 39555.27597 Pretoria Still deciding. http://justplainron.com http://twitter.com/rontuffin 21 39630.73425 Pretoria A total Tech junky and Lifehacker... http://www.tsx.co.za http://twitter.com/techross Page 42 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 Twitter Name JovialRantao gamereserve LilyGambade wcedlearn dotb Vuyisile_Sisulu ermsitgirl kiteboarding swerve_za brandmonday catwomanza Falfool4 keloh rhynw eastcoastjac Duggie7 MoegsienW NicolaMawson traffickzn TWITNUT7 ULoner htfp1149 lindsayanngrubb jeannemichel brookiemacness seanbacher thewomble_za Andreotto antithetical hotballito HeinzEugene michaelrobert AngeliqueSerrao lawsonnaicker berdineleroux clarencesdb MelBendix terrence2009 ayassinov lancerza BabsShota thephotofirm Kimberly_Guest Followed Followers Tweets 256 209 47 40 207 229 453 207 1226 142 207 251 268 206 380 205 206 4987 129 205 3046 0 205 0 93 205 97 137 202 383 414 201 853 481 201 6061 221 201 4101 198 200 216 504 198 1742 302 197 1294 12 197 27 170 196 1311 4 196 44 360 195 75 400 195 2694 1476 194 47 103 192 1466 590 191 878 47 189 44 117 189 506 68 189 711 162 188 1 230 188 3711 525 188 69 171 187 1474 159 187 2084 171 186 438 710 186 2307 188 185 3363 396 185 7539 77 185 427 243 185 199 269 183 1945 128 183 867 107 182 330 927 182 16 1182 181 79 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 2 40051.84627 Greenland Deputy Editor of The Star http://wwwthestar.co.za http://twitter.com/JovialRantao 0 40010.59856 Greenland http://www.gamereserve.com http://twitter.com/gamereserve 0 39998.63626 Greenland Independent Journalist/ Producer at Africa Report/ French & Capetonian http://www.thecuriousworldoflilywhite.wordpress.com or vice-versa/ http://www.thecuriousworldoflilywhite.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/LilyGambade 0 39883.82125 Pretoria Western Cape Education Department: runs parallel to our @WCEDnews steam; http://wced.wcape.gov.za here - as the name suggests - we look broadly http://twitter.com/wcedlearn at issues surrounding learning. 1 39648.39028 Pretoria Writes mobile apps http://bradleyclayton.com http://twitter.com/dotb 104 40118.83108 Pretoria Philosophy student with a major tech fetish. Lover of open source and Android. http://gplus.to/VuyisileSisulu Interested in politics, cyber security and privacy http://twitter.com/Vuyisile_Sisulu among other things. 0 39874.65515 Pretoria I am Zelna Ellis M., Tutor, Student, I.T. Technician, Web Addicted, PC Addicted, http://zellism.com Rugby Addicted amongst other things. I live http://twitter.com/ermsitgirl in Ermelo, South Africa. 0 39746.41169 Pretoria Kitesurf Kiteboard Africa http://twitter.com/kiteboarding 0 39932.3812 Greenland design. development. wordpress. kapow http://www.swerve.co.za http://twitter.com/swerve_za 0 40027.53182 Pretoria Initiative of @CapeTown - Disclaimer: Opinions are those of individuals that http://brandmonday.com tweet publicly about customer experiences in SA. http://twitter.com/brandmonday Powered by #chisimba! 3 39967.41774 Pretoria I teach media, journalism, comms and PR. Cyborg by day. Cat lover by night http://twitter.com/catwomanza 23 40088.55742 Paris A little fool with a lot of '...' ... http://twitter.com/Falfool4 3 39874.50994 Pretoria Student... http://www.facebook.com/nkelo.ngcobo http://twitter.com/keloh 31 39931.27531 Pretoria Just Do It!Social Media is my new hobby, creator of @SAnetwork L ooking http://www.facebook.com/rhynw for new and exciLng things to do, most of the Lme... http://twitter.com/rhynw 41 39864.25472 Pretoria The Official Jacquie Bate Twitter page. http://eastcoastjac.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/eastcoastjac 4 39944.7345 Pretoria Aprendendo sobre os diferentes povos e culturas do continente africano.http://www.youtube.com/douggynable http://twitter.com/Duggie7 0 40704.53634 http://twitter.com/MoegsienW 0 39881.71134 Pretoria Financial journalist at @ITWeb http://www.itweb.co.za http://twitter.com/NicolaMawson 0 40505.56168 Harare Post your Traffic Alertz, Jamz, etc ... http://twitter.com/traffickzn 0 39946.73125 Harare Extremely Creative, Graphic Designer, Photographer, Videographer, Musician, http://coolcreations.synthasite.com Singer, Songwriter, Choreographer, Dancer, Fashion http://twitter.com/TWITNUT7 Designer & CULTURE VULTURE... 26 40252.41438 Pretoria True Love magazine journo with the craziest theories about everything. I'm a glutton blessed with a fast metabolism and the http://twitter.com/ULoner official GODDESS of sexiness, LOL 0 40424.33144 Pretoria 21st Century High Tech Telecommunications, Products and exclusive luxury http://www.hightechfp.co.za fashion electronic gadgets for you... http://twitter.com/htfp1149 0 40330.25966 Pretoria I'm a wife, mother, freelance writer, marketing and PR consultant who has http://www.lcommunications.net strong opinions on the way we should be doing things. http://twitter.com/lindsayanngrubb 0 39920.24977 Pretoria Work in the media world...Technical Producer for @CapeTalk567 South African Talk Radio & I also make great calls happen http://twitter.com/jeannemichel everyday on @expressoshow LOVE Cape Town 3 39919.51177 Pretoria http://twitter.com/brookiemacness 7 40002.6134 Pretoria Gadget.co.za editor http://www.gadget.co.za http://twitter.com/seanbacher 0 40254.72066 Pretoria Child of the 80's, and hardcore coder with 20+ years in the industry. http://www.cablemap.info http://twitter.com/thewomble_za 0 39555.78848 Pretoria http://AoNrg.com http://twitter.com/Andreotto 2 39573.72725 Harare Not nearly as interesting as you think. http://www.robsramblings.co.za http://twitter.com/antithetical 1 40753.41778 http://www.hotballito.co.za http://twitter.com/hotballito 4 39856.25396 Helsinki http://twitter.com/HeinzEugene 30 39684.87073 Pretoria Brand Evangelist http://www.michaelrobert.co http://twitter.com/michaelrobert 0 40641.35231 Crazy enough to be a Journalist at South Africa's biggest daily broadsheet newspaper: The Star. All views expressed here arehttp://twitter.com/AngeliqueSerrao my own 34 39946.31868 West Central Africa Trainee Radio Guy at UJFM 95.4 | Writer of Poetry(published) and hopefully http://www.facebook.com/LawsonNaicker a book one day | the other thing I do is quite boring| http://twitter.com/lawsonnaicker Loves charity work- Helper 32 39803.62947 Greenland Constantly seeking deeper Truth in unusual places! http://twitter.com/berdineleroux 15 40682.26968 love life in all its forms...working for and guiding young people, reaching their true potential...love music, good food, and the http://twitter.com/clarencesdb fascinating moments in life 0 39981.73642 Greenland Editor of The Big Issue SA. Talks a lot. Tweets randomly in personal capacity http://www.bigissue.org.za *disclaimer * http://twitter.com/MelBendix 1 39938.41291 Vilnius I live with my wife and 2 children in Durban, SA. I got a new job as marketing http://www.theubuntucompany.co.za manager at the Plakkies factory. I'm glad, I canhttp://twitter.com/terrence2009 maintain my family now!!!! 4 39519.37267 Paris Software engineer. http://a-yassine.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/ayassinov 4 40053.34115 Pretoria PR, Communications, Marketing, Radio and Mobile Communications. http://twitter.com/lancerza 0 40351.84544 Retired socialite http://www.citypress.co.za http://twitter.com/BabsShota 0 40108.45397 Pretoria Professional photographers Everywhere in SAAnyLme! http://www.thephotofirm.co.za http://twitter.com/thephotofirm 2 40415.02997 Pretoria Writer, journalist, personality-endowed http://twitter.com/Kimberly_Guest Page 43 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets kristenvanschie 243 180 173 daveypocit 164 179 505 SD3000 116 179 427 davidreynders 133 177 176 natasharamasray 112 176 1584 sammendesza 212 176 978 comradeFISH 379 175 771 overjoburg 60 175 1174 cyberscorp 178 174 595 TashJayne 361 174 2017 eduboard 331 172 56 ephobian 119 172 199 meganunlimited 349 172 586 Chris_SAPAfrica 265 171 336 daylerobyn 207 171 357 fuseware 173 171 185 jeanlouw 245 171 161 inetpro 141 170 3034 grrreer 427 169 567 moyoushakapier 158 169 374 lesleydforrest 283 168 1480 oualid 146 168 485 craiglotter 97 167 2552 GENESSSA 385 167 475 MsKayMo 131 167 8461 cazmug 53 165 746 MusaSkhosana 237 165 6209 sabinetlaw 3 165 1293 letstalkgeek 140 164 596 brightsoulrain 144 163 2774 JoeyyLM 130 163 13246 nadiapandit 260 162 6084 zonkiboy 279 162 1560 MetalMikeBower 114 161 132 FNB 66 160 2 Tahlecia 279 160 9101 cnazoo 270 159 3712 yolandinorth 313 159 392 fluxmotion 105 158 1002 umlingoprinters 1019 158 200 tunisietelecom 2 156 2 fizzyim 332 155 73 ninjamonkeyssa 154 154 552 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 40728.34568 Cairo Reporter at Jozi's oldest daily, The Star. http://www.iol.co.za/thestar http://twitter.com/kristenvanschie 0 39933.30336 Harare Mobile payments fundi, mobile internet pilgrim, analyst, commentator and http://www.daveypocit.co.za some time philosopher. http://twitter.com/daveypocit 3 39770.42694 Greenland http://www.cowafrica.com http://twitter.com/SD3000 1 39896.28622 Pretoria Passionate about my family, faith, MTB & what tech can do for people http://twitter.com/davidreynders 1 39874.41361 Pretoria Social media enthusiast by day and normal 20-something girl figuring out http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=726551084 life by night.I can't live in a world without Twitter http://twitter.com/natasharamasray or Facebook. 0 40013.37523 Pretoria A Biker, Jeep'er and a bush man... married to a lovely lady... trying to get out of a concrete jungle... http://twitter.com/sammendesza 0 39984.60125 Pretoria TV Journo/Producer. 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(hire me, or just give me money http://is.gd/q5q3) http://ninjamonkeys.co.za http://twitter.com/ninjamonkeyssa Page 44 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets serinab 134 154 11789 MLLWAY005 97 153 153 RitchKev 195 153 38 smilyborg 361 153 574 dhlotter 175 152 563 Marttwit 97 152 30 Sbu27 176 152 1796 melonimeyer 82 150 3796 allthingsmobile 150 148 217 must3892 151 148 689 warmonga 52 148 415 cynicman 163 147 1667 mr_sahue 274 147 2179 Photofuzion 113 147 464 lollyj 223 146 213 lamyfrog 202 145 975 geniosity 410 144 382 RankaJ 164 144 92 splatcommando 134 144 3028 TwilightOCDer 305 144 2338 lwandisimelane 169 143 1656 datamodel 528 141 2855 c3foodservices 121 140 542 tamrynwaters 150 140 209 tichakp 397 140 1034 makatini 386 139 4471 Moos115 96 139 145 alvinreeves 352 138 429 joyrosario 213 138 128 cidahmed 171 137 249 thesoutherntip 275 137 142 amystow 446 136 2005 barrylouzada 160 136 1062 hannahlimz 115 133 4190 andrejvvuuren 134 132 496 srnsalmon 481 132 230 chady2008 43 131 371 noelrg 88 131 389 randjes 263 131 624 IamStan 345 130 687 MatthewLyle 0 128 0 bootstrapsecret 12 127 61 TONYMCGREGOR 258 127 451 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 45 39986.57855 Pretoria Proud mom to 2 gorgeous children, happily married to the worlds most amazing man, living in a beautiful city & I love the funny http://twitter.com/serinab in life. 1 39908.76323 Greenland Executive MBA Student at GSB UCT. 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So I'll let the avatar do the talking http://twitter.com/L3thabo 215 39776.6798 Central Time (US & Canada) Never squander knowledge, and allow wisdom to rule your footing. http://facebook.com/#!/lauren.mulligan000 http://twitter.com/godswill4me 0 39834.79068 Eastern Time (US & Canada) CEO, Entrepreneur, SAP EXPERT http://www.erpcx.com/blog http://twitter.com/SAPEXCHANGE 9 39711.35564 Pretoria Virtual Assistant, Typist, Admin Professional, dog-lover, friend, sister, daughter, http://arobbertse.wordpress.com/ someone who likes colours and magical, mystic http://twitter.com/arobbertse and mysteries. 0 39734.33997 Pretoria Photography guy and web designer. http://www.gavinza.co.za http://twitter.com/gavincza 4 39848.60964 West Central Africa http://twitter.com/jamestrevorlees 0 39772.24502 Pretoria web developer, mountain biker, rock climber, music lover, worshiper of Christ http://twitter.com/mattcremerband 217 39955.34432 Pretoria My life revolves around my magical menagerie.I am voluntarily ginger. I might be a spinster. http://twitter.com/ShirlWhirliBird 0 39728.33106 Greenland It’s news. Just not the kind of news you’re used to. Deconstructed. Reconstructed. http://gogogonzo.wordpress.com/ Gnashed, hashed and remashed by the Gonzolizer. http://twitter.com/gogogonzo 1 39916.78693 Freelance Investigative Journalist. Wordsmith. Bullshitter. Cynic http://twitter.com/WarrenGwilt Page 46 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Twitter Name elanh mangaddict zazu_b zippogordon dandavis02 fcbk craighallett tamtamkzn karinabagley Steven_Lang tmochiko chantelms cavszabo CheriHJ zoejhb Douwvn Designer69r myboatshow Mandy2342 TheCapeRobyn viperGP lynettekloppers kellyrober_tson tamsconnection hatemzidi janine_stephen ulrikeb333 slyeee amandadejongh paulcassells stanleygabriel dion_t guston aubrey_lab cdevilliers tereztaylor IrasWorld mandywilson_sa virsen dvdpeach paddiclay Tunimed mantigrobler Followed Followers Tweets 194 98 765 153 98 925 237 96 475 74 96 213 31 95 340 10 95 9 100 94 53 570 94 352 94 93 907 22 93 191 115 93 24 272 92 55 71 91 597 125 91 942 104 91 219 107 87 34 379 86 76 311 86 45 153 85 2125 43 85 340 212 84 67 72 82 73 139 81 78 128 81 196 0 79 3 120 79 127 81 79 1053 147 78 1447 109 77 229 60 77 89 80 77 130 228 76 455 193 75 544 118 74 489 153 74 377 67 73 126 5 72 821 192 72 2276 101 72 723 38 71 124 94 71 356 11 71 1122 113 70 307 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 39878.53446 Pretoria Aviator on a FlightQuest, love rugby, playing guitar, cooking, and good, dark http://elanh.wordpress.com/ chocolate. http://twitter.com/elanh 0 39924.93303 Paris Computer Engineering Student, Japanese Anime Addict & Rock/Metal Music Fan http://twitter.com/mangaddict 4 39976.3166 Harare IT - Networking (Day Job) Speed Freak and Social Madness (By Night) http://www.facebook.com/zaheer786 http://twitter.com/zazu_b 0 39765.51598 Greenland http://twitter.com/zippogordon 1 39623.23464 Pretoria I am the Senior Pastor of the most awesome church in the world. Turninghttp://www.turningpointza.com Point located in Johannesburg, South Africa. http://twitter.com/dandavis02 0 39682.68692 Paris toute la Tunisie facebookeuse. http://www.facebook.com/ http://twitter.com/fcbk 0 39644.33258 Pretoria http://www.craigharveyhallett.com http://twitter.com/craighallett 5 39994.54777 Pretoria Is a member of the DA, enjoys working without the less fortunate - be it animals http://twitter.com/#!/TamTamKzn or humans! :) http://twitter.com/tamtamkzn 5 40096.69422 Pretoria i'm happiest laughing. kitty crazy. love sport & being active. born to dance. reckon that morals & standards are overrated. proud http://twitter.com/karinabagley porra! 0 39795.35697 Pretoria I am a multi-media journalist in English and Portguese http://www.stevenlang.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/Steven_Lang 1 40140.72159 Work for @Business Day Newspaper. http://www.businessday.co.za http://twitter.com/tmochiko 0 40394.37645 Pretoria Inquisitive with a love of marketing, travelling, good food and wine. http://twitter.com/chantelms 0 39889.74426 Greenland I'm a journalist, specialising in world news and military stuff. I also study and write about history, archeaology and love anthropology. http://twitter.com/cavszabo I take pictures, too! 1 39884.67638 Greenland From the not so quiet seaside town of East London. I work in the newspaper industry. I tweet in my personal capacity http://twitter.com/CheriHJ 1 40053.35575 Greenland http://twitter.com/zoejhb 0 39957.44061 Pretoria The Visual Swiss Army Knife: Graphic designer, Animator, Special FX, Video editor. Loves Film, music, art, our cat and my lovely http://twitter.com/Douwvn wife. 10 40003.38361 Pretoria I'm a cool, fun, loving & caring guy who loves life! A charismatic enigma., http://www.facebook.com/Aresh.Goorahoo.69r i'm never out of Energy. i'm not the boring type! http://twitter.com/Designer69r 0 40624.39514 Pretoria Africa's No1 Boat, Dive and Leisure Show | 9-12 August 2012, Coca Cola Dome, Johannesburg, South Africa | http://www.nationalboatshow.co.za http://twitter.com/myboatshow 11 39594.23978 Harare Dazed and confused. Engaged to @Darkwing0775 and planning to move from the East Coast to the West Coast really soon.http://twitter.com/Mandy2342 1 40463.74226 Robyn Cohen is a Cape Town based writer (Argus, Cape Times etc), artist and photographer who treats herself to an excellent http://twitter.com/TheCapeRobyn cappuccino every day. 2 39924.5236 Greenland I am a South African guy http://twitter.com/viperGP 2 40091.55042 Greenland http://twitter.com/lynettekloppers 0 39882.72181 Pretoria http://twitter.com/kellyrober_tson 0 39917.52058 Greenland A geek by right with some interesting ideas and fabulous connections!! Grew http://tamsblogroll.blogspot.com/ up in Durbs so I love a good bargain :) http://twitter.com/tamsconnection 0 39542.67808 Paris open source advocate & IT architect, geek 2.0, [former] blogger, photographer http://www.hatemzidi.com & TEDxer http://twitter.com/hatemzidi 1 40668.58108 Journalist, Cape Town-based. Big on politics, art, bee-eaters, travel and fiction (in no particular order). Occasional editor. http://twitter.com/janine_stephen 118 39957.61353 Greenland Makeup Artist specialising in wedding and event makeup. I am a typical Sag and I love socialising and adventure! http://twitter.com/ulrikeb333 14 40014.66193 Greenland Bubbly, love meeting new people, I'm just a sweet loving person hey☺ http://www.slyisthebest.com http://twitter.com/slyeee 14 39986.53958 West Central Africa Passionate about Photography- Fashion & Art. I'm a mother,wife - loving http://www.absolutea.net to live life in full http://twitter.com/amandadejongh 0 39927.40613 Pretoria I'm hip & happening in a far out way http://twitter.com/paulcassells 0 39849.45693 Greenland Self-proclaimed Wine Guru http://www.wineexclamations.co.za http://twitter.com/stanleygabriel 102 39572.84066 Pretoria Shit happens - cope with it! http://twitter.com/dion_t 15 39911.69365 Paris I love all kinds of sports. Student. Sportsman. http://www.twiiter.com http://twitter.com/guston 3 39791.28241 Pretoria Living to the fullest, to tell stories, no regrets, with a smile.. http://twitter.com/aubrey_lab 5 40002.70086 http://twitter.com/cdevilliers 1 39741.44736 Pretoria PR Princess at The Unlimited. Work is Play! http://twitter.com/tereztaylor 0 39829.67713 Paris The Official Twitter Feed Of Iras (The African Rap Storyteller) http://IrasWorld.com http://twitter.com/IrasWorld 0 40007.49272 Harare Frm durban SA,married,mom of 2, teach pre school-G3, love cooking & gardening,growing herbs,passionate abt cycling-on the http://twitter.com/mandywilson_sa bike as much as I can 0 39926.73318 Pretoria Doctor/Jedi http://www.facebook.com/virsen http://twitter.com/virsen 1 39959.71469 Central Time (US & Canada) Been a missionary to Ghana, Africa for the past 3 years. I have a wife and two children. We are currently stateside. My daughter http://twitter.com/dvdpeach has been diagnosed with cancer. 3 39475.71917 Greenland I am a journalism survivor exploring yet another new technology as Managing http://www.timeslive.co.za Editor, Times LIVE. I also head the Avusa Media http://twitter.com/paddiclay Journalism training programme. 0 39950.08535 Paris La Communauté des Etudiants du Secteur Médical en Ligne... Depuis 2006http://www.tunimed.org http://twitter.com/Tunimed 0 39889.5815 Pretoria curiouser and curiouser http://twitter.com/mantigrobler Page 47 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 2037 2038 2039 2040 2041 2042 2043 2044 2045 2046 2047 2048 2049 2050 2051 2052 2053 2054 2055 2056 2057 2058 2059 2060 2061 2062 2063 2064 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets PatrickHeske 88 70 109 sammuray 44 70 542 tszi 57 70 114 ADN_XAJ 135 68 545 daletv 180 68 154 marialu1407 350 68 417 darrenjack 183 67 533 minisplat 82 67 2903 skock 106 67 950 GogeAfrica 83 65 168 Chantelsazi 183 64 822 DnSA 5 64 518 rebeccarjones 100 64 1451 fearsumm 34 63 374 mayaopperman 130 63 55 solarafrica 1 63 11 searlel 156 62 70 mohammade 116 61 226 RynoCGI 115 61 1813 diazy 91 60 161 Kiki_Meneses 60 60 1577 lalau 48 60 131 Sportshortt 189 60 268 pushkinz7 69 59 604 twaction 0 59 1451 dbngirl 75 58 734 raisamahomed 41 58 480 Ufrieda 66 58 146 ansie11 36 57 242 koobink 9 57 56 richardniemand 34 57 583 peter_koen 169 56 142 FrancoisSteyn1 256 55 51 excelsamuel 128 54 124 marcmaurel 78 54 120 Camfed_org 0 53 1 caron_g 85 52 71 flickswitchSIM 142 52 206 hoopaman 29 52 428 Reverend_Wright 16 52 35 andrevolsteedt 88 51 155 wzwick 56 51 395 granthastie 173 50 120 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 1 39785.17377 Harare Writer, journalist, dreamer, doer. http://twitter.com/PatrickHeske 5 39807.53963 Berlin http://twitter.com/sammuray 0 39735.82214 Pretoria Web developer, Internet Marketer, and an Enterpreneur http://www.websitefactory.co.za http://twitter.com/tszi 1 39949.71765 Hawaii R&D Engineer • SunGard Capital Markets http://twitter.com/ADN_XAJ 44 39960.23566 Pretoria Editor, film maker, and overall abstract piece of art. Welcome. http://lethalvision.net/daletv http://twitter.com/daletv 3 40017.25168 Pretoria http://twitter.com/marialu1407 6 39900.25286 Pretoria howzit howzit http://entertainmentanytime.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/darrenjack 2 39848.31436 Greenland Caffeine-powered, design and food obsessed, intelligence optional. http://twitter.com/minisplat 188 39160.37633 Pretoria Tech gun for hire http://about.me/skock http://twitter.com/skock 1 40616.49497 West Central Africa Goge Africa, presented by Metche & Nneka Isaac Moses, is a culture and tourism http://www.gogeafrica.tv/ media brand on TV, radio and print, and has http://twitter.com/GogeAfrica been in existence since 1999. 10 40072.60381 Rome making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicatedhttp://www.facebook.com simple, awasomely simple, that creative http://twitter.com/Chantelsazi 0 39994.35425 Pretoria Die nuwe Suid Afrika .com http://www.dienuwesuidafrika.com http://twitter.com/DnSA 4 39706.66226 Pretoria *Young,blonde and a whole lot more* http://twitter.com/rebeccarjones 2 39479.61032 Harare the embodiment of humility, tact, insight, intelligence and poise http://twitter.com/fearsumm 0 39608.60404 Pretoria Software Developer http://twitter.com/mayaopperman 0 40160.83909 Central Time (US & Canada) I have moved tweets over to @Solar_Sister see you there! http://www.solarsister.org http://twitter.com/solarafrica 4 39695.32485 Greenland Senior sub-editor Weekend Post (Avusa) newpaper in Port Elizabeth http://twitter.com/searlel 1 39466.38813 Pretoria French IT engineer, web developer based in South Africa http://aeneid.fr http://twitter.com/mohammade 0 39955.56933 Pretoria Loving Husband, Man U, Stormers and McLaren Fan. I'm quiet during working hours but very vocal when my sporting teamshttp://twitter.com/RynoCGI take to the pitch 1 39701.85781 International Date Line West http://fromtheold.com http://twitter.com/diazy 0 39946.39922 London Her Royal Sexiness who loves Craig, spending time with family, my friends, http://www.headsmodels.co.za law, modelling, movies, shopping and a good book. http://twitter.com/Kiki_Meneses 0 39567.57571 Pretoria http://twitter.com/lalau 7 40098.86337 Harare Sports Fan, Dad of 2, Director in IT firm and Beer connoisseur http://twitter.com/Sportshortt 51 40585.60317 Black barbie http://www.facebook.com/pushkins.sash http://twitter.com/pushkinz7 0 39436.60714 Harare Twaction turns your tweets into actions. http://www.twaction.com http://twitter.com/twaction 1 39834.54457 Greenland i'm with the cool chick who is liking to be wearing da jean pant http://twitter.com/dbngirl 0 39592.81556 Pretoria Software Consultant, Techie, Ambitious http://twitter.com/raisamahomed 0 40576.45162 Greenland Jozi journo, author of Paper Sons and Daughters. http://www.ufriedaho.co.za http://twitter.com/Ufrieda 0 40126.8776 fun-loving girly-girl & works as a mobile advertiser/strategist http://twitter.com/ansie11 1 39916.42216 Pretoria +++ Aspire to Inspire +++ http://www.koobink.com http://twitter.com/koobink 0 39771.54872 Cairo http://www.richards-blog.com/html/ http://twitter.com/richardniemand 1 40673.53113 Pretoria Part-time woodworker and vegetable grower. Full-time co-founder and #UX http://www.infoslips.com @InfoSlips. Interested in design, technology, society http://twitter.com/peter_koen and social change. 0 40671.48152 Pretoria Freelance Chartered Accountant, motoring journalist, photographer... Leaving http://www.crossingafrica.co.za for Cairo on a bike early September 2011. http://twitter.com/FrancoisSteyn1 2 39927.44846 London http://twitter.com/excelsamuel 1 39926.24623 Harare husband, father, marketer, singer/songwriter, surfer, longboarder, windsurfer, sailor, braai-master, God fearer, http://twitter.com/marcmaurel 0 39927.75146 Pacific Time (US & Canada) http://twitter.com/Camfed_org 0 39786.33831 Pretoria graduate student, dancer, reader of books, photographer, runner, type 1 http://lifeonalearningcurve.blogspot.com/ diabetic, daughter, sister, friend, girlfriend, Disciple. http://twitter.com/caron_g not necessarily in that order. 0 40191.6224 Pretoria At last. An easy way to manage your data SIM cards. http://www.flickswitch.co.za http://twitter.com/flickswitchSIM 2 39718.8097 Pretoria Cartoonist and Illustrator http://www.flamingpencil.com http://twitter.com/hoopaman 0 39749.61601 Pretoria Reverend Wright And The Mystery Train Gamblers playing Kustom Built Rockabilly http://www.mysterytraingamblers.com http://twitter.com/Reverend_Wright 4 39748.78582 Pretoria Strength and conditioning trainer http://www.mywinwebpage.com/xtremehealth http://twitter.com/andrevolsteedt 1 39994.42744 Harare Genuine geek and friend of the internet http://twitter.com/wzwick 1 39932.34068 Hawaii http://twitter.com/granthastie Page 48 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 2065 2066 2067 2068 2069 2070 2071 2072 2073 2074 2075 2076 2077 2078 2079 2080 2081 2082 2083 2084 2085 2086 2087 2088 2089 2090 2091 2092 2093 2094 2095 2096 2097 2098 2099 2100 2101 2102 2103 2104 2105 2106 2107 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets rentiabooysen 149 50 129 rooijan 48 50 214 BridgetShan 144 49 480 zamablose 258 49 587 Reshy119 132 48 222 yootony 23 48 1827 achraf_khelil 54 46 1286 chellyb1 151 46 24 Michaela_Newey 36 46 360 rbkza 107 46 37 nikzaz 70 45 845 shirazee 85 45 469 nduduzo 60 44 122 TheBileTick 32 43 887 t1lt 95 42 160 cinderlly 38 41 1219 patcullen 18 41 78 s_jiggy 99 41 199 TerrorCrow 176 41 68 enricolouw 279 40 598 fiefie 37 40 161 jessinafrica 19 40 88 christianlion 67 39 14 ilanpillemer 38 39 145 journalist_jill 90 39 159 Hercolena 69 38 458 TurnerElisabeth 87 38 702 calvinerlank 31 37 125 LauraJGrant 75 37 78 NGTAfrica 14 37 336 prezencesa 8 37 13 salaamuna 9 37 1774 zanetsocial 195 37 153 Al_Ingram 68 36 169 GarethGcapetown 60 36 89 SABCRecordLib 25 36 50 lizemcdonald 72 34 34 wayneevans 169 34 208 _kia_ 98 33 338 bokkie_gerber 11 33 10 deebee28 99 33 436 gducray 138 33 251 hydrofire 58 33 325 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 14 40034.38256 Pretoria http://www.rentiabooysen.co.za/ http://twitter.com/rentiabooysen 0 39612.39691 Pretoria A Christian South African happy husband, Electronic Eng, embedded programmer, http://www.rooijan.za.net Python dabbler, proud member of Northhttp://twitter.com/rooijan Durban Lions & all-round geeky type fellow. 0 39981.3063 Pretoria I'm coloured. Expect some controversy... http://www.facebook.com/bridget.s.pienaar http://twitter.com/BridgetShan 3 40233.53375 Im an always exict girl who loves life with all its ups and down. i enjoy music, comedy and intresting people and i always findhttp://twitter.com/zamablose something to smile about 7 40002.54493 Pretoria Das nu das! http://twitter.com/Reshy119 2 40051.94263 Quito i love selena gomez http://twitter.com/yootony 0 40109.86205 http://blog.2kip-dev.com http://twitter.com/achraf_khelil 0 39951.61494 Pretoria HR Manager for 4star hotel in PTA.Shark supporter all the way!! Tyring to live healthy... http://twitter.com/chellyb1 1 39591.62292 Pretoria Queen of the Universe. Also fabulous sound engineer and partner in software http://www.codecafe.co.za development company http://twitter.com/Michaela_Newey 1 39977.87742 Pretoria http://twitter.com/rbkza 3 39906.20872 Pretoria Free-spirited http://www.soulaffairs.co.za http://twitter.com/nikzaz 3 39857.56367 Pretoria Family man! Fanatic! Searching for inner peace and a piece of the Pie! http://twitter.com/shirazee 0 39871.56225 Pretoria Am an entrepreneur (with many failed startups, but rising again to take another challenge this time online) http://twitter.com/nduduzo 0 39825.84337 Pretoria Jawesome http://twitter.com/TheBileTick 7 39905.54646 Pretoria Environmental Science MSc Student, Photographer, Sports Fanatic, Scubahttp://t1lt.deviantart.com/ Diver, Casual Gamer & I also enjoy anime, books, http://twitter.com/t1lt movies & music when I can find the time! 14 39687.93869 Quito http://twitter.com/cinderlly 0 39506.31595 Greenland javascript; mootools; ssjs; poofactory.com; http://mindmeat.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/patcullen 7 40498.86045 Mr Random To The Limit:Bright Shining Journalist and Blind Rhyming Motswakolist. http://www.sothomafia.com http://twitter.com/s_jiggy 0 39641.9506 Paris What? http://www.facebook.com/script.vbs http://twitter.com/TerrorCrow 1 40688.75707 London Im just a simple, uncomplicated man trying to be a perfect husband, superman http://www.facebook.com/enrico.louw dad, charming son, likeable in-law, supportive http://twitter.com/enricolouw brother and a bloody good friend. 3 39226.40009 International Date Line West http://twitter.com/fiefie 0 40262.54706 Pretoria Oops! This is the wrong Twitter page for this user. The official page is here: http://twitter.com/jessello http://twitter.com/jessello http://twitter.com/jessinafrica 0 39654.90425 Central Time (US & Canada) Expat Londoner that settled down for something more rural http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion http://twitter.com/christianlion 1 39207.78299 Harare a inside and upside down inside the code re-wiring it as I balance myself out http://ilanpillemer.com kind of guy. http://twitter.com/ilanpillemer 0 40232.85914 Greenland baby journ bunny learning the ropes at The Star http://Theresa.taylor.co.za http://twitter.com/journalist_jill 0 39719.56039 Pretoria Hercolena commends comments, tweets&twitters sweet¬ bitter, patter&pitter up&about&sitter, flies, branch out, sometimes http://twitter.com/Hercolena quitter, bit of dis&lot of ditter. 1 40420.73373 Greenland Every day needs a purpose.. http://twitter.com/TurnerElisabeth 1 39593.35243 Pretoria Easy going, too old to party, but like to chill with friends! http://twitter.com/calvinerlank 3 40687.68763 Chief sub at M&G and lover of green things http://www.treevolution.co.za http://twitter.com/LauraJGrant 0 39890.63486 Next Generation Telecom Africa Summit is a three day critical informationhttp://www.ngtsummitafrica.com/ gathering bringing together C-level technology executives. http://twitter.com/NGTAfrica October 2009 0 40095.36705 Greenland Prezence is one of Africa’s most prominent new media agencies, creatinghttp://www.prezence.co.za highly functional, immersive digital experiences across http://twitter.com/prezencesa web, mobile and touchscreens. 0 39901.42813 Santiago currently blogger ,i love reading sharing ideas http://www.tech-culture.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/salaamuna 2 39953.56293 Pretoria http://twitter.com/zanetsocial 0 39898.44994 Harare http://twitter.com/Al_Ingram 1 40392.38985 http://ggphotoworld.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/GarethGcapetown 0 40253.52356 Pretoria “If music be the food of life …” walk in. http://sites.google.com/site/sabcmedialib/record-library http://twitter.com/SABCRecordLib 1 40414.39293 West Central Africa Research Psychologists in the media monitoring environment.Naturally curious – knowledge is our most precious commodity. http://twitter.com/lizemcdonald 1 39591.55793 Pretoria F1 fan http://twitter.com/wayneevans 3 39923.32426 Pretoria http://twitter.com/_kia_ 0 40751.73265 http://twitter.com/bokkie_gerber 1 40468.48168 Pretoria just a bloke living and working in Jozi... love tech, music and whatever http://twitter.com/deebee28 6 40356.71984 Pretoria YNWA http://www.avunlimited.co.za http://twitter.com/gducray 11 39530.65377 Pretoria http://twitter.com/hydrofire Page 49 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 2108 2109 2110 2111 2112 2113 2114 2115 2116 2117 2118 2119 2120 2121 2122 2123 2124 2125 2126 2127 2128 2129 2130 2131 2132 2133 2134 2135 2136 2137 2138 2139 2140 2141 2142 2143 2144 2145 2146 2147 2148 2149 2150 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets punit_agarwal 27 33 4 shmeta 26 33 59 maranch 59 32 53 MounaBT 176 32 17 Adrieheks 46 31 212 mostlydimi 62 31 485 seannkudu 128 31 126 gus922 60 30 100 vanessinhamoura 148 30 56 fris5 79 29 94 shaundanielz 67 29 482 ziad_barouni 63 29 114 glenyoung 20 28 26 jessicahopley 24 28 10 CapeToCairo 12 27 0 ocm474 30 27 0 rabb_ettelecom 1 27 3 mamakastu 108 26 85 mikesaidwhat 0 26 6 Neelskoekemoer 37 26 241 sunsync 103 26 11 WhiteQ 143 26 150 aveensingh 13 25 28 boycottfifa 59 25 37 goqoeb 28 25 3 GugzM 116 25 4 hermansteenkamp 24 25 94 jobusk 73 25 901 markanicholson 46 25 277 reignhigh 62 25 266 richard_keller 75 25 14 Rubygloom 10 25 138 wernervd 9 25 32 the_m00se 13 24 127 dbn_weather 0 23 2077 kayrivera_37 23 23 660 moraswik 120 23 287 amirhamdani 10 22 14 caitliinn 22 22 17 derekpai 7 22 55 Kerrydejager 13 22 17 lisamutua 6 22 26 Malcolm_Naidoo 22 22 32 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 39672.81944 Pretoria cOnFuSeD http://twitter.com/punit_agarwal 0 39939.04016 Greenland music composer http://www.myspace.com/shmetamusic http://twitter.com/shmeta 1 39971.69326 Harare http://twitter.com/maranch 1 39979.7642 London http://twitter.com/MounaBT 0 39972.75723 Pretoria Practical Dreamer http://herriemerrie.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/Adrieheks 5 39680.52572 Pretoria A web developer on Hiatus, guess that makes me a traveler http://twitter.com/mostlydimi 4 40025.3766 Pretoria http://www.pbs.org.za http://twitter.com/seannkudu 1 39897.49904 Pretoria I'm just ...............that other guy! http://twitter.com/gus922 8 40078.01814 Paris http://twitter.com/vanessinhamoura 0 40021.62118 Pretoria http://twitter.com/fris5 0 40188.28113 Harare System Analyst, .NET, SharePoint, MS CRM http://www.shaundanielz.com http://twitter.com/shaundanielz 7 39747.88484 Paris Founder and Managing Editor of Waleg.com http://www.waleg.com http://twitter.com/ziad_barouni 0 39681.54628 Pretoria Entrepreneur, Enthusiast, Businessman, Web Developer, IT Professional, Business http://www.netrep.co.za Partner of Netrepreneurs Int. http://twitter.com/glenyoung 0 39534.40916 Pretoria http://twitter.com/jessicahopley 0 39698.54625 Hawaii Africa's Online Business Market http://www.cape2cairo.biz http://twitter.com/CapeToCairo 0 39888.83196 Central Time (US & Canada) http://twitter.com/ocm474 0 39619.33102 Paris http://www.tunisietelecom.tn http://twitter.com/rabb_ettelecom 0 40448.42361 Pretoria SABC News-Dep Sports Ed, bosslady to some, mother to a few, love animals, good books, Spooks, and one good cook. http://twitter.com/mamakastu 0 39589.152 Pretoria The Daily Ramblings Of A Coffee Addict http://www.toomuchcoffee.co.za http://twitter.com/mikesaidwhat 8 39999.44111 Pretoria I am a born again chrisLan.Saved by the grace of God and washed with The http://lightandlife.weebly.com Blood of Jesus Christ.And bapLzed in the Holy Spirit. http://twitter.com/Neelskoekemoer ... 0 39580.56902 Eastern Time (US & Canada) http://twitter.com/sunsync 0 40073.31355 Pretoria With wine, and lots of it, we might get world peace #Vrede http://twitter.com/WhiteQ 0 39716.50733 London enjoy everyday to the best of ur ability http://twitter.com/aveensingh 0 40258.51207 Pretoria FIFA will be plundering South Africa in 2010. Let's raise our voices and sayhttp://boycottfifa.co.za enough is enough. http://twitter.com/boycottfifa 0 39430.302 Greenland http://twitter.com/goqoeb 0 40583.59166 An aspiring journalist, with a passion for reading, writing short stories http://twitter.com/GugzM 0 39962.29076 Pretoria http://twitter.com/hermansteenkamp 25 39883.45979 Pretoria An avid cyclist who loves Photography, Smart Woman, Cycling, Cricket and http://www.facebook.com/jobus.kotze Rugby. In no particular order. http://twitter.com/jobusk 3 39938.59667 Harare http://twitter.com/markanicholson 0 39960.31126 Nairobi fun lovin wicked full of attitude yet deep at the same time.love on everybody thou hate on the right pips http://twitter.com/reignhigh 2 40225.87705 Harare http://twitter.com/richard_keller 0 39174.30144 Pretoria Bad baaaad kitty http://twitter.com/Rubygloom 0 39562.40681 Pretoria http://www.deventerprise.net http://twitter.com/wernervd 0 39552.35161 Pretoria Athlete, Devil, rogue, all round nice guy. http://twitter.com/the_m00se 0 39699.06881 Harare Durban Weather http://www.tweather.co.za http://twitter.com/dbn_weather 2 39983.02308 Pacific Time (US & Canada) http://twitter.com/kayrivera_37 1 40131.62277 Thinker, Journalist and Writer. http://twitter.com/moraswik 0 39449.46183 Paris http://twitter.com/amirhamdani 1 39869.9219 Mountain Time (US & Canada) brooke hogan http://twitter.com/caitliinn 1 39154.32434 Pacific Time (US & Canada) Product Mgmt at Amazon Web ServicesCloudWatch and Auto Scaling http://aws.amazon.com/cloudatch http://twitter.com/derekpai 6 39525.24883 Pretoria http://twitter.com/Kerrydejager 0 39927.22905 Tallinn http://twitter.com/lisamutua 1 39923.56209 Pretoria a citizen of earth http://twitter.com/Malcolm_Naidoo Page 50 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 2151 2152 2153 2154 2155 2156 2157 2158 2159 2160 2161 2162 2163 2164 2165 2166 2167 2168 2169 2170 2171 2172 2173 2174 2175 2176 2177 2178 2179 2180 2181 2182 2183 2184 2185 2186 2187 2188 2189 2190 2191 2192 2193 Twitter Name RimRong SamsungBlogSA BrittanySmith_ christieleemann marietjieb mjlalberda TheGwa bongorules lindt21 nickbda1 theogarrun isitand1der jans_steyn Loopieloops michnel Nico_Liebenberg blackpetal29 hardspear LyndaE solarnebula chivasrwm HilaryBiller creed_ SABCAudioRest addykean shizey sweerhe tinkietay 702land aoadedayo BlueStrawberry CarthageOne DOBSTIQ heartmedia Jayce_Millions jEnNifEr_MaRtin mcmckenzie mzyy RobertAllenDbn d_enbrcht diegoi iandudleym jasonmackay Followed Followers Tweets 10 22 743 0 22 1 20 21 219 15 21 30 59 21 132 33 21 18 1 21 3 12 20 37 43 20 83 164 20 38 12 20 27 12 19 1 7 19 34 31 19 87 3 19 1 21 19 22 72 18 34 22 18 121 23 18 1 17 18 33 38 17 51 2 17 0 10 16 6 5 16 89 39 15 97 34 15 90 179 15 91 55 15 302 0 14 0 15 14 7 39 14 151 699 14 18 58 14 265 7 14 10 15 14 56 80 14 55 14 14 48 38 14 9 22 14 133 17 13 3 142 13 315 36 13 95 4 13 14 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 40005.85027 Paris http://twitter.com/RimRong 0 40704.42407 Greenland http://samsungblog.co.za http://twitter.com/SamsungBlogSA 0 39690.99707 Quito http://twitter.com/BrittanySmith_ 0 39918.74131 Pretoria http://www.ooohpretty.co.za http://twitter.com/christieleemann 1 39969.74333 Pretoria http://twitter.com/marietjieb 0 39720.41854 Greenland http://twitter.com/mjlalberda 0 39474.92712 Pretoria I do my own stunts! http://twitter.com/TheGwa 1 39685.33493 Berlin Bongo rules - for a life in harmony and bliss. http://twitter.com/bongorules 1 40692.73215 I'm shy but once u get to know me u will see I'm fun, loving woman. Who enjoys a good laugh and has a good sense of humour. http://twitter.com/lindt21 A good friend. 0 39904.67106 Pretoria Passionate about Mountain Biking and Nature http://twitter.com/nickbda1 1 40578.12404 Pretoria I am editor of Star Workplaceand Metro Sports editor of The Star.I think school sport is very important on all sorts of levels.http://twitter.com/theogarrun 0 39535.45399 Pretoria I won't set a precedent to be elected as president. http://www.geocities.com/tobeornottwobee http://twitter.com/isitand1der 0 39591.44565 Pretoria SAP Country Version Development Manager at EPI-USE http://twitter.com/jans_steyn 0 39976.53073 Harare Married to Bradley, have 2 daughters named Shannon and Carla. My Husband and I have our own business!! Live in Johannesburg http://twitter.com/Loopieloops South Africa 0 39866.79385 http://twitter.com/michnel 0 39786.57824 Pretoria Executive Coach, husband, father and seeker of Truth http://www.dustconsulting.com http://twitter.com/Nico_Liebenberg 1 40737.49659 Hello, I know you're out there. I can hear you metabolizing oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide. http://twitter.com/blackpetal29 1 39889.25848 Pretoria I have ADD, I drink Ritalin, I love to Cook, I love to Eat, I am Fascinated by http://hardspear.blogspot.com the phenomena of Social Networking, Internet Trends http://twitter.com/hardspear & Pop Culture. 0 39652.30723 Bangkok Living in Laos with my Fiancé. http://twitter.com/LyndaE 0 39951.87791 Pretoria FOH/Monitor Audio Engineer / Systems Tech http://twitter.com/solarnebula 5 40557.47856 Pretoria ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ You know my name, not my story. You know what I've done, not what I've been through.http://twitter.com/chivasrwm 0 40723.75093 http://twitter.com/HilaryBiller 0 39591.55852 Greenland I love cats and reading good books. http://twitter.com/creed_ 0 40267.35076 SABC Audio Restoration has facilities for noise removal and Sound Restoration. http://sites.google.com/site/sabcmedialib/sound-restoration-unit http://twitter.com/SABCAudioRest 0 39923.56277 London http://twitter.com/addykean 0 40706.04193 Penso em voce dia e noite eu na vou negar isso nao,mais ja nao te desejo como antes!!! http://twitter.com/shizey 1 40067.53969 Pretoria Bald. Unreliable. Easily distracte http://twitter.com/sweerhe 0 39982.79751 Pretoria http://twitter.com/tinkietay 0 40753.54145 http://twitter.com/702land 1 39780.46905 Pretoria http://twitter.com/aoadedayo 0 39748.87635 Berlin http://twitter.com/BlueStrawberry 9 39671.64214 Rome http://twitter.com/CarthageOne 11 40402.56935 DOBSTIQ FOR REALLA BABY OBS AND MY LINES ARE DOPE!!!!!!!! u got it right homie http://twitter.com/DOBSTIQ 0 39958.38334 Harare http://www.weheart.tv http://twitter.com/heartmedia 0 39527.54779 Central Time (US & Canada) Im very good looking! http://twitter.com/Jayce_Millions 16 40405.51384 http://twitter.com/jEnNifEr_MaRtin 0 39657.46544 Pretoria http://twitter.com/mcmckenzie 0 39948.58494 Pretoria very very playful http://twitter.com/mzyy 1 39954.49387 Pretoria Married, 2 Kids..22 & 5. Run design & print in Musgrave Centre, PhotoWorld http://twitter.com/RobertAllenDbn 1 39987.24809 Mid-Atlantic http://twitter.com/d_enbrcht 1 39479.32347 Pretoria easy going guy with a passion for numbers and having fun at all times http://twitter.com/diegoi 0 40465.78446 Pretoria Ultimate U2 fan http://twitter.com/iandudleym 1 39701.46148 Pretoria http://www.fundamental.tv http://twitter.com/jasonmackay Page 51 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 2194 2195 2196 2197 2198 2199 2200 2201 2202 2203 2204 2205 2206 2207 2208 2209 2210 2211 2212 2213 2214 2215 2216 2217 2218 2219 2220 2221 2222 2223 2224 2225 2226 2227 2228 2229 2230 2231 2232 2233 2234 2235 2236 Twitter Name jozi_boy mteresaguiar pastorcfrancis stevenbooth Devtuts durbanlinux flyingant nkosana nytji paulduplessis ukuphepha Yosra bettypadoo blu601 calvininsa cjgariba GabbyUP JackAuthentic whits11 brauteseth green_cyclist guyumu INNOMATE Jaymission99 randomkenny Shirls2008 tulz83 iheb Lelob Wange hammoudi krugerjp louisvw78 marciust planet_241 QueQueMe ryansingh christwithano lydiiad quintusm redbishop TimesLIVEpols echry Followed Followers Tweets 17 13 99 3 13 2 4 13 8 44 13 0 21 12 65 5 12 10 4 12 180 7 12 5 32 12 8 14 12 10 13 12 29 17 12 46 3 11 19 41 11 11 19 11 20 90 11 21 6 10 44 0 10 0 16 10 15 0 9 1 56 9 99 9 9 123 5 9 0 15 9 45 108 9 54 44 9 26 111 9 18 1 8 1 0 8 1 25 8 224 15 7 86 50 7 2 11 7 16 5 7 16 2 7 8 2 7 12 145 7 495 14 6 25 0 6 104 31 6 23 7 6 6 3 6 1 19 5 3 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Twitter Page Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 39652.27318 Pretoria IT Infrastructure Design International Banking http://twitter.com/jozi_boy 0 39734.40993 http://twitter.com/mteresaguiar 0 40372.46387 London http://twitter.com/pastorcfrancis 0 40388.86662 http://twitter.com/stevenbooth 0 40002.50443 Paris http://devtuts.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/Devtuts 0 40730.54895 Pretoria The official Twitter account of the Durban Linux User group(DBN-Lug) http://durbanlinux.org.za http://twitter.com/durbanlinux 2 39779.78987 Pretoria http://www.antoniefourie.com http://twitter.com/flyingant 0 39735.77174 London http://twitter.com/nkosana 0 39905.84095 Pretoria http://twitter.com/nytji 0 39659.41147 Pretoria http://twitter.com/paulduplessis 0 40428.84413 Pretoria Ukuphepha consulting provides a range of value driven business support http://www.ukuphepha.com services to medium and large organisations alike. Visit http://twitter.com/ukuphepha our website for more information. 0 40131.88221 Central Time (US & Canada) http://twitter.com/Yosra 0 39278.39953 Paris I'm beautiful and smart. Try me ! http://twitter.com/bettypadoo 0 40099.77569 Pretoria http://twitter.com/blu601 1 39897.83497 Pretoria http://twitter.com/calvininsa 0 40346.39042 Pretoria http://twitter.com/cjgariba 1 39871.49916 Greenland 50 something gal in sunny South Africa.Mostly mother, secretary but budding writer in the making http://twitter.com/GabbyUP 0 40753.85413 http://twitter.com/JackAuthentic 0 39743.50942 Pacific Time (US & Canada) i am who i am and HIs people http://twitter.com/whits11 0 40598.22675 http://twitter.com/brauteseth 0 39849.39028 Greenland amatuer cyclist in Durban South Africa. http://twitter.com/green_cyclist 0 39504.35226 Pretoria http://twitter.com/guyumu 0 39734.3191 Harare Searching for God http://twitter.com/INNOMATE 1 39994.68609 Pretoria Its al in da mind n my mission is 2 use it... http://twitter.com/Jaymission99 10 40018.39594 Greenland Plumber, awesome, so not gay http://twitter.com/randomkenny 0 39723.75565 Jerusalem Wife, Mom. Grandma, writer, dieter, vegetarian. Like coffee and chocolate. http://twitter.com/Shirls2008 2 40576.3477 Greenland The Will of GOD will never put You where the Grace of GOD will not protect You. http://twitter.com/tulz83 0 39458.60086 Paris http://www.clubecommerce.org http://twitter.com/iheb 0 40615.00395 http://twitter.com/Lelob 40 39308.58796 Pretoria a sand grain in the greater universe http://twitter.com/Wange 4 39395.92278 Paris http://twitter.com/hammoudi 0 40287.52154 Pretoria http://www.kruger.is http://twitter.com/krugerjp 0 40615.67726 Pretoria http://twitter.com/louisvw78 0 39729.26781 Pretoria http://twitter.com/marciust 0 40028.62207 London planet des Africains dans le monde http://planet241.com http://twitter.com/planet_241 0 39398.73193 Pretoria http://twitter.com/QueQueMe 2 39558.79774 London Mindy, You're my only friend. http://twitter.com/ryansingh 0 40358.54074 Pretoria I am a Christian Missionary involved in pastoral training http://twitter.com/christwithano 0 40390.15159 WAKA WAKA. http://twitter.com/lydiiad 0 39543.53477 Pretoria http://twitter.com/quintusm 0 39461.35537 Greenland http://twitter.com/redbishop 0 40765.62938 http://twitter.com/TimesLIVEpols 0 40569.31323 brandalz_rock'n roll http://twitter.com/echry Page 52 of 54 Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 2237 2238 2239 2240 2241 2242 2243 2244 2245 2246 2247 2248 2249 2250 2251 2252 2253 2254 2255 2256 2257 2258 2259 2260 2261 2262 2263 2264 2265 2266 2267 2268 2269 2270 2271 2272 2273 2274 2275 2276 2277 2278 2279 Twitter Name Followed Followers Tweets janetlynne1 11 5 4 JonBravo 17 5 4 Prettymonstarr 24 5 4 tanyafrodsham 8 5 103 zidanos 14 5 10 Angel109 0 4 2 BongoTheMonkey 5 4 24 evrardndongala 19 4 20 henniedv 7 4 5 jasonzoopy 0 4 1 leejaewang 50 4 25 lvdwalt 0 4 0 marnuskotze 20 4 22 PastorDeborah 7 4 1 samj2k 7 4 62 stupe 1 4 2 swidoo 2 4 0 therealmissk 13 4 1 Craigl21 263 3 3 fweep 139 3 0 hottestgossip 0 3 0 JohnRoome 1 3 1 libyano 6 3 1 AdamAnis 0 2 1 aly_katt 1 2 1 anacamia 8 2 8 Issrar 3 2 3 lenpretorius 2 2 3 LoretteKerr 3 2 3 mabhekaphansi 1 2 0 miss_ines 1 2 0 prospa 1 2 1 therondp 3 2 7 cheesboy 0 1 0 Hornet101 1 1 13 johanvanzyl 1 1 0 kaedon33 9 1 8 klmclubafrica 0 1 0 kubersakkie 1 1 1 MusaXXX 2 1 656 nclns 1 1 3 neoco_za 3 1 8 tammyvdv 1 1 3 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Web Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 40033.23302 1 39324.51834 Greenland 0 40614.6149 hi!(: im alyhana 16 from philippines (: ..im just a simple preSy person who live and love her life!gbu ((: . 1 39787.23929 Harare 7 39796.01971 0 40034.28325 5 39588.702 Pacific Time (US & Canada) I'm in the jungle baby! 0 40386.83513 Pretoria i m simple guy 0 40387.67801 Pretoria 0 40774.63 2 40545.4409 im loving and caring 0 39596.43139 Pretoria 0 40059.73929 Pretoria 0 40211.00605 0 39723.55058 Pretoria 0 39675.40413 Pretoria 0 39707.02611 Belgrade 0 40744.55391 1 40721.42198 0 39743.99301 Pretoria Kevin Bosman 0 40434.53583 0 39769.81145 Greenland Artist&educator 0 40637.46105 London 0 40488.7694 0 40714.23046 0 40327.5823 hiii im anna from lisboa. love living my life 0 40096.62572 0 39607.59252 Pretoria Computer literate 60 year old! http://www.astidian.com 0 39729.29417 Pretoria A married mother of two teenage boys, a quilter and reader who enjoys spending time with friends 0 39702.42076 Pretoria Science Writer http://shanewilson.multiply.com/ 0 40081.60829 0 40493.97112 0 40632.98067 http://www.acgedu.com 0 40482.50894 0 39775.7938 Greenland I'm weird, oh yah I'm in LOVE with Edward Cullen(if you dont know him read twilight) 0 39010.802 0 40404.37899 West Central Africa 0 40317.56539 0 39699.31373 Harare I can do stuff me 1 40286.63455 0 39391.44067 Pretoria 0 39940.42462 Greenland http://www.neoco.co.za 0 39698.81293 Greenland TypeA.Inquisitive.Loyal.Friendly.Outgoing Page 53 of 54 Twitter Page http://twitter.com/janetlynne1 http://twitter.com/JonBravo http://twitter.com/Prettymonstarr http://twitter.com/tanyafrodsham http://twitter.com/zidanos http://twitter.com/Angel109 http://twitter.com/BongoTheMonkey http://twitter.com/evrardndongala http://twitter.com/henniedv http://twitter.com/jasonzoopy http://twitter.com/leejaewang http://twitter.com/lvdwalt http://twitter.com/marnuskotze http://twitter.com/PastorDeborah http://twitter.com/samj2k http://twitter.com/stupe http://twitter.com/swidoo http://twitter.com/therealmissk http://twitter.com/Craigl21 http://twitter.com/fweep http://twitter.com/hottestgossip http://twitter.com/JohnRoome http://twitter.com/libyano http://twitter.com/AdamAnis http://twitter.com/aly_katt http://twitter.com/anacamia http://twitter.com/Issrar http://twitter.com/lenpretorius http://twitter.com/LoretteKerr http://twitter.com/mabhekaphansi http://twitter.com/miss_ines http://twitter.com/prospa http://twitter.com/therondp http://twitter.com/cheesboy http://twitter.com/Hornet101 http://twitter.com/johanvanzyl http://twitter.com/kaedon33 http://twitter.com/klmclubafrica http://twitter.com/kubersakkie http://twitter.com/MusaXXX http://twitter.com/nclns http://twitter.com/neoco_za http://twitter.com/tammyvdv Analysis of African Top Twitter Users (Sorted by number of followers) as at 31 August 2011 Data downloaded for a specified list of twitter users using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) Latest version available at : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits Rank 2280 2281 2282 2283 2284 2285 2286 2287 2288 2289 2290 2291 2292 2293 2294 Twitter Name Yashzn aa_sa Ammounaaa chelitis FluEU idito ixq lesterdup Monirws mrazzle OTSK Ozjuan sellami ToshaN ushir Followed Followers Tweets 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 4 2 0 0 1 0 3 24 0 25 1 0 1 4 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Please provide attribution if quoting, please feedback on errors or additions to toptwits@j-j.co.za Joined Twitter Date Description Favorites (UTC) Time Zone 0 40343.50088 0 40075.97208 Brasilia 0 40581.8388 0 40360.00567 0 40665.97117 0 40313.39344 0 39763.77907 Greenland You don't have to understand here, to be here.. 7 40720.67723 Pretoria 0 40317.81009 1 40371.1401 0 40751.81451 Tokyo 学生してる男です 0 40706.22811 0 40689.33385 0 40601.78108 0 40294.41737 Page 54 of 54 Web Twitter Page http://twitter.com/Yashzn http://twitter.com/aa_sa http://twitter.com/Ammounaaa http://twitter.com/chelitis http://twitter.com/FluEU http://twitter.com/idito http://twitter.com/ixq http://www.ethekwini-tech.co.za http://twitter.com/lesterdup http://twitter.com/Monirws http://twitter.com/mrazzle http://twitter.com/OTSK http://twitter.com/Ozjuan http://twitter.com/sellami http://twitter.com/ToshaN http://twitter.com/ushir
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