Bermuda’s Top 50 Twitter List For December

January 3, 2015

[Written by Don Burgess] Are they real or are they fake?

If we were living in the plastic surgery capital of the world in Southern California, we might be talking about something else, but here we are talking about social media followers.

One of the great debates is how inflated people’s accounts are? Instagram did a purge in December in which several celebrities and brands lost more than million followers.

Since then, there have been calls for Twitter to do the same.

On the Bermuda Twitter List, there remain suspicions that some accounts have bought followers.

There was a healthy discussion on the Bernews Facebook page last month about people’s accounts with Louis Galipeau running the Top 50 list through Social Bakers Fake Followers App and through Twitter Audit. The app separates a person’s followers into three categories: good, inactive, and suspicious or empty.

Bermuda’s number one account, former WWE champ and Fox news commentator, John Layfield would have lost nearly 200,000 followers based on the Social Bakers report. Not that it would matter in the Bermuda Twitter ranking as he would still have more than 300,000 followers than the next people on the list, Dudley Freedom and Collie Buddz.

All accounts lost a percentage of followers. One account, Shawn Harvey’s, came back with only two percent being good through Twitter Audit.

But through Social Bakers and Mr Harvey had 93% good. So which is correct?

The problem with the sites doing the fake follower checking is they are wildly inconsistent and it would be better if Twitter followed Instagram’s lead and cull the bots and fakes so the numbers can be more believable.

There was no change in the Top 10 this month with Mr Layfield gaining the most new followers this month with 7,000. ACE Group moved up one spot to 14th overall.

One new entry to the list was musician Mishka (@mishkamusic), who starts at #26, one spot ahead of his sister Heather Nova. Stuart Lambert (@BDASpiritWalker) is also a new entry at #42.

If you have a Twitter following of more than 2,000 and were not on this list, please e-mail Don Burgess at dburgesspb@gmail.com. Anyone who wants to know their ranking and has at least 1,000 followers, can tweet me @DonBermuda.

I will also be starting an Instagram list in the coming months. If you have more than 500 followers, e-mail me and put Instagram in the subject.

Bermuda Twitter rankings for November
Person and Twitter handle – December – November

  • 1. John Layfield: @jclayfield 576,000 569,000
  • 2. Dudley Freedom @dudleyfreedom 75,700 75,567
  • 3. Collie Buddz @CollieBuddz 67,600 67,419
  • 4. Fiyah Marshall @fiyahmarshall 28,700 28,724
  • 5. Ledrew Fox @ledrew 28,500 28,333
  • 6. Devaune Ratteray @devauneratteray 27,100 27,267
  • 7. Carina Azevedo @Platinum_bonita 24,100 24,138
  • 8. Elbow Beach Cycles @Bermudascooter 22,000 21,919
  • 9. Nahki Wells @nahkiwells 19,400 19,135
  • 10. Shiona Turini @shionat 13,800 13,600
  • 11. Bermuda Tourism @GoToBermuda 13,600 13,366
  • 12. Shaun Goater @OfficialSgoater 12,500 11,800
  • 13. Clare O’Connor @Clare_OC 11,200 11,134
  • 14. Ace Group @ACEGroup 9,733 9,356
  • 15. Bernews @bernewsdotcom 9,302 9,223
  • 16. Shawn Harvey @bscja 8,992 8,988
  • 17. Will Black @willblackrockz 8,493 8,532
  • 18. DJ Vibes @lifestyles103 8,370 8,357
  • 19. The Royal Gazette @theroyalgazette 7,984 7,883
  • 20. Gosling’s Rum @TheBlackSeal 7,899 7,834
  • 21. DJ Genie @djgenie 6,920 6,912
  • 22. XL Insurance @XL_Insurance 6,918 6,718
  • 23. Vibe 103 @Vibe103 6,788 6,721
  • 24. Bermuda Sun @BDASun 6,762 6,769
  • 25. Twanee @MissTwanee 6,504 6,504
  • 26. Mishka @Mishkamusic 6,140 6,139
  • 27. Heather Nova @nova_says 5,180 5,157
  • 28. Tyler Butterfield @tybutterfield 5,044 4,979
  • 29. Fairmont Southampton @fairmontsouth 4,935 4,908
  • 30. Kidd Clazzic @itsClazzic 4,647 4,704
  • 31. BERMEMES @BERMEMES 4,266 4,209
  • 32. DjStylez @80minassassin 4,216 4,211
  • 33. Bermuda News @NewsOfBermuda 3,586 3,031
  • 34. Nikki Butterfield @nikbutterfield 3,519 3,493
  • 35. Fairmont Hamilton @Fairmontham 3,426 3,388
  • 36. Gideon Kigotho @Kigotho 3,354 3,332
  • 37. Don Burgess @DonBermuda 3,069 2,349
  • 38. Carlos Ferreira @carlosf0527 3,042 3,020
  • 39. Jennie Doidge @jennie_Lynnexo 2,970 2,936
  • 40. Lennon Bermuda @BermudaLennon 2,869 2,864
  • 41. Reggie Lambe @reggienaldo 2,830 2,819
  • 42. Stuart Lambert @BDASpiritWalker 2,815 2,749
  • 43. Bermuda.com @Bermudadotcom 2,627 2,548
  • 43. Cricket Bermuda @vCricketBE 2,463 2,413
  • 44. Brown & Co @brownandcostore 2,393 2,382
  • 45. Anty August Alsina @JussGorgeous_xx 2,387 2,410
  • 46. Berms Jerms @solja_jay 2,381 2,356
  • 47. cathwest @cathwest 2,241 2,233
  • 48. Digicel Bermuda @DigicelBermuda 2,201 2,176
  • 49. Flora Duffy @floraduffy 2,074 2,054
  • 50. UmUm Magazine @UmUm_Magazine 2,064 2,070

- Don Burgess is the former deputy editor of the Bermuda Sun newspaper who has a strong interest in social media.

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