indiaINFLUENCERS

What started as a bit of a whim a year ago has grown into something much larger than any of us might have imagined.

This listing has become some sort of a runaway success. HT Brunch had not one but two cover stories on it: July 17, 2011 and March 11, 2012. Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra made it news when she made it to no.1. Even the New York Times weighed in.

As social media grew in India, we wanted a simple way to figure out how influential Indians were. To do this we needed (a) a list of Indian entities on social media and (b) a way to measure their social influence.

We took on the second part first and simplified it. We started a year ago with two reputed measurement services - Klout and PeerIndex. We worked with them, got their blessings and then simply averaged their scores for our India Influencer ranking. This approach stood us in good stead for a bit. But we've since realised we need more fine-grained work here. Enter version 2.0.

What's new is that we've added a third marker, Kred. And we've also moved away from a simple aggregate to a weighted aggregate of the three scores. What weighting, you may ask. Well, one based, quite subjectively, on our assessment of the relative values of each of the three markers. This relative weightage is something we'll tweak from time, based on not just the reach of each of these scores and their refresh cycles, but also on our judgement of their value. We're not disclosing it here, but if you're a whiz with simultaneous linear equations you should be able to figure it out
That's on the metrics front.

But we've also grown on the list of people front. We started by indexing scores of less than 1,000 people. Today we index close to 5,000 Indian and India-related entities. We also classify them into different buckets - residents of India, Indians outside India, brands/organisations/movements - and lately - politicians. It's our belief the 2017-18 elections in India will be fought on social media - what better than to start listing the contenders 5 years in advance?

We've also added a handy way for you to add yourself - or any other entity - to the list that we measure and report on every single day. Just click on the Find Your Rank link and enter the Twitter handle. If we have it in our records, you'll see the India Influencer score. If not, then we'll put it in a queue, check to see if you're Indian or otherwise make it to our list and if you do, then manually classify you - then add you to our daily-scanned database. This should take about a week or two. If you don't see your name even after 2 weeks - please do ping us at helpii@pinstorm.com

1	narendramodi Narendra Modi	6,923,209	1,048	5,939	93
2	DalaiLama Dalai Lama	9,504,192	0	1,048	93
3	SrBachchan Amitabh Bachchan	10,684,613	940	34,362	93
4	iamsrk SHAH RUKH KHAN	9,281,895	75	7,857	92
5	sachin_rt sachin tendulkar	4,616,560	14	417	92
6	juniorbachchan Abhishek Bachchan	4,942,428	300	19,782	91
7	priyankachopra Priyanka Chopra	7,187,292	329	12,746	91
8	arrahman A.R.Rahman	4,907,459	0	693	91
9	aamir_khan Aamir Khan	8,734,376	7	212	91
10	akshaykumar Akshay Kumar	5,992,899	13	2,258	91
11	AnupamPkher Anupam Kher	3,084,011	82	14,904	91
12	deepikapadukone Deepika Padukone	7,485,612	56	1,432	90
13	mangeshkarlata latamangeshkar	2,214,638	8	1,320	90
14	msdhoni Mahendra Singh Dhoni	3,108,057	24	361	90
15	sonunigam Sonu Niigaam	1,910,796	150	6,009	90
16	ShashiTharoor Shashi Tharoor	2,402,261	513	23,447	90
17	karanjohar Karan Johar	4,642,243	276	4,304	89
18	chetan_bhagat Chetan Bhagat	3,248,416	117	9,875	89
19	sardesairajdeep Rajdeep Sardesai	1,606,129	450	29,385	89
20	FarOutAkhtar Farhan Akhtar	3,693,685	125	3,489	89
21	MadhuriDixit Madhuri Dixit-Nene	3,061,694	31	4,229	89
22	taran_adarsh taran adarsh	706,037	187	20,141	89
23	sonamakapoor Sonam Kapoor	4,960,275	432	9,375	89
24	shekharkapur Shekhar Kapur	848,446	220	19,940	89
25	virendersehwag Virender Sehwag	2,958,219	7	832	89
26	BDUTT barkha dutt	1,572,877	442	83,639	89
27	ajaydevgn Ajay Devgn	2,543,998	29	1,079	88
28	bhogleharsha Harsha Bhogle	1,464,873	123	24,555	88
29	MensHealthMag Men's Health Mag	1,987,891	850	40,637	88
30	bomanirani boman irani	1,943,084	103	5,381	88
31	RajeevMasand Rajeev Masand	455,066	414	12,628	88
32	abdullah_omar Omar Abdullah	649,355	144	6,865	88
33	Riteishd RITEISH DESHMUKH	2,916,748	178	9,948	88
34	deespeak dia mirza	1,832,897	580	8,767	88
35	sagarikaghose Sagarika Ghose	408,927	392	16,690	87
36	TheVijayMallya Vijay Mallya	3,270,732	87	2,067	87
37	geneliad Genelia D'souza	2,519,470	94	4,352	87
38	MissMalini Malini Agarwal	310,611	2,509	81,940	87
39	PritishNandy Pritish Nandy	633,317	209	56,349	87
40	rampalarjun arjun rampal	1,937,952	62	3,423	87
41	anandmahindra anand mahindra	1,392,309	180	8,137	87
42	VishalDadlani	718,738	315	24,820	87
43	Maheshbhupathi Mahesh Bhupathi	479,246	185	3,866	87
44	udaychopra Uday Chopra	959,284	189	8,106	87
45	NargisFakhri Nargis	793,623	81	9,644	87
46	MallikaLA Mallika Sherawat	1,377,963	306,272	10,373	87
47	thesushmitasen sushmita sen	1,384,756	45	3,805	87
48	iPoonampandey Poonam Pandey	627,102	60	14,004	87
49	duttsanjay sanjay dutt	1,497,957	16	339	87
50	suchetadalal Sucheta Dalal	100,724	305	37,152	87
51	vivek_oberoi Vivek Oberoi	999,468	131	16,485	86
52	taslimanasreen taslima nasreen	99,319	381	36,012	86
53	cricketaakash Aakash Chopra	292,239	68	35,473	86
54	TheWorldStories Mr perfect!	1,703,266	389	55,311	86
55	ArvindKejriwal Arvind Kejriwal	2,503,195	92	4,103	86
56	iHrithik Hrithik Roshan	6,761,844	79	1,702	86
57	Swamy39 Subramanian Swamy	837,758	85	33,414	86
58	DabbooRatnani Dabboo Ratnani	377,495	420	4,153	86
59	HoeZaay Jos Covaco	118,067	434	46,347	86
60	NeilNMukesh Neil Nitin Mukesh	844,218	209	9,840	86
61	karunchandhok Karun Chandhok	116,761	230	13,827	85
62	thekiranbedi Kiran Bedi	2,837,541	137	18,948	85
63	rameshsrivats Ramesh Srivats	234,260	211	17,376	85
64	madversity Madhavan Narayanan	68,744	1,289	121,329	85
65	ankitlal Ankit Lal	33,345	448	25,197	85
66	KanchanGupta Kanchan Gupta	96,736	476	76,539	85
67	MirzaSania Sania Mirza-Malik	2,036,143	64	2,392	85
68	virsanghvi vir sanghvi	761,122	41	5,374	85
69	madhankarky Madhan Karky	206,613	124	15,903	84
70	ImIshant Ishant Sharma	653,353	28	273	84
71	thevirdas Vir Das	313,073	297	9,188	84
72	sonamohapatra Sona Mohapatra	65,432	242	12,453	84
73	rajeev_mp Rajeev Chandrasekhar	131,765	262	5,260	84
74	Ayeshatakia Ayesha Takia Azmi	377,346	165	15,774	83
75	CelinaJaitly Celina Jaitly	582,269	391	18,493	83
76	milinddeora Milind Deora	166,815	94	3,630	83
77	PankajPachauri Pankaj Pachauri	180,539	62	4,429	83
78	sreesanth36 Sreesanth	729,686	158	3,810	83
79	ritesh_sid Ritesh Sidhwani	153,868	65	1,245	83
80	maheshmurthy Mahesh Murthy	69,216	697	15,085	83
81	YUVSTRONG12 Yuvraj Singh	2,549,886	244	4,072	83
82	mamtamohan Mamta Mohandas	205,476	146	2,457	83
83	imVkohli virat kohli	4,065,391	27	599	83
84	suhelseth SUHEL SETH	374,724	326	15,638	83
85	god	147,192	53	1,241	82
86	R_Khanna Rahul Khanna	384,774	101	1,070	82
87	waglenikhil nikhil wagle	144,695	838	27,591	82
88	meenakandasamy Meena Kandasamy	26,877	1,945	16,049	82
89	calamur calamur	32,357	800	133,125	82
90	KapilSharmaK9 Kapil Sharma	1,216,781	39	3,387	82
91	SushmaSwaraj Mrs.Sushma Swaraj	1,618,491	0	2,931	82
92	ShivAroor Shiv Aroor	56,573	259	38,165	82
93	mojorojo Rohan Joshi	103,175	1,349	68,220	82
94	sonakshisinha Sonakshi Sinha	3,255,250	44	7,369	82