Twitter Metrics for #HIT100 Top 5 and Their Nominators

source: keepmiddletownbeautiful.com

The top 5 nominees of the 2016 #HIT100 event were announced today and they include the following:

1. Mandi Bishop: @MandiBPro

    Title: Global healthcare analytics consulting division head - Company: Dell Services

2. Christoph Trappe: @CTrappe

    Title: Senior director of content marketing + content creation - Company: MedTouch

3. William G. Esslinger, Jr.: @billesslinger

    Title: Chief Executive Officer - Company: Fogo Data Centers

4. John Nosta: @JohnNosta

    Title: Founder - Company: NOSTALAB

5. Linda Stotsky: @EMRanswers

    Title: CEO - Company: LSC Consulting

What Type of Twitter Activity Do Top 5 Nominees Have?

I used a tool (audiense.com) to pull the Twitter stats on all of the people involved with the #HIT100 event - both nominees and nominators. Here are the key Twitter metrics for the top five #HIT100 nominees. 

Account	Followers	Accounts Followed	Number of Lifetime Tweets	Number of Lists	Number of Tweets per Day
MandiBPro	16789	7765	47805	1933	32.92
CTrappe	65588	26993	68792	2538	29.14
billesslinger	19775	15181	1524	235	0.56
EMRAnswers	14468	7616	38585	1074	15.14
JohnNosta	30913	22940	64608	2182	23.76

In terms of followers and the number of people each Top 5 nominee follows, they're all fairly similar. The major difference shown by the above is the relative dearth of tweets 3rd ranking #HIT100 nominee @BillEsslinger has made and the number of times he's listed by others. Obviously the number of times a person tweets can indicate the amount of information and commentary they are sharing. And the number of lists a person is included on can be a good indicator of their status as an 'influencer.'

Who Nominated the Top 5 on the #HIT100?

When I saw the above, I thought to myself: “What type of Twitter presence do the people who nominated these five individuals have?” So I pulled the Twitter stats on all of the people who nominated each of the five top #HIT100 nominees and calculated the averages of the same stats presented above. Here’s what I found:

			Nominators Twitter Statistics
Rank	Account	Nominators	Average Followers	Average Accounts Followed	Average Number of Lifetime Tweets	Average Number of Lists	Average Number of Tweets per Day
1	MandiBPro	67	8407	3637	22924	560	11.7
2	ctrappe	52	13447	9351	31326	1117	29.5
3	BillEsslinger	48	639	421	1509	35	0.7
4	JohnNosta	48	16731	8046	23416	645	13.5
5	EMRAnswers	46	6093	3456	21551	528	12.9

You can see that the 48 people nominating Bill Esslinger had very anemic Twitter metrics compared to those who nominated the other four in the Top 5.

So What Might This Mean?

While you can make your own decision as to what this might means, if anything, it seems to me that for future events where ranking is important and where the ‘winners’ may receive significant media coverage, some type of adjustment might be made based on the social media presence or activity of both nominees and nominators. Yes, what I’m saying is that there should be some sort of entry level qualification to be nominated and that some votes should count for more than others. And I’m sure this won't endear me to certain people.