CCI Twitter Account Ranked #2 Most Influential for “Compliance” and “Governance”

We interrupt our regularly scheduled news and knowledge sharing about governance, risk, and compliance for a quick announcement that we are very proud of (and that should, hopefully, make your Twitter experience more productive).

According to the website WeFollow.com, the Twitter account for Corporate Compliance Insights (cci_compliance) is ranked #2 for the terms “compliance” and “governance” in terms of overall influence. Additionally, CCI’s Twitter account is ranked #4 for the term “ethics”.

The following screen shots were taken from WeFollow.com on January 14th, 2010 at 1:00 pm:

WeFollow.com was founded by Digg founder and social media legend Kevin Rose, and was recently acquired formally by the real-time news giant. Here is an explanation from Tech Crunch as to how WeFollow.com calculates influence (as it is not formally announced on the site itself):

WeFollow is also changing the way it ranks users. Currently it’s based only on total follower counts on Twitter. In the next day or so, though, WeFollow will change its algorithm and give more weight to users who tag themselves properly, and then have followers who have also tagged themselves similarly. For examply, if TechCrunch is tagged “startups” and a lot of people following TechCrunch have also tagged themselves startups, that gives a lot more weight to our account in that category. This goal is to reduce spam and give better data.

We are obviously very excited to be second for the two most important terms that describe our content here at CCI. Influence is far more important than volume of followers, and we look forward to continuing to build a relevant and engaged group of Twitter followers.

For our current followers, we do want to pose an important question, and we encourage you to use the comment section, send us a tweet, or reply via email.

How can we make our Twitter account more valuable and useful for you on a daily basis?

We appreciate any and all responses. We also encourage you to follow the other accounts pictured above that are in the top 5 most influential list for compliance and governance:

• @ComplianceWeek
• @ITCompliance
• @DougCornelius
• @normanmarks
• @BoardSource
• @mitchell360
• @GoodCorporation
• @EthicsRC
• @IUCB

[Editor's note: Way to go Indiana University!]

[Additional Editor's note: Can you guess which college our editor attended?]

You can also follow these links to view the entire WeFollow.com top 25 list for compliance and governance. Immediately after publishing this post, we will be making sure that cci_compliance is a follow of each one of these influential tweeters.

And if you’re not on Twitter…what are you waiting for? Join the conversation and knowledge sharing that will only grow more rich and robust with each new GRC-focused tweeter.

Corporate Compliance Insights (CCI) Disclosure of Material Connection: CCI has NO material connection with Twitter or any of the individuals or companies who own the accounts featured in this post.  Even if we did, CCI only writes about stories that we believe will interest our readers, and we only link to and endorse sites and services that we find valuable ourselves. We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Tags: Compliance, Ethics, Governance, social media, twitter