Eric T. Tung, The Social Media Guy, is an influential networker. He has been recognized as a top influencer in Social Media by Forbes, and has been featured by The New York Times, National Public Radio, American Public Media, and PRWeb. Therefore, people take notice when he discusses social media topics.
Eric recently compiled a list of Houston’s Top 100 Social Media Power Influencers and listed me as the 12th most influential person in the city.
In order for Eric to find the top social media influencers he had to gauge the activity and influence of the influencers followers, both to measure the effectiveness of the content shared by the influencer, as well as to determine how active their followers are. Eric completed the rankings by finding every Twitter handle that mentioned Social Media in their bios and was located in or near Houston – about 250 total. Next, he added information from LinkedIn profiles near Houston with “Social Media” in their job titles. He also asked his Twitter followers for their personal suggestions, increasing the total list to about 350. Finally, he removed any accounts belonging to businesses or agencies, or those belonging to people who weren’t focused on Social and fed this information into Peek Analytics to got the top 100.
I’d like to thank Eric for all of effort he put into compiling the ranking. I’m honored to be recognized as a leading influencer in Houston – my hometown and the greatest city in America.
