
Over the last couple of months there have been a few “most influential wine people on the Internet” type lists circulated. They’ve all been quite good indicators of wine related influence on the net, within the scope of what qualifies to make each list of course. I’ll briefly go over two of these…
The VinePair Wine Web Power Index is a list that, as they state, “measures the influence of selected wine websites within the United States. We looked at web traffic, social media influence and organic search relevance to produce our scores”. This list is gaining quite a bit of respect within the wine industry but it does have a “world view” limitation – it only rates websites in the USA. Even though close to half of the people who follow us across all of our social mediums are from the USA, The Wine Wankers could never appear on this list because we are using an Australian domain name.
The Wine Hub produced a list of the top 24 Klout scores within the wine industry. I will go into Klout in a little more detail at the bottom of this post but the short of it is that Klout is the premier ranking agency for influence on the net. The Wine Hub’s list is good and uses Klout to determine rankings but it too has a limitation. It seems to only rate individuals and leaves out multi-member wine entities and wine organisations.
After reviewing these two lists I decided to create a couple of lists of my own using the well accepted influence rankings of Klout and also the rankings of the second most widely accepted agency, that being Kred. My two lists not only include individuals, they also include wine entities and organisations involved in wine media. I’ve used the lists from VinePair and The Wine Hub as the starting base for my searches.
So, here are the 100 most influential wine entities on the net as at mid July 2014.
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Rank | Wine Entity | Score | Rank | Wine Entity | Score1 | Score2 | ||
1 | Wine Spectator | 87 | 1 | Ken “alawine” Waggoner | 951 | 10 | ||
2 | Jancis Robinson | 84 | 2 | The Wine Wankers | 922 | 9 | ||
3 | Decanter Magazine | 82 | 3 | The Drinks Business Magazine | 914 | 7 | ||
4 | Tim Atkin | 81 | 4 | Jancis Robinson | 905 | 7 | ||
Jamie Goode | 81 | 5 | Rick Bakas | 904 | 9 | |||
6 | The Wine Wankers | 80 | 6 | Wine Spectator | 904 | 5 | ||
Reverse Wine Snob | 80 | 7 | Reverse Wine Snob | 898 | 9 | |||
Alder Yarrow | 80 | 8 | Randall Grahm | 895 | 8 | |||
9 | Snooth | 78 | 9 | Decanter Magazine | 895 | 6 | ||
10 | The Wine Hub | 77 | 10 | Cliff Brown | 893 | 9 | ||
Randall Grahm | 77 | 11 | Wine Enthusiast | 890 | 7 | |||
12 | Andre Ribeirinho | 76 | 12 | Wine Twits | 889 | 8 | ||
13 | Wine Folly | 74 | 13 | Tim Atkin | 887 | 8 | ||
Wine Harlots | 74 | 14 | Eric Asimov | 885 | 7 | |||
15 | Paul Mabray | 72 | 15 | Jamie Goode | 882 | 8 | ||
Marilena Barbera | 72 | 16 | Olly Smith | 874 | 8 | |||
Fabien Lainé | 72 | 17 | Wine Harlots | 870 | 8 | |||
Dusan Jelic | 72 | 18 | The Wine Hub | 868 | 8 | |||
Magnus Reuterdahl | 72 | 19 | 1 Wine Dude | 860 | 9 | |||
20 | Ken “alawine” Waggoner | 71 | 20 | Palate Xposure | 850 | 9 | ||
Russ Beebe | 71 | 21 | Natalie MacLean | 846 | 8 | |||
Ilkka Sirén | 71 | 22 | Robert Joseph | 842 | 8 | |||
23 | Sip on This Juice | 70 | 23 | Wine Folly | 840 | 8 | ||
The Drinks Business Magazine | 70 | 24 | Snooth | 835 | 6 | |||
Emmanuel Delmas | 70 | 25 | Andre Ribeirinho | 823 | 8 | |||
Robert Joseph | 70 | 26 | Dusan Jelic | 818 | 8 | |||
Vincent Pétré | 70 | 27 | Bruised Grape | 816 | 9 | |||
Ana Sofia Oliveira | 70 | 28 | Robert Parker Jnr | 816 | 3 | |||
Robert McIntosh | 70 | 29 | Sip on This Juice | 815 | 9 | |||
30 | Grape Friend | 69 | 30 | Will Lyons | 815 | 8 | ||
Rick Bakas | 69 | 31 | Robert McIntosh | 814 | 8 | |||
32 | Julie Brosterman | 67 | 32 | Dr Vino | 814 | 7 | ||
John Corcoran | 67 | 33 | James Suckling | 804 | 7 | |||
Andrea Petrini | 67 | 34 | Paul Mabray | 802 | 8 | |||
Peter Handzus | 67 | 35 | Twe Sommelier | 799 | 8 | |||
Jameson Fink | 67 | Wine Library | 799 | 8 | ||||
Meg Maker | 67 | 37 | Emmanuel Delmas | 798 | 8 | |||
Jasmine Hirsch | 67 | 38 | Magnus Reuterdahl | 796 | 9 | |||
Wine Sisterhood | 67 | 39 | Alder Yarrow | 794 | 6 | |||
40 | Wine Twits | 66 | 40 | Lenn Thompson | 793 | 9 | ||
Eric Asimov | 66 | 41 | Marilena Barbera | 793 | 8 | |||
Clayton Bahr | 66 | 42 | Hande Leimer | 792 | 9 | |||
Elisabetta Tosi | 66 | 43 | Meg Maker | 792 | 8 | |||
Simon Woolf | 66 | 44 | Russ Beebe | 788 | 8 | |||
45 | Wine Enthusiast | 65 | Evan Dawson | 788 | 8 | |||
1 Wine Dude | 65 | 46 | Oz Clarke | 788 | 6 | |||
Ryan Opaz | 65 | 47 | Wine Sisterhood | 787 | 8 | |||
Mario Scheuermann | 65 | Enobytes Wine | 787 | 8 | ||||
Giampiero Nadali | 65 | 49 | Michelle Williams | 786 | 9 | |||
Wine Consumer Magazine | 65 | 50 | Jameson Fink | 786 | 8 | |||
51 | Erik Johnson | 64 | 51 | Erik Johnson | 785 | 8 | ||
David White | 64 | 52 | David White | 785 | 7 | |||
Wine Walkabout | 64 | 53 | Marcy Gordon | 784 | 8 | |||
Twe Sommelier | 64 | Leslie Hartley-Sbrocco | 784 | 8 | ||||
Gwendolyn Alley | 64 | 55 | Alice Feiring | 784 | 7 | |||
Wisequeen Donna Jackson | 64 | 56 | John Corcoran | 784 | 5 | |||
Ralf Kaiser | 64 | 57 | The Academic Wino | 783 | 8 | |||
Lynton Manuel | 64 | 58 | Vincent Pétré | 782 | 8 | |||
Debra Meiburg | 64 | Wine Compass | 782 | 8 | ||||
60 | Robert Parker Jnr | 63 | 60 | Debra Meiburg | 782 | 7 | ||
The Drunken Cyclist | 63 | 61 | The Drunken Cyclist | 779 | 8 | |||
Tom Wark | 63 | 62 | Tom Wark | 777 | 6 | |||
Travelling Corkscrew | 63 | 63 | Travelling Corkscrew | 773 | 8 | |||
Will Lyons | 63 | 64 | Talia Baiocchi | 773 | 7 | |||
Natalie MacLean | 63 | 65 | Jason Solanki | 772 | 8 | |||
The Academic Wino | 63 | 66 | Mark Oldman | 772 | 7 | |||
Christian Schiller | 63 | 67 | Andrea Gori | 771 | 8 | |||
Adam Japko | 63 | 68 | Grape Friend | 771 | 7 | |||
Olly Smith | 63 | 69 | Ryan Opaz | 770 | 7 | |||
70 | Wine Searcher | 62 | 70 | Wine Searcher | 769 | 6 | ||
Cliff Brown | 62 | 71 | Adam Japko | 768 | 7 | |||
Andrea Gori | 62 | Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan MW | 768 | 7 | ||||
Talia Baiocchi | 62 | 73 | Hudson Valley Wine Goddess | 767 | 8 | |||
Dr Vino | 62 | Ilkka Sirén | 767 | 8 | ||||
Mark Oldman | 62 | Clayton Bahr | 767 | 8 | ||||
Lenn Thompson | 62 | Peter Handzus | 767 | 8 | ||||
Peter Liem | 62 | Magnus Ericsson | 767 | 8 | ||||
78 | Michelle Williams | 61 | 50 States of Wine | 766 | 8 | |||
Magnus Ericsson | 61 | 79 | Christian Schiller | 763 | 8 | |||
50 States of Wine | 61 | 80 | Fabien Lainé | 763 | 7 | |||
Hande Leimer | 61 | Vinogger | 763 | 7 | ||||
Wine Compass | 61 | 82 | Jasmine Hirsch | 762 | 7 | |||
Hudson Valley Wine Goddess | 61 | 83 | Wine Walkabout | 758 | 8 | |||
Frankie Cook | 61 | 84 | Elisabetta Tosi | 756 | 7 | |||
85 | Richard Jennings | 60 | 85 | Richard Jennings | 754 | 6 | ||
Bruised Grape | 60 | 86 | Tristan Fairbanks | 752 | 8 | |||
Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan MW | 60 | 87 | Peter Liem | 752 | 3 | |||
Palate Xposure | 60 | 88 | Julie Brosterman | 747 | 7 | |||
Oz Clarke | 60 | 89 | Gwendolyn Alley | 743 | 7 | |||
Alice Feiring | 60 | Frankie Cook | 743 | 7 | ||||
Evan Dawson | 60 | 91 | Simon Woolf | 742 | 7 | |||
James Suckling | 60 | 92 | Wisequeen Donna Jackson | 739 | 8 | |||
Brett Jones | 60 | 93 | Brett Jones | 735 | 6 | |||
Enobytes Wine | 60 | 94 | Ralf Kaiser | 733 | 7 | |||
Leslie Hartley-Sbrocco | 60 | 95 | Mario Scheuermann | 730 | 7 | |||
96 | Vinogger | 59 | 96 | Andrea Petrini | 727 | 6 | ||
Wine Library | 59 | 97 | Giampiero Nadali | 722 | 6 | |||
Tristan Fairbanks | 59 | 98 | Wine Consumer Magazine | 642 | 5 | |||
99 | Jason Solanki | 58 | 99 | Ana Sofia Oliveira | 632 | 5 | ||
100 | Marcy Gordon | 56 | 100 | Lynton Manuel | 609 | 4 |
And look who makes it up towards the top of both lists – shameless self-promoting mission complete! 😉 I won’t lie, I did put this together to see how we ranked against all other wine entities on the net and we are honoured to be up there with some serious wine legends. I can’t help but feel a bit of Wayne’s World moment… “we’re not worthy”.
It took quite some time to conduct the searches to get these results so if I’ve missed anyone please forgive me (and let me know so I can update the lists). There’s a good chance I have missed some entities especially towards the bottom of the lists because the more I searched the more wine peeps I found. Eventually I had to call it a day.
To make the lists an entity must have wine media as its primary focus. Our own limitation within our lists is that wineries themselves and wine companies do not qualify. There’s quite a few wineries in the 60-70 range on Klout.
What do I make of the two lists?
Due to the differences in the methodologies used by the two systems to calculate the scores, the rankings of each wine entity is often quite different on each list (everyone appears on both lists).
Both systems use complex algorithms to come up with their rankings but they are still just computer programs which means important aspects of a wine entity’s presence on the Internet may be missed. In saying that, both systems are regarded “as good as it gets”. In other words, there is no better way to measure influence objectively.
I’ve seen Klout behave quite erratically. Over the last 2 months our score has jumped from 75 to 80 then back down to 75 again on numerous occasions. It may be 80 for a week, 75 for a few days, back up to 80 for a couple of weeks, then back to 75. It has been stable at 80 for over 2 weeks now. A 5 point jump at this level is extreme so some anomaly is triggering this.
It’s interesting to note that although a few highly-regarded old-media wine entities make the list there’s some that don’t. We need to ask ourselves how relevant this list is to the real wine world. Is a strong wine presence on the Internet, and in particular social media, actually important? Is this the future of wine media? I don’t believe it is the future at all to be honest, I believe it is the now! Of course, I would say that considering where we rank, so take it as you will.
About Klout –
Klout uses various networks to measure influence including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Instagram, Bing, Google+, Tumblr, Foursquare, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress, Last.fm, Yammer and Flickr to derive a score out of 100. Apparently a score of 63 puts you in the top 1-5% of all entities rated. Read more about Klout here.
About Kred –
Kred only measures social media influence derived from Twitter and Facebook. It has 2 scores, one out of 1000 measuring social media influence and one out of 12 measuring outreach, ie how “social” an entity really is. Apparently a score over 750 puts you in the top 1% and a score over 800 puts you in the top 0.1% of all entities on social media. Read more about Kred here.
Author: Conrad
Update (July 17th 2014): Controversy! The most recent comments have made me realise that I need to adjust or clarify a few things, those being:
– I mentioned in the post that I used the lists from VinePair and The Wine Hub to build my own list, and on top of that I searched and searched until I ran out of steam. I always knew that there would be wine peeps that I’d missed. All people who raise their hand, or have it raised for them, and that deserve to be on the list will be added.
– Unfortunately some entities that were in the top 50 will be moved down to the section just under the top. Take that section as the 50+ section, those people are still very important when it comes to wine influence on the net and often they may not be top 50 in one list but are in the other. (Note: The list has been expanded to 75+. See below)
– There’s another limitation that has come to light and that I won’t be changing and that is that this list is about entities whose prime focus is wine. If their focus is 51% food, 49% wine for example (based on no scientific calculation other than my arbitrary decision, sorry) they don’t make the cut. If I was to include foodies who are wine bent they’d knock off most of the list. This is why Food and Wine magazine doesn’t appear, they’d surely top both lists.
– OK, yes, I haven’t used the specific “Wine” category that Kred has in their rankings. For those that don’t know, Kred has a global score, which I’ve used, and numerous categories including wine. Klout does not have categories so the Klout score is like the Kred global score, therefore, I’ve decided that the Kred global score stands as the most important one just for the purpose of “like for like”. I will note though that everyone on the list score much higher on Kred’s topic of wine. Maybe next time I will add a third Kred column for this.
– Lastly, thanks to everyone for participating and giving their feedback. Highly valuable in this iterative process.
Update (July 17th 2014): Now the top 75+ Seems like there’s been a bit of interest in this list and no one wants to be left off, understandably. Due to the additions the list has grown to 75+. Why not? The more the merrier, it just adds value. 🙂
Update (July 21st 2014): Now the top 100 I’ve had many responses to this post and based on the feedback the list has become the top 100. Unless there’s been a major omission there will not be any further change and the list will remain at 100… it’s a good number for the list and I think it is now very comprehensive. I was pointed to two further sources, the Wikipedia list of wine personalities and the Vintank most important blogger list. I researched the two links (and the associated comments) and discovered that although some people made the cut there were many that didn’t. It just proves again that internet and social media influence is a new world of wine and many well-known wine identities don’t have a strong enough presence to make the lists. Maybe they don’t care, and so be it.
The list is now closed… I’ve got to move on!
I dwink to your success! And your is the only one I follow anyway!
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Thanks Bruce!
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Love the breakfast concept!
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Yep, it’s a good one. 😉
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Amazing!! Keep up the great work.
(I always skip breakfast!)
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Thanks Resa. Well if there’s no wine you may as well skip it. 😛
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😀
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Phew, the complexity of this task is above my paygrade but congrats on your stature among these entities! Great post.
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Yes, it took me a while and I had to learn how to create a list in WordPress… it aint a task made easy that is for sure! Thanks Beth!!
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What? No wine with breakfast?? Someone shoulda told me!
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I’ve been told lately that I have to try a sparkling shiraz with bacon and eggs on a dusty Sunday morn. I think breakfast has its wine!
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I’ve had some wine breakfasts… They’re pretty good. But when you keep drinking all day around 10 pm you’re (or so is my experience) pretty fucked haha… Still no reason not to do it every once in a while! Cheers,
Micky
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A good start to the day Micky!
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The best! 😉
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Woo Woo. What a nice thing. You don’t need shameless self promotion (But glad you didi)
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Thanks John! We’ve only existed for just under a year so I suppose we should be proud of how things have panned out. Funny thing is I’d say quite a few of those on the list don’t even know who we are yet, it’s all happened so fast. We’re happy being an enigma… 😉
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The guys that make the list know and that’s really all that counts.
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Indeed. Cheers John!
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I’m reading this on my iPhone so I may have missed my name. But I’ve consulted with friends and family and I have some serious street cred (sic). Not sure that all the log rhythms are totally accurate. But I do know that The Wankers are the real deal despite the statistical oversight. You guys are The Bomb of Wine!
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LOL… cheers Bill. If you’re not on the list you should be. Typos.
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Just saw the sign “A meal without wine is called breakfast” near Lake Tahoe earlier this summer. Love it. Best to you and your blog.
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Yes, it’s a good one. Thanks for your regular visits Evelyne!
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I don’t pretend to understand the detail but am thrilled by the conclusions. Thanks for the hard work.
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Thanks for dropping in on us Jancis. It was one of those things where once I started looking up people’s rankings I had to keep going for fear of missing someone out. Mostly got there in the end.
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Seriously chuffed for you lads, top work, keep having fun and keep the posts coming!
And Bill, we were all secretly looking for ourselves, let’s be fair! 🙂
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Cheers Mike! I hope you do get around to making sure you appear on the Klout rankings soon. I never cared much for these ratings until I realised I could use them to hit wineries up for free bottle or two. 😉
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Congrats! Quite an achievement. The hard work is paying off. I am sure one day someone will approach with a bottle of wine and ask you to sign it. You’re all getting famous, I know it 😉
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I hope not, I’ve got an awfully boring signature! 😛
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I bet not. I’ll ask you to sign something and tell you otherwise 😉
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Oh no! I better start working on it…
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No pressure, Conrad. Would prefer if you worked on tasting wine and the blog. We all want that 🙂
I’m sure we’ll bump into one another sooner or later since we are in the same state, if I’m not wrong.
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As you know, I use the “force” more than algorithms, but those measurements do have their place.
Near as I can tell, with a combination of what I observe of your actual interactions with people, natural outreach that doesn’t feel contrived or botlike, and the relevant scores, including twtrland which we’ve discussed privately, I think you are safely one of the tippy top in #wine on the internet.
How does that impact you in the real world? Well, as far as I know you have entre’ to events and wineries and people you would not have ever known had you not gotten on twitter and further into social media.
And all I can say to that is, “I told you so.” Cause I did, I told you so. Many, many times. Over and over and over. Cause i saw it in you. I told you so.
Haha. 😉
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Nothing like taking credit for other people’s work buddy… good stuff! 😉
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That Kaufman’s guy sure is obnoxious! You have to watch out for him!
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Yes, indeed he is… seriously so!
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You have aged well over the last year! Your postings are always such a treat to read so there’s no surprise at your status.
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Sure have, like a top of the range box of wine! 😛
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Haha I love the ‘meal without wine is called a breakfast’ sign 🙂
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That image really does capture what we are all about! 😉
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Well done. It’s always nice to get some recognition.
Terry
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Thanks Terry! In this case I think we were giving ourselves some recognition, but hey, it looks good… 🙂
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Sometimes you just have to ‘do it yourself’……waiting for others to do it can mean that you are in for a long wait!
Terry
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These lists have to be flawed since I’m on both of them. The Kred list is the most suspect since I made the top 10.
I agree about the erratic “scores” from Klout. My score bounce range isn’t as big as yours, but mine will slowly drop from around 62 down to 58 over a couple weeks and then magically jump back into the low 60s in one day.
Cliff
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If I was to do this list today the Klout rankings would probably shift around a bit, it changes every day. I remembered reading your blurb about your Kred ranking on your About page so that prompted me to check and search, thankfully. No errors, you deserve to be in the top 10 by Kred’s Twitter and Facebook calculations! 🙂
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Great read Conrad!! As a web engineer who has only been at it (wine biz wise) for 7 months now….I sure love making those algorithms work… My klout likes is fickle as well…one day it’s 75 and next 70…it seems to like this range though so works for me!! Although I’ve been supporting the wine corporate mission for many years now…I just started writing on it…Cheers to Sonoma County Wine Country for giving me so much to say… Chin Chin
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No way… only 7 months? And I thought our almost 12 months was new. Just goes to show the power of the Internet, and in your case, the bonus of quite a bit of raw talent. 😉 And another wine lover gaining a following who has an IT background? There seems to be quite a few of us, Cliff Brown who commented above you being another one. I could probably write a thesis on it. So does my Avatar give the impression of an IT Director of a law firm? 😉 (Interestingly, our most legendary wine writer, James Halliday, was a lawyer who became a wine producer, judge and wine writer so there’s a history of people making it in wine media without working up through the industry itself)
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Look at you all top ten and all, congrats. You have become one of my favorites.
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Well that’s an honour, thank you!
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Congrats mate, looks like you guys are having fun with success too.
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Cheers Chris! It’s been a crazy ride, especially considering that this all just started as a bit of fun. We didn’t expect to be here after 12 months. Weird how things work out.
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I hope to be on this list when my blog grows up! Congrats!
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Keep at it then and all the best! 🙂 You’ve got a good blog.
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Thanks!
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Cliff rocks…agreed…Love the wine industry and living here makes it easy for me to do what I do…plus the right friends and my passion for wine doesn’t hurt either…can’t believe you wankers have only been at it for 1 year!! Congrats to your success. Mr #1 kred is a neighbor and friend of mine, Ken. Aka alawine Small world!! I enjoy but my main mission is a nonprofit I’m working on Pairing wineries with children’s literacy…Stay tuned! Much more to come in future months… You Wankers make it a great week!! Love the artsy profile pic…IT tech for lawyer or no… 😉 xo
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Thanks Ms Sippy Juice! I’ll stay tuned and I do hope to visit your beautiful place in the world one day…
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Well done 🙂
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Thanks for dropping in on us here and on Twitter.
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Any list that puts me above Dr Vino, for example, has to be suspect, but a good discussion to have about influence / ratings 🙂
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Thanks Robert for commenting!
Both systems have ranked you higher. There’s no human involvement in the decision whatsoever. Your Internet presence and online social engagement is higher than Dr Vino, that’s how it works. This is all Internet based and does not reflect any real world influence outside of the online world… but that’s the point.
Online The Wine Wankers are lucky to have a large and very engaged following, the average wine drinker using social media likes what we are doing. If I was to turn up to a wine judging event no one would know who I am. I’m ok with that. It’s a new world and this is the one we play in. I can understand why many would find the concept strange.
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Still relevant after all these years: http://wineconversation.com/measuring-influence-or-communication-skills/
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More context – teh debate has not moved on much:
http://wineconversation.com/writing-under-the-influence-of-twitter/
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OK, I see. No, the debate hasn’t moved on at all and, to be honest, by the response we’ve had and the requests to be considered to be added to the list, a lot of people care. Thanks for the links to your previous work, much appreciated!
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Interesting stuff, and congratulations! I’m not too bothered about such lists but with a klout score of 65 (sometimes it goes up to 70) and kred of 742/7 I guess I’m half way up the Klout list and just scraped in at no. 47 on the kred one.
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You’re another one on the list with an IT background. I mentioned in a comment above that I should write a thesis on this phenomenon. Thanks for taking the time to visit and comment. Cheers!
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Yes there are a few of us! But I’m not on the list.
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Whoops… are you sure? Have another look. 😉
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Great list! Really excited to be at #10, but I’ll work even harder to climb the ladder!! Cheers my friend! 🙂
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Cheers mate! It was your direct message on Twitter that got me interested in doing this research. Thanks for providing a great list of your own for me to expand upon!
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I’m glad I could help! Now the question is… how many people on your list consider themselves to be #winelover-s? Would be interesting to know… 🙂 Cheers!!
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Thanks a lot, happy and proud to be in it ! 🙂 just for Kred you did not use the Wine index but the Global one so the Kred score you wrote take in count also other non-wine related scores
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That is correct Fabien! Just checked Kred (I need to get used to it, it’s kind of tricky to me right now) and I score 940 on the Wine index, which sounds even crazier than the 793 recorded by Conrad in the Global 😀
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This prompted me to check Kred. My pure Wine Kred score is 991 out of 1000. My global score was brought down to 893 because of several topics that should not be credited to me like interior design, parenting, fathers, alternative health and others. I can’t understand the BIG difference in my Kred and Klout ratings.
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Hi Cliff. A couple of others raised the Kred wine score and after more thought than sleep last night I’ve decided to stick with global because it more closely matches Klout, which is essentially global.
I mentioned in an update on the post that I may include the Kred wine category as a separate column next time.
Remember that Kred only measures Twitter and Facebook and is somewhat cumulative over a 1000 days. Klout includes a lot of different measures, and only for 90 days, but that doesn’t negate the fact that by Kred’s rating you are a leader of wine influence and your wine specific Kred score validates that.
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Hi Fabien and Marilena. Thanks for raising this and please see my tweet to you two, my update to the post and my reply to Cliff. Cheers!
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Crazy to be among all of you, true influencers 🙂 Keep up with the great job and spread the wine love around!
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The wine love is what it’s all about! Thanks so much for joining in on the discussion Marilena! 🙂
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Great list and I’m really glad to be on it – great work. Cheers 🙂
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Thanks Magnus! 🙂
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Why am I not on your Klout list with a Klout score of 63? Cheers. Christian
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Hi Christian. Please read the update I added to the post and check the list again. Cheers! 🙂
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Thanks. Great. Christian
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[…] det tror jag inte, inte egentligen, men enligt dessa listor som the Wine Wankers i Australien nyss publicerade är jag det. Man har utgått från två verktyg som mäter […]
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Same question as Christian Schiller. Why not in the list? My klout score is 65 and the kred rank 730/7 for Weinreporter (Mario Scheuermann)
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Hi Mario. Please read the update I added to the post and check the list again. Cheers! 🙂
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Thank you most graciously, Conrad!
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No need to thank me Russ, thank yourself and the two systems that rank you!
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Hi! Great job on this. What an achievement, well done 😉 Was just wondering if with my 70 Klout score I shouldn’t somehow appear on your list. Would love to hear back from you. Anyway again, well done!
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Was wondering the same thing with my 67 score. Maybe my tweets about jorts, sunsets, and cereal count against me? I’ll start pouring wine in my corn flakes if that helps. 😉
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In my case only if food is not considered part of wine communication!
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Hi there! Thanks so much for commenting. Please see my update section at the bottom of my post. I did my best to find as many wine people as I could but I always knew there’d be a few new ones show up. Only wine entities whose primary focus is wine (say, over food) make the list. Looking you up I think you qualify. I will be updating the list shortly, thanks.
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Thanks for your efforts. Like others, I’m curious if I might land on your “new” list or not: my Klout is in the mid-60s consistently for over a year; currently at 64, lots of wine content but yes I do post about other topics as well. Also, I’m surprised that Elaine Brown aka Hawk Wakawaka is not on your list–she was nominated for best overall wine blog or that Marcy Gordon is missing (her Klout is based ONLY on Twitter as she does no other social media except twitter and her blog). Thanks!
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Hi there Gwendolyn! Thanks for commenting, it is very much appreciated. These lists are for those whose primary focus (51% or more) is wine and wine media. Of course there’s no scientific way to determine that so in all honesty would you say you qualify? If you believe so I will add you.
@Hawk_Wakawaka is not registered on Klout for whatever reason so I cannot rate her sadly. @marcygordon has a Klout of 56, off that list, but her Kred is 784 which just gets her into top 50 for Kred so I will be adding her, thanks.
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My twitter feed is def wine centric and I spend the most time on my Wine Predator blog and on facebook I’m moderator and admin on Wine Women Writers so I’d say yes Wine is a Primary Focus! Thanks for adding me!
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Fair enough, you’re on! You actually knocked Robert Parker Jnr out of the 50 on Klout. And the list is now 75+. You’re a healthy 69 on Kred. Enjoy your evening! 😉
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thanks! (and that’s pretty funny about RP Jr but oh well how these things work out…)
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Yeah, I thought it worth mentioning. I think it demonstrates that this is a new and growing world of wine. It doesn’t detract from the greatness of a man it’s just an indicator of change, that is all.
Oh, and thank you for trawling through a past post or two. 😉 I’m honoured and humbled. Cheers Gwendolyn!
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And thanks for following my Art Predator blog! After all, how many wine blogs can one person follow? And Art Predator is a fun way to see what’s going on around this part of the world — Burning Man, art, poetry, music, politics, and more!
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Yes Jameson, I’m not much into jorts, sorry (check the update added to the post and the list again). 😉
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All now updated, cheers! 🙂
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Thanks Conrad! The update is great and as you said a +75 top is even better. Very happy to be part of +25 top list anyway 😉
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Well done! (I barely missed being on the Klout list)
=)
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I did look you up though Jason! 🙂
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Thank you for looking me up! 🙂
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You’re now on the list! Your Kred score got you there in the end once you got it all sorted and notified me. I had to expand the list to 75+ and guess who is 75 on Klout?
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Yay!! Thanks, Conrad! =)
Hopefully there’s a way to keep this update automaticall down the line. Would be awesome!
Jason
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Hi there, great job. Congrats! Just a couple of names from Italy, focused 100% on wine: Elisabetta Tosi (@Vinopigro) and me (@aristideblog).
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Thank you! Looking you both up you qualify. I will be updating the list very soon.
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The list has been updated. Thanks again.
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Thanks to you! Cheers! 🙂
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I find my inclusion on this list astounding as I only do Twitter. No FaceBook, No Instagram, No Pinterest, No Foursquare, No Tumbler, No LinkedIn or anything else that may have been invented in the time it took me to type this. I suspect I made the list because Ken Waggoner aka Mr. alawine RT’s everything I say! 😉
But it’s fun to be included nonetheless.
Thanks for doing this and Cheers
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Hello there Marcy! You can thank “Gwendolyn Alley aka Art Predator” for mentioning you in a comment above. Yes, it’s your Twitter activity that has got you into the Kred list. All worthy, the systems don’t lie… hence your Klout score, but also your Kred score where your activity rates you well 😉
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I’ll get to work refocusing my content!
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Hi Robbin. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. Cheers!
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Reblogged this on Frankly Wines and commented:
If you look way down the list, yours truly squeezes on to the list…surprised and well chuffed!
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Thanks for the reblog Frank! I made sure to look you up. 🙂
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You’re very welcome – looks like a lot of hard work went into it, and then dealing with a few ruffled feathers!
Luckily for me it got expanded from 50 to 75 so I made it on the list :o)
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You were originally inside the top 50 and almost top 40 but I’ve got wine peeps coming out at me from all angles. It has been quite fun and an interesting exercise in the social sciences.
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Conrad –
as far as I am concerned, you are the ONLY noteworthy oenologist and vintner on the planet.
(and a well-read and appreciative one at that.) Thanks for all the recent “likes” over at my blog.
I am ashamed to say I am still partaking of low-end beer – rather than that blessed fruit of the vine of which you speak so eloquently…..
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Thanks Drew, you’re a champ! I try and get out and visits other blogs when I can. Cheers!
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Hi, did you forget about me? I’m a wine blogger and I’ve 68 Klout score 😉
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and 836 Kred 😉
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Hi Andrea! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll be adding you very soon. I’m getting 67 for your Klout and 727/6 for your Kred on @percorsi_divino. You’re still very much on the lists because of your Klout but maybe I’ve got the wrong handle “@percorsi_divino” because the Kred results are so different to what you thought they were meant to be.
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Hi there, if you need nore input from good old europe….
Cheers, Ralf Kaiser
PS: Klout 64, Kred 733
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That’s great, thanks Ralf. I’ll get you added shortly. Cheers!
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well this a great way to raise your profile. most of these Alogrithims are faulty at best.
This wine one is particularly so The first 5 listed are probably correct , although you would have to have been in a Coma, not to know that. After that it becomes more and more sketchy. I can think of at least 5 wineinfluences based between Europe and US and indded in Italy who arent even mentioned on here. This is a list of the first five well known winewriters and after that its completely random, but mostly made up of a bunch of people who attach #winelover to all their posts along with thousands of other hashtags. Hash tag mania may make it eaier for you to be measured by these Alogrithims but the public, in particular the winedrinking public is not served at all by this grouping.
I removed myself off #winelover groups after graphic pornography was included when I was included in the weekly newsletter sent out from @winehub which My content was used for. No apology was ever given and it was sent out to both my twitter accounts amounting to 10,000 followers at the time. I am very careful to consider quality above quantity and never link spam.
my content is not all wine related as I specialize in branding.
In closing nobody who is actually a social media influenzer of which quite a few follow me would ever take Kred or Klout and others seriously. In fact quite a few of them once they discovered how inaccurate they were asked to be removed. Apparently thats not possible.
I would be happy to provide you with the real online influencers in the wineworld (myself excluded)
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Hi there Donna! Thanks for commenting and I respect your opinion as all comments are very welcome. It’s always hard to be the lone dissenting voice amongst the hordes so you’ve done a good job presenting your case although I’d hate to be thought of as an influenzer inflicted upon the people who follow us. Cheers and I really do hope we continue to cross paths.
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Hi Conrad, forgot to mention My Klout score is between 63 and 65 (not that I care a damn ) and on Kred 600 I think because they are still unsuccessfully trying to link my linked in and FB. Anyway as I said noboby takes this very seriously and I dont only cover wine but as a consultant on branding. However my score puts me above others on your list. which seems to grow as people continue to ask why they are not on it 🙂
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Thank you for highlighting you scores so that I can add you to the list. Thanks for coming on board!
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Dear Conrad, An interesting aside to all of this Conrad is yesterday The CEO of Kred. Mike ( who I had met previously apparently ) contacted me to say That he would sort out the mess on my account with merging accounts etc and that they are trying to improve the Experience all round for everyone. So that’s good.
Another thing to understand is that, although they ask you to link all your accounts across social media the only two which count are twitter (re Martys comment above) and facebook, of the two, twitter rates higher as your influence is easier to measure.
Thankyou for all your hard work in compiling the list and congrats for your rating.
Donna
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It sounds like you’ve had a positive result there Donna. Good stuff! 🙂
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Hi Conrad just an update on Kred, true to their word, they sorted my account and today im rated 82 for wine. As far as Klout goes today Im back to 64. Klout woke up .Clearly Klout doesnt like being ignored! just a bit of fun :). anyway thanks for all your hard work and your tweets. 🙂
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That’s great Donna. Good to see you are happier about your rankings, it demonstrates you have an engaging presence on the net. Cheers!
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Conrad, congratulations again for compiling this list.
After trying to put together my own list, I know that this is not easy… but, despite of what some people say, you’ve done an amazing job of putting together a list with the most influencial wine people on the Internet.
This type of list will never be perfect… but, as Jamie Goode once said, “People who don’t believe in Klout are the ones who think that their scores should be higher than it actually is.”
Thanks again for doing this!
Cheers
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No worries mate, you’re a champion! By the way, I think you’ve got a fan in Donna Jackson above… 😉
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We all end up making fans along the way, don’t we? Cheers!! 🙂
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LOL… indeed! 😉
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No Klue about Klouts and Kreds but you’re #1 on my list!
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Thanks Peter, you’re a legend and I enjoy following you too! Cheers mate!!
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Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
Great list for those of us who enjoy good quality wine at reasonable prices and find the array on offer we are faced with in stores confusing to say the least. The Wine Wankers blog has put together the list of most influential wine people on the Internet – very useful. What attracted me to the post intially was the apt pub sign ‘A meal without wine is breakfast’ Enjoy.
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Thank you so much for the reblog, it’s very much appreciated! 🙂
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“we’re not worthy” moment? Unfounded! You guys have been rocking the wine bloggosphere very consistently and are fantastically switched on. Keep up the amazing work – 6th place after less than a year is incredible! Can’t wait for your inevitable first place 🙂
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You’re way too kind, thank you! 🙂
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Wow, that is lots of work you put into this list. I used to not bother about these scores and lists, but lately have realized they are important. People do care, so they can not be ignored. Maybe you can consider me for your list, i have a Klout 61 at the moment and kred of 792/9. Thank you!
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Would love to add you as you qualify but you haven’t left enough details for me to look you up… sorry.
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Duh – thought the profile i am logged in with showed all that but indeed it does not. I am mostly @vinoroma on sm, and on fb i am Hande Kutlar Leimer. Thanks for considering me!
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Hi Hande. I made sure to add you before I finalised and closed off the list. Thanks for taking the time to participate. Cheers!
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my wine kred is 902/7 (the above was the global)
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