Twitter in India is getting immense popularity, you know why? Because more and more Bollywood and Cricket celebrities are joining the twitter league, I am not against following any celebrities on twitter, I myself follow some of them.
But, other than celebrities there are many other Indian tweeples who keep their track glowing with achievements, successes, popularity and credibility.
There are Twitter users who are the trend setters and inspiration to millions of other twitter users, these people are dedicated professionals, high spirited and certainly the best to be known as leaders in their respective fields of profession.
Though, I have listed many top and best tweeples in past but this list is significantly different.
Here, this time I have listed or the best way to say, I’ve tried to list down 10 outstanding, most followed, most listed and ultimate Indian/Indian origin Tweeples who are masters in Social Media, Internet Marketing and/or Technology.
This is also first time I tried to give ranking to these magnificent personalities you should follow if you are still not following them.
How I listed them as top 10?
From my very small knowledge on social media and online credibility, I tried to figure out their ranks by comparing their number of twitter followers, number of users they are following, number of times they are listed and how many times they tweeted.
The other important aspect I considered here is how these top 10 people affected their followers, how they performed with their specialties and their impact on their audiences or clients was. I tried to compare the success meter of these individual by small research I did for them outside twitter.
You may find that I did not only consider their number of followers while listing them in top 10.
I am in no way claiming my list as perfect or best. It’s upon you to decide. The only intention of mine by creating this list is to share some of my most favorite Indian Tweeples.
I will come up with more such list of Indian Tweeples in future.
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@manikarthik Following 14837 | Followers 22,815 | Listed 901
Mani Karthik is a SEO and Social Media consultant, he blog at dailyseoblog.com which is now renamed as dailybloggr.com. Mani’s remarkable work put him in the names of some elite SEO bloggers of India.
Mani Karthik is best person to get in touch with when you need advice or guidance regarding SEO and social media. Hails from Kerala, South India, Mani is currently serving with his masters in Flipcorp a Dubai based social media company.
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9.
@pramitjnathan 133,434 | 128,845 | 3736
I was lucky to interviewed Pramit J Nathan on this blog sometimes back, he has a magnificent personality, professionalism and friendliness. His more than 100k followers on twitter is a proof of his credibility. Pramit is a Business Management Guru, Marketing and advertising consultant, author of Perception Management and new media enthusiast.
New Delhi based, Pramit J Nathan comes under top Indian tweeples (by tweeple.in) in terms of followers in non-celebrity category.
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8.
@Gauravonomics 399 | 5947 |1,025
Founder and CEO of Indian Social Media Analytic firm 20:20 Social, Gaurav Mishra is also well known as Gauravnomics from his well reputed and one of the top marketing and PR blogs in world; gauravnomics.com . Gaurav is graduated from IIM Bangalore, he taught social media in Georgetown University.
Gaurav helps online communities to grow and generate useful content with best social media techniques.
Gaurav writes on social media, online communities, online marketing and various other essential subjects regarding it. Besides writing, Gaurav is also a very effective public speaker.
He is been quoted in dozens of national/international newspapers, magazines and TV channels worldwide including BBC, CNN, AL-Jazeera and Los Angeles Times.
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@kiruba 54,420 | 56,103 | 1,247
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Kiruba Shankar is a social media enthusiast, founder of two businesses 5five Technologies , Business Blogging Private Limited and 1 non- profit organization The Knowledge Foundation, he’s a teacher of new media studies at Asian College of Journalism, Anna University and Madras Ad Club.
He was also associate director of Sulekha.com. To add some more about this Indian Social Media master, He is also authoring a book ‘UnConferences: Because The Audience is More Intelligent Than the Speaker’. Kiruba writes tech columns for New Indian Express and co-author NASSCOM Emerge Blog.
Kiruba loves cycling so much that since 8 years it is his main transportation source to office. He is very engaging with his twitter followers, Kiruba regularly blogs at Kiruba.com.
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@shivsingh 3533 | 8983 | 1484
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Shiv Singh a well-known name in social media industry, he has been working with world’s top interactive company Razorfish as VP& Social Media Lead. Shiv is a recognized digital marketer. Quoted in wall street journal, ad age, reuters, Ad Week, USA Today and many other online and offline media corporations. Shiv Singh is also a columnist on Mashable.
Shiv authored Social Media Marketing for Dummies and also co-authored Sommelier India Wine Magazine.
Shiv holds BS in Information Systems & Creative Writing from Babson College, and an MSc (Research) from the London School of Economics & Political Science where he focused on social network theory. Shiv Blog at Going Social Now
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@rohitbhargava 2924 | 15579 | 1676
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Rohit Bhargava Invented the of the concept “Social Media Optimization” (SMO), he is an award winning writer of Personality not Included, also teaches Global Communication at Georgetown University in Washington DC, he was named as Most Influential South Asian in Media and Marketing in year 2009.
While leading the interactive marketing team at Ogilvy, Rohit also blog at influentialmarketingblog.com
On Twitter Rohit is actively engaged with his followers with tweets on social media and marketing.
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@dharmesh 8227 | 21921 | 2,297
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Dharmesh Shah is a Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Hubspot a prominent online marketing and social media business in U.S. . If you don’t know about their tool http://websitegrader.com then check it out. Dharmesh has done wonders in web and online marketing with lots of such exciting tools.
Dharmesh holds a degree of Computer Science from University of Alabama and Masters from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He also blog on onstartups.com, with great number of twitter following, Dharmesh shah is surely one of the Indian social media legends.
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@neilpatel 30 | 19543 | 1300
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Tenacious Blogger, Guerilla Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Money Lover, Party Animal, Television Fanatic and Door-to-door Salesman, that’s how Neil Patel describes himself. In his teen age he tried selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door, though he was not successful in making money out of it but this luckily made him land in the world of internet marketing, SEO and online business.
Founder of many successful ventures including Crazy Egg, Kissmetrics and ACS, Neil has one of the most inspirational success stories on internet. That’s why Wall Street named him as Top Influencer on Web. He also blog on QuickSprout.com
Neil is 3rd in the list because of his twitter stats of nearly 20k followers; interestingly Neil is following only 30 people and listed nearly 1300 times.
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@anildash 645 | 331,449 | 2,132
Anil Dash is one of the early blogger and technology enthusiasts. Check his blog Dashes.com.
He’s a notable name in the world of social media and print media. Anil is also a frequent public speaker. Anil was the very employee of a Six Apart Ltd. Company responsible for making 2 of the world’s best blogging platforms. Moveable type and typepad.
Presently he serves as a Director of Expert Labs, a non-profit independent lab where he helps U.S. Federal Govt.
On Twitter Anil is serving more than 300k followers with mostly tech related tweets.
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@om 503 | 1,252,657| 3836
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Does Om Malik need any introduction? His blog gigaom is one of the world’s top 50 tech blog, Om has served with his gleaming writing for some renowned names like Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Red Herring, Brandweek, India Abroad and his own blog Gigaom.com.
Born and brought up in Delhi India, Om went to U.S. in 1993 to join India Abroad as a writer. Since then he never turned back, still shining the name of India in Abroad.
On Twitter, Om has outstanding popularity with more than 1 million followers and listed nearly 4000 times.
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It was a very wonderful details, specially about OM malik , just write his some post he is wonderful writer.
Thanks for including me in the list. Nice to be in just exceptional company.
It's all my pleasure Dharmesh, I am so pleased to find and follow you including the other 9 impressive Indian personalities on Twitter. You are an inspiration to thousands of newbies social media freaks like me. Thanks a lot for your comment
Thank you Shakti, you can follow om's writing on his blog gigaom.com
Hi nice pick. But I think Amit agarwal @Labno and Cheth from Chethstudios.com(@cheth) were missed in the list
Hey Manikandan, thanks for comment. I made this list of top 10 social media professionals on twitter and the work they did internationally and on social media platforms like twitter. So, please don't think that way. I respect Amit as more a pro blogger and techie. Chetstudios is more into web and graphic designing. They have their own expertise.
Hey Manikandan, thanks for comment. I made this list of top 10 social media professionals on twitter and the work they did internationally and on social media platforms like twitter. So, please don't think that way. I respect Amit as more a pro blogger and techie. Chetstudios is more into web and graphic designing. They have their own expertise.
Awesome list…
hmm yea you missed Amit Agarwal 
please update the title.. because he is almost the father of blogging for many newbie bloggers. including me 
Thanks again for the great list.
- Robin
Robin, thanks for commenting and liking it.
Now, as I mentioned in my post and in one of the reply to comment that this list is not exclusively for Indian Bloggers nor it is ranked only on individual's performance in his or her profession.
This list ranked from 1-10 by their performance on twitter, secondly on their respective jobs outside twitter. I am very well aware of Amit Agarwal and truly respect him. I am soon publishing a new list with new category and I am very sure you won't disappoint.
Thanks Zaheer