The idea of Top 200 journalists came from many journalists, who asked us to release a data driven ranking mechanism on twitter.We track over 1000 journalists on daily basis. We have been reporting the top 10 engaging individuals in multiple categories.We have collated data for December 2020, and run multiple analytics for the journalist community and entire ecosystem related to media and journalists to showcase this Top 200 Journalists report, we hope you enjoy it.

1. TOP 200
JOURNALISTS
IN INDIA
ON TWITTER
FOR DEC 2020 TWITTEET.COM
SANDEEP AMAR
RAJ SHARMA
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2. Introduction
Top 200 journalists in
India as per twitter
engagement
Journalists love Twitter! The time spent for
journalists community is massive. In India, its no
exception, Twitter has become the
battleground for political discourse. Journalists
are engaging on Twitter on a regular basis and
as per some reports, spending over 2 hours
every day on Twitter in India.
We track over 1000 journalists on daily basis. We
have been reporting the top 10 engaging
individuals in multiple categories. Journalists
being a special category, We were constantly
getting requests to report Top 100 or 200
journalists on the basis on their engagement.
We have collated data for December 2020, and
run multiple analytics for the journalist
community and entire ecosystem related to
media and journalists to showcase this Top 200
Journalists report, we hope you enjoy it.
Our methodology is available on the website,
www.twitteet.com, for any clarification on data
please check the methodology. For any
feedback, please write to us at
contact@twitteet.com
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3. THE TOP 3 JOURNALISTS
DEEPAK CHAURASIA
2190314 ENGAGEMENTS
SUSHANT SINHA
1192398 ENGAGEMENTS
RAJAT SHARMA
994179 ENGAGEMENTS
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4. TOP 10
JOURNALISTS
IN DEC 2020
01 DEEPAK CHAURASIA
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02 SUSHANT SINHA
03 RAJAT SHARMA
04 SAKSHI JOSHI
05 PUNYA PRASUN BAJPAI
06 SHEFALI VAIDYA
07 RANA AYYUB
08 SREEDHAR PILLAI
09 RUBIKA LIYAQUAT
10 PRASHANT KANOJIA
Deepak Chaurasia of NewsNation TV tops with a phenomenal 21 lakh (2.1 million) engagements.
Sushant Sinha is at #2 with 12 lakh engagements. Editor-in-chief of India TV Rajat Sharma with
nearly 10 lakh engagement is at #3; Independent journalist Sakshi Joshi is at #4 with 6.4 lakh
engagements and Punya Prasun Bajpai at #5 with 62 lakh engagements. Independent journalist
and columnist Shefali Vaidya is ranked 6th with 5.93 lakh engagements; Rana Ayyub is 7th with
5.24 lakh engagements; Chennai based entertainment industry tracker, columnist & writer,
Sreedhar Pillai is next at 4.4 lakh engagements; ABP News’s Rubika Liyaquat is 9th with 4.12 lakh
engagements and Prashant Kanojia is 10th with 4.10 lakh engagements.

5. TOP 200 LIST (1-25)
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6. TOP 200 LIST (26-50)
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7. TOP 200 LIST (51-75)
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8. TOP 200 LIST (76-100)
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9. TOP 200 LIST (101-125)
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10. TOP 200 LIST (126-150)
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11. TOP 200 LIST (151-175)
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12. TOP 200 LIST (176-200)
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13. TOP 10 JOURNALISTS
WHO PUNCH ABOVE
THEIR WEIGHT
01 PRASHANT KUMAR
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02 DEEPAK CHAURASIA
03 UMASHANKAR SINGH
04 SUSHANT SINHA
05 SWATI GOEL SHARMA
06 AKHILESH SHARMA
07 ARVIND GUNASEKAR
08 ADITYA MENON
09 SAMIR ABBAS
10 PRASHANT KANOJIA
Journalists with higher number of followers
will obviously get higher engagement. One
way of looking at the data is to note, a
higher engagement on a lower base. So we
took a minimum base of 100,000
engagements, and ranked journalists on
engagement ratio (Engagement/Followers)
TOP 10 AS PER ENGAGEMENT RATIO
The top 10 as per the Engagement Ratio are: 1. Prashant Kumar with an engagement ratio of
3.78; 2. Deepak Chaurasia – 2.88; 3. NDTV India’s Umashankar Singh 2.18; 4. Sushant Sinha – 1.95;
5. Swarajya Magazine’s Swati Goel Sharma 1.83; 6. NDTV India’s Akhilesh Sharma 1.79; 7. Arvind
Gunasekar 1.52; 8. Aditya Menon 1.50; 9. TV9 Bharatvarsh’s Samir Abbas – 1.49; 10 Prashant
Kanojia & Sakshi Joshi 1.48 each.

14. TOP 25 LIST ON ENGAGEMENT RATIO
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15. POOR ENGAGEMENT
DESPITE HIGH NUMBER
OF FOLLOWERS
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We have noted, on the basis on engagement
ratio - some of the journalist with very high
followers have some very poor engagement.
Either they are busy and not tweeting much
or they are not able to engage their followers
and other users on twitter.
LOWEST ENGAGEMENT RATIO JOURNALISTS

16. Our Report Goal
We have brought out this report to help journalists
understand twitter engagement better, and get a
cumulative monthly data on their engagement. We
hope you enjoy the report, and we will soon come
back with more such analytics! Thanks!
thank you for reading!
for any feedback write to contact@twitteet.com
visit www.twitteet.com for daily engagement data and
rankings
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