The Shipping Industry Top 40 March 2011 positions

Nor Shipping Twitter Competition
1. Amver Global search and rescue system sponsored by the USCG. We use commercial ships to rescue people in distress at sea.
2. Vincent Pica District Captain, SECLIS-S, USCGAux; USCG licensed Master. Looking for a few good mariners! Follow us? We follow you, guaranteed, w/in 24 h
3. U.S. Coast Guard Official USCG news releases feed.
4. Navy Times (Editor)
5. Pacific Fleet The U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet is the world’s largest fleet command, encompassing 100 million square miles, more than half the Earth’s surface.
6. OCEANUSLive.org OCEANUS is the first ever real-time commercial social networking site for the Maritime Industry - collaboration to enable business success, safety and security.
7. Captain Rande USCG Licensed Master ~ aka Captain Rande covering sailing, yachting, boating & maritime news. If it floats you are Tweeting in the right place.
8. Lloyd's List Lloyd's List is the leading daily newspaper for the shipping industry.
9. james tweed Shipping. eLearning. Podcasting. Mobile Apps. Social Media.
10. Maritime News Latest and Greatest Maritime Updates
11. NavyLookout dedicated to fighting the decline in the Royal Navy caused by chronic government under-funding and defence cuts
12. MySeaLegs My Sea Legs is a new website (currently in production) that aims to create a more connected maritime community. Lots of fun stuff on the way!
13. TradeWinds TradeWinds is the number one best selling international shipping newspaper! The biggest and most successul and first for all the latest maritime news.
14. Maritime Executive The latest news, views and corporate releases for influential decision makers from The Maritime Executive, the world's leading maritime business journal.
15. Gerard Aldridge Professional Agrologist (P.Ag.) tweeting, consulting, speaking _On what matters to you. DM your interest today.
16. Rio Itajaí Práticos Entidade de praticagem da ZP-21 (Itajaí-Navegantes). 2010, Ano do Marítimo! // Itajaí-Navegantes Maritime and River Pilots. 2010, Year of the Seafarer!
17. MarineDex The Worlds Leading Marine Directory - For Everything Marine, There's MarineDex
18. Captain John Konrad Master Mariner Tweeting from the high seas.
19. cgblog Twitter account for CGBlog, the largest unofficial Coast Guard blog online.
20. CoastGuardNews News and Video from the United States Coast Guard
21. Logistics News Your independent News Source for anything Transport, Shipping, Trucking or Logistics related, updated daily with news from around the world!
22. Matt Shaffer Jones Act Lawyer, Maritime Attorney, FELA Railroad Injury Lawyer. I handle maritime cases worldwide & FELA cases nationwide. I accept referrals. I like my iPad.
23. G Marturano Linkedin's Largest Maritime Network
24. NK Maritime Sun Maritime Chartering Ships Sales @ Purchase Maritime Directory Maritime Knowledge World Wide Shipping News Seafarers Forum Marine Leisure and Travel
25. Seatrade Insider We tweet you the key industry headlines that link to Seatrade Insider's FREE access on breaking global Cruise news and loads of valuable information.
26. oil and gas industry Oil and Gas Industry
27. Panama Ship Reg. Panama is an international maritime center due to its renown banking, financial and insurance system and of course Container Ships Transiting the Canal Locks.
28. Alexandre Rocha Brazilian maritime pilot and lecturer. Interested in international news and maritime-related information.
29. Somali Pirates Yaar! We be Pirates of Somalia. We have AK-47, We have RPG. We take yo money now. Give us yo money! Ye will Follow Us for arr Free Offers Every Month.
30. Fairplay Fairplay24 is the leading source for global maritime and shipping news and the online home of Fairplay magazine
31. FindAMariner Maritime jobs for Masters, Mates, Captains and Ship Engineers.
32. USCG Auxiliary Official Twitter page of US Coast Guard Auxiliary
33. Ernest One District 1, Southern Region. First & Foremost is our motto and our way of doing things!
34. USCG 13th District U.S. Coast Guard in the Pacific Northwest. For after hours help call 206-220-7001
35. Capt. Murray Latham Began sailing at the age of 6 and became the oldest known child prodigy when I became a Captain in my early thirties.
36. Mercy Ships Mercy Ships is a global charity, operating hospital ships in devloping nations since 1978. Our ship, the Africa Mercy, is now docked in Cotonou, Benin.
37. Ryan Skinner Ruthlessly focused on management in the new media PR scene
38. Seafarers UK Formally King Georges Fund for Sailors, the leading charity for your maritime sector supporting the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Merchant Navy & fishing fleets
39. ShipServ ShipServ is the leading maritime e-marketplace, helping the buyers and sellers of ship supplies to reduce the costs associated with doing business together.
40. FIS London FIS is the leading freight and commodity derivatives brokerage but we're a lot of fun too.

How many people use Twitter?

Who knows exactly! All we know is that it is a VERY big number... and growing fast... How many of these people talk about shipping? Not that many... but, it is a growing number... And whilst many have little impact or influence, some have plenty... And we want to help you discover what they're saying... Our job at Coracle Voice is to try and help you by aggregating those that influence others in the industry. Our twitter top 40 is refreshed on the 1st of every month to reflect changes over the past month.

Why are some people in the Top 40 and others not?

We track hundreds of people and consider: * The number of followers they have, * The number of unique references to the person in Twitter, * How often is the person uniquely retweeted, * How often does the person retweet other people and * The relative frequency of the persons update We measure: * influence, * popularity, * engagement and * trust all on a 'per follower' basis to give a number which we multiply by their impact and this gives the ranking score. In other words, it isn't just about volume (ie, lots of followers or lots of tweets) but about how much people respond to what you say... Do you think that we're missing someone key, do you simply disagree with our list? Let us know! We'd love to hear from you! If you use twitter and want to follow the list through your own Twitter client - please follow http://twitter.com/coraclevoice/coraclevoice