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Last week, Brand Republic published the .

Within moments, people were questioning how meaningful Klout rankings were, including someone who was included on the list.

Lovely that has named me in . Can we talk about why is a poor one-dimensional metric for influence?

— Stephen Waddington (@wadds)

Last time I looked ranked me as an influencer for car insurance and real estate

While many questioned Klout, , a social listening tool which latest offering is currently in beta and analyses communities, published (reproduced with permission, below). There was crossover between the list, but not much – only eight out of 50.

Founder and "head data chef" Adam Parker explained the impetus for the service came from a chapter he wrote on social influence for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations' book from 2013, .

The problem, Parker thought, was that current measures of influence primarily focused on noise – such as reach, volume of posts and engagement metrics like retweets – but didn't examine who was listening to this noise and how relevant and influential they are off of social media.

Lissted's difference, Parker says, is two-fold. Firstly Lissted has built a database of nearly two million Twitter accounts that, based on its machine learning, it claims are more likely to be related to real world influencers.

To identify influencers in a community it then looks at the relationships – who follows who – and interactions with other members of a specific group within this list.

To generate Lissted's rankings, the algorithm took into account 25,000 accounts and 15 million relationships, as well as interactions between these accounts.

Parker said: "We would argue that's a better measure of who has the true potential for influence."

Here are Lissted's rankings. We've linked the names people who are on both lists to their place on the Klout list, and taken job titles from individual's LinkedIn pages.

1. (8), , partner and chief engagement officer, Ketchum
   
   
2. (38), , head of digital strategy, EMEA, @Salesforce Marketing Cloud
   
   
3. Bruce Daisley, , UK managing director and VP Europe, Twitter
   
   
4. Gordon MacMillan, , editorial manager, Twitter
   
   
5. (42), , vice chairman, Ogilvy Group UK
   
   
6. Vikki Chowney, , director of content & publishing strategies, H+K Strategies
   
   
7. Justin Pearse, , managing director and editorial director, The Drum Works
   
   
8. Dan Barker, , e-business consultant
   
   
9. Andy Barr, , owner, 10Yetis
   
   
10. Kelvin Newman, ; founder, BrightonSEO; founder and managing director, Rough Agenda; marketing director, SiteVisibility.
    
    
11. James Whatley, , digital director, Ogilvy & Mather
    
    
12. Charlotte McEleny, , digital editor, Marketing Magazine
    
    
13. Andrew Bloch, , group managing director and founder, Frank PR
    
    
14. (1), , CEO, Smart Insights
    
    
15. Drew Benvie, , founder, Battenhall
    
    
16. Andrew Grill, , ‎global managing partner, IBM Social Consulting
    
    
17. Arif Durrani, ; current: editor, Media Week and media editor, ±±¾©Èü³µpk10; future:
18. Katy Howell, , CEO and social media strategist, immediate future
    
    
19. (47), , business communicator, blogger, podcaster
    
    
20. Matt Rhodes, , digital strategy director, WCRS
    
    
21. Rich Leigh, , founder and director, Rich Leigh & Company
    
    
22. Mat Morrison, , owner, Mediaczar
    
    
23. (31), ; CEO, Havas Media; group managing director, Havas Media Group UK
    
    
24. Katie Moffat, , digital marketing and social media consultant
    
    
25. Joanna Geary, , head of UK news & government partnerships, Twitter
    
    
26. Tony Wood, , founder and managing director, X Factor Communications Ltd
    
    
27. (46), , ‎global advertising editor, Business Insider
    
    
28. Stephen Lepitak, , editor, The Drum
    
    
29. Chris Lake, , vice president of inbound marketing, DueDil
    
    
30. Dave Trott, , creative director and ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 columnist
    
    
31. Mark Borkowski, , CEO, Borkowski
    
    
32. Will McInnes, , CMO, Brandwatch
    
    
33. Graham Charlton, , editor in chief, Econsultancy
    
    
34. Sophie Brendel, , head of digital communications at BBC
    
    
35. Rob Brown, , managing partner, Rule 5
    
    
36. Neil Perkin, , founder, Only Dead Fish
    
    
37. Danny Whatmough, , head of social, EMEA at Weber Shandwick
    
    
38. Nicola Kemp, , head of features, Marketing Magazine
    
    
39. Danny Rogers, , editor-in-chief, PRWeek
    
    
40. Rachel Miller, , founder, All Things IC
    
    
41. Paul Sutton, , independent social and digital media consultant
    
    
42. Steve Ward, , founder and managing director, CloudNine
    
    
43. (39), , international PR adviser and trainer, Stuart Bruce Associates
    
    
44. Scott Dylan, : managing director, We Are AD; managing director, Fluid Creativity
    
    
45. Max Tatton-Brown, , founding director, Augur
    
    
46. Kevin Gibbons, , managing director, BlueGlass
    
    
47. Kate Magee, , associate editor, ±±¾©Èü³µpk10
    
    
48. Andrew Girdwood, , media innovations director, DigitasLBi
    
    
49. Sue Llewellyn, , co-founder, Ultra Social
    
    
50. Andrew Bruce Smith, : director, escherman; non-executive partner, Meanwhile...

Lissted's influencer rankings are also , and .

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