Top Bloggers/Twitter Users/Authors for Traffic

Posted by Tom Blue on May 19, 2009 under Companies, Executives, Marketing, Technology | 3 Comments to Read

If you are like me, you are constantly looking for ways to get more traffic to your site and more mentions of your company within the press. Below is a list of bloggers/writers/twitter users that A) Regularly discuss WEB startups & profile them, and B) have enough focused traffic to make a difference. The list is based on the type of site they write for, their number of Twitter followers, and traffic at their home sites. We used their traffic numbers from Compete.com.



Rank Name Site Visitors Followers
1 Michael Arrington TechCrunch 1,846,447 562,665
2 MG Siegler TechCrunch 1,846,447 7,736
3 Erick Schonfeld TechCrunch 1,846,447 5,121
4 Rafe Needleman CNET News 6,145,001 13,803
5 Robin Wauters TechCrunch 1,846,447 4,085
6 Don Reisinger CNET News 6,145,001 8,890
7 Caroline McCarthy CNET News 6,145,001 6,848
8 Pete Cashmore Mashable 1,606,451 626,898
9 John Biggs TechCrunch 1,846,447 1,903
10 Richard MacManus ReadWriteWeb 771,744 13,283
11 Jason Kincaid TechCrunch 1,846,447 1,769
12 Adam Ostrow Mashable 1,606,451 10,285
13 Marshall Kirkpatrick ReadWriteWeb 771,744 10,922
14 Matt Asay CNET News 6,145,001 2,410
15 Sarah Perez ReadWriteWeb 771,744 5,667
16 Daniel Terdiman CNET News 6,145,001 2,051
17 Saul Hansell NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 3,924
18 Jenn Van Grove Mashable 1,606,451 4,280
19 Brad Stone NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 2,882
20 Ina Fried CNET News 6,145,001 1,698
21 Max Gladwell Mashable 1,606,451 3,748
22 Alex Iskold ReadWriteWeb 771,744 3,265
23 Gina Trapani LifeHacker 1,807,717 16,101
24 Jenna Wortham NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 2,119
25 Ben Parr Mashable 1,606,451 2,646
26 Frederic Lardinois ReadWriteWeb 771,744 2,155
27 Matt Marshall VentureBeat 482,602 4,783
28 Om Malik GigaOm 362,622 254,694
29 Jolie O’Dell ReadWriteWeb 771,744 1,963
30 Ramit Sethi LifeHacker 1,807,717 6,593
31 Greg Sandoval CNET News 6,145,001 153
32 Stan Schroeder Mashable 1,606,451 1,736
33 Lidija Davis ReadWriteWeb 771,744 1,636
34 Matt Richtel NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 1,025
35 Vindu Goel NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 1,014
36 Alison Driscoll Mashable 1,606,451 1,571
37 Phil Glockner ReadWriteWeb 771,744 1,061
38 Eric Eldon VentureBeat 482,602 2,346
39 Claire Cain Miller NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 411
40 Adam Pash LifeHacker 1,807,717 2,980
41 Jacqui Cheng Ars Technica 1,022,077 3,517
42 John Siracusa Ars Technica 1,022,077 3,493
43 Dean Takahashi VentureBeat 482,602 2,069
44 David Gallagher NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 195
45 Henry Blodget Silicon Alley 1,008,248 4,473
46 Bernard Lunn ReadWriteWeb 771,744 538
47 Sam Grobart NY Times Blogs 3,542,583 60
48 Kevin Purdy LifeHacker 1,807,717 1,821
49 Anthony Ha VentureBeat 482,602 1,211
50 Paul Boutin VentureBeat 482,602 1052

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  • standard said,

    thanks for sharing, but your methodology of “twitter followers” is a little off kilter. if I started writing for one of these blogs tomorrow, and got my entire fraternity to follow me, I’d make your list in my first week of work.

    p.s. where is leena rao from tech crunch? she writes strong stuff and my colleagues and I follow her work closely.

  • standard said,

    and another note…where is Kara Swisher of All Things Digital?

  • Dana Gardner said,

    Funny there are no ZDNet bloggers here either. As the TCers would say, WTF?

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