Six politicians, four journalists in top 10 Dutch Twitter users

Six politicians and four political journalists are on a list of the most influential users of the microblogging service Twitter in the Netherlands, drawn up by global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller and social media analysts Klout.


The company drew up a list of G20 influencers, ‘defining the top ten most politically influential people on Twitter’ in each of the G19 countries plus the EU as well as Netherlands, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
MPs Geert Wilders, Alexander Pechtold and Diederik Samsom are among the politicians on the list while Nos political commentator Dominque van der Heyde and Frits Wester of RTL are among the journalists.
On average, the Dutch Twitter users had over 63,000 followers.
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