No surprises in CEOs using Twitter

So, Business Week has published their list of CEOs who are all using Twitter and while it is interesting to read many of the little snapshots accompanying the post there’s no surprises in who’s on the list. Out of the almost 50 CEOs on the list only three of them are folks that have no direct ties to the Web or computers in general.

What I was more curious about though were things like their follower/following ration as well as the number of updates that they had. Using the Business Week list I a few sub-lists of my own covering some of those questions.

5 Most equal follower/following CEOs on Twitter

• Guy Kawasaki, CEO of Alltop
  • Following: 117,520
  • Followers: 115,583
  • Only uses Twitter to market himself and Alltop
• Tom, CEO of AKQA
  • Following: 1,200
  • Followers: 1,209
• Jeff Booth, CEO of BuildDirect
  • Following: 1,161
  • Followers: 1,167
• Mike Ferrari, Co-founder of SmartyPig
  • Following: 3,024
  • Followers: 3,137
• Alex Yoder, CEO of WebTrends
  • Following: 645
  • Followers: 591

5 Most unequal follower/following CEOs on Twitter

• Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems
  • Following: 4
  • Followers: 2,469
• Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg
  • Following: 173
  • Followers: 603,605
• Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove
  • Following: 9
  • Followers: 330
• Bob Parsons, CEO of Go Daddy
  • Following: 31
  • Followers: 642
• John Battelle, CEO of Federated Media
  • Following: 381
  • Followers: 14,674

5 Top CEO Updaters

• Guy Kawasaki, CEO of Alltop with 23,866 Updates (most of which are links to Alltop posts)
• Loic Lemeur, Founder of Seesmic with 16,682 Updates
• Pete Cashmore, CEO of Mashable with 15,313 Updates (most of which are links to Mashable posts)
• Jason Calacanis, Founder of Mahalo with 9,243 Updates
• Christine Perkett, President of PerkettPR with 9,093 Updates

5 CEOs with the least number of Updates

• Mark Cuban, Chairman of HDNet with only 23 Updates
• Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystem with only 28 Updates
• Tod Sacerdoti, CEO of Brightroll with only 35 Updates
• Gary Stockman, CEO of Porter Novelli with only 37 Updates
• J’Amy Stewart, CEO of Infonetics with only 52 Updates

Oh and the three non Web or computer related Twittering CEOs are

• Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund CEO
• Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson Publishers CEO
• Richard Branson, Virgin Group Chairman