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After compiling yesterday’s list of the most influential U.S. newspapers on Twitter, based on their Klout scores, I thought it would be interesting to see how some online information sites compare. Here are some apples-to-oranges observations.

@mashable, with a Klout score of 87, is as influential as New York Times, and more influential than any other publication on the list.
@wikileaks and @techcrunch, with Klout scores of 85 (Wikileaks and TechCrunch), are more influential than Wall Street Journal.
@tmz and @gizmodo, with Klout scores of 80 (TMZ and Gizmodo), are more influential than New York Post and USA Today.
@tbd, with a Klout score of 68, is more influential than Washington Post.
@thedailybeast, with a Klout score of 78, is more influential than the Boston Globe and Miami Herald.
@propublica, with a Klout score of 73, is more influential than the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune.

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I ran a handful of newspaper Twitter accounts through Klout this morning to measure their social media influence. Klout uses “35 variables on Facebook and Twitter” to create a score that it describes as a measurement of “overall online influence.”

After Dylan Stableford (@stableford) published a list of top 25 newspapers on Twitter, based on print circulation, Mathilde Piard (@mathildepiard) followed with her own list of top newspapers on Twitter that “goes by number of followers on Twitter, not circulation.” I used the accounts from those posts to create the list below. Make sure to read those posts to learn about the selection process.

Here are the numbers. Click on a Twitter username to visit the account. Click on a Klout score for details about that measurement. Oh, and feel free to see the data in this Google Doc.