Twitter has evolved into a platform for serious finance gurus and contains a mass of information that is useful to business and finance communities —alongside an awful lot of trivia that isn’t.
Beyond the jabberings of the small-time players, Lincoln Recruitment has selected the list of the top 10 Irish finance people to follow on Twitter. These analysts, commentators, contributors, economists and more hold alot of power in 140 characters, and they often take to Twitter to give their two cents. And it’s smart stuff.
In putting together this list of top Irish finance tweeters, we considered how adept they are at engaging their followers and analysing the most important finance news and stories of the day. They are ranked in order of those with the most followers. If you feel that we are missing some key inclusions, let us know in the comments below.
Here is our list of Ireland’s top 10 finance tweeters:
1. David McWilliams @davidmcw
Follower count: 158,000
Why you should follow:
David McWilliams is an Irish economist, writer, broadcaster and journalist. He is a Professor at Trinity College and known as one of Dublin’s and also Ireland’s most influential Twitter users. He is known for making economics both accessible to, and popular with, the layman and his twitter account follows suit, updated daily with entertaining commentary combined with serious analysis and easy-to-understand ‘punk economics’.
2. Megan Greene @economistmeg
Follower count: 41,500
Why you should follow:
Megan Greene is chief economist at Manulife and John Hancock Asset Management, Senior Fellow with the German Marshall Fund and Sunday Business Post columnist. London-based with a deep knowledge or European economies, Ms Greene specialises in covering Europe’s troubled periphery and so regularly comments on Ireland.
3.Constantin Gurdgier @GTCost
Follower count: 31,700
Why you should follow
Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev is assistant professor of finance at Trinity College, Dublin, and a co-founder and director of the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, Ltd. He serves as a partner and a board member with a number of international financial services providers, and is best-known for his appearances on Vincent Browne’s late-night talk show on TV3. An active user on Twitter, expect lots of discussion of the euro crisis, links to his personal blog and commentary on the economic news of the day.
How to become an expert on central banking from the middle of nowhere – ask Lorcan Roche Kelly. Kelly is a cattle farmer and former explosives engineer in the mining industry who lives in Sixmilebridge Co Clare. Kelly is an editor on Bloomberg Markets and if you want to know about something that’s happening at ECB, he’s your man.
5 Brian M. Lucey @brianmlucey
6. Brenda Kelly @Brenda_Kelly
Follower Count: 15,780
Why you should follow
Head analyst at London Capital Group. Strong on posting instant reactions to breaking financial news and high-frequency economic data. This UCD graduate explains developments simply with links to the more complicated stuff. Very handy.
7. Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella
Follower count: 15,100
Why you should follow
Stephen Kinsella is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick. He is also a columnist with The Sunday Business Post and additionally has published 4 books and about 25 journal articles. You can add Twitter to this list, where in his words, he ‘probably spends too much time jibber-jabbering on the twitter.’ His tweets are current, topical and entertaining in the discussion of economic issues —funny and smart, like the man himself.
8. Karl Whelan @WhelanKarl
Follower count: 14,300
Why you should follow
Karl Whelan is a Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. Previous to UCD he worked as an economist at the Central Bank of Ireland. Expect references to his frequent blogging at karlwhelan.com on various financial matters, as well as opinion and posting links to the biggest stories in finance.
9. Enda Curran @endacurran
Follower Count: 6,360
Why you should follow
A former UCD graduate and Asia Finance reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Enda now works as a reporter for Bloomberg. He’s got his boots on the ground in Hong Kong, so it’s a good place to look if you want news about China and dodge the great firewall. Expect well-curated articles and tweets about China, Hong Kong, and the Asian arena.
10. Owen Callan @OwenCallan
Follower Count: 5,304
Why you should follow
Avid commenter and sharer of all things market related. In his own words Callan tries “to make sense of the volatile international markets and uncertain economic outlooks facing us all.” Callan’s tweets veer from financial to economic issues, politics and culture. He engages other finance folks on Twitter and keeps the conversation going.
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