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As can be seen in Figure 3, the remainder of the most influential Chilean journalists in
Twitter are spread among such characterizations as: an Explorer (5%) or someone
who shares and also creates news, a Broadcaster (3%) or someone who spreads
information widely, a Taste Maker (3%) or someone who identifies trends and extends
them, a Feeder (1%) or someone who has a faithful following and an Activist (1%) or
Figure 3. Distribution according to Klout personality
(150 most influential journalists in Twitter)
someone who you can count on to defend certain ideas.
Having said this, an analysis of a configuration of the accounts of the 150 most
influential journalists in Twitter provides data that could also be termed interesting as
one can see in Figures 4 and 5.
Almost half of them (48%) provide information of a professional and institutional nature
in their Bios without referring to anything else. On the other hand, 17% of the
journalists exclusively provide information of a personal nature without mentioning their
profession or the institution they belong to. Half way in between, 42% of the journalists
mention personal characteristics, they specify their profession and they state the
name/s of the companies they work for. In this same sense, no less significant is the
fact that 14% of the most influential Chilean journalists in Twitter do not mention their
Bios in their accounts at all.
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