What are your best tools for finding top influencers for specific topics?

Question

I'm trying to connect with some top influencers in specific fields for my new project and Quora and Google doesn't appear to be effective.  Are there any other resources out there to use?

Jakub Rogalski · Accepted Answer

An effective and precise way of finding them would be to use a social media monitoring tool. After setting up a monitoring project, such tool picks up the mentions of chosen keywords and presents the results together with the actionable data related to the authors of the post. With such data, not only will you be able to identify who are the most influential people you might want to engage but also find out what is the potential reach of their messages if you end up partnering with them.

yas · Answer

Super easy setup. Great response time and you end up with a highly curated list of quality influencers

Taimoor Hussain · Answer

Its a great tool that will find you the influencers you are looking for and its really easy to use.

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

Well, you can find all influencers on Twitter. Just look who popular folks are following :)

Judith Ratajczak · Answer

Live Tweets for hashtags, influencer by hashtag, mindmap for related hashtags ...

Agnieszka · Answer

Agree, I was using it when searching for influencers who could have been a part of my report.