From: Impact investing market on Twitter: influential users and communities
Category | No. of influential Twitter users | Description |
---|---|---|
Investor | 40 (8%) | Banks, funds, asset managers |
Social business | 69 (13%) | Any organisations or enterprises (for- profit or not-for-profit) with a social purpose, such as NGOs, charities, voluntary and community organisations, social enterprises, community interest companies (CIC) |
Practitioner | 141 (27%) | Individuals working independently or for organisations active in the field, opinion leaders |
Ad-hoc initiative | 25 (5%) | Activities relevant for the sector with no legal status, such as one-off funded projects, policy initiatives, steering groups |
Intermediary | 151 (29%) | Any organizations that do not tackle a social problem directly but enable other players to do that, such as Foundations, fairs, business support hubs, national membership bodies, platforms, networks |
Private company | 29 (6%) | For profit private companies excluding social enterprises |
Media | 29 (6%) | Magazines, blog, podcasts, journalists |
Public sector | 13 (3%) | Local or national government, international institution |
Academia | 14 (3%) | Universities, professors, researchers |
Other | 9 (2%) | Individuals or organisations doing primarily something unrelated to the topic, political parties |
Total | 520 (100%) |