It’s Friday and time for our weekly Top 30 Hotels on Twitter. This week there are only 2 new entries and one hotel has moved up the list. However, that one hotel has managed to snatch the top spot with our first change of the number one spot!

We have a new leader at the top, ending Travelodge Ireland’s reign of 5 weeks at the number 1 spot. Gregans Castle have managed to increase their number of followers to beat that of Travelodge Ireland and move themselves into the top spot!

Download the list as a PDF here

(list is correct as of 09^th April 2010)

The data in this list differs slightly to that of our Facebook list and is ranked according to the hotel’s influence on the twitterverse.

We’ve used twitter.grader.com to rank each hotel on twitter. This clever little app considers many different factors including number of followers, number of followings and number of posts (among many others). This creates a score, enabling each twitter account to be ranked out of all the accounts that have been graded in the twitter network.

It basically gives you an idea of the impact each tweet has.

The grade is out of 100 and represents the percentage of accounts that have less of an impact than yours. For example, a TwitterGrade of 95 means tweets from your account have more of an impact than tweets from 95% of all other graded accounts on twitter. Pretty impressive hey?!

As with our Facebook list, we’ve done our best to recognise every contender for the list but a few are bound to have slipped through the net. If you think your hotel should be included on the list, please let us know by commenting below, remembering to include your “@” twitter account name.

The list is open to all hotels in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Be sure to check back each week to see if your hotel has made the list.