Criteria for Inclusion in Top Libertarian

Organizing the top libertarian content on the web

For the ranking of libertarian websites, there are several criteria that go into determining whether or not a website qualifies as a "libertarian website." Please read these over before submitting a website for inclusion and make sure that the meets all the criteria

What is a website? - The two data sources that are used to generate the rankings, Compete and Alexa, collect and store data only for entire domains or subdomains. Therefore only entire domains or subdomains are included

This is important because there are some sections of websites that are libertarian, but are hosted on domains that are not libertarian. For example, John Stossel's blog qualifies as libertarian, but the domain it's hosted on, foxbusiness.com, that are not entirely libertarian. This is important because were John Stossel's blog to be included in the rankings, the only data that would be available is for the entire foxbusiness.com domain. Considering that very likely most of the visitors to foxbusiness.com are not libertarians and are not there for the libertarian content, the inclusion of their traffic statistics skews the rankings enough to make them no longer useful.

The Criteria for Inclusion in the Twitter Rankings

My vision for the list is to have it include somewhere around 150 twitter accounts that represent a cross section of both the most followed and mentioned libertarian twitter accounts as well as the twitter accounts of some of the most important libertarians and libertarian organizations.

The huge number of potential accounts to include force me to use a much more narrow set of criteria. The criteria for being a libertarian and what constitutes a libertarian twitter account remain essentially the same, with the realization that personal twitter accounts are often less focused and thus more leeway is given for less libertarian focused content.

• My Twitter Accounts - I created this website, so I'm going to include all of my twitter accounts.
• Is the account active - There don't need to be new tweets, but it should be pretty apparent that the account is still active
• Does the twitter user work for a prominent libertarian organization? - Personal accounts of people who work for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the Cato Institute, Reason, etc. will be included as long as they maintain an active twitter presence.
• Does the twitter user run a highly ranked libertarian website or blog? - What constitutes highly ranked website will be evaluated on a case by case basis in conjunction with the twitter users role in the website. Being the only blogger at a top 50 ranked blog will likely get someone included while a sometimes contributer to such a site is less likely to do so
• Any kind of twitter spam is grounds for removal - The goal of this list is ultimately to help libertarians find twitter accounts they might be interested in following. Therefore, any accounts that I believe have engaged in Newt Gingrich style tricks to artificially boost their follower count or anything similar will not be included in the list.