New platform shows rankings for most influential Twitter accounts by cryptocurrency

Crypto research platform LunarCRUSH has launched a tool ranking the most influential Twitter accounts by their impact on specific cryptocurrencies.

Cointelegraph and Pomp, #1 and #2. U.S. crypto publication Cointelegraph comes in as the most influential account overall and also specifically for Bitcoin, just ahead of famously tweet-prone Morgan Creek Digital partner Anthony Pompliano, in second place on both counts.

Rhythmtrader, a prominent Bitcoin-centric Twitter account, and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao come in as third and fourth-most influential for Bitcoin.

Peter Schiff probably comes in as the list's biggest wildcard, ranked as the 6th-most influential account for Bitcoin - Schiff is a self-professed gold bug and has launched many a vitriolic attack on the original cryptocurrency.

Odd picks for Ethereum, Vitalik doesn't make the cut.

The rankings for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization may be slightly more puzzling.

WhalePanda is the number-one pick for Ethereum - an anonymous Twitter account that has established itself as a staunch and outspoken critic of the smart contract platform.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back, another individual that has not hidden his reservations about Ethereum, comes in as third-most influential account.

Perhaps most baffling of all is that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin - widely viewed as the poster child of ETH - doesn't appear in the top-100.

Pomp, on the other hand, only ranks as having influence over Bitcoin and Ethereum.