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15th Mar 2016

The most influential Irish male and female social media personalities have been revealed

Conor Heneghan

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A study conducted by mobile phone provider Meteor has revealed that Conor McGregor and Pippa O’Connor are the most influential social media personalities in Ireland.

McGregor and O’Connor commanded 20% of votes from male and female respondents respectively, with Brian O’Driscoll (7%), Cian Twomey (3%), Amy Huberman (13%) and Suzanne Jackson (7%) also featuring prominently.

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The study also revealed that Irish people use Facebook far more frequently than any other social media app – seven in 10 people said they used it more frequently than Twitter (8%), Snapchat (8%) and Instagram (7%).

68% of women, meanwhile and 56% of men said they were likely to buy a product recommended by one of their favourite social media personalities, while 47% of those surveyed said they get ‘most of their news’ from social media links as opposed to online news sites (34%) and traditional news sources (19%).

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