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The identification of such influential microbloggers has vast applications in advertising, online marketing, corporate communication, information dissemination, etc. This paper investigates the problem of identifying influential microbloggers by proposing MIPPLA (Model to identify Influential using Productivity, Popularity and Link Analysis) model which integrates the modules of Productivity and Popularity. The Productivity module considers a micro-blogger\u2019s activity and the Popularity module identifies a microbloggers influence in an online social community. In addition, we modify the classic PageRank by utilizing the Twitter features such as retweet, mention, and reply for ranking the influential users. The proposed approaches are evaluated using real-world social networks. 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