British boyband One Direction have topped a brand new poll of the most influential Twitter users in the UK.

This poll was created by PeerIndex, which is the company's third annual chart of the top Twitter users in the UK, and it was ranked by influence alone rather than just by the amount of followers each account boasts.  

The lads' individual accounts took all five top spots on the chart (pictured below) and ranked in the following order:

1. Liam Payne, 2. Harry Styles, 3. Niall Horan, 4. Louis Tomlinson, 5. Zayn Malik. Perhaps even more impressively, they managed to beat the UK's Prime Minister, David Cameron, who placed at No.7. 

Speaking about the chart, PeerIndex founder Azeem Azhar explained that it's a solid representation of popular culture in the country: "As Twitter has become more mainstream, the top 140 starts to resemble the contours of popular culture and power, the footballers, politicians and boy bands."

"However, social media’s democratising effects still allow those with challenging, well-defined or interesting views to build influence. Witness the number of independent media stars, like Marius Listhrop and Dan Howell and authors like Owen Jones and Caitlin Moran."