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Top 10 Cities Using Twitter

16 June 2009 | austin social media,social media statistics,social-media | 1 Comment

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Is Austin in the Top 10?

Popular social networking site Twitter.com allows users to indicate their location and although it doesn’t mandate what format you note your location (ex: Austin, TX can be North Austin or ATX or whatever), it does ask where you are. Below is the most common 10 entries of where Twitter users live according to Hubspot.com:

  1. London
  2. Los Angeles
  3. Chicago
  4. New York City
  5. San Francisco
  6. Toronto
  7. Atlanta
  8. Seattle
  9. Boston
  10. Austin

Why does this matter to you?

With Oprah, Ashton and CNN shoving Twitter down everyone’s throat, it’s inevitable that you or someone at your office will consider jumping in the deep end. The only problem is that if your company is local and the Twitter population in your city is small, you may have a higher time investment level in *building* the local population before you see any ROI. It would be cool if the Antique Store on Main Street in Dimebox, TX were on Twitter but the population of users there makes it difficult to connect for a retailer. If a company is looking to connect with a large population, Austin is a better fit as the crowd is heavily leveraged on Twitter (as well as other social networks).

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1 Comment for this entry

  • Matt Stigliano
    June 16th, 2009 on 1:29 pm

    You may have a higher time investment, but you will also reap the rewards (if you do it well) of being the “guru” (blech, hate that word).

    Sometimes being first with no “friends” is a good thing.

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