The Most Socially Networked Cities in America

by Ronnie Manning

As social media becomes more and more intertwined with PR strategy and planning, I found a recent article in Men’s Health listing the Top 100 Most Socially Networked Cities in America of great interest. Due to the fact that as of late I’m regularly deep in the trenches of social media, I was extremely surprised at some of the findings - especially how low on the list San Diego was listed (#27) and that Silicon Valley wasn’t listed as the number one city. As social media and networking continues to evolve, I’m sure that we will see cities continue to rotate in lists such as this.

So how did Men’s Health develop the listing in the first place? According to the magazine – “We started by calculating the number of Facebook and LinkedIn users per capita, followed by overall Twitter usage (NetProspex). Then we looked at traffic generated by the major social networks, including Myspace, Friendster, Reddit, and Digg (analyzed by ad network Chitika). Finally, after factoring in the percentage of households that check out chat rooms and blogs (SimplyMap), we had the results you see below.”

To view the entire listing, please visit http://bit.ly/guo9SE

The Top 10 (with my old stomping grounds coming in at #1) and some numbers that surprised me are below…

Most socially networked

1 Washington, DC
2 Atlanta, GA
3 Denver, CO
4 Minneapolis, MN
5 Seattle, WA
6 San Francisco, CA
7 Orlando, FL
8 Austin, TX
9 Boston, MA
10 Salt Lake City, UT