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New York City Is the Twitter ‘Capital Of The World’

New York City Is the Twitter 'Capital Of The World'On per capita use, New Yorkers use Twitter more than anyone else.

That's an interesting tidbit from a NYT blog post on how the Anthony Weiner scandal reverberated through Twitter. Also, New York state residents use Twitter 30% more than the national average.

On the one hand, this might be a bullish signal for Twitter: New York is the biggest and most culturally significant city in the US, and so having a strong base here should help growth. On the other hand, this could be interpreted as a bearish signal: because New York is such a media (and tech!) town, it could lend credence to the idea that Twitter is having a hard time breaking into the mainstream, and that its outsized prominence is due more to people in the media being ga-ga over it than over real-world usage.


New York City Is the Twitter 'Capital Of The World'Republished with permission from BusinessInsider.com. Authored by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry. Photo via ZeroOne/Flickr.
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