Manchester is ranked third in Europe on Twitter

Manchester has the largest number of Twitter users in the UK after London and is third in Europe behind London and Paris, according to analysis compiled by the Social Media Café.

The ‘social meet up’ group has used a tool called Twittergrader, to identify the top   100 locations worldwide. US cities dominate the rankings but the UK capital is ranked atop the entire list. Followed by Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Paris is the second European entrant in the ranking at 28 with Manchester placed at 35 in the world ranking and third overall in Europe. Glasgow comes in at 59 and Birmingham is ranked 71.

Twittergrader's list is calculated using their own system that takes into account followers, following and interactivity. By scanning the location field on Twitter users accounts, they can work out where that user is based. Social Media Cafe blogger Josh R / @technicalfault analysed the results to calculate Manchester's relative rank.

Manchester's high Twitter rank reflects the concentration of digital and social media activity within the city says Josh and the city’s ranking is also reflected, he suggests, in the rapid growth of and interest in the Social Media Cafe which claims to be the largest, regular social media meetup in the UK.

Since November 2008, #smc_mcr has met every month to talk about the latest trends in social and digital media, with free talks and sessions from leading thinkers in the industry, including Kevin Hoy from Greater Manchester Police who led the ground-breaking awareness raising campaign to tweet every 999 call in the Manchester area.

#smc_mcr has also teamed up with the annual FutureEverything festival to host a Global Digital Cafe that saw Manchester linked with simultaneous events in Sao Paulo and Vancouver over a high-speed Internet link that enabled Mancs to virtually 'share a sofa' with participants thousands of miles away.

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