Craig

Any idea how the calculate these figures?

I have my Twitter location listing as Glasgow but others use Scotland, I’ve also seen people list there location as Glasgow Edinburgh Scotland, some don’t list anything and others put strange things like Global.

If the figures are taken from the location settings input by the user the figures might not be very accurate.

At first I thought these figures might show that a similar proportion of the population in each city had tried Twitter and therefore that Glasgow was the top tweeting city just because it’s also got the most population – but I’ve checked out the population of these cities, and while there’s a certain amount of overlap it’s not a direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_cities_in_Scotland_by_population

Maybe if we added up the surrounding cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh it would make more sense??

I was surprised at the difference between the top two to be honest and, as I’m about to say to Gordon, there’s a few ways for overlap. It’s certainly not scientific by any stretch, but it’s still handy info.

I think the figures are found by a) trawling Twitter feeds and bio’s and b) from what location people signing up to to Twellow put in. As you point out, when you have multiple ways of defining location – some have Glasgow, some have Glasgow, Scotland (and on wefollow people who put Glasgow, Scotland don’t show up in Glasgow) – it doesn’t help.

It’s not overly scientific but it’s a handy(ish) reference number for showing people.

I think you would need to look at the demographic of the top two cities. As a Glasgow born, east coast raised, back to Glasgow resident (I know) I am not at all surprised by the fact that Glaswegians are more [digitally] social.

Hi Craig

Its great to see your starting to get in to stats and demographics and your right some have accounts saying Glasgow or Scotland or something else.

personally I run over 15 twitter accounts for our networks

“But I wonder why Glasgow is so far ahead of Edinburgh?” really?! It might be to do with the fact Glasgow is six times bigger than Edinburgh!

East Kilbride, Motherwell, Paisley and Coatbridge are all in reality part of Glasgow.