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18 November 2012: With a few exceptions, all mayors of America’s largest cities use social media to communicate with residents but, with more than 1.2 million followers on Twitter, the Mayor of Newark, NJ, is in a league of his own. Cory Booker’s personal Twitter page records almost five times as many followers than his city has residents. New York’s Michael Bloomberg has the second highest number of Twitter followers of any US mayor. The mayors of Portland, Illinois and San Antonio complete the top five of most popular Twitter mayors.

All big-city mayors follow considerably fewer Twitter accounts than they have followers, except that is for the Mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, who records 56,100 followers on Twitter and claims to follow 56,600 other users. Newark’s Cory Booker says he follows more than 62,000 other Twitter users, but the mayors of Tulsa and Chicago follow only one or two people. Dewey Bartlett, Tulsa, follows his city’s official Twitter page, while Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, follows the City of Chicago page and the Twitter account of a Cory Chism.

Some mayors prefer to use Twitter messages simply to inform, while others are also happy to chat. Cory Booker will tweet about everything and anything, from sport, movies to politics, although with virtually three tweets every hour, one wonders whether he has time for anything else. Michael Bloomberg’s tweets address more pertinent matters. His most recent 140-character messages deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The Twitter page of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who lists less than 1,000 tweets - Cory Booker has more than 22,000 recorded on his Twitter page – contains a mix of political, personal and informative messages.

Some mayors are honest enough to state that their personal Twitter pages are maintained by members of staff, while other like to keep up the illusion that the thousand of tweets are all their own handiwork.

US mayors on Twitter*

Rank	City	Mayor	Followers**	Following**
1	Newark New Jersey	Cory Booker	1,280,800	62,400
2	New York City New York State	Michael Bloomberg	389,900	200
3	Portland Oregon	Sam Adams	56,100	56,600
4	Chicago Illinois	Rahm Emanuel	52,400	2
5	San Antonio Texas	Julian Castro	40,700	1,600
6	Sacramento California	Kevin Johnson	33,100	13,500
7	Philadelphia Pennsylvania	Michael Nutter	32,400	400
8	Atlanta Georgia	Kasim Reed	31,100	5,500
9	Minneapolis Minnesota	R T Ryback	23,500	3,900
10	San Francisco California	Edwin Lee	20,100	200
11	Boston Massachusetts	Thomas Menino	19,100	3,000
12	St Louis Missouri	Francis Slay	16,800	2,400
13	Houston Texas	Annise Parker	13,200	2,300
14	Detroit Michigan	Dave Bing	13,000	1,300
15	Baltimore Maryland	Stephanie Rawlings-Blake	12,300	700
16	New Orleans Louisiana	Mitch Landriey	10,800	1,000
17	Washington DC District of Columbia	Vincent Gray	10,400	300
18	Memphis Tennessee	A C Wharton	10,300	4,900
19	Indianapolis Indiana	Greg Ballard	9,800	1,000
20	Seattle Washington	Mike McGinn	9,700	1,800
21	Charlotte North Carolina	Anthony Foxx	8,100	3,900
22	San Diego California	Jerry Sanders	7,900	1,600
23	Kansas City Missouri	Sly James	5,800	5,700
24	Columbus Ohio	Mike Coleman	5,500	900
25	Louisville Kentucky	Greg Fischer	5,300	200
26	Oakland California	Jean Quan	4,700	1,200
27	Denver Colorado	Michael Hancock	4,600	2,000
28	Los Angeles California	Antonio Villaraigosa	3,900	37
29	Jacksonville Florida	Alvin Brown	3,800	1,800
30	Omaha Nebraska	Jim Suttle	3,300	1,500
31	Las Vegas Nevada	Carolyn Goodman	3,200	2,400
32	Mesa Arizona	Scott Smith	3,100	700
33	Phoenix Arizona	Greg Stanton	3,100	700
34	Austin Texas	Lee Leffingwell	3,000	900
35	Pittsburgh Pennsylvania	Luke Ravenstahl	2,900	200
36	Fresno California	Ashley Swearengin	2,500	21
37	Forth Worth Texas	Betsy Price	2,300	1,000
38	Wichita Kansas	Carl Brewer	2,200	31
39	Dallas Texas	Mike Rawlings	1,900	600
40	Colorado Springs Colorado	Steve Bach	1,700	900
41	Long Beach California	Bob Foster	800	300
42	Miami Florida	Tomas Regalado	800	100
43	Tulsa Oklahoma	Dewey Bartlett	300	1
44	Albuquerque New Mexico	Richard Berry	200	30

*The research for this article was carried out on 17 and 18 November 2012.
* Figures were rounded up to the nearest hundred

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America’s most popular city mayors on Twitter Research by City Mayors*

America’s most popular
city mayors on Twitter
Research by City Mayors*