Melissa Miller and the great folks at Hubspot ran some recent analysis on Twitter by U.S. State to determine which states had the most active Twitter users. The top 3 states with the most Twitter usage are Massachusetts, Washington and Oregon, each with usage over 60% higher than the average. The bottom three states are Mississippi, Montana and West Virginia. For comparison Massachusetts was +69% while Mississippi was -58%.
The fastest growing state for Twitter usage is Utah which experienced 66% growth from 2009 to 2010. This may have been the result of Twitter opening a new data center in Salt Lake City.
It should be noted that Hubspot is located in Cambridge, MA as is the author of this post (me).
Boston/Cambridge alone is home to 57 colleges/Universities and is the birthplace of Facebook (Harvard). Social Media authors Brian Halligan, Chris Brogan, C.C.Chapman, Anne Hadley, Brian Reich, Mike Volpe, David Meerman Scott, Paul Gillin, Dan Schawbel, Dharmesh Shaw, Larry Webber and others call Boston home.
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