Charlotte isn’t the #1 Twitter world city by a large margin, according to the Twitter grader tool, we are ranked as the #36th city on a Top-50 list of cities that use Twitter (the ranking is of # of users identified with a particular city). However, we have an average twitter grade of 66.31. Twitter Grader calculates a Twitter grade for a user based on their number of followers, status of followers and other sensible quantitative measures of “Twitter Power”. The higher the number, the more relative strength you have on Twitter.

This 66.31 average is much higher than every city below us in the list (except for Raleigh at 66.16) and only lower than four other Top-50 Twitter cities: #4 San Francisco (69.39), #11 Washington, DC (69.30), #12 Portland (66.79), #27 Nashville, TN (66.67); all cities with large numbers of celebrities, it makes sense that they would have high average twitter grades because you have musicians, politicians and forward thinkers in all those metro areas.

Does Charlotte have a lot of important people? Or just a lot of important people on Twitter? Maybe the average is so high because a large number of Charlotte’s ‘dialed in’ people have signed up for Twitter, using it religiously, while a large number in the area just don’t get it and never sign up? Perhaps such a divide results in the high average for Charlotte Twitter users.

Regardless of the resulting explanation, I think it is a fair indicator that the Twitter community in Charlotte is a lot of fun.