Table 1.

Number of tweets per city in the United Kingdom.

City	Tweets, n	Population, n
Bath	1698	105,730
Birminghama	21,120	1,159,888
Blackburn	1092	121,475
Bradford	4980	368,485
Brighton	10,092	245,504
Bristola	10,338	580,199
Cambridge	6894	149,155
Canterbury	2292	64,495
Carlisle	1098	74,536
Chelmsford	3894	119,468
Chester	3516	87,881
Chichester	864	31,881
Coventry	6072	388,793
Derby	3503	264,430
Durham	9414	56,920
Ealing	4914	340,341
Ely	432	20,333
Exeter	3360	127,709
Gloucester	1740	148,167
Hereford	1134	64,037
Kingston	5286	287,705
Kirklees	3156	441,290
Lancaster	876	52,935
Leedsa	11,628	516,298
Leicestera	19,818	472,897
Lichfield	792	34,686
Lincoln	4614	107,434
Liverpoola	15,876	589,774
Londona	111,667	9,088,994
Luton	2658	222,043
Manchestera	25,260	567,334
Newcastle	9642	290,688
Northampton	3954	230,070
Norwich	4290	199,245
Nottinghama	11,827	320,536
Peterborough	2054	179,349
Plymouth	2736	240,297
Portsmouth	4878	248,748
Preston	3816	100,095
Redbridge	3227	310,330
Ripon	138	15,971
Rochdale	1415	114,511
Rotherham	198	111,158
Salford	8034	125,983
Sheffielda	15,582	557,039
Southampton	7806	270,333
Worcester	3492	101,816
York	5748	164,934

^aTop nine cities used in subsequent analyses.