The king of San Francisco is now the king of the social media world. In terms of local politics, that is.
Gavin Newsom on Thursday was named America's Most Social Mayor by the leading search engine that tracks consumer-generated opinions across the social Web.
Samepoint,LLC. looked at mayors in the country's 100 biggest cities and analayzed the number of fans and followers on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and other sites to come up with the rankings.
It's not just Newsom's 1.38 million followers on Twitter that gained him the top title, he has also been a forward-thinker when it comes to conducting his meetings and sharing city information with the public. He formally announced run for governor via Twitter, posts weekly updates to YouTube and uses the new Web site datasf.org to post databases on city employees and other open-source city data.
The title will likely not sit well with critics, who already say Newsom is too close to Twitter.
Here's a glimpse at the top 10 Most Social Mayors as compiled by Samepoint:
- Gavin Newsom - San Francisco
- Cory Booker - Newark
- Mufi Hannemann - Honolulu
- Mike Bloomberg - New York
- Sam Adams - Portland
- Anise Parker - Houston
- Antonio Villaraigosa - Los Angeles
- Kevin Johnson - Sacramento
- RT Rybak - Minneapolis
- Kasim Reed - Atlanta
