During his Thursday’s visit to Montreal, Twitter Canada’s managing director Rory Capern revealed some interesting insights into the social network’s statistics in Canada – and Montreal in particular [revealed by Montreal Gazette yesterday].
Most of the insights were sports or politics related, as those are apparently the most popular topics in tweets regarding Montreal.
However, Capern also shared some interesting information regarding Canadian music scene on Twitter. When it comes to music, Simple Plan are continuously Canada’s most followed band on Twitter, at this moment reaching over 1.17 million followers on this social media site. Behind them on second place is Arcade Fire with 1 million followers.
Just to compare with other popular Canadian bands – Nickelback only reaches up to 764k followers, Hedley has about 608k followers and Sum 41 has even less – only 397k followers.
Of course, only bands, not solo music artists are considered in this statistic. Several Canadian artists such as Justin Bieber or Drake can of course pride themselves on a little higher amount of followers.
