Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic makes top 10 Twitter list

Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic is the 10th most followed Canadian mayor on Twitter, according to the social media company.

Twitter Canada recently crunched the numbers, looking at the Twitter accounts of mayors in Canada's 25 largest municipalities.

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As of Wednesday afternoon,Vrbanovic had12,007 followers. Naheed Nenshi, Calgary's mayor, took top spot with353,628.

Twitter also noted Vrbanovic is third on the list for how many people he follows: 4,456.Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre follows the most people at 4,865.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson had the highest number of tweets, with more than 72,900. Vrbanovic has more than 25,400.

Waterloo Mayor Dave Jaworsky was alsonoted in the Twitter blog post for taking advantage of GIFs and other media.

Howlocal mayors stack up

As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, this is how many followers local mayors have:

• Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic @berryonline 12,077.
• Guelph Mayor Cam Guthrie @CamGuthrie 10,453.
• Waterloo Mayor Dave Jaworsky @DaveJaworsky 7,699.
• Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson @Danmathieson 3,737.
• Region of Waterloo Chairman Ken Seiling @KenSeiling 2,737.
• Cambridge Mayor Doug Craig @MayorDougCraig 1,941.
• Woolwich Mayor Sandy Shantz @Sandy_Shantz 478.
• North Dumfries Mayor Sue Foxton @SusanFoxton1 104.
• Wellesley Mayor Joe Nowak @JoeNowak4Mayor 48 (not an active account).
• Wilmot Mayor Les Armstrong no account.

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