Lahore vs. Bangalore vs. San Francisco on Twitter
Twitter added a search feature recently. In the spirit of micro-blogging, here are a few quick and interesting twitter search results:
Lahore: 15 results, Karachi: 35 results, San Francisco: 2038 results, Bangalore: 194 results
Translated into Twitterers (or Tweeters or whatever) per 1000 citizens (using Wikipedia), its:
Lahore AND Karachi (both have approximately the same ratio): 1 out of 0.57 MILLION tweeters, San Francisco: 1 out of 396 tweeters, Bangalore: 1 out of 27216 tweeters.
Comments?
Thanks for your comments. It’s great to find yet another local technical blog.
Hey – I had no idea you could selectively search by cities – neat find – and yes I too am surprised at the low number of pk twitters
What comedy is this? Lahore is historical city and it’s GDP nominal/PPP are nowhere near to Bangalore/San Francisco. The only city from Pakistan which is competing with indian metros is Karachi.
In 2008, the top south asian cities by GDP is like this:
Mumbai – $209 billion
Delhi – $167 billion
Kolkata -$104 billion
Karachi -$78 billion
Dhaka – $77 billion
Bangalore-$68 biilion
Chennai-$64 billion
Hyderabad(India)-$60 billion
Ahmedabad – $59 billion
Pune-$36 billion
Surat – $32 billion
Karachi did well under rule of some famous mayor. Later it couldn’t maintain that growth rate. Bangalore overtook Kaarachi in 2010 with a GDP of $88 billion compared to $83 billion of karachi. Dhaka is now $81 billion, Chennai is now $77 billion, Ahmedabad $74 billion, Hyderabad(India) $72 billion
Karachi is currently growing at 4% compared to 10.77% of bangalore, 7.3% for chennai, 9.4% for Ahmedabad, 5.7% for Hyderabad(India).
So above mentioned tier 2 indian metros will also overtake Karachi and Dhaka in terms of GDP nominal/PPP. Lahore is nowhere in the list dude. So don’t bring it. You can compare Lahore with tier 3/tier 4 metros in india. Karachi alone generates 28% Pakistan’s total GDP. SO it’s heart of your economy. Don’t let it break 🙂
@Naveen
It’s not a comedy, I swear!
Please check the context – it was about the software capitals of the countries, not metros/financial capitals.
I am amazed you took out the time to pull out facts and figures though. Kudos.
karachi is not alone pakistan high gdp ranked city ,islamabad, lahore, multan ,faislabad are also pakistan high gdp ranking cities.and soon our new under construction port gawader will be no 1 in gdp ranking