As the largest city in the United States, NYC has a distinct advantage in amassing a reddit army (not your personal army) to drink and be merry — but looking at reddit's traffic for the most active cities shows that there is potential for reddit armies in a number of other locales:
Most active cities by total pageviews (reddit's Google Analytics, Jan-May 2011):
New York: 9.5M
Toronto: 5.4M
Los Angeles: 5.3M
Chicago: 4.7M
San Francisco: 4.5M
Seattle: 4.3M
London: 4.1M
Austin: 3.7M
Vancouver: 2.7M
Houston: 2.6M
I have heard that a number of cities are looking to dismantle r/nyc from its "largest meetup" throne — London, Sydney, and San Francisco all come to mind as front-runners for GrMD events, or Global reddit Meetup Day. Then again, communities like r/TwinCitiesSocial — a contender for Best Little Community of 2010 — or your own city could surprise us all.
I am a huge fan of r/nyc, however on GrMD I will be lending my support to the chaps of r/LondonSocialClub. I found these good fellows through their meetup posts on r/meetup and redditgifts.com. I strongly urge you all to find (or even create) a meetup in your area. GrMD is sure to be a great day!
Stay tuned for more information about redditors IRL this week. But in the meantime, chew on this: Canada wins the most addicted country to reddit (measured by the number of pages per visit) with the United States a close second.
Most addicted/engaged countries by avg. pageviews per visit (reddit's Google Analytics, Jan-May 2011
): Canada: 15.72
United States: 15.46
Denmark: 13.99
Norway: 13.81
Sweden: 13.34
Netherlands: 12.89
United Kingdom: 12.86
Ireland: 12.57
Belgium: 11.98
Finland: 11.27
