"Occupy" Facebook Supporters: Seattle (20,000+) Loses to Sesame Street (35,000+), But Beats Bellevue (1)

By Jonathan Walczak Thu., Oct. 20 2011 at 10:00 AM

Categories: Politics

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In an extremely unscientific survey of "Occupy" Facebook groups conducted yesterday by Seattle Weekly, Seattle, the nation's 23rd largest city, has the fifth-largest number of virtual supporters in the country.

"Occupy Bellevue," on the other hand, has only one. Renton has two.

We strongly considered including "Occupy Sesame Street," which with 36,856 supporters would have been the second-most popular group in the U.S., but decided against it.

Before you look at the numbers, we obviously couldn't survey every group or every city, and many cities, like Los Angeles, have multiple groups. We counted only the largest.

As we previously reported, Seattle had the nation's fifth-largest Occupy protest last Saturday.

The 67 groups we surveyed had a total of 707,279 members -- impressive, but not mind-blowing.

Without further ado:

1. Wall Street: 249,677
2. Boston 31,135
3. Los Angeles: 30,307
4. Chicago: 26,582
5. Seattle: 20,755
6. Philadelphia 20,619
7. Denver: 15,553
8. San Francisco: 15,316
9. Austin 14,114
10. Portland: 14,022
11. Dallas 13,027
12. Miami 11,351
13. Houston 11,315
14. San Diego 10,924
15. Atlanta 9,601
16. Indianapolis 8,435
17. Orlando: 8,202
18. Pittsburgh: 8,067
19. New Orleans 7,926
20. Columbus 7,694
21. Cincinnati 7,436
22. Detroit 7,077
23. Nashville 6,987
24. Baltimore 6,883
25. Washington, D.C. 6,511
26. Milwaukee: 6,329
27. Buffalo 6,119
28. Richmond, Va. 6,058
29. Charlotte: 5,662
30. Tulsa 5,644
31. Providence: 5,518
32. Louisville, Ky. 5,438
33. Tucson 5,309
34. Omaha 4,920
35. Spokane 4,977
36. Birmingham 4,808
37. San Jose, Ca. 4,818
38. Kansas City, Mo. 4,805
39. Las Vegas: 4,780
40. Raleigh, N.C.: 4,712
41. St. Louis 4,599
42. Memphis 4,542
43. San Antonio 4,249
44. Jacksonville, Fla. 3,789
45. Minneapolis 3,371
46. Hartford, CT. 3,130
47. Dayton, Ohio. 2,795
48. Eugene: 2,513
49. Reno 2,502
50. Boise 2,512
51. Gainesville 2,459
52. Tacoma 2,359
53. Phoenix 2,130
54. El Paso 2,105
55. Cleveland 1,981
56. Fresno 1,944
57. Asheville, N.C. 1,858
58. Olympia 1,772
59. Colorado Springs 1,548
60. Oakland: 1,495
61. Fort Worth 1,356
62. Albuquerque 1,198
63. Honolulu 1,095
64. Yakima 404
65. Newark 157
66. Renton 2
67. Bellevue 1

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