London has been praised as the most talked about travel destination on
Twitter, as the words ‘London’ and ‘travel’ were tweeted together more than
630,000 times in 2015.
This is 200,000 times more than the next popular cities were mentioned,
which include Paris, New York, Rome and Tokyo, according to data from
London and Partners, the Mayor of London’s promotional company and
Spredfast.
The word ‘London’ alone was tweeted more than 81 million times in 2015 and
some of the works which were commonly mentioned on Twitter
in association with London were ‘fashion’, ‘art’ and ‘travel’. In
addition, separate research has shown London to be the most Googled capital
city since 2004 and the most ‘selfie’ location in the world, with over 40
percent of the images from London on Instagram being a selfie.