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Syracuse University posts on Twitter more than any other college [Infographic]

Geoff Herbert | gdherbert@syracuse.com By Geoff Herbert | gdherbert@syracuse.com
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on October 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM, updated October 25, 2011 at 11:57 AM
syracuse_university_twitter_web.jpgBest Education Sites singled out Syracuse University as the most heavy Twitter user. The school's official account has tweeted more than 10,000 times.

Syracuse University may have slipped in their Klout ranking last month, but they're winning in at least one social media category: Twitter.

Forbes posted an infographic Tuesday created by Best Education Sites that shows which U.S. colleges and universities are using the web and social media the best.

It turns out @SyracuseU, the university's official Twitter account, has tweeted more than any other school in America. Their 10,800th tweet, posted Tuesday morning, said, "We got a shout out from @Forbes for being the most active University on Twitter!"

According to the Best Education Sites infographic (posted below) studies have proven "increased engagement between educators and students via email and social media has a positive effect on learning." Of the top 50 schools in U.S.News & World Report's 2012 Best College Rankings and Lists, which includes Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF, all of them appear in the Best Ed Sites' top 400 list.

The data claims to be a good indicator of an institution's overall quality as web presence is measured in Facebook "likes" (Harvard, where Mark Zuckerberg went to college, has the most); YouTube views (only three schools have more than one million video views); and web code cleanliness (the average site has 40 CSS coding errors, while online school University of Phoenix has a surprising 198 CSS mistakes).

Alexa, which measures site success by keyword, category, links and more analysis, gave Stanford University the highest score with a global ranking of 1,296. By the same measurement, Syracuse University was ranked 17,545th globally.

See what other colleges are "the schools that rule the web":

Schools That Rule the Web

» Infographic by Best Education Sites
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