{"id":382320,"date":"2026-07-22T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382320\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:20:41","slug":"texas-among-most-social-media-addicted-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382320\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas among most social media-addicted states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (KDAF) \u2014\u00a0New research by analysts at <a href=\"https:\/\/thewinderlawfirm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Winder Law Firm indicates Texas<\/a> ranks seventh among US states for social media engagement, based on average monthly Google searches related to social media platforms. The study found Texas\u2019s search interest is 12% higher than the national average. The findings suggest a significant online presence for Texans, with millions of monthly searches for social media terms.<\/p>\n<p>The personal injury firm\u2019s analysts conducted an extensive review of average monthly Google searches within each state for terms such as \u2018Facebook login\u2019 and \u2018TikTok desktop.\u2019 To enable a fair comparison, they then standardized the data by comparing each state\u2019s total searches to its population, determining the average number of monthly Google searches per 100,000 residents. The national average stands at 135,356 monthly Google searches per 100,000 residents for social media-related terms.<\/p>\n<p>Texas recorded 151,961 average monthly Google searches per 100,000 residents for terms related to social media platforms. This figure surpasses the national average by 12%. In total, there are an average of 46,353,266 monthly searches for these terms within the state. The top five most searched social media platforms in Texas are YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram and Reddit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">STUDY: The states searching the most for social media platforms<\/p>\n<p>Rank\u00a0State\u00a0Average\u00a0number of monthly Google searches per 100,000 residents\u00a01\u00a0New York\u00a0157,537\u00a02\u00a0Virginia\u00a0156,340\u00a03\u00a0Washington\u00a0153,725\u00a04\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0153,583\u00a05\u00a0Georgia\u00a0153,418\u00a06\u00a0Massachusetts\u00a0152,178\u00a07\u00a0Texas\u00a0151,961\u00a08\u00a0Oregon\u00a0147,383\u00a09\u00a0Illinois\u00a0146,896\u00a010\u00a0Pennsylvania\u00a0145,650\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, N.Y. leads in social media platform search interest, with 157,537 average monthly searches per 100,000 residents. Virginia followed, registering 156,340 average monthly searches and Washington ranked third with 153,725 average monthly searches per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, W.Virginia had the lowest average monthly Google searches per 100,000 people, totaling 106,076. Mississippi followed with 108,152 average monthly Google searches and Alaska registered 111,291 average monthly Google searches per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Across all states, the platforms with the highest search interest are YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram and Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>All facts in this report were gathered by journalists employed by CW33.\u00a0Artificial intelligence tools were used to reformat\u00a0information\u00a0into a news article for our website. This report was edited and fact-checked by\u00a0CW33\u00a0staff before being published.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (KDAF) \u2014\u00a0New research by analysts at Winder Law Firm indicates Texas ranks seventh among US states for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,5893,9828,160,162,161,87416,702,27,1519,8802],"class_list":["post-382320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-reddit","tag-social-media","tag-texas","tag-x","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}