The globally-celebrated Social Media Week kicks off on Monday, with twelve cities around the world taking part in the festivities.

In true social media monitoring fashion, we’ve decided to focus our eye, or rather ears, on listening to the buzz surrounding the event for each city.

The cities included are:

• Hamburg
• Hong Kong
• London
• Miami
• New York
• Paris
• San Francisco
• Sao Paulo
• Singapore
• Tokyo
• Toronto
• Washington DC

We’ve made it a competition between the host cities, feeding the unwitting social media commenters into our dataviz and ranking each city by the number of mentions it gets across both Twitter and Facebook.

We’ve set up a query in the Brandwatch app to track all mentions of the different locations with regard to Social Media Week, and put this little infographic on our home page.

The graph also splits the mentions into Facebook and Twitter instances, though Twitter is likely to enjoy the lion’s share of discussion.

It’s going to go live as the week begins on Monday, so check our website from the start of next week. You can get involved simply by talking about Social Media Week and one of the cities, using either hashtags, general tweets/posts or even by talking with the profiles for each city.