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ANZ Championship on Facebook’s fanpages and groups

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 30 January, 2010

bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and LiveJournal clones all have relatively small communities when compared to Facebook. It bothers me sometimes because to understand the size and shape of the online fan community on popular social networks almost requires looking at the site if I want to be accurate. The data you get from the advertising information is interesting but limited. Looking at fanpage and group membership is even more limited but at least you can get names and a better feel for location. I decided to do that for ANZ Championship teams. (There are just too many NRL and AFL and even NBL related groups for me to want to tackle at the moment.) I found the following list of groups and fan pages:

  • Adelaide Thunderbirds – ANZ Championship: Adelaide Thunderbirds
  • Thunderbirds Adelaide Netball Club Appreciation Community – ANZ Championship: Adelaide Thunderbirds
  • Thunderbirds are GO in the 2009 grand final! – ANZ Championship: Adelaide Thunderbirds
  • Canterbury Tactix – ANZ Championship: Canterbury Tactix
  • SUPPORT THE CANTERBURY TACTIX WITH TIC TACS – ANZ Championship: Canterbury Tactix
  • Pulse Netball – ANZ Championship: Central Pulse
  • Melbourne Vixens – ANZ Championship: Melbourne Vixens
  • Melbourne Vixens – ANZ Championship: Melbourne Vixens
  • Melbourne Vixens – ANZ Championship: Melbourne Vixens
  • Northern Mystics – ANZ Championship: Northern Mystics
  • Northern Mystics Fans – ANZ Championship: Northern Mystics
  • Queensland Firebirds – ANZ Championship: Queensland Firebirds
  • Southern Steel – ANZ Championship: Southern Steel
  • southern steel – ANZ Championship: Southern Steel
  • Sydney Swifts – ANZ Championship: Sydney Swifts
  • Waikato/BOP Magic Netball – ANZ Championship: Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic
  • West Coast Fever – ANZ Championship: West Coast Fever
  • West Coast Fever – ANZ Championship: West Coast Fever
  • Some of these groups have as many as 1,000 members and some have as few as 13. I went looked at the membership list, found the people who belonged to specific networks, identified the location of that network and then created a map based on those. Some cases, like for corporations, have no city specific location and some of the schools on the list are affiliated with bigger towns near them. The map below differs a fair bit from the similar map for to the one for bebo, blogger and Facebook. The major difference? Regional fannishness is much, more more apparent on Facebook.

    ANZ Championship on Facebook

    Overview map

    ANZ Championship on Facebook

    40
    6
    1
    Adelaide Thunderbirds
    Canterbury Tactix
    Melbourne Vixens
    Northern Mystics
    Queensland Firebirds
    West Coast Fever

    ANZ Championship on Facebook: New Zealand


    Overview map

    ANZ Championship on Facebook

    40
    6
    1
    Adelaide Thunderbirds
    Canterbury Tactix
    Melbourne Vixens
    Northern Mystics
    Queensland Firebirds
    West Coast Fever

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