Archive for September 15th, 2010

Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter (version 2)

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 15 September, 2010

This is an update on my September 13 post. I’ve added roughly about fifty more athletes. I want to improve the list some more and try to update this list regularly during the Commonwealth Games to see if those individual athletes gain a following during them. If I’m missing anyone or anything, let me know.

Account League Team Description Followers Statuses Listed
warne888 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers 170118 1377 3768
MClarke23 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 45472 434 1307
AndrewMBogut Basketball Australia Australian Boombers Andrew Bogut 26888 5210 1411
Mick_Fanning Surf Life Saving Australia Mick Fanning surfer 20917 2038 824
dmartyn30 Cricket Australia Western Warriors former player 16605 2470 730
JohnSmit123 Super 14 Natal Sharks player 15994 347 530
VictorMatfield Super 14 Pretoria Bulls (Northern Bulls) player 14275 409 507
AFL AFL AFL official 13642 4298 486
PH408 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 12836 15 467
LoteTuqiri NRL Wests Tigers player 11995 3683 527
LionsRugbyTeam Rugby World Cup South Africa Lions 10165 4393 318
ItsStephRice Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice athlete 10068 2784 341
RealBigDell NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial 9396 4400 291
QuadeCooper Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial 9036 6347 323
NRL NRL NRL 8494 4661 289
SamBurgess8 NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs player 8071 1585 182
jarrydhayne_1 NRL Parramatta Eels player 7795 1067 164
Collingwood_FC AFL Collingwood Magpies official 7380 1773 242
harry_o AFL Collingwood Magpies player 7111 1992 237
karmichaelhunt AFL Gold Coast Football Club Karmichael Hunt (player) 6967 4511 256
jimstynes AFL Melbourne Demons player 6431 141 172
mornesteyn Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders unofficial 6303 46 261
mat_rogers6 NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 6233 2104 295
Adelaide_FC AFL Adelaide Crows official 6193 3055 217
giteau_rugby Super 14 ACT Brumbies player 5721 285 200
sydneyswans AFL Sydney Swans official 5644 2712 230
JobeWatson AFL Essendon Bombers player 5556 133 169
JamesOConnor832 Super 14 Western Force player 5518 1004 194
NeemiaTialata Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes Neemia Tialata 5448 2289 333
adam_gilly Cricket Australia Western Warriors former player 5319 12 128
lehmo23 AFL Hawthorn Hawks player 4779 1667 191
AngusMonfries AFL Essendon Bombers player 4725 229 171
socceroos World Cup Socceroos official 4519 389 204
stkildafc AFL St. Kilda Saints official 4498 2651 182
Carlton_FC AFL Carlton Blues official 4364 2277 207
QantasWallabies Rugby World Cup Wallabies 4137 2151 225
mickmalthouse AFL Collingwood Magpies Mick Malthouse 3976 60 115
drew_mitchell Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs player 3925 162 154
Hurricanesrugby Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes 3911 689 171
NathanHiney NRL Parramatta Eels player 3900 58 104
NBRACKEN142 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 3835 2177 219
BrendanFevola05 AFL Brisbane Lions player 3765 197 113
BENJI_MARSHALL6 NRL Wests Tigers player 3739 123 58
AdamCoopy Super 14 ACT Brumbies player 3676 126 149
robbiefarah NRL Wests Tigers player 3616 440 66
northkangaroos AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos official 3614 1750 142
markMGgeyer NRL Penrith Panthers former player 3604 2688 159
Geelong_FC AFL Geelong Cats fansite 3588 3708 147
libby_trickett Swimming Australia Libby Trickett athlete 3310 1161 123
GaryAblettJnr AFL Geelong Cats player 3285 74 63
SuperCoachAFL AFL AFL fansite 3257 219 199
HawthornFC AFL Hawthorn Hawks official 3196 896 149
Richmond_FC AFL Richmond Tigers official 3191 783 142
GCTitans NRL Gold Coast Titans 3036 275 131
nathan2jones AFL Melbourne Demons player 3016 1174 123
DT_13 AFL Collingwood Magpies Dale Thomas 2972 84 81
kurtley_beale Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs player 2947 216 116
scottprince7 NRL Gold Coast Titans player 2831 234 57
nzwarriors NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) unofficial 2631 255 86
The_Man_Mundine NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons former player 2617 428 51
gomvfc A-League Melbourne Victory 2539 1243 155
tim_mannah NRL Parramatta Eels player 2532 151 60
SP_10 AFL Collingwood Magpies player 2434 127 60
DemonsHQ AFL Melbourne Demons official 2432 1990 140
Wests_Tigers NRL Wests Tigers official 2306 666 93
CamSchwab AFL Melbourne Demons ceo 2213 1911 96
CyclingAus Cycling Australia Cycling Australia official 2189 1261 146
sharksrugby Super 14 Durban Sharks (Coastal Sharks)(Natal Sharks) 2150 242 105
WCEofficial AFL West Coast Eagles 2150 1279 128
PAFC AFL Port Adelaide Power official 2142 1151 141
Fremantle_FC AFL Fremantle Dockers official 2126 614 120
bigjstevens NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks former player 2082 477 53
SSFCRABBITOHS NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs 2066 1483 115
GoldCoastFC AFL Gold Coast Football Club official 2053 831 131
THESTORMERS Super 14 Cape Town Stormers (Western Stormers) 1995 382 86
MelbStormRLC NRL Melbourne Storm official 1983 684 112
TennisAustralia Tennis Australia Tennis Australia official 1964 1821 201
SharrodW_21 AFL Collingwood Magpies player 1950 49 58
Follow24Hodge NBL Melbourne Tigers player 1949 2028 111
craiglowndes888 V8 Supercars TeamVodafone driver 1847 75 117
socceroos_news World Cup Socceroos unofficial 1842 10835 82
AndrewMackieGFC AFL Geelong Cats player 1746 31 79
manlyseaeagles NRL Manly Sea Eagles 1726 818 96
Rickypetterd15 AFL Melbourne Demons unofficial 1694 236 75
Bushrangers Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers official 1686 1816 115
stevenbaker10 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 1669 545 50
howcroft AFL Melbourne Demons player 1581 263 56
westernbulldogs AFL Western Bulldogs official 1560 263 84
M_Jennings_03 NRL Penrith Panthers player 1555 14 40
Beamdogg AFL Melbourne Demons player 1526 147 50
MelbourneVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens 1521 568 60
marcmurphy3 AFL Carlton Blues player 1513 45 53
Hawks_AFL AFL Hawthorn Hawks unofficial 1503 988 25
andrewswallow AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos unofficial 1462 290 72
benross23 NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs unofficial 1411 904 62
AUSOlympicTeam International Olympic Committee Australian Olympic Committee official 1382 472 103
penrithpanthers NRL Penrith Panthers unofficial 1380 1307 82
chooka_86 AFL Carlton Blues player 1346 563 54
BradMilzy AFL Melbourne Demons player 1308 90 42
Adam0017 AFL Western Bulldogs player 1305 211 40
NRLNEWS NRL NRL unofficial 1284 2018 35
SteveAlessio AFL Essendon Bombers former Essendon AFL player 1276 735 74
ClarkeVC Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 1259 16 41
Adelaide36ers NBL Adelaide 36ers 1249 552 71
crusadersrugby Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders 1234 123 84
ALFbrisbane AFL Brisbane Lions fansite 1230 18 53
SharelleVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player 1223 238 50
Real_ColSylvia AFL Melbourne Demons player 1215 20 41
SydneyFC1011 A-League Sydney FC 1188 2638 93
Joeingles7 NBL South Dragons unofficial 1177 643 73
MCC_Members AFL Melbourne Demons 1160 489 31
mitchlangerak A-League Melbourne Victory player 1150 40 60
KeeganDaniel Super 14 Natal Sharks unofficial 1130 47 52
PeterDaicos AFL Collingwood Magpies unofficial 1080 52 66
adrianleijer A-League Melbourne Victory player, Adrian Leijer 1077 147 75
parramatta_eels NRL Parramatta Eels 1071 17 36
BrumbiesRugby Super 14 ACT Brumbies official 1070 853 82
snorkymortlock Super 14 ACT Brumbies player 1064 58 70
warrentredrea AFL Port Adelaide Power player 1049 304 38
SpidaEveritt AFL AFL former player 1046 142 30
LawrieMcKinna A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club coach 1035 1494 78
therabbitohs NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs official 1031 209 68
wgtnphoenixfc A-League Wellington Phoenix 997 443 51
bigdyman AFL Collingwood Magpies player 987 483 61
wollongonghawks NBL Wollongong Hawks 979 1529 68
Reds_Rugby Super 14 Queensland Reds 963 207 62
sba_ Skateboarding Australia Skateboarding Australia official 959 610 17
NRLTweet NRL NRL unofficial 944 5958 56
RedsRugby Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial 942 184 48
AFLphotos AFL AFL official 932 331 52
kevin_gordon1 NRL Gold Coast Titans player 932 28 28
aussieboomers Basketball Australia Australian Boomers official 909 242 64
MelbourneStorm_ NRL Melbourne Storm unofficial 903 14 32
wademckinnon NRL Wests Tigers player 895 91 26
team_gws AFL Greater Western Sydney official 893 197 64
PirtekParraEels NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 892 57 51
gorgeousgrose NRL Manly Sea Eagles unofficial 888 294 51
rabbitohs NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs unofficial 882 1201 43
nqfuryfc A-League North Queensland Fury FC 877 2267 61
RaidersCanberra NRL Canberra Raiders 873 178 75
NBLhoops NBL NBL 861 567 60
CaleMorton AFL Melbourne Demons player 860 150 31
EricGrotheJnr NRL Parramatta Eels player 847 20 13
Rivshouse AFL Melbourne Demons player 844 10 42
melbournerebels Super 14 Melbourne Rebels 840 148 48
perthwildcats NBL Perth Wildcats 829 226 58
AshHarrison1 NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 822 216 51
alauterstein Swimming Australia Andrew Lauterstein athlete 821 571 46
collingwoodnews AFL Collingwood Magpies unofficial 819 1 31
MarkBosnich NSW Premier League Sydney Olympic unofficial 818 29 52
NetballAust Netball Australia Netball Australia 810 214 30
kadesimpson6 AFL Carlton Blues player 784 11 23
unicanberra AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies 780 116 49
andrew_symonds Cricket Australia Queensland Bulls player 779 2 28
thefootballsack A-League A-League fansite 770 4131 56
lukeodwyer NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 763 662 55
thenzwarriors NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) 763 179 60
PerthGlory_FC A-League Perth Glory 751 82 71
bater06 AFL Melbourne Demons Matthew Bate 720 71 25
sgrigg88 AFL Carlton Blues player 717 31 24
L_Weeks Super 14 Queensland Reds player 715 525 47
SharksOnline NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks unofficial 708 294 52
tamsynlewis Athletics Australia Tamsyn Lewis athlete, media personality 706 1352 35
katehollywood10 Hockey Australia Hockeyroos player 700 427 34
JasonJohnson14 AFL Essendon Bombers former Essendon AFL player 684 49 28
troychaplin30 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 672 216 25
victoryinmelb A-League Melbourne Victory 670 1834 51
njbrown17 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 665 26 39
AFL_Shifter AFL AFL talent scout Kevin Sheehan 664 86 25
BNERoar A-League Brisbane Roar unofficial 653 768 52
johnrillie NBL New Zealand Breakers unofficial 653 2883 50
AFLBrisbaneFC AFL Brisbane Lions fansite 649 955 29
NicLiv Swimming Australia Nicole Livingstone retired athlete, former Olympian 644 21 31
AFLInsider AFL AFL official 639 54 38
milkandco Swimming Australia Michael Klim athlete 633 201 14
samjacobs32 AFL Carlton Blues player 633 29 25
AussieDiamonds Netball Australia Australian Diamonds (national team) 621 278 30
Freo_Dockers AFL Fremantle Dockers fansite 603 2187 39
zacd_6 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 603 63 17
TWiLeague NRL NRL show 593 1902 40
geoffhuegill Swimming Australia Geoff Huegill retired athlete, former Olympian 592 15 33
laurafirebirds ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds player 592 25 30
AndrewMcDonald4 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers Andrew McDonald 585 127 46
wingsofperth AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial 578 776 8
newcastle_jets A-League Newcastle Jets 577 8 35
adelaideunited A-League Adelaide United 563 100 50
Clintontoopi NRL Gold Coast Titans player 560 80 15
wolfmanwilliams NRL Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles player 546 27 14
NatTbirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds 539 49 31
ssalopek3 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 539 103 15
GGArmy World Cup Socceroos unofficial 537 449 28
JaredCrouch AFL Sydney Swans former player 535 475 33
SophieSmith86 Cycling Australia Cycling Australia sport journalist for Geelong Advertisers 530 1787 43
MitchellWatt Athletics Australia Mitchell Watt athlete 527 1203 35
brisbaneroar A-League Brisbane Roar 523 323 59
RowingAust Rowing Australia Rowing Australia official 520 152 17
thesydneykings NBL Sydney Kings official 514 184 36
PencilsCase AFL Melbourne Demons Jake Spencer 509 36 29
SFCNews A-League Sydney FC unofficial 506 780 57
newto29 AFL Melbourne Demons player 503 168 23
meagen_nay Swimming Australia Meagen Nay athlete 502 1030 25
RTTF_AU AFL Sydney Swans fansite 502 1097 32
PlanetEels NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 500 2583 29
JulieCorletto ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens Julie Corletto 491 159 19
Soph_Edington Swimming Australia Soph Edington athlete 487 262 29
Renaehallinan ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player 484 280 24
hughesy_53 AFL Melbourne Demons player 479 60 19
CatsGM NBL Perth Wildcats 474 2445 59
FremantleFC AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial 473 1 12
SusanSwifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts player 471 395 30
Wortho33 NBL Melbourne Tigers player 467 444 32
milisimic NBL Wollongong Hawks player 465 3266 34
NSWRL Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues 465 537 30
APWelsh AFL Essendon Bombers player 457 41 14
AFL_JenWitham AFL AFL 455 486 40
Corypato NRL Newcastle Knights unofficial 454 153 20
rachneylan Australian Cycling Federation rachel neylan athlete 453 575 39
adelaidereds A-League Adelaide United 447 1152 57
TsvCrocs NBL Townsville Crocodiles 443 1763 36
Carltonfc AFL Carlton Blues fansite 433 587 17
Fergo1990 NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks unofficial 433 47 26
Robeddy40 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 433 63 16
broncosbigfan NRL Brisbane Broncos unofficial 425 864 28
fakebrycegibbs NRL Wests Tigers unofficial 424 385 21
ultimatealeague A-League A-League fansite 421 2307 35
crickettas Cricket Australia Tassie Tigers 417 160 27
chomicide NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 398 507 26
netballvic Netball Victoria Netball Victoria 388 17 25
Maverick_weller AFL Gold Coast Football Club player 384 396 23
TalkingCarlton AFL Carlton Blues fansite 379 1918 28
NRLlivebetting NRL NRL unofficial 373 1828 4
ash_delaney Swimming Australia Ashley Delaney athlete 361 1267 29
HalfTimeHeroes World Cup Socceroos soccer fansite 358 328 18
mighty_dragons NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial 358 3 15
Dusty_Rychart NBL Cairns Taipans player 356 1503 24
MitchJbrown17 AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial 354 13 33
Sam_Blease AFL Melbourne Demons player 350 52 10
blueandgoldarmy NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 340 2401 16
NZBreakers NBL New Zealand Breakers 340 85 34
WilliamstownFC VFL Williamstown Football Club 338 408 14
samstosurnews Tennis Australia Sam Stosur official 336 2714 38
GCUSC A-League Gold Coast United unofficial supporter club 335 877 25
_the_kennel_ AFL Western Bulldogs fansite 331 2442 19
clintmckay27 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers Clint Mckay 326 40 29
essendonfc AFL Essendon Bombers unofficial 320 1 8
eddiecowan Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 313 931 37
teamjaycoskins UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) Team Jayco Skins / Cycling Australia official 311 128 23
WestCoastEagles AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial 309 2 2
Bridie_OD Cycling Australia Cyclones athlete 303 567 30
Israel_Folau NRL Brisbane Broncos player 301 194 4
MelbourneFC AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 300 1 9
ryanmcrowley AFL Fremantle Dockers player 290 29 21
520507 AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies Keith Lyons 283 835 14
TheMelbourneIce AIHL Melbourne Ice 279 492 16
nswswifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts official 276 5 21
CaseyScorpions VFL Casey Scorpions 273 83 10
AthsAust Athletics Australia Athletics Australia organization 272 405 18
CCMarinersFC A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club unofficial 272 476 36
Demonblog AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 272 2968 12
mhfcsupporters A-League Melbourne Heart 272 560 26
demonland AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 269 478 10
oscarforman NBL New Zealand Breakers unofficial 261 461 25
Dockerland AFL Fremantle Dockers fansite 254 358 10
TheRealSchensh NBL Perth Wildcats player 248 26 22
sydneybears AIHL Sydney Bears 247 522 5
BlairEvans Swimming Australia Blair Evans athlete 245 297 8
ausvolley Volleyball Australia Volleyball Australia 241 298 14
AdelaideTBirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds 240 132 17
rustyhinder NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 237 444 27
MattAbood Swimming Australia Matt Abood athlete 231 261 21
broncobasher NRL Brisbane Broncos unofficial 230 496 6
sashpet Handball Australia Canberra Handball Club player 229 578 8
bmsew AFL Hawthorn Hawks unofficial 224 0 19
SusanWCFever ANZ Championship West Coast Fever player 223 110 18
1eyedeel NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 218 1390 12
gymaustralia Gymnastics Australia Gymnastics Australia official 217 393 3
qldcricket Cricket Australia Queensland Bulls official 217 148 13
go_saints AFL St. Kilda Saints fansite 211 62 10
NB_Roosters VFL North Ballarat Roosters 210 25 11
kennymonk Swimming Australia Kenrick Monk athlete 209 291 6
s14_force Super 14 Western Australia Force (Western Force) 209 18 11
WNBL WNBL WNBL 208 364 24
DarrenNg8 NBL Adelaide 36ers player 207 179 16
BionicSwan AFL Sydney Swans unofficial 203 205 27
jgovereasy NBL Adelaide 36ers player 199 117 12
joe_tomane29 NRL Gold Coast Titans player 196 121 3
jsaffy NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial 195 1 20
JoeyDaye AFL Gold Coast Football Club player 194 250 22
catslisch NBL Perth Wildcats 192 111 12
Mengelsman Swimming Australia Michelle Engelsman athlete 191 729 5
bulldogsnews NRL Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs unofficial 189 765 6
ccaallward AFL Western Bulldogs player 189 1 24
QLD_Maroons Rugby League/State of Origin Queensland Maroons 189 1 4
s14_queensland Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial 188 22 10
AusComGamesTeam Australian Commonwealth Games Team Australian Commonwealth Games Team organization 184 29 9
AUSParalympics Australia Paralympics Australia Paralympics organization 184 124 14
rgray17 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 183 7 7
Saints_FC AFL St. Kilda Saints fansite 183 86 11
petrinaprice Athletics Australia Petrina Price athlete, high jumper 180 734 9
NABCup AFL AFL fansite 178 2000 19
AustralianOpals Basketball Australia Australian Opals official 177 18 3
matesOmelbourne AFL Melbourne Demons unofficial 174 24 12
pattmurphy Swimming Australia Patrick Murphy athlete 168 460 2
tigers1908 NRL Balmain Tigers unofficial 168 75 13
mvfcfanzone A-League Melbourne Victory 163 85 23
SydAFLFan AFL Sydney Swans fan account 162 511 8
Blueseum AFL Carlton Blues fansite 160 47 8
Marcus__White AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos player 159 33 18
victorytwit A-League Melbourne Victory unofficial 156 586 11
Brogsy5 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 152 5 7
CanberraCycling Cycling ACT Canberra Cycling Club organizational website 150 278 8
CF_Demons AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 149 308 7
hayden_stoeckel Swimming Australia Hayden Stoeckel athlete 148 13 10
CaulfieldBears SFL Caulfield Bears 146 534 4
AIHL AIHL AIHL 142 294 4
theNSWIS AIS New South Wales Institute of Sport official 142 236 2
wceaglesfc AFL West Coast Eagles fansite 140 55 5
adelaidefc AFL Adelaide Crows fansite 138 57 5
AFL_Aus AFL AFL fansite 133 151 8
AusWomensGame W-League W-League fansite 133 565 9
briansham AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial 133 22 14
swansreserves AFL Canberra Sydney Swans Reserves 129 1306 7
sydneykings NBL Sydney Kings 129 84 13
danjackson9 NBL Wollongong Hawks player 121 218 12
ftscrazy AFL Western Bulldogs fansite 121 306 10
RWBFooty AFL St. Kilda Saints unofficial 120 512 7
kateporter83 Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player 119 133 15
ABLeague Australian Baseball League Australian Baseball League official 114 0 3
BF_Lions AFL Brisbane Lions fansite 114 416 5
Aaron_Cannings NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 110 1 14
fatloaf Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz player 106 670 5
gcbluetongues AIHL Gold Coast Bluetongues 106 693 2
thecattery AFL Geelong Cats unofficial 103 177 5
CatsTM NBL Perth Wildcats 102 65 12
Cats_Coach NBL Perth Wildcats 101 42 9
CatsWagstaff NBL Perth Wildcats 99 97 7
WA_U18s U18 National Championships Western Australia U18s team 95 1 3
hawkaDT AFL Hawthorn Hawks fansite 90 8 3
SEABL Semi Professional Basketball League Semi Professional Basketball League 90 374 10
Sydney_Netball Netball New South Wales Netball New South Wales Organization 90 153 5
yellow_n_black AFL Richmond Tigers unofficial 90 1016 9
TasU18s U18 National Championships Tasmania U18s team 89 9 3
MelissaBreen_ Athletics Australia Melissa Breen athlete 84 146 7
mmurpha Volleyball Australia Volleyball SA unofficial 83 26 3
36ers NBL Adelaide 36ers unofficial 82 1 11
SA_U18s U18 National Championships South Australia U18s team 81 2 4
demonwiki AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 80 164 2
JoshJenkins24 NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 80 1707 8
nunawading_sc Swimming Australia Nunawading Swimming Club Swimming club/school 80 193 2
PerthHeat Claxton Shield Barbagallo Perth Heat official 80 184 5
SydneyFC A-League Sydney FC 79 1 5
womeninleague NRL NRL 78 25 8
LisaWeightman Athletics Australia Lisa Weightman Marathon runner, Olympian 76 169 7
QldU18s U18 National Championships Queensland U18s team 76 1 2
BenFitz NBL Adelaide 36ers player 75 72 9
VicMetroU18s U18 National Championships Victoria U18s team 74 0 5
CyclonesHQ Cycling Australia Cyclones 2010 Road World Championships (national team) 73 53 3
LaurenBoden Athletics Australia Lauren Boden athlete 73 85 4
CatsTickets NBL Perth Wildcats 71 7 7
CatmanForever AFL Geelong Cats fansite 70 349 6
CatsGear NBL Perth Wildcats 70 74 5
AlexCarver91 UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) Team Jayco Skins / Cycling Australia athlete 69 34 4
ACT4GWS AFL Greater Western Sydney 67 174 2
bendigospirit WNBL Bendio Spirit 67 172 6
NT_U18s U18 National Championships Northern Territory U18s team 67 40 2
VicCountryU18s U18 National Championships Victoria U18s team 64 0 4
nthmelbourne AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos fansite 62 11 2
NSWACT_Rams U18 National Championships New South Wales U18s team 61 3 2
ManlyUnited NSW Premier League Manly United 58 470 5
willo43 NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 57 2 8
CatsCommunity NBL Perth Wildcats 55 68 7
SAVEOURDRAGONS NBL South (Melbourne) Dragons unofficial 54 40 3
Cats_Media NBL Perth Wildcats 52 53 6
VictoriaParkHC AFL Collingwood Magpies grounds 52 49 2
AUS_XC Australian Cross Country Ski Team Australian Cross Country Ski Team official 46 27 8
hockeypulse AIHL AIHL unofficial 45 184 2
Kegs42 NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 44 92 7
parraeels NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 43 4 4
hnim AIHL AIHL unofficial 42 35 4
bomberblitz AFL Essendon Bombers player 40 116 1
PetershamNetbal Netball New South Wales Petersham RUFC Netball Club 39 9 6
ACENetball Brisbane Netball Association ACE Netball Club official 38 20 5
ryannapoleon Swimming Australia Ryan Napoleon athlete 38 13 1
Chippa39 AFLNT AFLNT official 37 349 0
fake_EssendonFC AFL Essendon Bombers fansite 37 47 3
JaycoRangers WNBL Dandenong Jayco Rangers 37 56 7
Orcas_Netball Plenty Valley Netball Association Orcas Netball 36 46 8
Vandy21 NBL Gold Coast Blaze player 36 0 8
bc8977 AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial 34 8 8
velocanberra Cycling Australia Velo Canberra official 32 39 2
nickmarvin NBL Perth Wildcats CEO 31 7 3
BoroughBoy VFL Port Melbourne Borough unofficial 28 0 12
Shannon_McCann Athletics Australia Shannon McCann athlete, one hundred meter hurdles 22 55 1
abcwleague W-League W-League media outlet 20 31 3
VFL Williamstown FC WilliamstownFC official 19 2 0
jreynojreyno AFL Essendon Bombers player 18 11 1
ucniss AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies official 18 65 2
ToffCedar NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 17 1 5
cameronwhiting NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 15 2 7
loganthunder WNBL Logan Thunder 15 3 6
canberracyclist Cycling ACT Cycling ACT fansite 12 10 1
TriathlonTSO Triathlon TriathlonTSO 11 20 0
brad_393 NBL Adelaide 36ers player 10 3 3
tenniscanberra Tennis Australia Tennis Canberra official 9 146 0
SwansPerthCrew AFL Sydney Swans fan group 7 26 3
perthblitz Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz 4 10 2

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Canberra and the Raiders on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 15 September, 2010

Friday, the Canberra Raiders are playing the Wests Tigers in one of the playoff games in the NRL Finals. Canberrans are finally beginning to get really excited. A fair amount of this excitement is going on online. This post contains various insights into who Canberra Raiders fans are online and what they are doing. Given the time crunch, I’m only looking at Twitter and Facebook. If I have the time, I will add another post about both teams and their fans on other networks.

There is a lot of discussion about the Canberra Raiders taking place on Twitter. Not all of it is by Raiders fans. (RealBigDell of the Dragons is cheering for the Wests Tigers against the Raiders: twitter.com/RealBigDell/24269333344. ) So where are people Tweeting about the Raiders from? There are two really good tools for trying to figure this out. One is tribalytic.com and the other is Searchtastic.

tribalytic.com is Australian based allows you to search for a term and then can give you a break down by state, by klout and by wordcloud. This is an example of their results for the Canberra Raiders. According to tribalytic.com, in the period between August 14 and September 14, there were 298 tweets by 142 users that mentioned the Canberra Raiders. Of these tweets, 75 were from New South Wales, 32 were from the ACT, 25 were from Queensland and 4 from Victoria. Locals were just not chatting about the Raiders like those pesky New South Wales Rugby League obsessed people.

Searchtastic is a Twitter search engine that allows results to be exported to Excel. The Excel export includes profile information about the person who Tweeted. It sadly doesn’t pull up all search results for every tweet ever made on a subject. My experience is that it tends to pull up the 50 most recent. On the night of September 14 and the morning of September 15, I did a number of Raiders related searches, exported the results to Excel, combined all the tweets and removed the duplicates. I was left with a list of 443 unique tweets. (Some of these 443 were removed after it was determined that content wise, they had nothing to do with the Canberra Raiders. The total was brought down to 438.) (46 of these tweets date from between November 2009 and August 2010. The rest are from September 1, 2010 and after.) After this, using the location field, I figured out where those tweets originated from. 181 of the remaining Tweets were from an identifiable Australian state. 105 were from New South Wales, 53 from the ACT, 18 from Queensland and 5 from Victoria.

The ratio between New South Wales based Raiders Tweets and ACT based Tweets is 2.3 on Tribalytic and 1.9 on Searchtastic. The two are pretty close and suggest that people in the New South Wales are twice as likely to tweet about the Raiders as people in the ACT. We Canberrans just don’t Tweet about our team as much as outsiders do.

As a random point of fact, there were 22 people from the ACT who tweeted about the Raiders. The average person from the ACT who tweeted about the Raiders from the Searchtastic sample? They follow an average of 281 people, median of 91 and mode of 22. They are followed by an average of 222 people, median of 83. They have made an average of 1,346 total tweets, median of 718. The most “popular” person tweeting about the Raiders is @markparton with 1,632 followers. He is followed closely by @abcnewsCanberra who has 1,611 followers. (The contrast between the two is huge. @markparton follows 1,843 people. @abcnewsCanberra follows 0.)

The Tweeting habits of those New South Wales Raiders tweets? There are 58 of them. They are very different than your Canberran tweets. They have on average 1,335 followers, follow an average of 324.7 people and have made an average of 4,440.3 Tweets. Canberrans look much less active and less popular in comparison.

Another way of looking at location on Twitter is to see where people who follow the team are from. I’m interested in finding out if Canberrans support their local side or if, in this particular Finals game, Canberrans actually support the opposition, Wests Tigers. Following is an active way of showing support and sentiment is likely to be positive. Otherwise, why follow the team? The over representation of the NSW based tweets could be explained away as most of the competition in the NRL is based there; fans of other teams are likely to mention the team they are playing against. Added to that, the population base which NSW based teams draw from is much bigger.

To find out ACT based Twitter loyalty to the Raiders and Wests Tigers, I got the profile information for everyone following @RaidersCanberra and @Wests_Tigers. These accounts are the official accounts for the teams. The Raiders have 870 followers compared to the Wests Tigers 2,305 followers.

Of the Wests Tigers followers, only 25 or 1% of their followers are from Canberra. And by Canberra, I mean Canberra. None of the Wests Tigers followers from the ACT put information in their location that could identify what suburb they are from. This contrasts to the Canberra Raiders where 137 or 15.7% are from the ACT. 9 of those 137 list an identifiable suburb: 1 from Belconnen, 1 from Bruce, 1 from Conder, 1 from Fyschwick, 1 from Gungahlin, 1 from Phillip, 1 from Stirling and 2 from Tuggeranong. On Twitter, Canberrans are much more likely to follow the Raiders than the opposition. So while we might not be Tweeting about our team, we are following them.

Sadly, we just don’t appear to be following our team like New South Wales people follow our team. Where there are 137 from the ACT following the Raiders, there are 198 from New South Wales. That accounts for 24.6% of all Raiders followers. Those New South Wales people Tweet more about our team and they follow our team more than we do.

Wests Tigers fans also appear to be more from the state is based than the Raiders: 35.6% of Wests Tigers followers are from New South Wales. Our 24.6% doesn’t appear as impressive.

Focusing on New South Wales is not turning out to be fun. Indicators seem to suggest that they tweet more than Canberrans do and are more likely to follow the home team.

Let’s take a brief look at our Canberran based followers of both the Wests Tigers and the Canberra Raiders. These two groups are not similar in their Twitter usage patterns. Raiders fans have an average of 130.8 followers compared to 48.2 for the Wests Tigers. Canberra Raiders fans from the ACT update more often: 662.7 average updates compared to 104.8 for Canberran based West Tigers followers. Raiders fans have more friends with 199.2 people they follow on average. This compares to ACT based West Tigers followers who have an average of 121.2 people they follow. Canberrans Raiders fans are more likely to appear on lists, appearing on an average of 6.8 lists. ACT based West Tigers fans? On average only 1.2 lists. The indicators are that our Raiders fans are much more engaged with Twitter.

For Australian professional sport on Twitter, there appears to be a pattern for showing team support or interest in a team by following three hashtag patterns. They are #goTEAMMASCOT, #TEAMNAME, #LEAGUETEAMTEAM. This method of tagging was mostly pushed by AFL teams. The NRL appears to have embraced it less. (This is largely a result of different levels of engagement. On the whole, AFL teams engage more. NRL teams are more likely to use their official Twitter account as a place to export their RSS feeds. The AFL has official game tags. The NRL does not.) Still, some fans have followed the formula to make it worth looking at. For the Canberra Raiders, two standard hashtags appear to be used the most frequently: #canberraraiders and #goraiders. (The still aren’t used all that frequently. Tribalytic’s #NRL data says that for the September 1 to September 14, Canberra was mentioned in 9.42% of all tweets tagged with #nrl. No Raiders related hash tags are on the top 50 list of words used.) The #goraiders tag is problematic during the finals season: This hashtag is shared with fans of the Oakland Raiders. The data on tribalytic suggests it isn’t used period but looking through TwapperKeeper, there are Canberra Raiders references in there made by myself and CountryRL. In any case, this tag isn’t as popular as #canberraraiders. Since September 10, there have been at least 24 Tweets using this tag. The most popular user of this tag since that date is @KayLaYvette, who has used it 13 times. Beyond that, 3 others used it twice. 5 others have used it once. People using this hash tag aren’t using it to post links. Twitter said that 25% of all Tweets contained links. For this hashtag, only 12.5% of tweets contained a url. 67% of Tweets with the #canberraraiders hashtag also included the #NRL hashtag. Raiders fans don’t appear to be using this Tweet when chatting with eachother on Twitter as there aren’t any interactions associated with it. That theme mentioned earlier about how people outside Canberra were dominating as fans? Of the 24 posts using this hashtag, 9 were geotagged. The geotag didn’t originate in Canberra. Rather, the geotags put the tweeter in England. Poor Raiders.

That’s enough of Twitter. (I’m avoiding the temptation to do sentiment analysis.) Let’s move on to Facebook. Facebook has fewer tools than Twitter and some of the data is much harder to access than Twitter data. Thus, the level of analysis is less.

The first question is how many Canberra Raiders are there on Facebook in Australia? Facebook says 7,860. Of these, 1,180 are in the ACT and 4,340 are in New South Wales. In comparison, there are 29,380 Wests Tigers fans on Facebook in Australia. 480 are from the ACT and 19,980 are from New South Wales. Like Twitter, if you’re in Canberra, you’re more likely to support the home team. Also like Twitter, New South Wales Raiders fans outnumber fans in Canberra.

11,780 of the Wests Tigers fans are female. 2,180 of the Raiders fans are female. The Wests Tigers have a lot more female supporters (40.1%) than we Raiders fans do (27.8%). This isn’t bad news. This is good news. At the grounds, Raiders fans should be able to be louder and really bring in that home field advantage. Long term, also great news: The Raiders have a great opportunity to grow their fan base. The Wests Tigers don’t have that as they have a much more gender equal fan base.

1,080 of Canberra Raiders fans on Facebook are college graduates. 2,840 of West Tigers fans are college graduates. Here, Canberra is better, where better is defined by having a college education: 13.7% to 10.7%.

How welcoming are both teams to the GLBT community? 500 Wests Tigers fans identify as women interest in women and 100 Wests Tigers fans identify as men interest in men. The Canberra Raiders have 120 fans who identify as women interested in women and 40 fans who identify as men interested in men. Using this measure, both teams are about equal: 2% of their fanbase are gays, lesbians or bisexuals.

The official Wests Tigers fan page can be found at www.facebook.com/WestsTigers.com.au and the Canberra Raiders page can be found at www.facebook.com/Canberra-Raiders. The total number of likes and comments were recorded for the 25 most recent official posts on the feed. For the Raiders, that takes posts back to August 21. For the Tigers, this takes them back to July 1. (The Raiders appear to be much better at updating their Facebook page. The Tigers are importing their posts through their RSS feed, which is itself imported through Facebook. The Raiders in contrast post almost nothing through an RSS feed to their Facebook page.) On average, the Canberra Raiders get 22.75 likes per post and 17.04 comments per post. The Tigers in contrast get 30.54 likes per post and 32.16 comments per post. This looks like a win for the passion of West Tigers fans, except for the fact that 23,391 people like the Wests Tigers page and 1,710 people like the Canberra Raiders page. On average, 1.33% of Raiders fans like a post and 1.00% respond to a post. For the Wests Tigers, an average of 0.13% like a post and 0.14% comment on a post. Clearly Raiders fans are much more willing to interact with the club. Go Raiders fans. This is clearly the platform where we’re engaging with the team. (It is probably helped by the fact that the club is engaging back. This isn’t the case for either on Twitter.)

In conclusion, the Raiders fanbase appears to be contain more people from outside the territory than in. The community on Facebook and Twitter is smaller than that of the Wests Tigers. The Raiders do have a larger fanbase in Canberra and the ACT than the Wests Tigers have. While our fan base might be smaller, we are more likely to engage with the team on a percentage basis than Wests Tigers fans are. The reasons for some of the numbers on both fandom sides have to do with how the Raiders and Tigers chose to engage with their fanbase online. If anyone changed their strategy to be even more interactive, their fan base could kick the other one’s butt in terms of expressing their passion for the team.

Most of the raw data referenced in this post can be found at csv.ozziesport.com/.

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Which AFL team do Canberrans support in the Grand Final?

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 15 September, 2010

Canberra has traditionally been a place that people aren’t from.  Rather, it is a place that people have traditionally moved to.  When they move, they take their sporting loyalties with them.  For that reason, there is a conflicting mess of sport loyalties in the city.  If you went to see the Sydney Swans play the Western Bulldogs at Manuka Oval this year, you could clearly see these different loyalties on display as it pertains to the AFL.  On the whole, I’ve generally found Canberrans to be pretty good with these loyalties: You can safely wear your team’s kit with out fear that some stranger is going to take the piss out of you.

The Grand Final is soon approaching.  Given the different sporting loyalties, it is interesting to see which team people in Canberra are barracking for.  Is one team more popular than another?  Do Canberran loyalties mirror national loyalties?

One way of measuring loyalty and team identification is to count how many people follow a team on Twitter.  All followers combined, Collingwood 7,381 followers, St. Kilda has 4,492 followers, Geelong has 2,153 and the Western Bulldogs have 1,554.  When Twitter followers for each team are filtered by location using time zones and user listed location, you can get an idea as to how many Canberrans are followers of the various teams playing in the Grand Finals:

Suburb Collingwood Magpies Geelong Cats St Kilda Saints Western Bulldogs
Barton 0 0 1 0
Canberra 62 10 28 17
Canberra International Airport 0 1 0 0
Capital Hill 1 0 0 0
City 0 0 0 1
Dickson 0 0 1 0
Gordon 0 1 0 0
Theodore 1 0 0 0
Total 64 12 30 18

It isn’t that big of a surprise that Collingwood is number one. Roy Morgan Research had them as the most popular Melbourne based team in 2009.  Beyond that, Canberrans on Twitter buck the popularity trend.  Roy Morgan has Geelong at number 2.  On Twitter, Canberrans are the least likely to follow Geelong.  Roy Morgan had the Western Bulldogs last.   Canberrans had them at third.  Overall, when compared to total number of followers for a team, Canberrans don’t  always follow the national patterns.  Again, Geelong and the Western Bulldogs are the ones that don’t match: More people follow Geelong on Twitter but more Canberrans on Twitter follow the Western Bulldogs.  It looks like Canberrans, who don’t have their own AFL team, follow a different drummer than the one that beats on a national level.

Another way to measure team loyalty and team identification in Canberra is to use Facebook.  Facebook says that there are 198,500 users who live in the ACT and 175,900 people who live within 50 miles of Canberra.  What Grand Finals teams do Canberrans like?

Area Collingwood Magpies Geelong Cats St Kilda Saints Western Bulldogs
Canberra – Within 50 miles 4,540 760 1,100 280
Australian Capital Territory 5,080 1,040 1,240 300

Well, not the Western Bulldogs, that’s for sure.  Canberran fans on Facebook much more clearly follow the national patterns as established by Roy Morgan.

Other social networks exist and Canberran sport fans are present on them.  One such network is LiveJournal (and its clones).  There are a number of fans on it who list their teams as an interest on their profile:   4 for Collingwood,  22 for Geelong,  16 for St. Kilda and 23  for the Western Bulldogs.  When broken down by city and state, there are two fans from the ACT who list Geelong as an interest and one fan who lists the Saints as an interest.  This pattern for the ACT does not mirror the pattern for the whole of LiveJournal.  It also doesn’t follow the pattern for team fandom size as identified by Roy Morgan Research.

Over on 43 things, there is one Canberran who has a goal related to an AFL team.  It just isn’t a team in the finals.  (The Canberran has a goal of buying a Sydney Swans jumper.)  On bebo, there are 18 people identified as being from the ACT who list an AFL team as an interest, four of which list a Grand Finals team as an interest.  Two support Collingwood, one supports Geelong and one supports St. Kilda.  This pattern mirrors the national one as established by Roy Morgan Research.  On Blogger, there are four people from the ACT who list an AFL team as an interest.  Of these four, only one lists a finals bound team: Geelong.

What does tell us?  Canberran AFL fans are most likely to be found on Facebook.  Their support of their clubs is similar to the national club support though there are differences.    Different social networks attract Canberrans fans of different teams.  It shouldn’t be that hard to find a like minded fan who will support your team if you’re here for the game.  The easiest time of doing that will probably be for Collingwood Supporters but Bulldog fans shouldn’t be that worried either.  Just go on Twitter Doggies fans and reach out to your fellow Canberrans.

Most of the raw data referenced in this post can be found at csv.ozziesport.com/.

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