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Most popular AFL teams across social media sites (February 14, 2011)

Posted by on Monday, 14 February, 2011

This is mostly for my own interest. Data for these sites is because I have a script to automatically fetch this information. Foursquare is when I have identified games. Alexa and Twitter are gotten daily. Facebook is every third day. Trying to determine a schedule for ebay.

Any thoughts? Are the results for the most popular and least popular teams who you would have predicted?

Team Alexa (1) Ebay (5) Facebook (4) Foursquare (2) Twitter (3) Total points
Collingwood Magpies 30,641 838 111,315 11188 153,982
Essendon Bombers 31,904 842 101,940 8596 143,282
St. Kilda Saints 31,578 759 61,970 6649 100,956
Carlton Blues 29,400 812 56,950 6321 93,483
Adelaide Crows 19,776 888 62,969 28 7519 91,180
West Coast Eagles 20,125 920 63,734 3317 88,096
Sydney Swans 24,189 1,365 49,070 7161 81,785
Richmond Tigers 32,672 797 34,758 6580 74,807
Hawthorn Hawks 30,744 735 33,724 4585 69,788
Gold Coast Football Club 28,855 103 33,724 3771 66,453
North Melbourne Kangaroos 27,201 234 21,075 5304 53,814
Port Adelaide Power 20,678 295 24,771 28 3090 48,862
Western Bulldogs 22,145 1,185 22,880 2595 48,805
Brisbane Lions 24,238 1,035 22,306 673 48,252
Melbourne Demons 30,811 801 12,195 28 3675 47,510
Fremantle Dockers 4,821 712 36,094 3337 44,964
Geelong Cats 3,363 1,272 3,493 3825 11,953
GWS Giants 6,061 1 2,503 2154 10,719

1. Alexa site Australian rank data was from February 14, 2011. The Australian rank was subtracted from 35,000 in order to award high ranking teams with more points.
2. Totals are based on total checkins to the NAB Cup games played on February 11, 2011.
3. Twitter totals are from February 14, 2011 and count total followers to the official team Twitter account.
4. Facebook totals are from the official fanpage. Data was gathered on February 13, 2011.
5. Ebay data is based on http://ozziesport.com/2011/02/australian-sport-on-ebay/ that post. When team info was not available, it was searched for on February 14, 2011.

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