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Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter

Posted by Laura on Monday, 13 September, 2010

It has been a while since I’ve done one of these lists of most popular. I’m hoping this list is more comprehensive than others I’ve done. The list includes all Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter that I’m aware of. There are a few cases where athletes and clubs outside Australia have been included. These are on there because the league they are part of is primarily Australian based: The Super 14, the A-League, the NRL, the Tri-Nations Cup,  the ANZ Championship, and the NBL. If anyone is missing, let me know. I’m especially interested in athletes competing in the Commonwealth Games.

This list doesn’t necessarily have much meaning from an analysis viewpoint. It can provide insight into some of the leagues, teams and athletes that do social media better. It might suggest who the most popular people and groups are online. Taken as a whole, it might suggest the best type of update strategy for getting followers. Or it might not. This information doesn’t exists in isolation and additional analysis is needed to impart greater meaning.

Now, on with the list…

League Team Notes Account Followers Statuses Listed
First class cricket Victorian Bushrangers warne888 168673 1342 3733
Basketball Australia Australian Boombers Andrew Bogut AndrewMBogut 26740 5146 1401
Super 14 Natal Sharks player JohnSmit123 15723 344 519
Super 14 Pretoria Bulls (Northern Bulls) player VictorMatfield 14109 408 497
AFL AFL official AFL 13440 4211 482
First class cricket New South Wales Blues player PH408 12801 15 462
NRL Wests Tigers player LoteTuqiri 11715 3654 514
Rugby World Cup All Blacks nzru 10318 6043 505
Rugby World Cup South Africa Lions LionsRugbyTeam 10137 4366 317
Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice athlete ItsStephRice 9850 2803 333
NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons player RealBigDell 9190 4269 286
Super 14 Queensland Reds player QuadeCooper 8878 6347 317
NRL NRL NRL 8362 4608 285
AFL Collingwood Magpies official Collingwood_FC 7331 1741 240
AFL Collingwood Magpies player harry_o 6948 1983 235
AFL Melbourne Demons player jimstynes 6367 141 171
Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders player mornesteyn 6230 46 251
AFL Adelaide Crows official Adelaide_FC 6176 3048 216
NRL Gold Coast Titans player mat_rogers6 6107 2087 292
AFL Sydney Swans official sydneyswans 5626 2708 225
Super 14 ACT Brumbies player giteau_rugby 5577 283 193
AFL Essendon Bombers player JobeWatson 5546 133 168
Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes Neemia Tialata NeemiaTialata 5423 2272 330
AFL Hawthorn Hawks player lehmo23 4748 1662 191
AFL Essendon Bombers player AngusMonfries 4705 229 170
World Cup Socceroos official socceroos 4492 388 202
AFL St. Kilda Saints official stkildafc 4454 2635 177
AFL Carlton Blues official Carlton_FC 4328 2268 206
Rugby World Cup Wallabies QantasWallabies 4084 2142 218
Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes Hurricanesrugby 3906 689 166
AFL Collingwood Magpies Mick Malthouse mickmalthouse 3902 59 110
First class cricket New South Wales Blues player NBRACKEN142 3804 2139 218
AFL Brisbane Lions player BrendanFevola05 3703 197 111
Super 14 ACT Brumbies player AdamCoopy 3581 126 146
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos official northkangaroos 3571 1736 142
AFL Geelong Cats fansite Geelong_FC 3568 3708 147
AFL AFL fansite SuperCoachAFL 3234 211 142
AFL Richmond Tigers official Richmond_FC 3170 765 141
AFL Hawthorn Hawks official HawthornFC 3159 890 149
AFL Geelong Cats player GaryAblettJnr 3141 71 60
NRL Gold Coast Titans GCTitans 3011 270 127
AFL Melbourne Demons player nathan2jones 2987 1156 120
AFL Collingwood Magpies Dale Thomas DT_13 2862 75 76
V8 Supercars V8 Supercars Jamie Whincup jamiewhincup 2722 241 175
NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) unofficial? nzwarriors 2607 255 84
A-League Melbourne Victory gomvfc 2527 1229 154
AFL Melbourne Demons official DemonsHQ 2405 1978 140
AFL Collingwood Magpies player SP_10 2315 118 55
NRL Wests Tigers fansite? Wests_Tigers 2224 660 92
AFL Melbourne Demons ceo CamSchwab 2167 1862 93
Cycling Australia Cycling Australia official CyclingAus 2161 1255 145
Super 14 Durban Sharks (Coastal Sharks)(Natal Sharks) sharksrugby 2136 242 101
AFL West Coast Eagles WCEofficial 2124 1271 128
AFL Port Adelaide Power official PAFC 2123 1146 141
AFL Fremantle Dockers official Fremantle_FC 2096 612 120
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs SSFCRABBITOHS 2044 1466 115
AFL Gold Coast Football Club official GoldCoastFC 2021 817 129
Super 14 Cape Town Stormers (Western Stormers) THESTORMERS 1985 382 83
Tennis Australia Tennis Australia official TennisAustralia 1954 1807 198
NRL Melbourne Storm official MelbStormRLC 1942 677 109
AFL Collingwood Magpies player SharrodW_21 1904 49 56
NBL Melbourne Tigers player Follow24Hodge 1892 1971 110
World Cup Socceroos unofficial? socceroos_news 1845 10800 83
AFL Geelong Cats player AndrewMackieGFC 1729 31 78
NRL Manly Sea Eagles manlyseaeagles 1705 806 97
AFL Melbourne Demons player Rickypetterd15 1681 225 75
AFL St. Kilda Saints player stevenbaker10 1625 536 48
First class cricket Victorian Bushrangers official Bushrangers 1622 1751 113
AFL Melbourne Demons player howcroft 1575 263 56
AFL Western Bulldogs official westernbulldogs 1533 260 82
ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens MelbourneVixens 1516 567 60
AFL Melbourne Demons player Beamdogg 1503 147 49
AFL Hawthorn Hawks unofficial Hawks_AFL 1500 980 25
AFL Carlton Blues player marcmurphy3 1478 42 49
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos player andrewswallow 1445 286 72
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs player benross23 1392 949 62
International Olympic Committee Australian Olympic Committee official AUSOlympicTeam 1378 465 103
NRL Penrith Panthers unofficial penrithpanthers 1357 1299 82
AFL Carlton Blues player chooka_86 1328 563 53
AFL Melbourne Demons player BradMilzy 1289 87 42
AFL Western Bulldogs player Adam0017 1271 211 40
AFL Essendon Bombers former Essendon AFL player SteveAlessio 1269 735 74
First class cricket New South Wales Blues player ClarkeVC 1258 16 41
NRL NRL unofficial NRLNEWS 1251 1892 34
NBL Adelaide 36ers Adelaide36ers 1244 537 71
Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders crusadersrugby 1226 123 81
AFL Brisbane Lions fansite ALFbrisbane 1219 18 52
ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player SharelleVixens 1212 238 50
AFL Melbourne Demons player Real_ColSylvia 1193 20 41
A-League Sydney FC SydneyFC1011 1182 2623 92
NBL South Dragons player Joeingles7 1162 602 73
A-League Melbourne Victory player mitchlangerak 1141 40 60
AFL Melbourne Demons MCC_Members 1128 483 31
AFL Collingwood Magpies player PeterDaicos 1072 52 64
A-League Melbourne Victory player, Adrian Leijer adrianleijer 1071 137 75
NRL Parramatta Eels parramatta_eels 1065 17 36
Super 14 ACT Brumbies official BrumbiesRugby 1049 849 82
Super 14 ACT Brumbies player snorkymortlock 1039 56 67
A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club coach LawrieMcKinna 1027 1465 79
AFL Port Adelaide Power player warrentredrea 1026 292 37
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs official therabbitohs 1021 209 68
AFL Collingwood Magpies player bigdyman 983 478 61
Super 14 Natal Sharks player KeeganDaniel 980 41 50
A-League Wellington Phoenix wgtnphoenixfc 977 408 50
NBL Wollongong Hawks wollongonghawks 973 1518 69
Skateboarding Australia Skateboarding Australia official sba_ 957 602 17
AFL AFL former player SpidaEveritt 950 135 26
Super 14 Queensland Reds Reds_Rugby 947 207 62
Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial RedsRugby 935 180 48
NRL NRL unofficial NRLTweet 927 5742 56
AFL AFL official AFLphotos 920 325 52
Basketball Australia Australian Boomers official aussieboomers 905 242 63
NRL Melbourne Storm unofficial MelbourneStorm_ 895 1 32
AFL Greater Western Sydney official team_gws 879 196 64
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs unofficial rabbitohs 878 1201 43
NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial PirtekParraEels 877 57 51
A-League North Queensland Fury FC nqfuryfc 868 2267 61
NRL Manly Sea Eagles unofficial gorgeousgrose 867 287 52
AFL Melbourne Demons player CaleMorton 849 150 31
NBL NBL NBLhoops 846 565 59
NRL Canberra Raiders RaidersCanberra 841 170 73
Super 14 Melbourne Rebels melbournerebels 836 148 46
AFL Melbourne Demons player Rivshouse 836 6 42
NBL Perth Wildcats perthwildcats 820 226 58
AFL Collingwood Magpies unofficial collingwoodnews 815 1 31
NSW Premier League Sydney Olympic player? MarkBosnich 810 29 50
NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial AshHarrison1 808 167 50
Netball Australia Netball Australia NetballAust 804 205 30
First class cricket Queensland Bulls player andrew_symonds 775 2 28
AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies unicanberra 771 113 47
A-League A-League fansite thefootballsack 769 4092 54
NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial lukeodwyer 757 657 55
NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) thenzwarriors 756 178 60
AFL Carlton Blues player kadesimpson6 755 11 22
A-League Perth Glory PerthGlory_FC 745 82 70
Super 14 Queensland Reds player L_Weeks 712 523 47
AFL Melbourne Demons Matthew Bate bater06 707 64 25
AFL Carlton Blues player sgrigg88 699 27 23
NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks unofficial SharksOnline 697 287 52
AFL Essendon Bombers former Essendon AFL player JasonJohnson14 675 49 27
A-League Melbourne Victory victoryinmelb 668 1823 51
AFL St. Kilda Saints player njbrown17 656 26 39
AFL Port Adelaide Power player troychaplin30 655 202 24
Hockey Australia Hockeyroos player katehollywood10 653 410 30
AFL AFL talent scout Kevin Sheehan AFL_Shifter 651 85 25
A-League Brisbane Roar unofficial BNERoar 647 757 52
NBL New Zealand Breakers unofficial johnrillie 643 2865 50
AFL Brisbane Lions fansite AFLBrisbaneFC 634 945 29
AFL AFL official AFLInsider 625 54 38
Netball Australia Australian Diamonds (national team) AussieDiamonds 615 275 29
AFL Carlton Blues player samjacobs32 613 26 24
AFL Fremantle Dockers fansite Freo_Dockers 600 2178 39
ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds player laurafirebirds 588 25 30
AFL St. Kilda Saints player zacd_6 588 62 17
NRL NRL show TWiLeague 577 1878 39
AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial wingsofperth 575 763 8
A-League Newcastle Jets newcastle_jets 572 8 35
A-League Adelaide United adelaideunited 558 100 50
First class cricket Victorian Bushrangers Andrew McDonald AndrewMcDonald4 555 124 45
ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds NatTbirds 534 49 31
World Cup Socceroos unofficial GGArmy 533 444 28
AFL Sydney Swans former player JaredCrouch 531 457 32
AFL Port Adelaide Power player ssalopek3 522 96 15
A-League Brisbane Roar brisbaneroar 519 319 58
Rowing Australia Rowing Australia official RowingAust 513 146 17
NBL Sydney Kings official thesydneykings 511 179 36
A-League Sydney FC unofficial SFCNews 506 780 57
AFL Melbourne Demons Jake Spencer PencilsCase 504 35 29
NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial PlanetEels 497 2571 29
AFL Melbourne Demons player newto29 496 161 23
ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens Julie Corletto JulieCorletto 485 154 19
ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player Renaehallinan 482 269 24
AFL Sydney Swans fansite RTTF_AU 479 1065 31
AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial FremantleFC 474 1 12
NBL Perth Wildcats CatsGM 470 2415 59
AFL Melbourne Demons player hughesy_53 468 60 19
ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts player SusanSwifts 468 389 30
NBL Melbourne Tigers player Wortho33 467 444 32
NBL Wollongong Hawks player milisimic 460 3240 35
Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues NSWRL 459 611 30
AFL Essendon Bombers player APWelsh 452 39 14
AFL AFL AFL_JenWitham 448 480 40
A-League Adelaide United adelaidereds 446 1150 57
Australian Cycling Federation rachel neylan athlete rachneylan 444 557 37
NRL Newcastle Knights unofficial Corypato 441 151 20
NBL Townsville Crocodiles TsvCrocs 438 1750 36
AFL Carlton Blues fansite Carltonfc 430 587 17
NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks unofficial Fergo1990 426 47 26
NRL Brisbane Broncos unofficial broncosbigfan 422 859 28
AFL St. Kilda Saints player Robeddy40 420 63 16
A-League A-League fansite ultimatealeague 416 2235 34
First class cricket Tassie Tigers crickettas 409 160 26
NRL Wests Tigers unofficial fakebrycegibbs 408 379 21
NBL Townsville Crocodiles player chomicide 398 505 26
Netball Victoria Netball Victoria netballvic 384 17 25
AFL Gold Coast Football Club player Maverick_weller 380 379 23
AFL Carlton Blues fansite TalkingCarlton 377 1917 27
NRL NRL unofficial NRLlivebetting 372 1828 4
NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial mighty_dragons 357 3 15
NBL Cairns Taipans player Dusty_Rychart 354 1496 24
AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial MitchJbrown17 350 13 33
World Cup Socceroos soccer fansite HalfTimeHeroes 345 321 18
NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial blueandgoldarmy 342 2393 16
NBL New Zealand Breakers NZBreakers 339 84 34
VFL Williamstown Football Club WilliamstownFC 339 407 14
AFL Melbourne Demons player Sam_Blease 336 50 10
A-League Gold Coast United unofficial supporter club GCUSC 335 870 25
Tennis Australia Sam Stosur official samstosurnews 335 2711 37
AFL Western Bulldogs fansite _the_kennel_ 330 2411 19
AFL Essendon Bombers unofficial essendonfc 314 1 8
First class cricket New South Wales Blues player eddiecowan 311 922 37
AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial WestCoastEagles 309 2 2
UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) Team Jayco Skins / Cycling Australia official teamjaycoskins 308 127 23
First class cricket Victorian Bushrangers Clint Mckay clintmckay27 301 32 28
AFL Melbourne Demons fansite MelbourneFC 299 1 9
NRL Brisbane Broncos player Israel_Folau 297 194 4
AFL Fremantle Dockers player ryanmcrowley 288 29 21
AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies Keith Lyons 520507 282 832 14
ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts official nswswifts 276 5 21
AIHL Melbourne Ice TheMelbourneIce 275 492 16
AFL Melbourne Demons fansite Demonblog 273 2933 12
VFL Casey Scorpions CaseyScorpions 272 83 10
A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club unofficial CCMarinersFC 271 476 36
A-League Melbourne Heart mhfcsupporters 270 549 26
AFL Melbourne Demons fansite demonland 267 473 10
NBL New Zealand Breakers unofficial oscarforman 260 460 25
AFL Fremantle Dockers fansite Dockerland 255 358 10
AIHL Sydney Bears sydneybears 251 518 6
NBL Perth Wildcats player TheRealSchensh 247 24 22
Volleyball Australia Volleyball Australia ausvolley 240 295 14
ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds AdelaideTBirds 239 132 17
NBL Townsville Crocodiles player rustyhinder 233 436 27
NRL Brisbane Broncos unofficial broncobasher 230 492 6
Handball Australia Canberra Handball Club player sashpet 229 578 8
ANZ Championship West Coast Fever player SusanWCFever 221 103 17
NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 1eyedeel 216 1366 12
AFL Hawthorn Hawks unofficial bmsew 216 0 19
Gymnastics Australia Gymnastics Australia official gymaustralia 215 392 3
AFL St. Kilda Saints fansite go_saints 210 62 10
First class cricket Queensland Bulls official qldcricket 210 141 12
Super 14 Western Australia Force (Western Force) s14_force 208 17 11
NBL Adelaide 36ers player DarrenNg8 205 179 16
WNBL WNBL WNBL 204 350 24
VFL North Ballarat Roosters NB_Roosters 203 23 11
AFL Sydney Swans unofficial BionicSwan 199 205 27
NBL Adelaide 36ers player jgovereasy 196 114 12
AFL Gold Coast Football Club player JoeyDaye 194 246 22
NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial jsaffy 191 1 19
NBL Perth Wildcats catslisch 187 107 12
Rugby League/State of Origin Queensland Maroons QLD_Maroons 187 1 4
Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial s14_queensland 186 21 10
NRL Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs unofficial bulldogsnews 185 764 6
AFL Western Bulldogs player ccaallward 185 1 24
AFL St. Kilda Saints fansite Saints_FC 183 86 11
AFL AFL fansite NABCup 179 1995 19
Basketball Australia Australian Opals official AustralianOpals 176 18 3
AFL Melbourne Demons unofficial matesOmelbourne 173 23 12
AFL Port Adelaide Power player rgray17 168 5 6
A-League Melbourne Victory mvfcfanzone 162 85 23
NRL Balmain Tigers unofficial tigers1908 162 14 13
AFL Sydney Swans fan account SydAFLFan 158 499 8
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos player Marcus__White 157 33 18
AFL Carlton Blues fansite Blueseum 156 43 5
A-League Melbourne Victory unofficial victorytwit 154 586 11
AFL Melbourne Demons fansite CF_Demons 148 305 7
AFL Port Adelaide Power player Brogsy5 145 5 6
SFL Caulfield Bears CaulfieldBears 144 531 3
AIHL AIHL AIHL 140 294 4
AFL West Coast Eagles fansite wceaglesfc 140 55 5
AIS New South Wales Institute of Sport official theNSWIS 138 222 2
AFL Adelaide Crows fansite adelaidefc 137 57 5
W-League W-League fansite AusWomensGame 134 560 9
AFL AFL fansite AFL_Aus 132 150 8
AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial briansham 132 22 14
NBL Sydney Kings sydneykings 128 22 13
AFL Canberra Sydney Swans Reserves swansreserves 122 1257 7
AFL Western Bulldogs fansite ftscrazy 120 301 10
Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player kateporter83 120 128 14
AFL St. Kilda Saints unofficial RWBFooty 120 512 7
NBL Wollongong Hawks player danjackson9 116 208 12
AFL Brisbane Lions fansite BF_Lions 114 416 5
Australian Baseball League Australian Baseball League official ABLeague 112 0 3
NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial Aaron_Cannings 109 1 14
Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz player fatloaf 107 662 5
AIHL Gold Coast Bluetongues gcbluetongues 105 693 2
AFL Geelong Cats unofficial thecattery 104 177 5
NBL Perth Wildcats CatsTM 102 65 12
NBL Perth Wildcats Cats_Coach 99 42 9
NBL Perth Wildcats CatsWagstaff 98 94 7
U18 National Championships Western Australia U18s team WA_U18s 96 1 3
Semi Professional Basketball League Semi Professional Basketball League SEABL 91 362 10
Netball New South Wales Sydney_Netball 91 152 5
AFL Richmond Tigers unofficial yellow_n_black 90 1010 9
AFL Hawthorn Hawks fansite hawkaDT 89 8 3
U18 National Championships Tasmania U18s team TasU18s 88 9 3
Volleyball Australia Volleyball SA unofficial mmurpha 83 26 3
NBL Adelaide 36ers unofficial 36ers 82 1 11
AFL Melbourne Demons fansite demonwiki 81 164 2
U18 National Championships South Australia U18s team SA_U18s 81 2 4
NBL Townsville Crocodiles player JoshJenkins24 80 1668 8
A-League Sydney FC SydneyFC 79 1 5
Claxton Shield Barbagallo Perth Heat official PerthHeat 76 179 5
U18 National Championships Queensland U18s team QldU18s 76 1 2
NRL NRL womeninleague 76 25 8
NBL Adelaide 36ers player BenFitz 75 72 9
U18 National Championships Victoria U18s team VicMetroU18s 75 0 5
AFL Geelong Cats fansite CatmanForever 70 349 6
NBL Perth Wildcats CatsGear 70 74 5
NBL Perth Wildcats CatsTickets 70 7 7
AFL Greater Western Sydney ACT4GWS 68 174 2
U18 National Championships Northern Territory U18s team NT_U18s 68 40 2
UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) Team Jayco Skins / Cycling Australia athlete AlexCarver91 67 34 4
WNBL Bendio Spirit bendigospirit 65 169 6
U18 National Championships Victoria U18s team VicCountryU18s 65 0 4
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos fansite nthmelbourne 63 11 2
U18 National Championships New South Wales U18s team NSWACT_Rams 61 3 2
NSW Premier League Manly United ManlyUnited 58 470 5
NBL Townsville Crocodiles player willo43 57 2 8
NBL Perth Wildcats CatsCommunity 55 62 7
NBL South (Melbourne) Dragons unofficial SAVEOURDRAGONS 55 40 3
AFL Collingwood Magpies grounds VictoriaParkHC 52 48 2
NBL Perth Wildcats Cats_Media 50 52 6
Australian Cross Country Ski Team Australian Cross Country Ski Team official AUS_XC 46 27 8
AIHL AIHL unofficial hockeypulse 46 183 2
NBL Townsville Crocodiles player Kegs42 44 92 7
NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial parraeels 43 4 4
AIHL AIHL unofficial hnim 42 35 4
AFL Essendon Bombers player bomberblitz 40 116 1
Brisbane Netball Association ACE Netball Club official ACENetball 38 20 5
WNBL Dandenong Jayco Rangers JaycoRangers 38 56 7
Netball New South Wales Petersham RUFC Netball Club PetershamNetbal 38 9 6
AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial bc8977 35 8 8
Plenty Valley Netball Association Orcas Netball Orcas_Netball 35 46 8
NBL Gold Coast Blaze player Vandy21 35 0 8
AFL Essendon Bombers fansite fake_EssendonFC 34 32 3
AFLNT AFLNT official Chippa39 31 300 0
Cycling Australia Velo Canberra official velocanberra 31 39 2
VFL Port Melbourne Borough unofficial BoroughBoy 29 0 12
NBL Perth Wildcats CEO nickmarvin 29 7 3
W-League W-League media outlet abcwleague 20 31 3
AFL Essendon Bombers player jreynojreyno 18 11 1
NBL Townsville Crocodiles player ToffCedar 17 1 5
AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies official ucniss 17 64 2
NBL Townsville Crocodiles player cameronwhiting 15 2 7
WNBL Logan Thunder loganthunder 15 3 6
NBL Adelaide 36ers player brad_393 10 3 3
Triathlon TriathlonTSO TriathlonTSO 10 18 0
Tennis Australia Tennis Canberra official tenniscanberra 9 146 0
AFL Sydney Swans fan group SwansPerthCrew 7 25 3
Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz perthblitz 4 10 2

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Twitter: @NRL followers vs. @AFL followers

Posted by Laura on Sunday, 5 September, 2010

I’ve wanted to compare the NRL to the AFL on Twitter for a long time.  The problem is that they have a lot of followers.  For other teams, based on where our API is right now, there might be 200 to 300 location fields not filled in.  In both cases, there are were 6,000+ total followers.  Despite having massively improved the tool we’re building,  we’re still missing a lot.  In terms of the NRL data we gathered on September 2, we’re missing 836 locations.  (These may or may not actually result in actual city, state, country locations.)   For the AFL data gathered on the same date, we’re missing 351 locations.  At this would require several more days worth of work to fix, I figured there was enough data to draw some general conclusions and make a map of the comparative locations of AFL fans versus NRL fans.

For the AFL, the city was determined for 5,879 people who are from 891 unique cities.  For the NRL, the city was determined for 3,204 people who are from 493 unique cities.  The following table shows the follow count by city and league for all cities+leagues where the city had more than 100 people identified as from that location.

League City State Location Count
AFL Melbourne Victoria Australia 2372
NRL Sydney New South Wales Australia 1145
AFL Perth Western Australia Australia 443
NRL Brisbane Queensland Australia 402
AFL Sydney New South Wales Australia 399
AFL Adelaide South Australia Australia 369
AFL Brisbane Queensland Australia 270
NRL Melbourne Victoria Australia 187
NRL Gold Coast Queensland Australia 161
NRL Auckland Auckland New Zealand 110
AFL Geelong Victoria Australia 102

The location follow patterns appear to makes sense given what are the traditional strongholds and relative popularity of each league.  (It would be interesting to compare these to the A-League, ANZ Championship, W-League, NBL, WNBL, Super 14/15 and national side related follows to see where cities rank.  That map is a project for another day.)  When mapped with the location by city+league followed, you get the following:



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The map shows that the NRL draws much more heavily in New Zealand than the AFL does. Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and South Australia are predominately AFL areas of followers; whereas, New South Wales and Queensland are areas of heavy followers for the NRL.

If the location data is broken down by state instead of city, 3,546 NRL and 6,681 AFL followers have an identifiable Australia state. It reaffirms the observed patterns:

State NRL AFL
Australian Capital Territory 107 111
New South Wales 2057 724
Northern Territory 16 33
Queensland 1002 587
South Australia 32 565
Tasmania 12 160
Victoria 280 3778
Western Australia 40 723

Both teams appear to have strong follower populations international.  For the NRL, 4,987 followers have an identified country.  For the AFL, there are 8,671 who have an identified country.  With the exception of Uruguay, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the AFL has the largest amount of followers by country.

Location AFL NRL
Australia 7720 4205
Austria 3
Barbados 1
Belarus 2
Belgium 1
Brazil 16 5
Cameroon 1
Canada 58 9
Chechnya 1
Chile 4
China 26 6
Colombia 1
Denmark 1
Ecuador 13
Egypt 1
Faroe Islands 1
Finland 1
France 14
Germany 10 3
Greece 1
Guyana 1
Hungary 1
India 30 4
Indonesia 7
Iran 7
Ireland 20 4
Israel 4 1
Italy 5 1
Japan 15 12
Kazakhstan 1
Kenya 1
Malaysia 5
Marshall Islands 1
Mexico 4
Nauru 1
Nepal 2
Netherlands 5 3
New Caledonia 1
New Zealand 35 356
Norway 3
Philippines 5 1
Portugal 1
Qatar 2
Romania 3 1
Russia 4
Saudi Arabia 1
Serbia 3
Singapore 19 7
South Africa 9 1
Spain 4 2
Sri Lanka 1
Sweden 6 1
Taiwan 2
Thailand 6 3
Tonga 1
Turkey 5
Ukraine 1
United Arab Emirates 12 3
United Kingdom 166 218
United States 392 124
Unknown 667
Vietnam 3
Uruguay 1

With out knowing much, some of this makes sense.  It is much easier to watch AFL games in the United States and Canada than it is to watch NRL games.  Added to that, the AFL have spent some money trying to develop the sport there.  The United Kingdom is a traditional rugby stronghold.  New Zealand has an NRL team and doesn’t have an AFL club.

On September 2, I also got follower data for the Socceroos and the ANZ Championship.  The scale of followers was much smaller, with something like 4,500 and 250 respectively.  For the accounts, I found the mean, median and mode of ReTweets, Followers, Status Updates, Friends, and Listed.  This data is on the table below.

League Math Retweeted Followers Status Updates Friends Listed
AFL Mean 0.0003 152.49 559.64 223.82 5.14
anznetballchamp Mean 0 92.67 652.14 179.45 4.04
NRL Mean 0.0069 152.96 549.76 214.27 5.19
Socceroos Mean 0 294.26 978.33 386.65 10.76
AFL Median 0 19 20 60 0
anznetballchamp Median 0 22 55 94 0
NRL Median 0 19 25 67 0
Socceroos Median 0 39 109 114 1
AFL Mode 0 0 0 1 0
anznetballchamp Mode 0 1 0 35 0
NRL Mode 0 0 0 1 0
Socceroos Mode 0 0 0 1 0

On the whole, Socceroos fans appear to be more active, have the most followers and follow the most people.  If we only look at the NRL and the AFL, the two sets of followers appear to be very close in composition.  The average number of followers is separated by one. The total status updates differs by a little more than 10.  The total number of friends differs by around 9.  The total number of times each follower appears on a list averages less than one.  If median and mode are used instead, the differences are similar in that there isn’t a significant difference.

In conclusion, there are distinct geographic patterns for AFL and NRL followers but beyond that, the two types of followers are pretty similar.  More analysis can and should be done to see if these patterns hold up country to country, state to state, and city to city.

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Melbourne Storm followers on Twitter

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 26 August, 2010

Still refining the tool where I can get the location and other data from all the followers for accounts. We can’t quite figure out how to check the verified account fields yet. Some fields appear only in tweets but not on profiles. Line breaks in profile descriptions are occassionally causing issues. My if/then location field isn’t working right. (Apparently fuzzy logic may need to be applied to allow for that as “Melbourne” is not appending as “Melbourne, Victoria, Australia” for me.) I decided to look at the Melbourne Storm today because I thought it might be interesting.

The official account for the Melbourne Storm is MelbStormRLC. They have 1,757 and we got information from all the accounts following it. For the major categories involving numbers, I got the mean, median and mode:

ReTweets Followers Status Count Friends Listed
Mean 0.006254343 182.0159453 782.9430524 332.3933865 7.16543069
Median 0 33 49 114 0
Mode 0 1 0 1 0

The numbers are very, very low when compared to AFL based St. Kilda Saints. The Saints have around 140 people who have 10,000+ followers and 15 people with 100,000+ followers and that’s with only half their followers counted. In contrast, the Melbourne Storm have no one 10,000+ followers. They also have no one who follows that many people. On the opposite end of the ladder, there are 52 (or 2%) people who follow only the Storm or the Storm and one other person.

Overall these stats suggest that people who follow the Melbourne Storm are not particularly active on Twitter: They don’t follow that many people, they aren’t followed by people, they update infrequently and they don’t appear on many lists. What these stats don’t tell is how often these people check Twitter. Some people might check Twitter often but not update and follow many people. (Different people use Twitter differently. It would be really interesting to see a survey that asked people how often they check Twitter and why they check Twitter.)

Beyond that, 1,308 people have their timezone information available in their profiles. (It might actually be more and this could be a problem in our data collection… but let’s pretend that this is representative of the whole group despite evidence to support that.) The following is a count by timezone:

Time Zone Count Percent
Melbourne 583 44.6%
Sydney 254 19.4%
Hawaii 153 11.7%
Brisbane 128 9.8%
London 40 3.1%
Auckland 24 1.8%
Canberra 20 1.5%
Pacific Time (US & Canada) 17 1.3%
Perth 15 1.1%
Wellington 12 0.9%
Hobart 10 0.8%
Adelaide 8 0.6%
Quito 6 0.5%
Central Time (US & Canada) 5 0.4%
Eastern Time (US & Canada) 5 0.4%
Darwin 3 0.2%
Greenland 3 0.2%
Hong Kong 3 0.2%
Alaska 2 0.2%
Paris 2 0.2%
Rome 2 0.2%
Singapore 2 0.2%
Abu Dhabi 1 0.1%
Amsterdam 1 0.1%
Arizona 1 0.1%
Bangkok 1 0.1%
Caracas 1 0.1%
Edinburgh 1 0.1%
Guam 1 0.1%
Jakarta 1 0.1%
Jerusalem 1 0.1%
Lima 1 0.1%
Tehran 1 0.1%

Unsurprisingly, given that the team is based in Melbourne, that timezone is the most popular, accounting for 44% of the team’s followers. Sydney time, the area where NRL is dominant, accounts for 20%. I’m not certain how to explain the popularity of the Melbourne Storm in Hawaiian time. Brisbane makes sense as again, the area is an NRL stronghold.

In profile descriptions, 36 people mention the word Storm and 103 mention Melbourne. That seems like a fairly significant amount of people expressing team loyalty and seems comparable to the Saints.

Four people list a language code of ES and three people list FR. That’s less diversity than St. Kilda in terms of language. Still, the French ones seem more explainable than the ones for St. Kilda because rugby is played in France and players sometimes go there to play for French teams. It can help to develop an audience in Australia for the team.

The Melbourne Storm don’t have as many followers as the more popular AFL teams but they do have more followers than the Canberra Raiders. The controversy early in the season helped to boost their numbers and they’ve been much more interactive of late. … Or at least, they’ve relied less on TwitterFeed for content. That was a huge problem early on in the season. Beyond that, these numbers look realistic: They appear to be getting an audience of Melbourne based and Australian NRL fans following them. Most of the people following them update occassionally and have few enough followers that they will see the content that the Storm update with. That’s probably the ideal that people should be aiming for. Yeah, people with 100,000 followers are awesome, especially if you can get a ReTweet but they’ll never see your tweet and in the case of St. Kilda, a lot of those people with massive follower counts are just not in their ideal demographic.

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Nifty Twitter tool: TwapperKeeper

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 24 August, 2010

I found a really nifty Twitter tool.  I don’t generally do content analysis but I figured it would be better to start getting data to have it than to want it later and not have it…  The tool is Twapper Keeper. It allows you to archive all tweets based on hashtags and keyword searches. (I’m hoping I can then use this do to some sort of analysis or maybe compare the tweet location between followers and tweeters to see if the audiences are unique.) I spent most of the morning setting up a bunch of #hashtags to monitor related to the AFL and NRL. While noting that these tags were not all added at the same time, the table below gives an idea of the total uses of these hash tags over the past 7 to 10 hours.

Archive Type Name Description # of Tweets
#Hashtag #afl AFL 1619
#Hashtag #nrl NRL 1501
#Hashtag #aleague A-League 736
#Hashtag #aflcatsblues AFL game day tweets: Geelong Cats vs. Carlton Blues 688
#Hashtag #dreamteam AFL fantasy football related tweets. 628
#Hashtag #aflsaintstigers AFL game day tweets: Saints vs. Tigers 413
#Hashtag #aflpowerdemons AFL game day tweets: Port Adelaide Power vs. Melbourne Demons 370
#Hashtag #efctweetup Essendon Bombers 345
#Hashtag #boomers Australian national basketball team 298
#Hashtag #footy AFL related tweets 293
#Hashtag #Eels Parametta Eels 286
#Hashtag #afleagleskangas AFL game day tweets: West Coast Eagles vs. North Melbourne Kangaroos 251
#Hashtag #gomanly Manly Sea Eagles 251
#Hashtag #gosaints St. Kilda Saints 245
#Hashtag #Gocats Geelong Cats 169
Keyword @carlton_fc Carlton Blues 155
#Hashtag #gopies Collingwood Magpies 150
#Hashtag #goswans Sydney Swans related tweets 149
#Hashtag #goeagles West Coast Eagles 100
#Hashtag #golions Brisbane Lions 97
#Hashtag #gotigers Richmond Tigers 84
#Hashtag #NMFC North Melbourne Kangaroos 78
#Hashtag #Essendon Essendon Bombers 68
#Hashtag #gohawks Hawthorn Hawks 59
#Hashtag #goblues Carlton Blues 54
#Hashtag #wallabies Australian national team 52
#Hashtag #mvfc Melbourne Victory Football Club 50
#Hashtag #socceroos Socceroos. 46
#Hashtag #supercoach Supercoach fantasy AFL competition 44
#Hashtag #Delhi2010 The Commonwealth Games 41
#Hashtag #gobombers Essendon Bombers related tweets 32
#Hashtag #wce West Coast Eagles 30
#Hashtag #sydneyswans Sydney Swans 28
#Hashtag #risingstar AFL related hashtag for great players. 23
Keyword Jason Akermanis Western Bulldogs 16
#Hashtag #AFLFinals AFL finals. 14
#Hashtag #freo Fremantle Dockers 13
#Hashtag #mhfc Melbourne Heart Football Club 13
#Hashtag #Wallaroos Australian national team 13
#Hashtag #gocrows Adelaide Crows 11
#Hashtag #northmelbourne North Melbourne Football Club 6
#Hashtag #thekennel Western Bulldogs 6
#Hashtag #AFLPAMVP AFL Player Association 5
#Hashtag #ucniss University of Canberra National Institute of Sport (Australia) 5
#Hashtag #westernbulldogs Western Bulldogs. 4
#Hashtag #aflcatseagles AFL game day tweets: West Coast Eagles vs. Geelong Cats. 3
#Hashtag #afldogsbombers AFL game day tweets: Bulldogs vs. Bombers 3
#Hashtag #aflfreoblues AFL Game Day tweets: Fremantle vs. Blues 3
#Hashtag #canberraunited Canberra United 3
#Hashtag #aflhawkspies AFL game day tweets: Hawks vs. Magpies 2
#Hashtag #afltigerspower AFL game day tweets: Tigers vs. Power 2
#Hashtag #wnbl Women’s National Basketball League – Australia 2
#Hashtag #aflbomberspies AFL Game Day tweets: Bombers vs. Pies 1
#Hashtag #afllionsswans AFL game day tweets: Sydney Swans vs. Brisbane Lions 1
#Hashtag #godemons Melbourne Demons 1
#Hashtag #aflbluesfreo AFL game day tweets: Fremantle Dockers vs. Carlton Blues 0
#Hashtag #aflbombersdogs AFL Game day tweets: Bombers vs. Bulldogs 0
#Hashtag #afldemondsroos AFL game day tweets: Demons vs Roos 0
#Hashtag #afleaglescats AFL game day tweets: West Coast Eagles vs. Geelong Cats 0
#Hashtag #aflpieshawks AFL game day tweets: Hawks vs. Pies. 0
#Hashtag #aflpowertigers AFL game day tweets: Port Adelaide Power vs. Richmond Tigers 0
#Hashtag #aflroosdemons AFL game day tweets: Kangaroos vs. Melbourne Demons 0
#Hashtag #aflsaintscrows Game day hash tag 0
#Hashtag #aflswanslions AFL game day tweets: Brisbane Lions vs. Sydney Swans 0
#Hashtag #godockers Fremantle Dockers 0
#Hashtag #gofreo Fremantle Dockers 0
#Hashtag #gopower Port Adelaide Power 0

What is interesting is that the popular teams are popular on Twitter too. Game day tags are pretty popular. The NRL and AFL are really close in terms of total number of tweets. (The difference could be accounted for by when each hash tag was added.)

Live updates of this table can be seen at TwapperKeeper.

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Sport allegiances out on the Great Barrier Reef

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 11 August, 2010

One of my favorite hobbies when out and about is to look at people’s shirts, hats, jackets, backpacks and scarves to see what sport teams are represented. It can be really interesting. (Clothes say a lot about a person at times. And sport related clothing can to. Why people wear things can involve a conscious fashion decision, because they visited the place where the team is based, because they want to be affiliated with the team or a city, in order to have conversations, because their team is winning, etc.) In Canberra, you’re just as likely to see a Hawthown Hawks as you are the Brisbane Broncos or the All Blacks as you are to see the Canberra Raiders or ACT Brumbies. It makes the game of sport clothing watching a bit more fun.

Yesterday, I went out on the Great Barrier Reef. (Went out with Quicksilver based in Port Douglas. They have a trip that does not require snorkeling or scuba diving. Boat holds 440 people. Not a small sample.) The variety was rather interesting with no repeats. The only team represented that seemed out of place was South Africa’s football team and I was wearing that shirt.

That said, the following teams were all represented once:

  • Melbourne Storm
  • Hawthorn Hawks
  • South Sydney Rabbitohs (the guy wearing it immediately hit the bar after getting off the boat)
  • Hong Kong Rugby 7s
  • Cabonne United (Rugby league team from NSW)
  • USC Trojans
  • South African national football team
  • Boston marathon  (Not a team but still a major sporting event)
  • Canberra Raiders
  • Boston Red Sox
  • X-Games (not a team but a sporting event)
  • Chicago Bears

After I got out, I spotted a kid in the marina wearing a North Queensland Cowboys shirt.  I couldn’t tell if he was on the boat or not so on my list of places I have seen jerseys, I put it with the marina rather than the reef.  Anyway, I’m not sure exactly what to make of this list.  I know there were Kiwis and Dutch and Germans and English and Spanish speakers and Koreans aboard.  I could hear their accents and see them reading printed material in the language or some one would ask them where they were from and they would say.  I just didn’t see sport clothing.  I don’t know if the  Western Australians and South Australians weren’t on board or just weren’t wearing sport related stuff for their teams.  I thought the Victorians were supposed to be more sport mad but not really represented here.  The USA was represented with a fair representation of teams and events.

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Most popular AFL and NRL teams on Facebook

Posted by Laura on Friday, 30 July, 2010

This list extends a bit beyond the AFL and NRL but not much.  The following list contains the total number of fans or members of a Facebook group or fanpage today.  All the official AFL and NRL club pages and accounts are included.  Beyond that, there are a number of other groups and clubs that I had looked at before.  Some of these are official accounts.  Some of them are not.  A number have been deleted after they were originally looked at.  This gives a bit of an idea of what I’m interested in.  It also gives an idea as to how successful official club pages are at capturing the majority of their audience or if fans are going elsewhere.  In some cases, it also gives an idea as to how successful anti-campaigns are at garnering attention.

League Team Name Url Total members Official
AFL AFL AFL https://www.facebook.com/AFL 175,275 Yes
Rugby League/State of Origin Queensland Maroons Queensland Maroons https://www.facebook.com/queenslandmaroons 164,028 Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team https://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 122,725 Yes
NRL Brisbane Broncos Brisbane Broncos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Hill-Australia/Brisbane-Broncos/99453774630 83,157 Yes
AFL Richmond Tigers I hate it when I’m kicking the footy around and Richmond try to recruit me. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Richmond-VA/I-hate-it-when-Im-kicking-the-footy-around-and-Richmond-try-to-recruit-me/116177261751551?v=wall 70,250 No
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon FC https://www.facebook.com/Essendon 68,724 Yes
Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues NSW Blues https://www.facebook.com/nswblues 62,852 Yes
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows https://www.facebook.com/adelaidecrows 51,467 Yes
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Football Club https://www.facebook.com/collingwoodfc 49,007 Yes
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Eagles/38862387223 47,295 Yes
AFL St. Kilda Saints St Kilda Football Club https://www.facebook.com/stkfc 33,109 Yes
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Football Club https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCarltonFC 30,322 Yes
AFL Sydney Swans Sydney Swans https://www.facebook.com/sydneyswans 27,261 Yes
NRL Gold Coast Titans Gold Coast Titans https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gold-Coast-Australia/Gold-Coast-Titans/22602574592 25,714 Yes
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Football Club https://www.facebook.com/hawthornfc 25,267 Yes
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Football Club https://www.facebook.com/fremantlefootballclub 23,293 Yes
NRL Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles https://www.facebook.com/pages/Manly-Warringah-Sea-Eagles/222674735992 20,241 Yes
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers – Official National Rugby League Club https://www.facebook.com/WestsTigers.com.au 19,355 Yes
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond Tigers https://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Richmond-Tigers/7769834477 18,045 No
NRL Newcastle Knights Newcastle Knights https://www.facebook.com/NewcastleKnights 16,470 Yes
NRL Sydney Roosters The Official Sydney Roosters Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Official-Sydney-Roosters-Page/222342250384?ref=sgm 15,362 Yes
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Lions/21301860172 15,014 No
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Lions/21301860172 15,014 Yes
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Football Club https://www.facebook.com/northkangaroos 14,496 Yes
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond FC https://www.facebook.com/Richmond.FC 13,504 Yes
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Football Club https://www.facebook.com/portadelaidefootballclub 13,229 Yes
NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Cronulla Sharks https://www.facebook.com/cronullasutherlandsharks 11,230 Yes
Rugby League New Zealand Kiwis New Zealand Kiwis https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Zealand-Kiwis/29087221880 10,745 Yes
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/Western.Bulldogs 9,304 Yes
NRL Melbourne Storm Sucked in Melbourne Storm! HAHA https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sucked-in-Melbourne-Storm-HAHA/119988934680797 8,566 No
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Magpies https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208766149 8,066 No
Rugby League Australian Kangaroos Australian Kangaroos https://www.facebook.com/australiankangaroos 8,042 Yes
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Football Club https://www.facebook.com/MELBOURNEfc 8,015 Yes
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5483691593 7,086 No
AFL Hawthorn Hawks hawthorn football club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210288061 6,557 No
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats https://www.facebook.com/pages/Geelong-Australia/Geelong-Cats/64398281288 6,278 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/canberraraiders 6,269 Yes
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats Insider https://www.facebook.com/GeelongCatsInsider 5,906 Yes
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208515594 5,810 No
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Kangaroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Melbourne-Kangaroos/33221186760 5,173 No
ANZ Championship ANZ Championship ANZ Netball https://www.facebook.com/pages/ANZ-Netball/92385331744 5,158 Yes
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles Appreciation Group https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2212678352 5,031 No
NRL Melbourne Storm Storm Man https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=725961793&ref=search&sid=7259 4,986 Yes
AFL Sydney Swans Sydney Swans https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210531221 4,670 No
Rugby League England Rugby League England Rugby League https://www.facebook.com/pages/England-Rugby-League/22459291791 4,645 Yes
NRL Melbourne Storm Give Melbourne Storm Their Premierships Back https://www.facebook.com/pages/Give-Melbourne-Storm-Their-Premierships-Back/119876964691459 4,479 No
AFL St. Kilda Saints St Kilda Football Club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2215006752 4,265 No
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Football Club https://www.facebook.com/GoldCoastFC 4,111 Yes
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Football Club, The Mighty Demons https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207848796 4,052 No
AFL Geelong Cats GEELONG FOOTBALL CLUB https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2528050096 3,939 No
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Dockers Fan Club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207069891 3,725 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau/10150092717680478 3,577 No
Super 14 ACT Brumbies ACT Brumbies https://www.facebook.com/actbrumbies 3,542 No
Super 14 Western Force Western Force https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Force/24790235284 3,472
Super 14 Western Force Western Force https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Force/24790235284 3,472 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&ref=profile&id=1589355881 3,413 Yes
Rugby League Papua New Guinea Kumuls Papua New Guinea Kumuls https://www.facebook.com/pages/Papua-New-Guinea-Kumuls/48575750514 3,310 Yes
NRL North Queensland Cowboys North Queensland Toyota Cowboys https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kirwan-Australia/North-Queensland-Toyota-Cowboys/9098495661 3,208 Yes
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Hawks https://www.facebook.com/hawthornhawks 3,182 No
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Power https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2373641808 3,152 No
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond Tigers https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2249604493 2,748 No
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Kangaroos https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2600790272 2,413 No
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions AFC https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210819520 2,321 No
Women’s World Cup Matildas Matildas – Australian National Women’s Football Team https://www.facebook.com/matildas 2,204 Yes
Super 14 ACT Brumbies Official Brumbies Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/BrumbiesFanPage 2,196 Yes
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows The team for all proud South Aussies https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-Crows-The-team-for-all-proud-South-Aussies/153984865902 2,116 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 2010 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs-2010/217871884770 2,019 No
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon Bombers https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14594414804 2,016 No
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Western Sydney Rollers Western Sydney Rollers https://www.facebook.com/pages/Penrith-Australia/Western-Sydney-Rollers/42792267115 2,001 Yes
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues Supporters Club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2205002774 1,614 No
Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues New South Wales Rugby League https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-South-Wales-Rugby-League/62360768317 1,436 Yes
W-League W-League Westfield W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westfield-W-League/284833825576 1,424 Yes
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS https://www.facebook.com/teamgws 1,359 Yes
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Australia/Canberra-Raiders/44722778922 1,255 Yes
NRL Melbourne Storm Support the Melbourne Storm this Sunday Night https://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-the-Melbourne-Storm-this-Sunday-Night/112926535407833 1,244 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Anything To Do With Footy. https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46374304132 984 No
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles SUCK! https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Eagles-SUCK/283601832162 953 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/301148780410 943 No
AFL Western Bulldogs WESTERN BULLDOGS 2010 PREMIERSHIP TEAM https://www.facebook.com/pages/WESTERN-BULLDOGS-2010-PREMIERSHIP-TEAM/304790027975 673 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a homophobe. https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118380594866779 631 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/107712129252191 630 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106353142733985 617 No
AFL St. Kilda Saints ST KILDA SAINTS https://www.facebook.com/pages/ST-KILDA-SAINTS/76945789299 599 No
SEABL SEABL SEABL https://www.facebook.com/pages/SEABL/156802199436 599 Yes
AFL Collingwood Magpies COLLINGWOOD MAGPIES PREMIERS OF 2010. https://www.facebook.com/pages/COLLINGWOOD-MAGPIES-PREMIERS-OF-2010/206003434840 591 No
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues https://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Carlton-Blues/159855878819 590 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Don’t you hate it when you’re in the shower and Jason Akermanis comes in? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dont-you-hate-it-when-youre-in-the-shower-and-Jason-Akermanis-comes-in/124465230905493 548 No
AFL Western Bulldogs The Jason Akermanis Appreciation Society https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20900401086 482 No
W-League Canberra United Canberra United Fans https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31893404397 459 Yes
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon Bombers Premiers 2010!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Essendon-Bombers-Premiers-2010/292548086075 444 No
NRL Melbourne Storm melbourne storm :) https://www.facebook.com/pages/melbourne-storm-/234035998634 426 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos 100,000 Strong Socceroos Supporters To Win 2010 World Cup https://www.facebook.com/pages/100000-Strong-Socceroos-Supporters-To-Win-2010-World-Cup/362147231671 403 No
AIHL Sydney Bears Sydney Bears https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-Bears/231164562115 372 Yes
WNBL Canberra Capitals WNBL – Canberra Capitals https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5865846788 368
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Dockers : Rebuilding since 1995 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fremantle-Dockers-Rebuilding-since-1995/320031751833 365 No
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues FC https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=85618681803 361 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos to dominate in 2010 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos-to-dominate-in-2010/125877250762609 356 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs/109838169034373 352 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jarrod Harbrow Stay At The Western Bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jarrod-Harbrow-Stay-At-The-Western-Bulldogs/111810932186509 348 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Karmichael Hunt & Israel Folau: Smartest NRL players in history https://www.facebook.com/pages/Karmichael-Hunt-Israel-Folau-Smartest-NRL-players-in-history/125580140798379 333 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau/116955588324978 308 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Raiders/107811962573583 281 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I’m not a traitor to my sport… LOL jks, im Israel Folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-not-a-traitor-to-my-sport-LOL-jks-im-Israel-Folau/126807534010649 261 No
NBL Wollongong Hawks Wollongong Hawks https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2511926702 246
NRL Brisbane Broncos its not all about the money… LOL jkz im Israel Folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/its-not-all-about-the-money-LOL-jkz-im-Israel-Folau/128394483853228 246 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney ACT 4 GWS https://www.facebook.com/pages/ACT-4-GWS/131873296847254 226 Yes
AFL Greater Western Sydney Supporters of Greater Western Sydney (Team GWS) AFL https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=197444073672 224 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=211851956941 222 No
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Power https://www.facebook.com/pages/Port-Adelaide-Power/9426342069 221 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Todd Carney 16 – Canberra Raiders 6……..(17/4/2010) Roosters Vs. Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Carney-16-Canberra-Raiders-61742010-Roosters-Vs-Raiders/117965208220477 218 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Australian University Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-University-Socceroos/279400107713 217 No
World Interuniversity Games Australian University Socceroos Australian University Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-University-Socceroos/279400107713 217 No
NWBL Wollongong Roller Hawks Wollongong Roller Hawks https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34282398124 215
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a legend https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10308061363 211 No
WNBL Bendigo Spirit The Official Bendigo Spirit Basketball https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bendigo-Australia/The-Official-Bendigo-Spirit-Basketball/227515051849 183 Yes
AFL Western Bulldogs Vote Julia Gillard as full forward for the Bulldogs!!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vote-Julia-Gillard-as-full-forward-for-the-Bulldogs/135068153186079 177 No
Archery Australia Guy Phillips Guy Phillips https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guy-Phillips/136216599725314 177 Yes
AFL Richmond Tigers Trent Cotchin https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=288344968328 174 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Australia/Canberra-Raiders/142939450791 174 No
Greater Western Sydney and Blue Mountains Senior AFL Penrith Rams IGA PENRITH RAMS https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34780778851 170 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney https://www.facebook.com/pages/Greater-Western-Sydney/110850405598090 163 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs/275365171824 156 No
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers NYC https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14767245041 153 No
VFL Bendigo Bombers Bendigo Bombers Football Club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=166091156567 151
AFL Western Bulldogs Julia Gillard, full-foward for Western Bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Julia-Gillard-full-foward-for-Western-Bulldogs/138828299460524 142 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Im Not Really That Awesome, LOL jk, Im Israel Folau ♥ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-Not-Really-That-Awesome-LOL-jk-Im-Israel-Folau-3/120925127943654 141 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS :) https://www.facebook.com/pages/SOCCEROOS-/126051170744978 136 No
AFL Richmond Tigers Daniel Jackson – TIGER TUFF! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123091481992 134 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau has discraced rugby league and is a DOG https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau-has-discraced-rugby-league-and-is-a-DOG/131445246866465 126 No
WNBL Townsville Fire Townsville McCafe Fire https://www.facebook.com/pages/Townsville-Australia/Townsville-McCafe-Fire/239691963244 123 Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos kickoff.com.au: A-League, Socceroos, Australian and International football https://www.facebook.com/pages/kickoffcomau-A-League-Socceroos-Australian-and-International-football/238919388600 119 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I’m going to be an AFL superstar. Oh wait, no i’m not. I’m Israel Folau. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-going-to-be-an-AFL-superstar-Oh-wait-no-im-not-Im-Israel-Folau/130787570267787 114 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Brett Holman shouldn’t play for the Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brett-Holman-shouldnt-play-for-the-Socceroos/155289433083 114 No
NRL Newcastle Knights Matt Johns to coach the Newcastle Knights in 2010! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=105298639854 110 No
Super 14 ACT Brumbies act brumbies https://www.facebook.com/pages/act-brumbies/188338778385 107 No
AFL Western Bulldogs WESTERN BULLDOGS https://www.facebook.com/pages/WESTERN-BULLDOGS/271303674325 105 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs/110292775655582 104 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I love NRL, LOL jk i’m Israel Folau. https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-love-NRL-LOL-jk-im-Israel-Folau/132015913479883 98 No
Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs Waratahs 2008 https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6889666197 98
Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs Waratahs 2008 https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6889666197 98 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Cheering for the Socceroos at the local club in the World Cup https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheering-for-the-Socceroos-at-the-local-club-in-the-World-Cup/406886935323 98 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis handstand appreciation society https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19647855868 97 No
AFL Richmond Tigers Greeks who support Richmond F.C the Tigers https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56793324172 94 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Akermaniacs!! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13979751018 88 No
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Football Club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116206475832 87 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Langerak is a God, and will be in the Socceroos one day :) p.s hes HOT https://www.facebook.com/pages/Langerak-is-a-God-and-will-be-in-the-Socceroos-one-day-ps-hes-HOT/103909322982210 86 No
WNBL Townsville Fire TOWNSVILLE FIRE https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7634104737 80 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/376142636801 78 No
NRL Canberra Raiders i bet u i can find 10,000 people who hate canberra raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/i-bet-u-i-can-find-10000-people-who-hate-canberra-raiders/115693885138853 69 No
AFL Western Bulldogs for people who wanna see Jason Akermanis shove his head up his own Ass https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38642639632 68 No
NRL Sydney Roosters Sign Up Jake Friend https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=311599952794 66 No
NRL Canberra Raiders I’m a 2010 Canberra Raiders member https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Australia/Im-a-2010-Canberra-Raiders-member/217845443478 65 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Raiders/370953541588 62 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/108710262493191 57 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/112443855448354 57 No
AFL Richmond Tigers No matter how bad they are, I will still barrack for the Richmond Tigers! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80991032015 56 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney GO Team GWS https://www.facebook.com/pages/GO-Team-GWS/201507074991 55 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-bulldogs/208698572908 51 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney Football Club https://www.facebook.com/pages/Greater-Western-Sydney-Football-Club/100573089984951 49 No
VFL Frankston Dolphins Aaron Edwards Fan page https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139834293787 46
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a dick https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118537708183794 45 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I miss my family in brisbane…lol jk im Israel Folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-miss-my-family-in-brisbanelol-jk-im-Israel-Folau/121631641206963 45 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Hi I’m Julia Gillard, I’m a politic LOL jk, I’m full forward for the bulldogs https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hi-Im-Julia-Gillard-Im-a-politic-LOL-jk-Im-full-forward-for-the-bulldogs/133430483342149 41 No
Victorian Amateur Football Association Werribee Tigers Werribee Amateur Football Club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7111400046 41
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106019049438817 33 No
AFL Hawthorn Hawks The New Hawks Cheer Squad 2009 hawthorn football club https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14866934870 32 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Raiders/148093829783 32 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau to switch codes and Play AFL, Stick that where it fits Gallup https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau-to-switch-codes-and-Play-AFL-Stick-that-where-it-fits-Gallup/121244824577993 31 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Ive always wanted to play AFL LOL jk I’m Israel Folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ive-always-wanted-to-play-AFL-LOL-jk-Im-Israel-Folau/121790094527530 31 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team Gws https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=432992410322 30 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Queensland will win Origin 2010… LOL JK, Israel Folau plays AFL now. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Queensland-will-win-Origin-2010-LOL-JK-Israel-Folau-plays-AFL-now/121736904533450 30 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney GWS AFL TEAM WE DO NOT WANT YOU !!!! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115243691825820 24 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis slept with me https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-slept-with-me/115552025153010 24 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Petition for Israel to come play the Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-Israel-to-come-play-the-Socceroos/124315894249250 24 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 2010 :) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs-2010-/121258311217816 21 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I’m loyal to rugby league….lol JK I’m Israel Folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-loyal-to-rugby-leaguelol-JK-Im-Israel-Folau/101306539918069 21 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I’m Israel Folau I’m an NRL superstar, LOL jk im gonna go play footy https://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-Israel-Folau-Im-an-NRL-superstar-LOL-jk-im-gonna-go-play-footy/118386028202456 19 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau ♥ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau-3/118502131501099 19 No
AFL AFL I Loved football, then Andrew ‘Dollars’ Demetriou came along https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=376087484378&ref=search 18 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney BOYCOTT TEAM GWS https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127403363954150 18 No
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Law Hawks https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5033799337 18
AFL Western Bulldogs I’ll never play for the Bulldogs, LOL jk, I’m Julia Gillard https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ill-never-play-for-the-Bulldogs-LOL-jk-Im-Julia-Gillard/104083189641887 18 No
NRL Wests Tigers Melbourne-based Wests Tigers Fanatics https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4979514491 18 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis should be locked and gagged in a closet! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109095775801131 16 No
AHL Tassie Tigers Tassie Tigers Hockey – Top 4 three years in a row https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10850081395 16
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel folau, please stay with NRL https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-folau-please-stay-with-NRL/129283270431508 16 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Supporting the Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Supporting-the-Canberra-Raiders/378099581051 15 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Raiders/105808109459157 14 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Support for the Socceroos in South Africa https://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-the-Socceroos-in-South-Africa/118426448190124 14 No
AFL Western Bulldogs jason akermanis is amazing! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=344061166761 13 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos israel folau is injury prone https://www.facebook.com/pages/israel-folau-is-injury-prone/114024501946027 13 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Change the name of the Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Australia/Change-the-name-of-the-Socceroos/206601790281 12 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney I live here and don’t support Team GWS https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140288354383 11 No
WNBL Townsville Fire Fire Roster https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10595065717 10 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis for Brownlow 2008 https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16522463154 9 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis to win the Coleman medal. https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21877556009 9 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos fan? get on it!!!!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/socceroos-fan-get-on-it/118141831550071 9 No
AFL Western Bulldogs JASON AKERMANIS’S IQ OF A PLANT https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=107444465957654 8 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS is stupid – Nobody cares! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201349721647 7 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau an AFL player? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau-an-AFL-player/125596160796485 7 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/105738419448658 6 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/119664741377244 6 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos The Football Supporters’ Pledge: A-League, Socceroos & Grassroots https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Football-Supporters-Pledge-A-League-Socceroos-Grassroots/114421618592491 5 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Only Homophobes think Jason Akermanis is a homophobe! https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128825660465576 4 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I’m not angry Israel Folau, I’m just very disappointed in you. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-not-angry-Israel-Folau-Im-just-very-disappointed-in-you/122542961115419 4 No
NRL Canberra Raiders CANBERRA RAIDERS (GREEN MACHINE) https://www.facebook.com/pages/CANBERRA-RAIDERS-GREEN-MACHINE/131955160151271 4 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-GWS/110182962355046 3 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-GWS/110460898989193 3 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124872100865630 3 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Biography https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Biography/106142142741832 3 No
W-League Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Roar-FC-W-League/113243915352961 3 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Young Socceroos https://www.facebook.com/pages/Young-Socceroos/115695218444154 3 No
AFL Western Bulldogs The Battle Within by Jason Akermanis https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Battle-Within-by-Jason-Akermanis/110570445624262 2 No
NRL Canberra Raiders On a scale of 1-Canberra Raiders how premature are you https://www.facebook.com/pages/On-a-scale-of-1-Canberra-Raiders-how-premature-are-you/125897990754134 2 No
W-League Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Victory-W-League/114789105203249 2 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Can’t Drive A Race Car https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123972501889 1 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/373300971735 1 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Autobiography https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Autobiography/106446502709782 1 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Raiders de canberra https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raiders-de-canberra/106471522724049 1 No
W-League Adelaide United Adelaide United FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-United-FC-W-League/108294542532589 1 No
W-League Adelaide United Adelaide United F.C. W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-United-FC-W-League/111672428851109 1 No
W-League Adelaide United Adelaide United W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-United-W-League/110542468965980 1 No
W-League Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Roar-W-League/106111719427974 1 No
W-League Canberra United Canberra United FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-United-FC-W-League/109991445697639 1 No
W-League Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Victory-FC-W-League/107986482554786 1 No
W-League Queensland Roar Queensland Roar W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Queensland-Roar-W-League/106361719403254 1 No
W-League W-League Westfield W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westfield-W-League/106287136076565 1 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-GWS/116207325073108 0 No
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Demons https://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Melbourne-Demons/8283147091 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Is Totally Gay https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118573961511057 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a F*ckwit https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18564050741 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis: Homophobe and complete fuckwit! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Homophobe-and-complete-fuckwit/105067262872425 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a coward https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-is-a-coward/105337389512086 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is an idiot. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-is-an-idiot/125326927493237 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis, you are a MORON! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-you-are-a-MORON/109009685810123 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs FC https://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs-FC/22912285819 0 No
NBL Wollongong Hawks Wollongong Hawks https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wollongong-Australia/Wollongong-Hawks/250640730611 0
NRL Brisbane Broncos I’d rather see the world end in 2012 then see Israel Folau play AFL https://www.facebook.com/pages/Id-rather-see-the-world-end-in-2012-then-see-Israel-Folau-play-AFL/125789914109136 0 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I hate AFL…lol jk i’m karmichael hunt and israel folau https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-hate-AFLlol-jk-im-karmichael-hunt-and-israel-folau/121488781224409 0 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos israel folau turned gay for 3 million https://www.facebook.com/pages/israel-folau-turned-gay-for-3-million/128843927141424 0 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos sucks Israel Folau joined AFL, LOL jk AFL needs better players anyways https://www.facebook.com/pages/sucks-Israel-Folau-joined-AFL-LOL-jk-AFL-needs-better-players-anyways/132172480131292 0 No
NRL Melbourne Storm Best team in NRL.. Melbourne Storm ! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Best-team-in-NRL-Melbourne-Storm-/43558529287 0 No
NRL Melbourne Storm Melbourne Storm https://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Melbourne-Storm/21222300614 0 Yes
W-League Canberra United Canberra United W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-United-W-League/106044356102375 0 No
W-League Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Central-Coast-Mariners-FC-W-League/108518769173365 0 No
W-League Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Central-Coast-Mariners-W-League/111835622169478 0 No
W-League Newcastle Jets Newcastle Jets FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-Jets-FC-W-League/105841596122300 0 No
W-League Newcastle Jets Newcastle Jets W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-Jets-W-League/110694742284280 0 No
W-League Newcastle United Jets Newcastle United Jets FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-United-Jets-FC-W-League/107745802588731 0 No
W-League Newcastle United Jets Newcastle United Jets W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-United-Jets-W-League/106256169412363 0 No
W-League Perth Glory Perth Glory W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Perth-Glory-W-League/106426936059962 0 No
W-League Perth Glory FC Perth Glory FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Perth-Glory-FC-W-League/105709786128298 0 No
W-League Queensland Roar Queensland Roar FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Queensland-Roar-FC-W-League/106577539379058 0 No
W-League Sydney FC Sydney FC W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-FC-W-League/107350229294344 0 No
W-League W-League Westfield W-League https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westfield-W-League/112250692140005 0 No
W-League W-League W League https://www.facebook.com/pages/W-League/105657402802575 0 Yes
W-League W-League W League https://www.facebook.com/pages/W-League/105657402802575 0 No
W-League W-League W League https://www.facebook.com/pages/W-League/109267555759761 0 No
W-League W-League W League https://www.facebook.com/pages/W-League/119918504685192 0 No
WNBL Bendigo Spirit WNBL – Bendigo Spirit https://www.facebook.com/BendigoSpirit 0 Yes

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Alexa rank for Australian leagues and clubs

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 29 July, 2010

I’ve been some what lax with collecting data during the past month.  This morning, I decided to remedy this a bit by updating my Alexa rank list for Australian sport clubs and teams.  This is what can be found below.  (The list isn’t all comprehensive.  I tend to mostly focus on the AFL and NRL.) It is interesting to see who is doing well, especially when compared to other clubs in the same league or clubs playing in the same geographic area.

League Team Site Alexa World Rank Rank in AU
AFL AFL afl.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/afl.com.au 4,840 55
NRL NRL nrl.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nrl.com 11,713 136
AFL Collingwood Magpies collingwoodfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/collingwoodfc.com.au 141,212 1,593
AFL Richmond Tigers richmondfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/richmondfc.com.au 159,928 2,141
AFL Hawthorn Hawks hawthornfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hawthornfc.com.au 141,561 2,360
AFL St. Kilda Saints saints.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/saints.com.au 222,651 2,476
AFL Sydney Swans sydneyswans.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sydneyswans.com.au 172,672 2,577
AFL Brisbane Lions lions.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lions.com.au 190,241 2,785
AFL Melbourne Demons melbournefc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/melbournefc.com.au 199,203 2,956
AFL Essendon Bombers essendonfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/essendonfc.com.au 165,405 2,992
NRL Brisbane Broncos broncos.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/broncos.com.au 289,581 3,434
AFL Carlton Blues carltonfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/carltonfc.com.au 206,878 3,739
AFL AFL talkingfootball.net http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/talkingfootball.net 214,367 3,938
A-League A-League a-league.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/a-league.com.au 341,845 4,362
AFL Melbourne Demons demonland.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/demonland.com 255,537 4,505
AFL West Coast Eagles westcoasteagles.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westcoasteagles.com.au 336,948 5,114
AFL Essendon Bombers bomberblitz.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bomberblitz.com 418,968 5,284
Netball Australia Netball Australia netball.asn.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/netball.asn.au 250,151 5,912
Queensland Rugby League Queensland Rugby League qrl.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/qrl.com.au 401,634 5,971
NRL Sydney Roosters sydneyroosters.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sydneyroosters.com.au 543,273 6,714
AFL Adelaide Crows afc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/afc.com.au 360,510 6,853
NRL Manly Warringah Sea Eagles mwse.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mwse.com.au 440,562 7,460
Australian Sports Commission ausport.gov.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ausport.gov.au 255,419 7,584
NRL St George Illawarra Dragons dragons.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dragons.com.au 378,400 7,650
AFL Geelong Cats gfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gfc.com.au 345,849 7,771
AFL Port Adelaide Power portadelaidefc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/portadelaidefc.com.au 357,096 8,099
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs rabbitohs.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rabbitohs.com.au 451,061 8,266
AFL Gold Coast Football Club goldcoastfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/goldcoastfc.com.au 574,715 8,500
NBL NBL nbl.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nbl.com.au 284,908 8,712
NRL Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs bulldogs.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bulldogs.com.au 616,764 8,939
NRL Wests Tigers weststigers.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/weststigers.com.au 596,849 9,114
AFL Fremantle Dockers fremantlefc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fremantlefc.com.au 440,121 9,471
NRL Cronulla Sharks sharks.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sharks.com.au 773,661 10,578
AFL Western Bulldogs westernbulldogs.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westernbulldogs.com.au 602,105 11,042
World Cup Soccer Socceroos footballaustralia.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/footballaustralia.com.au 198,167 11,304
NRL Canberra Raiders raiders.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/raiders.com.au 669,540 12,400
NRL Melbourne Storm melbournestorm.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/melbournestorm.com.au 613,914 12,449
Australian Cycling Federation Australian Cycling Federation cycling.org.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cycling.org.au 647,545 12,636
AFL St. Kilda Saints saintsational.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/saintsational.com 432,371 13,078
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos kangaroos.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kangaroos.com.au 520,203 14,172
Swimming Australia Swimming Australia swimming.org.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/swimming.org.au 758,972 14,489
New South Wales Rugby League New South Wales Rugby League nswrl.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nswrl.com.au 598,635 14,559
A-League Perth Glory perthglory.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/perthglory.com.au 911,733 15,235
NRL Penrith Panthers penrithpanthers.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/penrithpanthers.com.au 958,373 16,056
A-League Adelaide United adelaideunited.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/adelaideunited.com.au 977,696 16,077
NRL Parramatta Eels parraeels.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/parraeels.com.au 612,992 16,933
A-League Melbourne Heart melbourneheartfc.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/melbourneheartfc.com.au 884,578 18,199
ANZ Championship ANZ Championship anz-championship.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/anz-championship.com 614,050 18,351
A-League Melbourne Victory melbournevictory.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/melbournevictory.com.au 792,846 19,209
A-League Sydney FC sydneyfc.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sydneyfc.com 793,348 20,076
NRL Gold Coast Titans titans.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/titans.com.au 580,157 22,532
NRL New Zealand Warriors thewarriors.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thewarriors.com.au 1,180,727 25,967
AFL AFL contestedfooty.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/contestedfooty.com 766,302 33,222
A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club ccmariners.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ccmariners.com.au 1,698,474 33,300
NRL North Queensland Cowboys cowboys.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cowboys.com.au 1,648,323 33,491
NRL Newcastle Knights newcastleknights.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newcastleknights.com.au 1,779,286 43,681
Hockey Victoria Hockey Victoria hockeyvictoria.org.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hockeyvictoria.org.au 1,593,746 46,956
A-League Newcastle Jets newcastlejets.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newcastlejets.com.au 2,637,017 48,043
ANZ Championship ANZ Championship netballonline.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/netballonline.com 2,659,884 101,686
Australian Rugby League Australian Rugby League australianrugbyleague.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/australianrugbyleague.com.au 1,958,139 104,238
NRL NRL rugbyleague3.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rugbyleague3.com 5,062,279 130,822
Tennis Australia Sam Stosur samstosur.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/samstosur.com 462,503
AFL Sydney Swans redandwhiteonline.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/redandwhiteonline.com 1,306,356
ANZ Championship ANZ Championship mynetball.co.nz http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mynetball.co.nz 1,801,761
AFL Greater Western Sydney teamgws.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/teamgws.com.au 2,033,718
Western Australia Rugby League Western Australia Rugby League warugbyleague.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/warugbyleague.com.au 2,704,352
AIHL AIHL theaihl.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/theaihl.com 2,769,640
Volleyball Australia Volleyball Australia avf.org.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/avf.org.au 2,791,802
ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds firebirds.net.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/firebirds.net.au 2,979,485
W-League Canberra United canberraunited.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/canberraunited.com.au 3,683,958
AFL Greater Western Sydney act4gws.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/act4gws.com.au 3,869,775
ANZ Championship NSW Swifts nswswifts.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nswswifts.com.au 4,105,444
NBL Perth Wildcats wildcats.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wildcats.com.au 4,185,338
AFL Geelong Cats thecattery.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thecattery.com.au 4,250,299
ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens melbournevixens.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/melbournevixens.com.au 4,495,622
AFL Hawthorn Hawks mightyhawk.net http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mightyhawk.net 5,014,151
New South Wales Rugby League Western Suburbs Magpies westsmagpies.net http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westsmagpies.net 5,339,211
Australian Cycling Federation rachel neylan rachelneylan.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rachelneylan.com 5,360,003
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority asada.gov.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/asada.gov.au 5,521,619
AFL Greater Western Sydney aflnswact.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/aflnswact.com.au 5,640,097
AIHL Canberra Knights canberraknights.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/canberraknights.com.au 6,819,666
Confederation of Australian Sport sportforall.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sportforall.com.au 8,294,745
AFLNT AFLNT aflnt.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/aflnt.com.au 8,665,760
ANZ Championship Canterbury Tactix tactix.org.nz http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tactix.org.nz 9,048,673
Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice stephanierice.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stephanierice.com.au 10,678,587
ANZ Championship Southern Steel southernsteel.co.nz http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/southernsteel.co.nz 11,632,258
ANZ Championship West Coast Fever westcoastfever.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westcoastfever.com.au 13,051,518
WNCL Victorian Spirit vicspirit.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/vicspirit.com.au 15,218,497
NBL Sydney Kings sydneykings.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sydneykings.com.au 19,447,871
NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League tertiaryleague.com.au http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tertiaryleague.com.au 22,593,505

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Canberra Raiders data

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 30 June, 2010

I’m a little late with this so I figured I would have a new top level post rather than edit my existing post.  If you wanted to see the data I presented the Canberra Raiders, it is available here in PDF format. It includes some Foursquare data, Gowalla data, Facebook data, Twitter data and some general NRL data.

If you want similar data related to a specific club, let me know and we can see if we can work out some sort of arrangement.  I’d love to be able to talk to more Canberra based professional, state and national teams.

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An interview with Ben Pollack from the Canberra Raiders

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 24 June, 2010

On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, I had the pleasure of talking to Ben Pollack and another staff member at the Canberra Raider.  I really appreciated the opportunity to talk to them as it was provided additional insight into how sport clubs view fandom and social media. I’ve tried to convey as accurately as possible what they have told me based on my memory and I asked their permission to reference them in my blog and paper while I met with them.

If you’re not familiar with the Canberra Raiders, they are a Rugby League team that competes at the top level in the National Rugby League in Australia.  They are based in Australia’s capital, Canberra, and play their home games at Bruce Stadium.  The NRL has a profit sharing scheme, where revenues are shared between all teams.

My purpose in talking to them was to help provide background knowledge for my literature review and to generally enhance my understanding of Australian team sport as it may apply other parts of my research.  Going in, I had four questions I wanted answers to.  These questions were:

1. How do you define fandom?
2. How do you reach out to the fan community?
3. How much influence does league management provide in terms of defining fandom and how to engage in outreach?  Do they give guidance on social media policies?
4. How much do other sports, teams and leagues play a role in development and implementation of concepts related to fan engagement and social media?

The Canberra Raiders define fandom very broadly as people who barrack for them and who attend games.  Their goal is to have this definition encompass all ages, both genders and across the demographic spectrum.  They focus on the Canberra area. They want to take interest in the club and translate that into getting people into the stadium, with bums on seats.  They did not mention trying to get fans to watch on television or buy their merchandise.  It may be something that they define as fandom but I did not follow up to ask about that.

When I inquired about the regional aspect in the NRL helping teams by enabling them to develop a local fanbase, they said that this worked a lot in their favor as the Canberra area was very supportive of the team.  This may not be as true for some of the Sydney based teams where there is much more market overlap and a few teams play at the same venue.  There, clubs need to market more towards traditional understandings of who composes their fanbase.  Sydney based teams are much like many of the Melbourne based AFL clubs in this regard.

I had some data from Facebook that said that there were roughly twice as many UCanberra students and alumni who were fans of the club compared to ANU.  I asked them why their fanbase was stronger at the University of Canberra, if it had to do with different cultures or possibly class related affiliations that each university has.  The club responded that they thought they probably had more fans at UC because the university has a well-known sport program and tends to attract more sport fans than ANU.

I had some bebo related geographic data.  It showed that there were a number of fans from the Brisbane area.  I asked the Raiders if they could explain that.  They told me that this geographic fanbase dates to the club’s founding, when several of the players came from Brisbane.  The club has managed to maintain this fanbase in Queensland over time.

The club primarily reaches out to their fanbase using traditional advertising: Newspapers, television and mail outs.  They have a member list and every week they send out a newsletter to their members.  The newsletter contains injury information, game summaries and information on any special deals that the club has.  They do some outreach on social media, but that is primarily confined to Facebook.

The NRL is a huge influence in how the club handles their website and their social media.  The league requires that clubs post certain types of web and video content every week.  This includes a match report and the post-game press conference.  The NRL has incentivized clubs to try to draw traffic to their websites; at the end of the season, revenues earned by the clubs on their sites are distributed to the clubs.  According to the Raiders, the league brought in Bernie Mullin to help it develop a plan regarding their online activities.  The NRL also guides clubs by encouraging them to push to increase their membership.  Some of this push is based around the idea of local clubs and increasing attendance at local grounds and keeping that local identity.

The Canberra Raiders thus use social media as a way to drive traffic to their site.  Based on our conversation, I did not get the feeling that using social media to develop a fanbase was a goal unto itself.  Rather, I was left with the impression that social media was a tool to drive traffic to their site to help increase their revenue.

The NRL does watch other leagues to see what they are doing in terms of social media.  The Raiders do less of this and spend less time developing their own social media strategy.  This is largely because the Raiders feel the NRL has better resources and more money to handle this.  The Raiders also do not have much time to do this on their own.

One of the major areas where the team has acted regarding social media is in giving in their players training in the use of social media training.  The Australian Federal Police conducted this training.  Details about the training can be found on the club’s website at www.raiders.com.au/default.aspx?s=article-display&id=27038 .  This was something the club felt was important because a number of their players are on Facebook.  Some have 2,000 to 3,000 friends, many of whom they do not know personally.  There have been a number of high profile incidents involving players getting negative media attention as a result of their comments on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter; they want to avoid that.  In general, the club advises players to be careful, not to talk about the team and to keep things personal.  The club does not ban the use of it and the NRL is aware of these problems and is encouraging training.

After getting my questions answered, I asked the Raiders about specific aspects of their social media strategy and asked the club if they had any questions based on the data packet I had provided.  The club does have an official Facebook page and Twitter account.  Ben is most familiar with Facebook, which is one of the reasons they use it more than Twitter.  The club’s original Facebook strategy involved creating a user account, friending people and trying to convert these friends into fans of the official fanpage.  The conversion rate was very low and they did not find it very effective in accomplishing their goals.

They are not entirely certain how Twitter fits into their social media strategy and there is a question of how they chose people to follow.  (Compared to other teams in the NRL, they follow almost no one.)  They were interested in increasing their number of followers but were not certain how to do it.  They also did not think that anyone had replied to them or reTweeted them, though this could be a result of not being familiar enough with the site.

We also discussed Foursquare and Gowalla, how they were used and if it was worth it for the team to explore using them.  They were unsure in this regard, as their time is limited.  If it is the next big thing, it might be worth them investigating.

I asked the club about their web traffic, citing some traffic data from Compete.  They said that a number of teams in the NRL share names with other sport teams.  In the case of the Canberra Raiders, it is the Oakland Raiders.  During the season for the other team, they often see an increase in traffic from US based visitors who mistakenly find their site.

I asked if the club had considered using YouTube.  They had.  One of their ideas involved uploading preview clips to Youtube, with attached notices that the full clip could be viewed on their site. They were not certain of the potential ROI and in the end did not use it.  I then asked them if visitors could embed official Raiders videos on their own blogs.  They were not certain but said that fans could definitely link to their videos.

While social media is a big potential audience for the club, most of their dedicated fans online congregate on a message board not controlled by the club.  They do monitor it and find it occasionally to be a concern because of that lack of control.  The club is aware of the fact that the media also monitor this message board and occasionally use it to generate less than favorable story ideas about the site.

In preparation for talking with the Canberra Raiders, I completed an overview of the size of the online community for the team.  If you are interested in this document, please contact me at laura[@]fanhistory[dot]com or my university e-mail address, laura.hale@ucanberra.

One of their ideas involved uploading preview clips to Youtube, with attached notices that the full clip could be viewed on their site.  I then asked them if visitors could embed official Raiders videos on their own blogs.

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Version 3: Most popular Australian athlete and team related Twitter accounts by total followers.

Posted by Laura on Monday, 31 May, 2010

This post is basically an update of Version 2: Most popular Australian athlete and team related Twitter accounts by total followers. I haven’t actively sought to improve or update the accounts included on this list though there are a few new accounts.  A few accounts have been deleted and one has been suspended, LanceFranklin. Deleted and suspended accounts have been marked with a 0 for total number of followers.

This data was gathered on May 30, 2010.  It includes non-Australian teams that compete in Australian based leagues.  It also contains Australian some athlete accounts where the athlete competes for a club in an Australian based league.

League Team Account Total followers
First class cricket New South Wales Blues PH408 (unofficial) 11902
Super 14 Pretoria Bulls (Northern Bulls) VictorMatfield (unofficial) 7452
Super 14 Natal Sharks JohnSmit123 (unofficial) 7221
NRL Wests Tigers LoteTuqiri (unofficial) 6688
NRL NRL NRL 5469
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon_FC 5242
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood_FC 5183
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide_FC 5008
AFL Melbourne Demons jimstynes (unofficial) 4476
AFL Sydney Swans sydneyswans 4340
AFL Essendon Bombers JobeWatson (unofficial) 4284
AFL Collingwood Magpies harry_o (unofficial) 4174
AFL Essendon Bombers AngusMonfries (unofficial) 3801
Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes Hurricanesrugby 3696
NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons RealBigDell (unofficial) 3688
AFL St. Kilda Saints stkildafc 3351
Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes neyza3 (unofficial) 3330
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton_FC 3223
NRL Gold Coast Titans mat_rogers6 (unofficial) 3056
Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders mornesteyn (unofficial) 2790
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong_FC (unofficial) 2667
Super 14 Queensland Reds QuadeCooper (unofficial) 2363
NRL Brisbane Broncos BrisBroncosClub 2322
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond_FC 2085
NRL Gold Coast Titans GCTitans 2052
AFL Hawthorn Hawks HawthornFC 2031
AFL Melbourne Demons nathan2jones (unofficial) 2019
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 1998
NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) nzwarriors (unofficial) 1959
A-League Melbourne Victory gomvfc 1959
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos northkangaroos 1891
World Cup Socceroos socceroos_news (unofficial) 1668
Super 14 Cape Town Stormers (Western Stormers) THESTORMERS 1652
NRL Parramatta Eels jarryd_hayne (unofficial) 1643
Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes Powza13 (unofficial) 1619
First class cricket New South Wales Blues NBRACKEN142 (unofficial) 1559
NRL North Queensland Cowboys northqldcowboys 1544
AFL Melbourne Demons CamSchwab (unofficial) 1542
AFL Port Adelaide Power PAFC 1539
AFL Melbourne Demons DemonsHQ (official) 1522
Super 14 Durban Sharks (Coastal Sharks)(Natal Sharks) sharksrugby 1521
AFL West Coast Eagles WCEofficial 1475
NRL Wests Tigers Wests_Tigers (unofficial) 1440
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawks_AFL (unofficial) 1396
NBL Melbourne Tigers Follow24Hodge (unofficial) 1338
First class cricket New South Wales Blues ClarkeVC (unofficial) 1268
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs SSFCRABBITOHS 1263
ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens MelbourneVixens 1232
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle_FC 1232
First class cricket Victorian Bushrangers Bushrangers 1189
NRL Manly Sea Eagles manlyseaeagles 1129
NRL Melbourne Storm MelbStormRLC (official) 1124
NBL Adelaide 36ers Adelaide36ers 1030
AFL Gold Coast Football Club GoldCoastFC 1001
NRL Sydney Roosters sydroosters (unofficial) 995
Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders crusadersrugby 962
AFL Brisbane Lions ALFbrisbane (unofficial) 908
AFL Collingwood Magpies PeterDaicos (unofficial) 903
A-League Melbourne Victory mitchlangerak (unofficial) 881
NRL Penrith Panthers penrithpanthers (unofficial) 840
NRL Parramatta Eels parramatta_eels 838
A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club LawrieMcKinna 815
A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club LawrieMcKinna (unofficial) 815
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos andrewswallow (unofficial) 810
Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs HSBCWaratahs 772
NBL Wollongong Hawks wollongonghawks 757
NRL Melbourne Storm MelbourneStorm_ (unofficial) 750
A-League Melbourne Victory adrianleijer (unofficial) 745
A-League North Queensland Fury FC nqfuryfc 744
Super 14 Queensland Reds RedsRugby (unofficial) 732
ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens SharelleVixens 724
Super 14 Queensland Reds Reds_Rugby 705
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs rabbitohs (unofficial) 699
Super 14 ACT Brumbies BrumbiesRugby 683
NRL Parramatta Eels PirtekParraEels (unofficial) 670
AFL Collingwood Magpies collingwoodnews (unofficial) 649
Super 14 Natal Sharks KeeganDaniel (unofficial) 632
First class cricket Queensland Bulls andrew_symonds (unofficial) 608
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs therabbitohs (unofficial) 605
NBL Perth Wildcats perthwildcats 591
AFL Collingwood Magpies bigdyman (unofficial) 568
A-League Melbourne Victory victoryinmelb 552
NBL New Zealand Breakers johnrillie (unofficial) 537
AFL West Coast Eagles wingsofperth (unofficial) 536
NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) thenzwarriors 521
AFL Fremantle Dockers Freo_Dockers (unofficial) 519
NBL South Dragons Joeingles7 (unofficial) 516
NRL Gold Coast Titans AshHarrison1 (unofficial) 498
NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs benross23 (unofficial) 487
AFL St. Kilda Saints njbrown17 (unofficial) 481
A-League Brisbane Roar BNERoar (unofficial) 471
NSW Premier League Sydney Olympic MarkBosnich (unofficial) 470
Super 14 Melbourne Rebels melbournerebels 469
NRL Gold Coast Titans lukeodwyer (unofficial) 467
Basketball Australia Australian Boomers aussieboomers 465
AFL Fremantle Dockers FremantleFC (unofficial) 453
A-League Newcastle Jets newcastle_jets 441
A-League Adelaide United adelaideunited 423
NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks SharksOnline (unofficial) 422
A-League Sydney FC SFCNews (unofficial) 421
A-League Perth Glory PerthGlory_FC 414
Netball Australia Netball Australia NetballAust 377
NRL Canberra Raiders RaidersCanberra 375
NRL Parramatta Eels PlanetEels (unofficial) 374
A-League Adelaide United adelaidereds 350
ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds laurafirebirds (unofficial) 338
NRL Brisbane Broncos broncosbigfan (unofficial) 336
First class cricket Tassie Tigers crickettas 328
NBL Wollongong Hawks milisimic (unofficial) 327
NBL Perth Wildcats nickmarvin (unofficial) 322
NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons mighty_dragons (unofficial) 321
NBL Townsville Crocodiles TsvCrocs 313
NBL Melbourne Tigers Wortho33 (unofficial) 313
A-League Wellington Phoenix wgtnphoenixfc 307
Netball Victoria Netball Victoria netballvic 306
A-League Brisbane Roar brisbaneroar 305
ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds NatTbirds 304
AFL West Coast Eagles WestCoastEagles (unofficial) 294
NBL Townsville Crocodiles chomicide (unofficial) 287
NBL Cairns Taipans Dusty_Rychart (unofficial) 283
AFL Brisbane Lions AFLBrisbaneFC 283
NRL Parramatta Eels blueandgoldarmy (unofficial) 280
NRL Brisbane Broncos BrisbaneBronco (unofficial) 274
ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts SusanSwifts 263
AFL Melbourne Demons MelbourneFC (unofficial) 263
NRL Manly Sea Eagles gorgeousgrose (unofficial) 248
AFL West Coast Eagles MitchJbrown17 (unofficial) 242
Netball Australia Australian Diamonds (national team) AussieDiamonds 242
NRL Wests Tigers fakebrycegibbs (unofficial) 222
NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Fergo1990 (unofficial) 220
First class cricket New South Wales Blues eddiecowan (unofficial) 213
AFL Essendon Bombers essendonfc (unofficial) 212
NBL New Zealand Breakers oscarforman (unofficial) 203
A-League Gold Coast United GCUSC 202
Super 14 ACT Brumbies Hoilesy (unofficial) 201
NRL Brisbane Broncos broncobasher (unofficial) 200
Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues NSWRL 198
First class cricket South Australian Redbacks (Southern Redbacks) RedbacksT20 196
A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club CCMarinersFC (unofficial) 183
NBL Perth Wildcats TheRealSchensh (unofficial) 179
First class cricket Victorian Bushrangers petersiddle (unofficial) 171
ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts nswswifts 171
NBL Townsville Crocodiles rustyhinder (unofficial) 168
Super 14 Western Australia Force (Western Force) s14_force 163
Basketball Australia Australian Opals AustralianOpals 160
NRL Parramatta Eels 1eyedeel (unofficial) 159
Super 14 Queensland Reds s14_queensland (unofficial) 153
WNBL WNBL WNBL 152
NBL New Zealand Breakers NZBreakers 152
AFL Sydney Swans BionicSwan (unofficial) 151
Rugby League/State of Origin Queensland Maroons QLD_Maroons 144
A-League Melbourne Victory victorytwit (unofficial) 144
VFL Casey Scorpions CaseyScorpions 144
Super 14 Central Cheetahs (Vodacom Cheetahs) VodacomCheetahs 141
ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds AdelaideTBirds 135
VFL North Ballarat Roosters NB_Roosters 134
NBL Adelaide 36ers DarrenNg8 (unofficial) 128
AFL Fremantle Dockers ryanmcrowley (unofficial) 124
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos Marcus__White (unofficial) 121
A-League Melbourne Victory mvfcfanzone 114
AFL Hawthorn Hawks bmsew (unofficial) 113
NBL Adelaide 36ers jgovereasy (unofficial) 113
NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons jsaffy (unofficial) 111
NRL Newcastle Knights Corypato (unofficial) 110
Australia Athletics Australian Flames (national team) australianflame 108
NRL Balmain Tigers tigers1908 (unofficial) 106
ANZ Championship West Coast Fever SusanWCFever 93
AFL St. Kilda Saints RWBFooty (unofficial) 93
Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz fatloaf (unofficial) 91
AFL Melbourne Demons matesOmelbourne (unofficial) 90
AFL Western Bulldogs ccaallward (unofficial) 88
Netball New South Wales Sydney_Netball 88
First class cricket Queensland Bulls qldcricket 81
NBL Sydney Kings sydneykings 73
AFL Fremantle Dockers briansham (unofficial) 71
A-League Sydney FC SydneyFC 69
AFL Richmond Tigers yellow_n_black (unofficial) 67
SFL Caulfield Bears CaulfieldBears 66
NBL Townsville Crocodiles JoshJenkins24 (unofficial) 65
AFL Melbourne Demons demonwiki (unofficial) 65
NBL Adelaide 36ers BenFitz (unofficial) 64
Semi Professional Basketball League Semi Professional Basketball League SEABL 58
NRL Gold Coast Titans Aaron_Cannings (unofficial) 57
NBL Adelaide 36ers 36ers (unofficial) 55
NBL South (Melbourne) Dragons SAVEOURDRAGONS (unofficial) 49
AFL Collingwood Magpies VictoriaParkHC (unofficial) 49
Claxton Shield Barbagallo Perth Heat PerthHeat 48
NBL Wollongong Hawks danjackson9 (unofficial) 39
NBL Townsville Crocodiles Kegs42 (unofficial) 39
AFL Essendon Bombers bomberblitz (unofficial) 37
NSW Premier League Manly United ManlyUnited 35
WNBL Bendio Spirit bendigospirit 35
NBL Townsville Crocodiles willo43 (unofficial) 34
NRL Parramatta Eels parraeels (unofficial) 33
NBL Gold Coast Blaze Vandy21 (unofficial) 33
Netball New South Wales Petersham RUFC Netball Club PetershamNetbal 32
Brisbane Netball Association ACE Netball Club ACENetball 31
Plenty Valley Netball Association Orcas Netball Orcas_Netball 30
WNBL Dandenong Jayco Rangers JaycoRangers 30
AFL Fremantle Dockers bc8977 (unofficial) 20
VFL Port Melbourne Borough BoroughBoy (unofficial) 19
NBL Townsville Crocodiles ToffCedar (unofficial) 16
NBL Townsville Crocodiles cameronwhiting (unofficial) 12
WNBL Logan Thunder loganthunder 11
NBL Adelaide 36ers brad_393 (unofficial) 6
Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz perthblitz 1
NRL Wests Tigers beauryan_winger (unofficial) 0
NSW Premier League Sydney United addsie (unofficial) 0
A-League Sydney FC SydneyFC0910 0
Super 14 Queensland Reds ezytaylor (unofficial) 0
A-League Melbourne Victory MVFCVIDEOS (unofficial) 0
AFL Melbourne Demons jordiemck (unofficial) 0
AFL Hawthorn Hawks LanceFranklin (unofficial) 0
WNBL Dandenong Jayco Rangers jennaohea (unofficial) 0
AFL Brisbane Lions AFLbrisbanelion 0

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