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Bebo and Australian/Kiwi women’s sport

Posted by Laura on Friday, 26 November, 2010

Bebo is a social networking site that is popular in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The site’s traffic has been down in the past year or so. It traditionally has has a fairly large contingent of Australian sport fans, with most people being fans of the NRL. It has a smaller population of fans for other sports like the AFL and NBL. There were questions regarding bebo’s viability for most of 2010, when there were rumors that the site would be shut down if it failed to find a buyer. This and a variety of other factors, such as the popularity of Facebook and YouTube, have led to a lot of once active users becoming inactive.
Despite the issues regarding inactivity, it is a site worth looking at to begin to give a snapshot of sorts back in time, to understand the size of Australian and Kiwi women’s sport fandom four years ago to a year ago, when activity levels dropped off. It might be possible to determine where these fans migrated to by looking at growth on other niche networks, which could be useful for determining engagement strategies. This data can also give an idea as to what was popular. If the comparative levels of interest on other networks are not similar, it could suggest that clubs have failed with their marketing strategies or have found a method to really engage in their audience that other clubs could benefit from.

When looking at bebo, there are a variety of ways to do that. One of the first is to use search result totals, and compare the size of the community to other teams and over time. The second way is to look at the size groups/views for videos. The third way is to look at the demographic data for people who lit the team as an interest. This will be broken down by league/federation.

Search: ANZ Championship
The ANZ Championship is the most successful women’s (semi) professional league in Australia.  It makes sense that the team would have the largest amount of interest on bebo.  While this is true,  the community size, the number of groups and videos created by these fans is still extremely limited.  (Their counterparts in the AFL often have 200 to 400 people who list them as an interest.)

Interest People Video Music Groups Apps Skins Date gathered
Melbourne Vixens 3 4 0 0 0 0 19-Nov-10
Melbourne Vixens 3 4 0 0 0 0 26-Nov-10
NSW Swifts 2 0 0 0 0 0 19-Nov-10
NSW Swifts 2 0 0 0 0 0 26-Nov-10
Queensland Firebirds 0 0 1 0 0 0 19-Nov-10
Queensland Firebirds 0 0 1 0 0 0 26-Nov-10
West Coast Fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 16-Aug-10
West Coast Fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 19-Nov-10
West Coast Fever 0 0 0 0 0 0 26-Nov-10

Search: AWIHL
This is a niche league, where the men’s team also fail to have people who list them as an interest. If there is an ice hockey fan base in Australia, it is not on bebo.

Interest People Video Music Groups Apps Skins Date gathered
AWIHL 0 0 0 0 0 0 19-Nov-10

W-League
Somewhat surprisingly, the W-League fanbase on bebo appears to be a bit larger than that of the ANZ Championship. One possible factor for this could be that the overall fan community for soccer is really large on bebo. Another contributing factor could be that the Canberra United attract male fans to the sport that a W-League team may not otherwise get because the United do not have to compete with an A-League club in their city: If you love soccer in Canberra, you support the top level competitions here. Bebo also has a community of people who uploaded videos. Soccer videos are really popular across the whole of the network. Given that, W-League fans may be part of a larger part of video uploading culture that ANZ Championship fans are removed from.

One issue at play with W-League results is that Canberra United content is easier to pull out than the Melbourne Victory, because secondary keywords are needed to differentiate Melbourne Victory W-League results from A-League results. This means that real numbers for the W-League teams could be understated. Similar issues of a sort exist for the W-League, which shares a name with an American women’s soccer competition. This could lead to an over representation when just that term is counted.

Team Interest People Video Music Groups Apps Skins Date gathered
Adelaide United Adelaide United W-League 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-Jul-10
Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar W-League 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-Jul-10
Canberra United Canberra United 4 7 1 2 0 0 16-Aug-10
Canberra United Canberra United 4 7 1 2 0 0 3-Jun-10
Canberra United Canberra United 4 7 1 2 0 0 15-Jun-10
Canberra United Canberra United 4 7 1 2 0 0 25-Jun-10
Canberra United Canberra United 4 7 1 2 0 0 1-Jul-10
Canberra United Canberra United 4 7 0 0 0 0 24-Oct-10
Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners W-League 0 1 0 0 0 0 1-Jul-10
Melbourne Victory W-League Melbourne Victory 0 1 0 0 0 0 1-Jul-10
W-League W-League 41 53 48 58 0 0 25-Jun-10
W-League W-League 41 53 48 58 0 0 1-Jul-10
Canberra United Canberra United 4 7 1 2 0 0 26-Nov-10
Adelaide United Adelaide United W-League 0 0 0 0 0 0 26-Nov-10
Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar W-League 0 0 0 0 0 0 26-Nov-10

WNBL
The WNBL is the premiere women’s basketball competition in Australia. Unlike the NBL, it does not include a New Zealand team. The problem with one of the teams looked at, the West Coast Waves, is that the name is a rather common phrase and almost none of the video results look relevant to the WNBL team. This type of issue can be a huge problem for women’s (and men) sport when doing promotion and reputation management for the club’s brand beyond the players.

Interest People Video Music Groups Apps Skins Date gathered
Perth Lynx 2 1 0 0 0 0 16-Aug-10
West Coast Waves 5 18 0 2 0 0 16-Aug-10
Perth Lynx 2 1 0 0 0 0 25-Nov-10
West Coast Waves 5 18 0 2 0 0 25-Nov-10

WNCL

The WNCL teams being looked at do not share the name issues that their WNBL counterparts share. Unfortunately, they may suffer a problem with not all results being shown as they often have names with sponsors in them. Official and player content may pull up sponsor named related names. The average fan is less likely to use them as fannish identities are not based around who sponsors them.

Interest People Video Music Groups Apps Skins Date gathered
Victorian Spirit 2 1 0 0 0 0 15-Jun-10
Victorian Spirit 2 1 0 0 0 0 16-Aug-10
Western Fury 1 2 0 0 0 0 16-Aug-10
Victorian Spirit 2 1 0 0 0 0 26-Nov-10
Western Fury 2 1 0 0 0 0 26-Nov-10

Search: Women’s World Cup Soccer
The Matildas are Australia’s national women soccer team. As the W-League is larger than the ANZ Championship, it is not surprising that there is a comparable elevated amount of interest in the team.

Interest People Video Music Groups Apps Skins Date gathered
Matildas 22 21 6 1 0 0 1-Jul-10
Matildas 22 21 6 1 0 0 16-Aug-10
Matildas 22 21 6 1 0 0 26-Nov-10

Videos: W-League
Only the W-League Canberra United team were checked. Some of the videos for the team had quite a number of views. bebo’s stagnation is quite clear when looking at this data as the number of views for all videos failed to increase between June 3 and November 26.

Video Total Description Date checked
W-League Final 2009: Queensland Roar V Canberra United -… 0 Viewers W-League Final 2009: Queensland Roar V Canberra United – Goals – 17jan09 3-Jun-10
W-League Final 2009: Queensland Roar V Canberra United -… 0 Viewers W-League Final 2009: Queensland Roar V Canberra United – Goals – 17jan09 26-Nov-10
W-League: Canberra United V Melbourne Victory – Report -… 5 Viewers W-League: Canberra United V Melbourne Victory – Report – 20dec08 3-Jun-10
W-League: Canberra United V Melbourne Victory – Report -… 5 Viewers W-League: Canberra United V Melbourne Victory – Report – 20dec08 26-Nov-10
W-League: Canberra United V Sydney FC – Report – 6dec08 95 Viewers W-League: Canberra United V Sydney FC – Report – 6dec08 3-Jun-10
W-League: Canberra United V Sydney FC – Report – 6dec08 95 Viewers W-League: Canberra United V Sydney FC – Report – 6dec08 26-Nov-10
W-League: Central Coast Mariners V Canberra United – Rep… 8 Viewers W-League: Central Coast Mariners V Canberra United – Report – 13dec08 3-Jun-10
W-League: Central Coast Mariners V Canberra United – Rep… 8 Viewers W-League: Central Coast Mariners V Canberra United – Report – 13dec08 26-Nov-10
W-League: Newcastle Jets V Canberra United – 26oct08 445 Viewers W-League: Newcastle Jets V Canberra United – 26oct08 3-Jun-10
W-League: Newcastle Jets V Canberra United – 26oct08 445 Viewers W-League: Newcastle Jets V Canberra United – 26oct08 26-Nov-10
W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 0 Viewers W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 3-Jun-10
W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 0 Viewers W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 26-Nov-10
W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 64 Viewers W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 3-Jun-10
W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 64 Viewers W-League: Perth Glory V Canberra United – Report – 30nov08 26-Nov-10

People: ANZ Championship
The table below includes the demographic data for people who listed ANZ Championship teams as interests on bebo. This data tends to confirm that teams have local interest and don’t have national fan bases.

Interest Name Gender Age City State Country
Adelaide Thunderbirds J A M E S Male 18 South Australia Australia
Adelaide Thunderbirds LiL-Miss-Sharna
Central Pulse Jacinda S Female 19 Tauranga New Zealand
Central Pulse Kaz Hagedorn Female 25 Wellington New Zealand
Central Pulse Magics BOp Female Waikato New Zealand
Central Pulse Rebecca Female 21 Tauranga New Zealand
Melbourne Vixens Chelsea Tobin Female
Melbourne Vixens Elise.
Melbourne Vixens Mrs Lutz. Female Wellington Wellington New Zealand
New South Wales Swifts (Sydney Swifts) ~~mrs~~orlando~~bloom~~ Female 20
New South Wales Swifts (Sydney Swifts) Keegs L Male Parramatta New South Wales Australia
New South Wales Swifts (Sydney Swifts) Kirsten R Female Sydney New South Wales Australia
New South Wales Swifts (Sydney Swifts) Phoebe Zapletal Female Maroota New South Wales Australia
Northern Mystics Keshia Grant Female 23 Eltham Taranaki New Zealand
Southern Steel Ian K Male 18 Coonawarra South Australia Australia
Southern Steel James N Male 19 Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand
Southern Steel James Robinson Male 21 Stafford England United Kingdom
Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic Jacinda S Female 19 Tauranga Bay of Plenty New Zealand
Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic Magics BOp Female Waikato Bay of Plenty New Zealand
Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic Rebecca Female 21 Tauranga Bay of Plenty New Zealand

People: Basketball Australia
The Australian Opals have a similar issue with a few other Australian sport teams: People could use these words but not mean the team. This makes a bit of sense, given that one of the people who list the Opals as an interest is not from Australia.

Interest Name Gender Age City State Country
Australian Opals Lauren Jackson Female 28 Albury New South Wales Australia
Australian Opals Marc Zillmer Male 54 Salem Oregon United States

People: W-League
Some what surprisingly, the people who list a location are not from Canberra. A possible explanation for this is that Sydney bebo users are friends or family of players, who themselves may not be from Canberra.

Interest Name Gender Age City State Country
Canberra United Jack
Canberra United Missunderstood Female Sydney New South Wales Australia
Canberra United Faz Male 21 Sydney New South Wales Australia
Canberra United R.i.p steve irwin R.i.p Male

People: WNBL
Like the ANZ Championship, most fans are from areas near where the team is based. Fans also tend to be young and there is an even mix of male and female fans, which suggests that the WNBL could grow by working to attract that male audience in communities under served by NBL teams.

Interest Name Gender Age City State Country
Adelaide Lightning Olivia Smith Female 31 Adelaide South Australia Australia
Australian Institute of Sport Ben Hall Male 25 Adelaide South Australia Australia
Australian Institute of Sport Blair H Male 21 Bendigo Victoria Australia
Australian Institute of Sport Chris Roper Male 22 Sydney New South Wales Australia
Australian Institute of Sport Daniel Walker
Australian Institute of Sport Lauren Jackson Female 28 Albury New South Wales Australia
Australian Institute of Sport Lieke Schaap Female 18
Australian Institute of Sport Rayno Ellis
Australian Institute of Sport Sam Pickett Male 25 Noosa Queensland Australia
Bendigo Spirit Lisa Clark
Canberra Capitals Lauren Jackson Female 28 Albury New South Wales Australia
Dandenong Jayco Rangers (Dandenong Rangers) J-E-S-S
Dandenong Jayco Rangers (Dandenong Rangers) Vanessa Lacey
Logan Thunder Emmyy
Logan Thunder Laura Mc Dermott Female 22 Lismore New South Wales Australia
Logan Thunder Leisa C
Logan Thunder Logan Thunder – Mens DLeague Male
Logan Thunder Loganthunderisda Male Logan Victoria Australia
Logan Thunder Patty
Logan Thunder Scotty Male Logan Victoria Australia
Perth Lynx Liam Dunn Kellock Male Perth Western Australia Australia
Perth Lynx Tash Nichols Female 18 Perth Western Australia Australia
Sydney Uni Flames Vlad Alava Male
Townsville Fire Rebecca Female 20 Townsville Queensland Australia
Townsville Fire Reece Dowleans Male 21 Townsville Queensland Australia

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Most popular female Australian (and New Zealand) sport related Twitter accounts (November 18)

Posted by Laura on Thursday, 18 November, 2010

I wasn’t intending to run this again until tomorrow.  Things came up.  I’m going away for the weekend and I want to get everyone’s follower information to see if I can’t begin to map that again.  Also, it’s been a month since I last that information.  (It took about five days.  That was back when Shane Warne had only 198,000 followers.)  I like benchmarking that data to see if there are geographic shifts in where people follow are from.  (Has the location of where Team GWS followers come from?)  So yeah, I figured I would run the script this morning instead of a week from now.

I feel like there should be a bunch of new accounts on this list but in actuality, there are only two new accounts that have been added.  (That’s compared to general and male specific sports where I added close to two hundred.)   To give an idea as to potential momentum of who is gaining followers (and no, this isn’t really a competition but a point of interest), I’ve shown the growth since I ran this on November 16.

This is an updated version of from November 13 and November 16.

18-Nov 18-Nov 18-Nov 18-Nov Difference: 16-Nov Difference: 16-Nov Difference: 16-Nov Difference: 16-Nov
Account League Team Description Followers Statuses Listed Friends Followers Statuses Listed Friends
ItsStephRice Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice athlete (female) 13115 2961 424 51 29 5 2 0
watsonjessica Yachting Australia Jessica Watson sailor (female) 5206 259 192 8 4 0 0 0
libby_trickett Swimming Australia Libby Trickett athlete (female) 4849 1420 164 111 17 5 0 0
Sally_Fitz Association of Surfing Professionals Sally Fitzgibbons surfer (female) 4061 549 237 71 29 4 0 0
gypsy_gilmore Association of Surfing Professionals Stephanie Gilmore surfer (female) 3333 173 195 30 33 0 2 0
LayneCBeachley Association of Surfing Professionals Layne Beachley surfer (female) 2603 187 125 33 12 0 1 0
SharelleVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (female) 1784 307 70 44 -2 6 0 1
clairebevo Association of Surfing Professionals Claire Bevilacqua surfer (female) 1731 1263 114 234 16 6 -1 0
MelbourneVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens official team (female) 1726 844 72 25 5 19 1 0
caseydellacqua Tennis Australia Casey Dellacqua player (female athlete) 1666 13 223 24 5 0 2 0
paigehareb Surfing New Zealand Paige Hareb surfer (female) 1647 1034 122 52 12 2 1 0
katehollywood10 Hockey Australia Hockeyroos player (female) 1491 850 59 87 14 26 0 1
_Moffy Triathlon Australia Emma Moffatt triathlete (female) 1479 71 98 19 8 0 1 0
arodionova Tennis Australia Anastasia Rodionova player (female athlete) 1410 328 241 19 1 3 0 0
QLDrollerderby Australia Roller Derby Queensland RollerDerby Roller Derby team or league 1369 409 78 1908 1 3 0 0
RochelleGilmore Cycling Australia Rochelle Gilmore biker (female athlete) 1284 117 88 90 3 2 1 0
TorahBright Ski and Snowboard Australia Torah Bright snowboarder (female) 1215 167 78 2 4 3 0 0
NetballAust Netball Australia Netball Australia (female) 1165 448 58 131 6 6 0 -2
richtercity New Zealand Roller Derby RC Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league from New Zealand 1149 1020 89 506 3 4 1 0
sydneyderby Australia Roller Derby Sydney Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 1087 114 93 123 5 0 1 0
rebekahkeat Triathlon Australia Rebekah Keat triathlete (female) 1071 82 85 38 7 0 0 0
saskystewart AWIHL AWIHL player (female) 997 6378 90 1053 7 46 1 3
AussieDiamonds Netball Australia Australian Diamonds national team (female) 987 587 52 84 4 6 0 1
NicLiv Swimming Australia Nicole Livingstone retired athlete, former Olympian (female) 972 72 42 20 -3 0 0 0
jessmileydyer Surf Life Saving Australia Jess Miley-Dyer surfer (female) 953 631 66 166 3 7 0 0
bcr_rollerderby Australia Roller Derby Brisbane City Rollers Roller Derby team or league 946 487 65 906 3 0 1 1
meagen_nay Swimming Australia Meagen Nay athlete (female) 880 1571 48 104 3 34 1 0
biancachatfield ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (Bianca Chatfield) (female) 839 635 40 115 5 2 0 0
JulieCorletto ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens Julie Corletto (female) 800 347 28 123 3 0 0 0
Renaehallinan ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (female) (Renae Hallinan) 770 460 35 49 2 5 0 0
laurafirebirds ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds player (female) 769 43 39 11 3 0 0 0
Soph_Edington Swimming Australia Soph Edington athlete (female) 760 354 58 216 3 4 0 0
lauraenever Association of Surfing Professionals Laura Enever surfer (female) 759 70 54 72 6 0 0 0
SophieSmith86 General Australian sport General Australian sport sport journalist for Geelong Advertisers (female) 725 2146 52 280 4 10 0 2
NatTbirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds (female) 689 51 44 24 1 -51 2 0
becwoods Association of Surfing Professionals Rebecca Woods surfer (female) 673 134 57 619 4 12 0 133
amberhalliday Cycling Australia Amber Halliday rower, biker (female) 654 1761 69 328 3 8 0 0
SusanSwifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts player (female) 643 560 37 32 2 2 0 0
ash_delaney Swimming Australia Ashley Delaney athlete (female) 639 1470 46 71 6 3 0 1
AliciaMolik Tennis Australia Alicia Molik player (female athlete) 612 22 72 8 8 0 1 0
flickabram Triathlon Australia Felicity Abram triathlete (female) 535 678 32 111 10 8 1 0
rachneylan Cycling Australia Rachel Neylan athlete (female) 525 703 53 256 6 1 1 0
NikButterfield Cycling Australia Nikki Butterfield biker (female athlete) 509 1845 50 102 2 9 0 0
Kimmygee8 Netball Australia Australian Diamonds player (female) 495 545 25 98 2 5 0 0
snowygrl Triathlon Australia MacBeth Kingsbury Watson triathlete (female) 493 2321 32 865 0 5 -1 -2
AnnaMeares Cycling Australia Anna Meares biker (female athlete) 468 50 31 204 10 1 0 2
Jade_Sutcliffe Triathlon Australia Jade Sutcliffe triathlete (female) 460 664 10 69 1 1 0 0
netballvic Netball Victoria Netball Victoria (female) 454 40 29 625 2 -40 0 0
KateBevNetball ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds player (Kate Beveridge) (female) 426 242 22 24 4 3 1 0
saracarrigan Cycling Australia Sara Carrigan coach (female athlete) 418 14 30 36 -1 0 0 0
madibrowne ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (Madison Browne) (female) 415 184 21 27 6 4 0 0
Bridie_OD Cycling Australia Bridie O’Donnell biker (Cyclones) (female athlete) 411 771 37 29 1 7 0 0
SarahLWall ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (Sarah L Wall) (female athlete) 398 211 16 75 1 8 0 0
piratecity New Zealand Roller Derby Pirate City Rollers Roller Derby team or league from New Zealand 372 317 33 317 1 5 0 0
NBRrollerderby Australia Roller Derby NBR Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 364 1180 30 241 8 2 1 4
geelongrollers Australia Roller Derby Geelong Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 362 15 33 52 1 0 1 0
SusanWCFever ANZ Championship West Coast Fever player (female) 355 118 25 22 2 -118 0 0
nswswifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts official team (female) 349 5 27 8 0 -5 0 0
amygillettfdn Cycling Australia Amy Gillett track cyclists (female) 343 148 13 108 4 0 0 2
AdelaideTBirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds official team (female) 317 178 21 0 4 3 0 0
PerthRollaDerby Australia Roller Derby Perth Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 301 58 36 39 1 0 1 0
TheFirebirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds team (female) 294 89 16 32 3 0 0 0
kristy_giteau Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player (female) (Kristy Giteau) 291 246 23 26 -1 8 0 0
WNBL WNBL WNBL (female) 280 405 28 46 2 0 0 0
sarahkent90 Cycling Australia Sarah Kent biker (female athlete) 264 595 33 56 4 8 1 0
wirdrollerderby Australia Roller Derby Wollongong Derby Roller Derby team or league 262 281 37 153 1 0 0 0
katebevilaqua Triathlon Australia Kate Bevilaqua triathlete (female) 254 1093 23 55 4 6 0 0
petrinaprice Athletics Australia Petrina Price athlete, high jumper (female) 247 1017 15 142 5 12 0 0
GirlsLikeLeague NRL NRL fansite (female) 236 533 15 156
SportingSheilas Australian Olympic Committee Australian Olympic Committee fansite (female) 236 512 21 107 0 1 0 0
Mengelsman Swimming Australia Michelle Engelsman athlete (female) 234 880 6 461 3 4 0 3
SportForWomen Australian Olympic Committee Australian Olympic Committee fansite (female) 231 524 9 324 7 27 0 9
sallypeers3 Tennis Australia Sally Peers player (female athlete) 227 7 29 8 0 0 0 0
GCRollerDerby Australia Roller Derby Gold Coast Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 213 89 23 421 2 0 0 0
OZrollerderby Australia Roller Derby Australia RollerDerby Roller Derby team or league 211 340 25 53 2 0 0 0
Epicrollerderby Australia Roller Derby ENRG Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 208 452 21 232 0 3 1 0
AustralianOpals Basketball Australia Australian Opals national team (female) 194 19 4 486 3 0 0 0
AusWomensGame W-League W-League fansite (female) 182 761 14 47 -1 0 0 0
Towns_Villains Australia Roller Derby Towns Villains Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 176 67 26 239 0 0 0 0
shaunanderson22 Hockey Australia Hockeyroos Manager at Hockey Australia (female) 171 357 0 454 4 16 0 14
TheFlyingBats Football New South Wales The Flying Bats team (female) 160 244 9 89 -2 1 0 0
saltydolls Australia Roller Derby Salty Dolls Roller Derby team or league 150 29 15 189 0 0 0 0
MelissaBreen_ Athletics Australia Melissa Breen athlete (female) 145 234 11 48 0 0 0 0
kateporter83 Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player (female) 140 228 18 24 2 4 0 0
CricNSWBreakers Cricket New South Wales New South Wales Breakers official team (female) 139 359 13 108 7 2 0 4
SWSRockets Australia Roller Derby SWS Rockets Roller Derby team or league 134 263 18 308 0 6 0 0
LisaWeightman Athletics Australia Lisa Weightman Marathon runner, Olympian (female) 133 236 12 20 0 2 0 0
KristenBeams Cricket Victoria DEC Spirit player (Kristen Beams) (female) 128 153 9 52 4 9 0 2
LaurenBoden Athletics Australia Lauren Boden athlete (female) 126 123 10 52 1 0 0 0
LDevanna_dc Football Federation Australia Matildas player (Lisa De Vanna) (female) 124 0 16 1 -1 0 0 0
ahealy77 Cricket New South Wales New South Wales Breakers player (female) 111 110 13 31 2 5 0 1
AlexBlackwell2 Cricket New South Wales New South Wales Breakers player (female) 107 44 12 38 5 2 0 5
RachaelHaynes Cricket Victoria DEC Spirit player (RachaelHaynes) (female) 102 94 8 57 3 -71 0 1
Sydney_Netball Netball New South Wales Netball New South Wales Organization (female) 97 338 6 63 2 2 0 0
ElyseVillani Cricket Victoria DEC Spirit player (Elyse Villani) (female) 95 78 9 27 2 4 0 0
Debby_H_Rugby Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player (female) (Debby Hodgkinson) 90 16 11 14 0 0 0 0
WA_Roller_Derby Australia Roller Derby WA Roller Derby Roller Derby team or league 89 6 13 82 0 0 1 0
KirstyBroun Cycling Australia Kirsty Broun biker (female athlete) 88 39 19 40 0 0 0 0
samikennedy Ski and Snowboard Australia Sami Kennedy Australian National Ski Cross Team Athlete (female) 88 178 5 130 0 2 0 0
bendigospirit WNBL Bendigo Spirit (female) 87 267 7 64 2 0 0 0
newcastlederby Australia Roller Derby NRDL Roller Derby team or league 87 76 14 10 0 0 0 0
ANZnetball ANZ Championship ANZ Championship league (female) 86 11 4 34 1 0 0 0
mariekeguehrer Swimming Australia Marieke Guehrer swimmer (female athlete) 86 40 8 82 1 0 0 0
DECspirit Cricket Victoria DEC Spirit official team (female) 74 28 8 49 3 0 0 0
AWIHL AWIHL AWIHL official league (female) 70 54 9 143 0 24 0 0
JaycoRangers WNBL Dandenong Jayco Rangers (female) 66 205 8 31 1 1 0 -1
muirsop Skate Australia Sophie Muir speed skater (female) 64 29 10 23 1 0 0 0
shellwu Triathlon Australia Shelly Wu triathlete (female) 62 521 3 305 1 1 0 1
vandiemenroller Australia Roller Derby Van Diemen Rollers Roller Derby team or league 61 30 13 74 0 -28 0 2
WSRollers Australia Roller Derby Western Sydney Rollers Roller Derby team or league 58 18 11 57 1 0 0 0
PerthGloryWomen W-League Perth Glory team (female) 53 77 2 53 1 3 0 0
PetershamNetbal Netball New South Wales Petersham RUFC Netball Club (female) 46 9 6 13 0 0 0 0
Anna_Flanagan Hockey Australia Hockeyroos Anna Flanagan (female) (player) 45 6 4 56 0 0 0 0
Shannon_McCann Athletics Australia Shannon McCann athlete, one hundred meter hurdles (female) 42 229 2 69 0 2 0 2
becdomange Cycling Australia Bec Domange biker (female athlete) 36 34 12 48 0 0 0 0
DollsAuGoGo Australia Roller Derby Dolls Australia Go Go Roller Derby team or league 31 23 7 3 0 0 0 0
ckoski55 Cricket New South Wales New South Wales Breakers player (female) 26 34 7 20 3 4 1 1
DragonsHockey AWIHL Melbourne Dragons team (female) 23 119 3 30
loganthunder WNBL Logan Thunder (female) 23 50 6 5 0 5 0 2
abcwleague W-League W-League media outlet (female) 22 31 3 15 0 0 0 0
aimee_watson Ski and Snowboard Australia Aimee Watson Australian National Ski Cross Team Athlete (female) 11 5 3 8 0 0 0 0
CoffsDerbyDolls Australia Roller Derby Coffs Derby Dolls Roller Derby team or league 10 2 4 10 0 0 0 0
cheltz333 Skate Australia Cheltzie Breanna Lee figure skater (female) 9 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
SelenaJW Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player (female) (Selena Tranter) 4 2 4 5 0 0 0 0
BCRollerDerbyHB New Zealand Roller Derby Bay City Rollers Roller Derby team or league from New Zealand 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
gladrollerderby Australia Roller Derby Gladstone Derby Roller Derby team or league 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0
SWBLest1995 Sydney Women’s Basketball League Sydney Women’s Baseball League league (female) 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0

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Most popular Australian (and New Zealand) sport related Twitter accounts (November 16)

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 16 November, 2010

Yeah, it is that time again! I’ve added about 50 new accounts to this list. The focus was on adding cricketers and female athletes. There are a few that where the accounts to have been deleted and those are just left off this list rather than be signified with a 0. This is an updated version of Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter (version 2), October 4 and October 11,  and November 11. If I’m missing anyone or anything, let me know. This work is a constant work in progress, with the results changing every time it updates.  Every iteration should be an improvement.  (For example, the next run has one spelling variation for the national netball and fixed the typo for Bendigo.)  There should be around 40 new accounts in the version run either Friday, November 19 or on Monday, November 22.  I’ve tried to add more rugby players and fansites. (And @Essendon_FC .  Doh! I don’t know how I missed them. :( )I’ve also tried to add more baseball players and leagues.   Please let me know if any athlete, team, league, organization or fansite is missing.  If you have better descriptions for accounts listed, let me know. I will try to get it included in the next update.

This list contains non-Australian and non-Kiwi teams when the leagues play in other places.  As the Rugby World Cup is also coming up and it is being hosted in New Zealand (and I’m thinking of writing a paper about that), I’ve also included Rugby Unions from competing countries on the list.  Some international organizations have also been included.

I’ve been debating putting this information on a static page and updating that regularly in contrast to creating new posts every time I update the totals.  I haven’t found a compromise that makes me happy yet as I really like the historical data that becomes available by creating new posts.  As readers, you’re allowed to go back through posts and try to track the growth of some athletes and leagues.  That could have potential value depending on the narrative you create surrounding the data.  If people would prefer a static list, rather than new posts, please let me know and I will make the change in the future.

Account League Team Description Followers Statuses Listed Friends
warne888 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers player 216432 2017 4330 95
MClarke23 Cricket New South Wales New South Wales Blues player 58012 599 1540 67
AndrewMBogut Basketball Australia Australian Boomers Andrew Bogut 29916 0 1545 162
Mick_Fanning Surf Life Saving Australia Mick Fanning surfer 25195 2207 914 259
JohnSmit123 Super League Natal Sharks player 20996 444 631 28
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Bendigo Spirit on YouTube

Posted by Laura on Sunday, 28 March, 2010

The Bendigo Spirit are a WNBL team based in Bendigo, Victoria. There aren’t many videos featuring the team on Youtube. I’ve found a total of four uploaded by three people. Of these four videos, two were uploaded in June 2008 and two were uploaded in October 2009. Dates for video uploading thus appear random or likely coincide with the start and end of the WNBL season.  The two June videos were uploaded by an account that was probably created by the team, where no one as logged into it in the past three months. The other two videos were uploaded by two different individuals.  Both of those individuals were interested in Australian basketball: Luuuc who has a lot of NBL videos and bbax222 who has a lot of Australian national basketball team videos and WNBL related videos.  The most views for a video was BENDIGO BANK SPIRIT: Kelly Wilson with 171 one views as of March 25, 2010.   It was uploaded by bbax222.

Demographic data for these YouTube members is sparse.  All that is really known is that all three are based in Australia.  This contrasts a fair bit to some other Australian teams and social networks where people outside the country make up part of the community.  This YouTube uploading community also accounts for the largest population of Bendigo Spirit fans I’ve found on the networks I’ve looked at so far: There is one account on MySpace and one account on bebo. (There are two fan pages for the team on Facebook.  One has 165 members and the other has 83 members.  I just count Facebook people based on the number of people listing a team as an interest, not based on fan page membership.  And after looking at one of those pages, they do have an official Twitter account with 20 followers.  Go follow the Bendigo Spirit on Twitter! Support women’s sport!)

Given that the biggest community of people appears to be on YouTube and that YouTube is the second biggest search engine out there, it would probably behoove the Spirit to go back to using YouTube more actively.

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