Ozzie Sport » Facebook http://ozziesport.com Looking at sport in Oz from a social media and web perspective Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:07:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Most popular AFL and NRL teams on Facebook http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/most-popular-afl-and-nrl-teams-on-facebook/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/most-popular-afl-and-nrl-teams-on-facebook/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:18:28 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=683 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 http://www.facebook.com/AFL 175,275 Yes
Rugby League/State of Origin Queensland Maroons Queensland Maroons http://www.facebook.com/queenslandmaroons 164,028 Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 122,725 Yes
NRL Brisbane Broncos Brisbane Broncos http://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. http://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 http://www.facebook.com/Essendon 68,724 Yes
Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues NSW Blues http://www.facebook.com/nswblues 62,852 Yes
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows http://www.facebook.com/adelaidecrows 51,467 Yes
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Football Club http://www.facebook.com/collingwoodfc 49,007 Yes
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Eagles/38862387223 47,295 Yes
AFL St. Kilda Saints St Kilda Football Club http://www.facebook.com/stkfc 33,109 Yes
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Football Club http://www.facebook.com/OfficialCarltonFC 30,322 Yes
AFL Sydney Swans Sydney Swans http://www.facebook.com/sydneyswans 27,261 Yes
NRL Gold Coast Titans Gold Coast Titans http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gold-Coast-Australia/Gold-Coast-Titans/22602574592 25,714 Yes
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Football Club http://www.facebook.com/hawthornfc 25,267 Yes
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Football Club http://www.facebook.com/fremantlefootballclub 23,293 Yes
NRL Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manly-Warringah-Sea-Eagles/222674735992 20,241 Yes
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers – Official National Rugby League Club http://www.facebook.com/WestsTigers.com.au 19,355 Yes
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond Tigers http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Richmond-Tigers/7769834477 18,045 No
NRL Newcastle Knights Newcastle Knights http://www.facebook.com/NewcastleKnights 16,470 Yes
NRL Sydney Roosters The Official Sydney Roosters Page http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Official-Sydney-Roosters-Page/222342250384?ref=sgm 15,362 Yes
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Lions/21301860172 15,014 No
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Lions/21301860172 15,014 Yes
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Football Club http://www.facebook.com/northkangaroos 14,496 Yes
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond FC http://www.facebook.com/Richmond.FC 13,504 Yes
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Football Club http://www.facebook.com/portadelaidefootballclub 13,229 Yes
NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Cronulla Sharks http://www.facebook.com/cronullasutherlandsharks 11,230 Yes
Rugby League New Zealand Kiwis New Zealand Kiwis http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Zealand-Kiwis/29087221880 10,745 Yes
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs http://www.facebook.com/Western.Bulldogs 9,304 Yes
NRL Melbourne Storm Sucked in Melbourne Storm! HAHA http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sucked-in-Melbourne-Storm-HAHA/119988934680797 8,566 No
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Magpies http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208766149 8,066 No
Rugby League Australian Kangaroos Australian Kangaroos http://www.facebook.com/australiankangaroos 8,042 Yes
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Football Club http://www.facebook.com/MELBOURNEfc 8,015 Yes
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5483691593 7,086 No
AFL Hawthorn Hawks hawthorn football club http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210288061 6,557 No
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geelong-Australia/Geelong-Cats/64398281288 6,278 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://www.facebook.com/canberraraiders 6,269 Yes
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats Insider http://www.facebook.com/GeelongCatsInsider 5,906 Yes
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208515594 5,810 No
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Kangaroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Melbourne-Kangaroos/33221186760 5,173 No
ANZ Championship ANZ Championship ANZ Netball http://www.facebook.com/pages/ANZ-Netball/92385331744 5,158 Yes
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles Appreciation Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2212678352 5,031 No
NRL Melbourne Storm Storm Man http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=725961793&ref=search&sid=7259 4,986 Yes
AFL Sydney Swans Sydney Swans http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210531221 4,670 No
Rugby League England Rugby League England Rugby League http://www.facebook.com/pages/England-Rugby-League/22459291791 4,645 Yes
NRL Melbourne Storm Give Melbourne Storm Their Premierships Back http://www.facebook.com/pages/Give-Melbourne-Storm-Their-Premierships-Back/119876964691459 4,479 No
AFL St. Kilda Saints St Kilda Football Club http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2215006752 4,265 No
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Football Club http://www.facebook.com/GoldCoastFC 4,111 Yes
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Football Club, The Mighty Demons http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207848796 4,052 No
AFL Geelong Cats GEELONG FOOTBALL CLUB http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2528050096 3,939 No
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Dockers Fan Club http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207069891 3,725 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau http://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau/10150092717680478 3,577 No
Super 14 ACT Brumbies ACT Brumbies http://www.facebook.com/actbrumbies 3,542 No
Super 14 Western Force Western Force http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Force/24790235284 3,472
Super 14 Western Force Western Force http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Force/24790235284 3,472 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&ref=profile&id=1589355881 3,413 Yes
Rugby League Papua New Guinea Kumuls Papua New Guinea Kumuls http://www.facebook.com/pages/Papua-New-Guinea-Kumuls/48575750514 3,310 Yes
NRL North Queensland Cowboys North Queensland Toyota Cowboys http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kirwan-Australia/North-Queensland-Toyota-Cowboys/9098495661 3,208 Yes
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Hawks http://www.facebook.com/hawthornhawks 3,182 No
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Power http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2373641808 3,152 No
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond Tigers http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2249604493 2,748 No
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Kangaroos http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2600790272 2,413 No
AFL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions AFC http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210819520 2,321 No
Women’s World Cup Matildas Matildas – Australian National Women’s Football Team http://www.facebook.com/matildas 2,204 Yes
Super 14 ACT Brumbies Official Brumbies Fan Page http://www.facebook.com/BrumbiesFanPage 2,196 Yes
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows The team for all proud South Aussies http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-Crows-The-team-for-all-proud-South-Aussies/153984865902 2,116 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 2010 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs-2010/217871884770 2,019 No
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon Bombers http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14594414804 2,016 No
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Western Sydney Rollers Western Sydney Rollers http://www.facebook.com/pages/Penrith-Australia/Western-Sydney-Rollers/42792267115 2,001 Yes
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues Supporters Club http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2205002774 1,614 No
Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues New South Wales Rugby League http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-South-Wales-Rugby-League/62360768317 1,436 Yes
W-League W-League Westfield W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Westfield-W-League/284833825576 1,424 Yes
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS http://www.facebook.com/teamgws 1,359 Yes
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Australia/Canberra-Raiders/44722778922 1,255 Yes
NRL Melbourne Storm Support the Melbourne Storm this Sunday Night http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-the-Melbourne-Storm-this-Sunday-Night/112926535407833 1,244 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Anything To Do With Footy. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46374304132 984 No
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles SUCK! http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Eagles-SUCK/283601832162 953 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/301148780410 943 No
AFL Western Bulldogs WESTERN BULLDOGS 2010 PREMIERSHIP TEAM http://www.facebook.com/pages/WESTERN-BULLDOGS-2010-PREMIERSHIP-TEAM/304790027975 673 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a homophobe. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118380594866779 631 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/107712129252191 630 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106353142733985 617 No
AFL St. Kilda Saints ST KILDA SAINTS http://www.facebook.com/pages/ST-KILDA-SAINTS/76945789299 599 No
SEABL SEABL SEABL http://www.facebook.com/pages/SEABL/156802199436 599 Yes
AFL Collingwood Magpies COLLINGWOOD MAGPIES PREMIERS OF 2010. http://www.facebook.com/pages/COLLINGWOOD-MAGPIES-PREMIERS-OF-2010/206003434840 591 No
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues http://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? http://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 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20900401086 482 No
W-League Canberra United Canberra United Fans http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31893404397 459 Yes
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon Bombers Premiers 2010!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Essendon-Bombers-Premiers-2010/292548086075 444 No
NRL Melbourne Storm melbourne storm :) http://www.facebook.com/pages/melbourne-storm-/234035998634 426 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos 100,000 Strong Socceroos Supporters To Win 2010 World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/100000-Strong-Socceroos-Supporters-To-Win-2010-World-Cup/362147231671 403 No
AIHL Sydney Bears Sydney Bears http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-Bears/231164562115 372 Yes
WNBL Canberra Capitals WNBL – Canberra Capitals http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5865846788 368
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Dockers : Rebuilding since 1995 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fremantle-Dockers-Rebuilding-since-1995/320031751833 365 No
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Blues FC http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=85618681803 361 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos to dominate in 2010 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos-to-dominate-in-2010/125877250762609 356 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs/109838169034373 352 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jarrod Harbrow Stay At The Western Bulldogs http://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 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karmichael-Hunt-Israel-Folau-Smartest-NRL-players-in-history/125580140798379 333 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau http://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau/116955588324978 308 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://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 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-not-a-traitor-to-my-sport-LOL-jks-im-Israel-Folau/126807534010649 261 No
NBL Wollongong Hawks Wollongong Hawks http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2511926702 246
NRL Brisbane Broncos its not all about the money… LOL jkz im Israel Folau http://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 http://www.facebook.com/pages/ACT-4-GWS/131873296847254 226 Yes
AFL Greater Western Sydney Supporters of Greater Western Sydney (Team GWS) AFL http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=197444073672 224 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=211851956941 222 No
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Power http://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 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Carney-16-Canberra-Raiders-61742010-Roosters-Vs-Raiders/117965208220477 218 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Australian University Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-University-Socceroos/279400107713 217 No
World Interuniversity Games Australian University Socceroos Australian University Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-University-Socceroos/279400107713 217 No
NWBL Wollongong Roller Hawks Wollongong Roller Hawks http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34282398124 215
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a legend http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10308061363 211 No
WNBL Bendigo Spirit The Official Bendigo Spirit Basketball http://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!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vote-Julia-Gillard-as-full-forward-for-the-Bulldogs/135068153186079 177 No
Archery Australia Guy Phillips Guy Phillips http://www.facebook.com/pages/Guy-Phillips/136216599725314 177 Yes
AFL Richmond Tigers Trent Cotchin http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=288344968328 174 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Australia/Canberra-Raiders/142939450791 174 No
Greater Western Sydney and Blue Mountains Senior AFL Penrith Rams IGA PENRITH RAMS http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34780778851 170 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greater-Western-Sydney/110850405598090 163 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs/275365171824 156 No
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers NYC http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14767245041 153 No
VFL Bendigo Bombers Bendigo Bombers Football Club http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=166091156567 151
AFL Western Bulldogs Julia Gillard, full-foward for Western Bulldogs http://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 ♥ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-Not-Really-That-Awesome-LOL-jk-Im-Israel-Folau-3/120925127943654 141 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS :) http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOCCEROOS-/126051170744978 136 No
AFL Richmond Tigers Daniel Jackson – TIGER TUFF! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123091481992 134 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau has discraced rugby league and is a DOG http://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau-has-discraced-rugby-league-and-is-a-DOG/131445246866465 126 No
WNBL Townsville Fire Townsville McCafe Fire http://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 http://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. http://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 http://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! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=105298639854 110 No
Super 14 ACT Brumbies act brumbies http://www.facebook.com/pages/act-brumbies/188338778385 107 No
AFL Western Bulldogs WESTERN BULLDOGS http://www.facebook.com/pages/WESTERN-BULLDOGS/271303674325 105 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs/110292775655582 104 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I love NRL, LOL jk i’m Israel Folau. http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-love-NRL-LOL-jk-im-Israel-Folau/132015913479883 98 No
Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs Waratahs 2008 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6889666197 98
Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs Waratahs 2008 http://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 http://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 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19647855868 97 No
AFL Richmond Tigers Greeks who support Richmond F.C the Tigers http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56793324172 94 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Akermaniacs!! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13979751018 88 No
AFL Gold Coast Football Club Gold Coast Football Club http://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 http://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 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7634104737 80 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis http://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 http://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 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38642639632 68 No
NRL Sydney Roosters Sign Up Jake Friend http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=311599952794 66 No
NRL Canberra Raiders I’m a 2010 Canberra Raiders member http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Australia/Im-a-2010-Canberra-Raiders-member/217845443478 65 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Raiders/370953541588 62 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/108710262493191 57 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://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! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80991032015 56 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney GO Team GWS http://www.facebook.com/pages/GO-Team-GWS/201507074991 55 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western bulldogs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-bulldogs/208698572908 51 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney Football Club http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greater-Western-Sydney-Football-Club/100573089984951 49 No
VFL Frankston Dolphins Aaron Edwards Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139834293787 46
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a dick http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118537708183794 45 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos I miss my family in brisbane…lol jk im Israel Folau http://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 http://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 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7111400046 41
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106019049438817 33 No
AFL Hawthorn Hawks The New Hawks Cheer Squad 2009 hawthorn football club http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14866934870 32 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://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 http://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 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ive-always-wanted-to-play-AFL-LOL-jk-Im-Israel-Folau/121790094527530 31 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team Gws http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=432992410322 30 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Queensland will win Origin 2010… LOL JK, Israel Folau plays AFL now. http://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 !!!! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115243691825820 24 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis slept with me http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-slept-with-me/115552025153010 24 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Petition for Israel to come play the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-Israel-to-come-play-the-Socceroos/124315894249250 24 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 2010 :) http://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 http://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 http://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 ♥ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau-3/118502131501099 19 No
AFL AFL I Loved football, then Andrew ‘Dollars’ Demetriou came along http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=376087484378&ref=search 18 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney BOYCOTT TEAM GWS http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127403363954150 18 No
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Law Hawks http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5033799337 18
AFL Western Bulldogs I’ll never play for the Bulldogs, LOL jk, I’m Julia Gillard http://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 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4979514491 18 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis should be locked and gagged in a closet! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109095775801131 16 No
AHL Tassie Tigers Tassie Tigers Hockey – Top 4 three years in a row http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10850081395 16
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel folau, please stay with NRL http://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-folau-please-stay-with-NRL/129283270431508 16 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Supporting the Canberra Raiders http://www.facebook.com/pages/Supporting-the-Canberra-Raiders/378099581051 15 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Raiders/105808109459157 14 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Support for the Socceroos in South Africa http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-the-Socceroos-in-South-Africa/118426448190124 14 No
AFL Western Bulldogs jason akermanis is amazing! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=344061166761 13 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos israel folau is injury prone http://www.facebook.com/pages/israel-folau-is-injury-prone/114024501946027 13 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Change the name of the Socceroos http://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 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140288354383 11 No
WNBL Townsville Fire Fire Roster http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10595065717 10 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis for Brownlow 2008 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16522463154 9 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis to win the Coleman medal. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21877556009 9 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos fan? get on it!!!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/socceroos-fan-get-on-it/118141831550071 9 No
AFL Western Bulldogs JASON AKERMANIS’S IQ OF A PLANT http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=107444465957654 8 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS is stupid – Nobody cares! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201349721647 7 No
NRL Brisbane Broncos Israel Folau an AFL player? http://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Folau-an-AFL-player/125596160796485 7 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/105738419448658 6 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/119664741377244 6 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos The Football Supporters’ Pledge: A-League, Socceroos & Grassroots http://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! http://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. http://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) http://www.facebook.com/pages/CANBERRA-RAIDERS-GREEN-MACHINE/131955160151271 4 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-GWS/110182962355046 3 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-GWS/110460898989193 3 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124872100865630 3 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Biography http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Biography/106142142741832 3 No
W-League Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Roar-FC-W-League/113243915352961 3 No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Young Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Young-Socceroos/115695218444154 3 No
AFL Western Bulldogs The Battle Within by Jason Akermanis http://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 http://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 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Victory-W-League/114789105203249 2 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Can’t Drive A Race Car http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123972501889 1 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/373300971735 1 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Autobiography http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Autobiography/106446502709782 1 No
NRL Canberra Raiders Raiders de canberra http://www.facebook.com/pages/Raiders-de-canberra/106471522724049 1 No
W-League Adelaide United Adelaide United FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-United-FC-W-League/108294542532589 1 No
W-League Adelaide United Adelaide United F.C. W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-United-FC-W-League/111672428851109 1 No
W-League Adelaide United Adelaide United W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-United-W-League/110542468965980 1 No
W-League Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Roar-W-League/106111719427974 1 No
W-League Canberra United Canberra United FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-United-FC-W-League/109991445697639 1 No
W-League Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Victory-FC-W-League/107986482554786 1 No
W-League Queensland Roar Queensland Roar W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Queensland-Roar-W-League/106361719403254 1 No
W-League W-League Westfield W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Westfield-W-League/106287136076565 1 No
AFL Greater Western Sydney Team GWS http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-GWS/116207325073108 0 No
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Demons http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Melbourne-Demons/8283147091 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis Is Totally Gay http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118573961511057 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a F*ckwit http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18564050741 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis: Homophobe and complete fuckwit! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Homophobe-and-complete-fuckwit/105067262872425 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is a coward http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-is-a-coward/105337389512086 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis is an idiot. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-is-an-idiot/125326927493237 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Jason Akermanis, you are a MORON! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-you-are-a-MORON/109009685810123 0 No
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs FC http://www.facebook.com/pages/Western-Bulldogs-FC/22912285819 0 No
NBL Wollongong Hawks Wollongong Hawks http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 ! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Best-team-in-NRL-Melbourne-Storm-/43558529287 0 No
NRL Melbourne Storm Melbourne Storm http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Melbourne-Storm/21222300614 0 Yes
W-League Canberra United Canberra United W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-United-W-League/106044356102375 0 No
W-League Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Central-Coast-Mariners-FC-W-League/108518769173365 0 No
W-League Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Central-Coast-Mariners-W-League/111835622169478 0 No
W-League Newcastle Jets Newcastle Jets FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-Jets-FC-W-League/105841596122300 0 No
W-League Newcastle Jets Newcastle Jets W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-Jets-W-League/110694742284280 0 No
W-League Newcastle United Jets Newcastle United Jets FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-United-Jets-FC-W-League/107745802588731 0 No
W-League Newcastle United Jets Newcastle United Jets W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-United-Jets-W-League/106256169412363 0 No
W-League Perth Glory Perth Glory W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Perth-Glory-W-League/106426936059962 0 No
W-League Perth Glory FC Perth Glory FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Perth-Glory-FC-W-League/105709786128298 0 No
W-League Queensland Roar Queensland Roar FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Queensland-Roar-FC-W-League/106577539379058 0 No
W-League Sydney FC Sydney FC W-League http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-FC-W-League/107350229294344 0 No
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]]> http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/most-popular-afl-and-nrl-teams-on-facebook/feed/ 2 The Impact of Jason Akermanis’s Comments on the Western Bulldogs’s Online Fanbase http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/the-impact-of-jason-akermaniss-comments-on-the-western-bulldogss-online-fanbase/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/the-impact-of-jason-akermaniss-comments-on-the-western-bulldogss-online-fanbase/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:12:03 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=650 This was originally written on June 14, 2010. It has not been edited since then. There may be some grammatical errors and citation related issues.

The Impact of Jason Akermanis’s Comments on the Western Bulldogs Online Fanbase

On May 20, the Jason Akermanis says gay AFL players should stay in the closet backlash started in response to his column in the Herald Sun. (Akermanis, 2010) The media covered the story on television, in print and online.  AFL fans discussed it on Twitter, created protest pages on Facebook, wiki articles were updated and a lot of people posted about it on the blogosphere.  Management within the AFL and the Western Bulldogs felt compelled to speak out against Jason’s comments.  People talked of reporting Jason to the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity commission.

From a marketing perspective, Akermanis’s opinions were perceived as damaging to the sport and league.  The Western Bulldogs have an association with VicHealth and the Gay and Lesbian Health Association and Akermanis’s comments seemed to contradict and undermine that support. (Walsh, 2010)  The possibility of negative backlash may not have been apparent to the team prior to the article being published as, according to the Sydney Star Observer, team management signed off on the column. (Noonan, 2010)   The size of the backlash and efforts to try to address it can probably be best evidenced by the suspension of Akermanis from the playing field and talking to the media.

Unlike the Melbourne Storm controversy, Akermanis’s comments do not give the appearance of having activated his personal fan base and the fan base for the Western Bulldogs.  There were no media reports of pastors speaking out on Akermanis’s behalf.  His teammates did not support him.  The media did not dismiss his comments, excusing them because of his otherwise excellent on field performance.  Perhaps had Akermanis made these comments in a different country, his comments would have had the potential to be less damaging to the club he played for.  There is also a general view, at least in the United States, that sport teams are run by conservatives who maintain traditional family values.  The assumption is often that sport fans reflect those same values; those that do not chose to follow other popular culture products like movies, television and video games.   If the fanbase for the AFL had actually reflected those underlying assumptions, the situation could have been much more easily ignored and have had the potential to be much less damaging.

The question is how damaging was the situation for the Western Bulldogs online?  How can this be measured? Did the team lose the potential to grow their audience when compared to other AFL teams as a result of Akermanis’s comments?  Who supported Jason and who did not?

The measurement question is probably the most difficult one to address.  Unlike the Melbourne Storm situation, this does not involve a team: The situation involves a specific player.  Liking or adding the team as an interest cannot necessarily be seen as supporting or condemning Jason Akermanis.  People could like the team because they suspended Akermanis for his comments. It is much harder to attribute page views to Akermanis and/or Western Bulldogs supporters who want to find out the situation in order to justify or reaffirm their allegiances.  Almost none of the media coverage and very few people on Twitter indicated that the fanbase was activated in defense of the team and Akermanis.  Thus, a default assumption for any data is that publicity of the situation will activate a larger audience to be against both the club and Akermanis unless contextual evidence suggests otherwise.

Given the measurement difficulties, this paper will nonetheless try to determine how the online community responded to the Jason Akermanis situation and how this reflects back on the Western Bulldogs.  This will be done by looking at Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, bebo, Alexa and a few selected sites.

Facebook
Facebook is the most popular social network in Australia.  Facebook’s advertising data says that there are over nine million users from Australia using the site.  (1)  The following of some Australian based sport teams and leagues are quite large.  The official fan pages for the Queensland Maroons, Brisbane Broncos, Socceroos, AFL and Essendon Bombers all have more than 50,000 fans.

Given the large number of Australians using the network, the official presence of so many clubs and the amount of media attention paid to the service, a response on network was inevitable.   There are several Facebook metrics that can be looked at to ascertain how the controversy effected the Western Bulldogs and Jason Akermanis.  The first way is to compare the relative growth of the Western Bulldogs’ total fans on their fan page compared to other teams during the same page.  A second way is to examine comparative growth of groups that supported Akermanis versus those that condemned his views.  The third way is to compare demographic and geographic distinctions between fans that support Akermanis, people that condemned Akermanis’s views and Western Bulldogs fans.

If the Jason Akermanis controversy hurt the Western Bulldogs on Facebook, it should have resulted in a loss or slower growth in terms of total and percentage of new fans on Facebook when compared to other teams. Data was collected between March 25 and June 10, 2010 regarding the size of the official Facebook fan pages for several AFL teams. (2)

Table 1

In the period between May 3 to May 30, the Western Bulldogs were in the middle of the teams for number of new fans with 1,453. This was almost three times as many as the bottom ranked Geelong Cats who had 519 new fans in that period and a third of new fans of the top ranked Collingwood Magpies who saw an increase of 4,150 fans. An argument could be made that period had too much time preceding it that could have lessened any potential loss with earlier gains. Thus comparing the period between May 30 and June 5 migh be more helpful as Akermanis was suspended on June 1. That new brought additional attention to the column that led to his suspension. During this period, the Western Bulldogs ranked seven out of nine for total new fans with 213 people liking them. This number may not be that accurate as not all teams that had performed worse than them in the previous period were included in this sample. The better comparison could be between May 3 and June 10, 2010 as it is larger and includes the initial controversy and the suspension use. That data set is also more complete. During this longer period, the Western Bulldogs finish in the middle with a gain of 1,812 fans. This compares to the Carlton Blues who on top with 5,185 new fans and the Geelong Cats who are on the bottom with 657 new fans. All of this supports the idea that, when compared to other team’s growth, the Western Bulldogs were not hurt by the controversy.

Another way of looking at this data is to compare percentage growth of new followers. This number compares a club’s ability to get new followers relative to their own performance as opposed to all AFL fans. Using this number, the Western Bulldogs saw the most growth in the period between May 3 and May 30 with a 22.8% increase. The next highest performing club was the Carlton Blues with 19.5%. The Western Bulldogs growth is impressive when compared to the Essendon Bombers who had 4.5% growth, the St. Kilda Saints who had 3.7% and the Adelaide Crows who had 2.1% growth. In the period between May 30 and June 5, the Western Bulldogs were second only to the Gold Coast Football Club: The Bulldogs had a 3.2% increase in new fans compared to the Gold Coast’s 44.9%. The Western Bulldogs saw .8% more growth to the next highest team, the Richmond Tigers who had 2.4%. The Bulldogs percentage growth was roughly 6.4 times as much as the bottom teams, Essendon, St. Kilda and Adelaide who saw between .5 and .7% growth. For the period between June 5 and June 10, the Western Bulldogs finished second for highest percentage growth. The only team that outperformed them was Greater Western Sydney, another expansion team who had just made a lot of news with their signing of Israel Folau. With the exception of the Gold Coast, all teams had one or more percent less growth than the Western Bulldogs. For the overall period between May 3 and June 10, the Western Bulldogs finished on top with 26.9%, 1.1% more growth than the number two team of Carlton and well above that of the last place performer Adelaide who had 3.3% growth in fans on Facebook. Given these numbers where the Bulldogs led in percentage growth on Facebook, it is hard to argue that the Jason Akermanis controversy hurt their Facebook strategy. It might be argued that the team was able to effectively capitalize on Akermanis related traffic on Facebook and their website to convert some fringe fans into Facebook fans.

Beyond the total fans of official pages, there are other interesting metrics that can explain the fan response to the Jason Akermanis controversy. One involves the creation and growth of Facebook groups and fan pages: Facebook easily allows users to create them and they do. Some of the fastest member growing Facebook groups and fan pages are created to get media attention for an issue, to help people spread the word about breaking news and share knowledge, to express disgust with actions taken by institutions or to express allegiance with a person or organization in response to negative publicity. Once the catalyst for the event is out of the news, many of these groups face stagnant growth and become irrelevant having been abandoned by their creators.

While it is not possible to date the creation of a group, the Akermanis controversy likely resulted in the creation of a number of fan pages and groups. These groups have names such as Jason Akermanis, you are a MORON!, Jason Akermanis: Homophobe and complete fuckwit!, Jason Akermanis is a homophobe., Jason Akermanis is a dick, Jason Akermanis Is Totally Gay, Only Homophobes think Jason Akermanis is a homophobe!, Jason Akermanis should be locked and gagged in a closet!, Don’t you hate it when you’re in the shower and Jason Akermanis comes in?, Jason Akermanis is a homophobe., Jason Akermanis is a F*ckwit, Jason Akermanis Can’t Drive A Race Car, JASON AKERMANIS’S “IQ OF A PLANT”, Jason Akermanis slept with me, Jason Akermanis is a coward, and for people who wanna see Jason Akermanis shove his head up his own Ass. There are a number of pro or neutral Akermanis groups on Facebook. They likely predate the controversy. They include groups named Jason Akermanis, Jason Akermanis Biography, Jason Akermanis Autobiography, The Battle Within by Jason Akermanis, jason akermanis is amazing!, The Jason Akermanis Appreciation Society, Jason Akermanis is a legend, Jason Akermanis handstand appreciation society, and Jason Akermanis for Brownlow 2008. (3)

Some of the anti-Akermanis groups saw relatively impressive levels of growth. Jason Akermanis is a homophobe. is one of the most popular anti groups. It had 126 members on May 20 and had 547 members by May 24. Membership levels stabilized and it had only 627 members by June 12. Don’t you hate it when you’re in the shower and Jason Akermanis comes in? had 171 fans as of May 22. By May 30, it had 482. Most of the other anti-Jason groups sampled had smaller total populations and smaller membership increases. Some of the anti groups were deleted during this period. One such group was Jason Akermanis Is Totally Gay, which had one member when checked on May 20 and was deleted some time between then and June 10. Jason Akermanis: Homophobe and complete fuckwit! had 118 members on May 20 before being removed from Facebook by May 22.

The pro and neutral Akermanis groups in the sample were all smaller than the two largest anti-Akermanis groups as of June 12, 2010. A pro-Akermanis group ranked third for the total number of fans. In comparison to the anti-Akermanis groups, the growth rate was much smaller. The Jason Akermanis Appreciation Society went from 454 members on May 20 to 469 on June 12. Jason Akermanis is a legend saw no growth during that period, continuing to have 201 total members. Jason Akermanis handstand appreciation society saw a growth of one, going from 88 to 89 during that period. Jason Akermanis at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/107712129252191 is the group that probably saw the biggest percentage increase of clearly established fan pages. It went from 56 fans on May 20 to 165 on June 12. Jason Akermanis at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/301148780410 went from 307 fans on May 20 to 382 on June 12. Growth levels for the pro and neutral groups are level compared to the anti groups. The data suggests that people did not respond to the Akermanis controversy by rushing out to assert their support of him and his views by joining communities about him on Facebook. The data also suggests that the anti-sentiment regarding Akermanis was not sustained for a long period of time and that people were not scared to affiliate with Akermanis, despite people’s negative attitudes towards him.

Another way of evaluating the effect of the Akermanis controversy on the Western Bulldogs is to compare the characteristics of Western Bulldog fans, Akermanis supporters and Akermanis detractors. Facebook shows the network membership for people who belong to many groups and fan pages, which allows such a comparison to take place. On June 13, 2010, a list of all the members of the Western Bulldogs official fan page was pulled. While Facebook shows the page as having 6,819 fans, it only provided names and network membership for 3,343 people. Of these fans, 188 or 5.6% belonged to a network. A membership list for Jason Akermanis is a homophobe. (4) was also pulled. As of June 13, 2010, the group had 627 members, of which Facebook lists 428. Of the 428, 28 or 6.5% belong to a network. A membership list for The Jason Akermanis Appreciation Society was pulled. As of June 13, the group had 469 members of which 337 were on the member list. Of these, 27 or 8.0% belonged to a network.

Networks are Facebook created groupings that early in the site’s history allowed people to easily filter content to people who shared an affiliation with other users. These networks cover three broad general categories: Places of employment, secondary schools and high schools. The pro-Akermanis people belong to thirteen networks not shared by detractors or Western Bulldogs fans. That means 48% of Akermanis fans do not belong to a network that is shared by Western Bulldogs fans and highly suggests that Akermanis’s fanbase largely is independent of the Bulldogs. Eight anti-Akermanis fans or 27% of that population belong to networks not represented by the Western Bulldogs or Akermanis supporters. This suggests that Akermanis detractors likely come from with in the Western Bulldogs fanbase.

The differences between Akermanis detractors and Western Bulldogs fans are really clear when network membership is sorted by type (secondary school, university, company) and then tabulated. (5) 78.6% of all Akermanis detractors that list a network belong to a university related one. This compares to 50.0% for Akermanis supporters and 48.6% for Bulldogs supporters. Bulldog supporter network membership suggests that the club’s goal of building a barracker base from the working class has been successful. The pattern of network membership may also suggest that Akermanis detractors are older than the club’s current supporter base. Given these two conditions, the Bulldogs are likely to be unaffected by the detractors as they represent a demographically distinct group that the club is not marketing to.

Twitter
Twitter is a popular microblogging platform. Many teams, players and fansites have established a presence on the site. Australian sport fans are also actively using Twitter to discuss their club’s performance, celebrity athlete related gossip and to find other sport news.

There are several possible ways to monitor the impact of the Akermanis controversy as it pertains to Western Bulldogs. Sadly, the most important Twitter metrics are not accessible as the author did not get the data in the moment. (6) These include total number of followers before and after the controversy for the official account and total number of tweets featuring certain keywords. The counting the total number of Tweets by the official account was also not done, as it was believed that this data would not have meaningful results. Unlike the Melbourne Storm controversy, the focus was on a player where the media and fan attention appeared to be on him to the exclusion of his club. Given that, the Bulldogs did not have to respond or change their practices in their official fan communication channels and monitoring their Tweet volume would be unlikely to provide any insight into the fan response to the controversy.

As the three of the most popular Twitter metrics are not available or not relevant, the question is what other metrics can be used? One Twitter analysis tool that can be useful in this case is Twitter Venn. (7) The service creates Venn diagrams based on keywords that a user selects. The service uses Twitter’s search API to find Tweets that mention the two or three teams the user selected, determines if the terms were used together or independently, counts the total Tweets and then creates the Venn. (Clark, n.d.) Using this service on June 11, a Venn diagram (Figure 1) was created. The keywords chosen were based on the goal of trying to exclude irrelevant tweets, such as people talking about their pet Bulldogs or other teams named the Bulldogs. Phrases such as gay, homosexual and homophobic were also not included as their usage extends beyond this controversy and would pick up a lot of irrelevant data.

Figure 1. Twitter Venn. This Venn diagram generated by Twitter Venn demonstrates the lack of overlap between use of Akermanis and Western Bulldogs.

On Twitter, people who mentioned Jason Akermanis did not mention his club affiliation, instead referencing the AFL, gay and other words that indicate the controversy involving the column he published. Based on this, it can be concluded that on Twitter, Akermanis’s comments did not result in rage directed at his club.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the first sources of information that many people turn to when a news story breaks. Articles on the site often provide background information and context to an event, and include a summary and links of breaking news. Wikipedia also has an excellent search engine optimization. When people go to Google or other search engines to find out what is happening, Wikipedia often appears as the first, second or third result. Thus, an increase in an article’s views should be expected when controversy happens.

In terms of the Jason Akermanis and Wikipedia, the way to measure the controversy as it impacts the Western Bulldogs would be to compare the total page views between those two articles. If the controversy reflected more upon Akermanis than his team, the expectation is the page view spike would be higher. The chart below contains traffic information to those two articles for the period between May 1 and June 8, 2010. (8) To give perspective to Akermanis’s situation as it pertains to athlete interest connecting to club interest, data for the Israel Folau, Brisbane Broncos and Western Sydney Football Club articles have been included on the chart. (Figure 2)

Figure 2. Article Views on Wikipedia by Date. Graph shows total views of selected Wikipedia articles between May 1 and June 10, 2010.

The Jason Akermanis controversy did not result in increase in attention for the Western Bulldogs: Total page views by date have a correlation of .280, which suggests that interest in the two is not related. This is much different than the situation that exists for Israel Folau and Greater Western Sydney: The two articles move in tandem in terms of total article views by date with a correlation of .943. (9)

There are two other aspects of Wikipedia worth analyzing as they pertain to understanding the fan community’s actions in response to the controversy. One is the total edits. The second is the location of those edits. For total edits, controversial and high visibility stories tend to lead to an increase in editing. For less controversial news stories, where there isn’t much new information and the topic is not one people are passionate about, there tend to be fewer peaks in editing. Below is a chart (Figure 3) that compares the total number of edits to the Jason Akermanis, Western Bulldogs, Israel Folau and Greater Western Sydney articles.

Figure 3. Total Edits Between May 1 and June 8, 2010 for Selected Wikipedia Articles.

The Jason Akermanis controversy resulted in people editing the article about him. The total number of daily edits does not mirror total number of daily edits to the Western Bulldogs. This continues to suggest that people viewed Akermanis’s actions independently of his club. This contrasts with the Israel Folau situation, where the total number of edits appears to be a bit more connected.

The Western Bulldogs are based in a Melbourne suburb. An argument could be made that the Western Bulldogs should be concerned about maintaining or developing a fanbase in their local area; they do not need to worry about the fan community outside their geographic home. The only way to measure the local fan community response on Wikipedia expressed by editing an article is to use geolocation for IP addresses that have edited an article. As the total edits by date chart shows, there have been very few edits to the Western Bulldogs article since the Jason Akermanis controversy broke. Of the five edits made to the Western Bulldogs article, two edits have been made by users who have not logged in and have a visible IP address. Neither of these edits references the controversy. Both edits are from Melbourne. (10) This suggests that the controversy did not impact their local fanbase.

The edit history for the Jason Akermanis article stands in stark contrast to the Western Bulldogs article. It has a lot more edits and almost all of the non-logged in edits involved editing the article to reference the stay in the closet controversy. There were 29 total edits made by 14 non-logged in users. Of these edits, four are from Melbourne, one each from Camberwell and Sandringham in Victoria, two are from Adelaide, three are from Sydney and three are international. Only 42 percent of the edits to the Jason Akermanis article originate from the Western Bulldog’s geographic home. Determining what this means is more problematic. The most obvious conclusion is that the offended population were geographically dispersed and were more interested in the topic because of the homophobic aspects than because of their interest in Akermanis and the Western Bulldogs. These edits should not be seen as being committed by a base who will punish the Western Bulldogs by not watching games on television or in person.

Bebo
Bebo was a popular social networking site in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Its popularity has slipped in the past year but there is still a large population of AFL fans on the site. It probably ranks amongst the top ten most popular social networks inside Australia
Bebo allows people to search for keywords and interest that appear in people’s profiles, in videos, descriptions of bands, groups, applications and skins. For profiles, the general assumption is that people do not update interests listed on them regularly after they register. Doing so generally requires a strong desire to associate or disassociate with a person or organization. This desire has to overcome general antipathy towards updating. Thus, interest levels remain relatively stable unless something happens that causes a huge emotional response.

What does this mean for the Western Bulldogs? Did the Jason Akermanis situation reach that point, causing people to want to associate or disassociate with the team? As of March 17, there were 93 people who listed the Western Bulldogs as an interest. (11) By June 8, 2010, this number had increased to 95. There does not appear to have been an attitude shift that causes many people to want to change their public allegiances. The small increase may mean something when compared to Melbourne Storm who saw zero interest listing growth during a similar period prior to and after a major controversy. (Hale, 2010)

While no bebo video data is available for the Western Bulldogs prior to June 9, video data is available for the Brisbane Lions. On May 1, 2010, a search was done of videos on bebo for the “Brisbane Lions.” This is a team that Jason Akermanis played for. On that date, there were 74 videos which mentioned the Brisbane Lions. Three of these videos referenced an Australian soccer league team. The rest were about the AFL team. Of these 71 videos, only one contained Akermanis in the title or description. As of May 1, it had only eleven views. When the video viewing statistics were check on June 9, 2010, there were still only 11 views: The Jason Akermanis controversy has not translated into people seeking out video content on bebo featuring him to watch.

There are no groups about Jason Akermanis. This contrasts to Facebook, where there are several that cover several different views of the player. The Jason Akermanis did not inspire anyone on bebo to create any anti-Jason group, which suggests either antipathy towards the situation or fans not being particularly active on bebo any more.

The only other large player/club controversy that occurred during this time period involved Israel Falou, who switched from the NRL and Brisbane Broncos to the AFL and Greater Western Sydney. To put Jason Akermanis’s fan community as it related to the Western Bulldogs on bebo into context, it is worth comparing the two players. The following data was gathered on June 8, 2010.

Table 2

Bebo interests suggest that Israel Folau is much more important to the Brisbane Broncos fan community than Jason Akermanis is. Jason Akermanis’s comments look like, based on these numbers, that they would have less potential to harm the club than Israel Folau’s desertion to the AFL.

Website Traffic and Demographics
There are primarily three services which track website traffic. They are Alexa, Quantcast and Compete. (12) Each one has something different to offer in terms of how they measure and information they provide about a site. None of these sites are perfect in that they cannot convey a completely accurate picture of a website’s traffic or the demographic composition of visitors to the site. Despite these deficiencies, using their data can begin to give an idea to the fan response by looking for traffic movement out of sync with other teams and if there was a major difference in audiences visiting the Bulldogs site.

Alexa ranks websites based on the amount of traffic they get. It measures traffic using a user-installed toolbar coupled with other data. (13) (alberto, 2009) They can differentiate traffic based on nation and will provide ranking information by country for sites that get a majority of their traffic from specific countries. Their data is also updated daily. This makes them more useful than Compete and Quantcast in that Alexa provides information about Australian sites and updates daily so that daily traffic patterns can be examined.

On June 5, June 8 and June 9, 2010, the international and Australian ranking on Alexa was recorded for all official AFL club websites. (14) This is not ideal, as it does not include traffic prior to and immediately after the Jason Akermanis situation. Still, it can provide a picture of what was happening 16 days after the incident broke, a few days after news of Akermanis’s suspension was announced.

Table 3.

The only team with less traffic to their site is Greater Western Sydney, a team that has not started playing in the AFL yet. While only three of the seventeen teams saw an increase in Australian traffic ranking from June 5 to June 9, (15) the decrease in rank between those dates for the Western Bulldogs was the most extreme: It dropped almost 2,000 places. This suggests that something is going on to depress traffic to the Bulldogs when compared to other teams.

Quantcast and Alexa both provide demographic information about visitors to a site. Quantcast can directly measure a site’s traffic and build a better demographic picture if a site inserts Quantcast’s code into their site. (Quantcast Corporation, 2008) Quancast’s data tends to be American centric and does not always provide a picture of international visitors unless a site is Quantified. Alexa’s demographic data comes from a survey users complete when they install the toolbar. (alberto, 2009)

Bearing in mind that the Quantcast’s description is based on American visitors, the site characterizes visitors to the Western Bulldogs’s site (16) as female, middle aged, Hispanic, have children, make between $30,000 and $60,000 a year and are college graduates. This information was based on all of May 2010, including the nineteen days before the controversy broke out. Alexa, which has much more data from Australian users, characterizes visitors to the Western Bulldogs site as generally between the ages of 18 to 24, male, college graduates, childless and visiting the site from work.

The Geelong Cats and North Melbourne Kangaroos are closest to the Western Bulldogs in terms of amount of traffic. They are also based in the same metro area. Thus, it makes sense to compare their audience with the of the Bulldogs to determine if the there are demographic differences between the clubs that could be attributed to a shift in viewing habits as a result of the Akermanis controversy.

Quantcast characterizes visitors to the Geelong Cats site (17) as female, extremely young, Asian, having no children, making between $30,000 and $60,000 a year and being college graduates. Quantcast characterizes North Melbourne Kangaroos website visitors (18) as being split evenly amongst both genders, teenaged, Asian, having kids in their household, affluent and possessing a graduate degree.

Alexa characterizes Geelong Cats website visitors as being between 18 and 24, male, having a graduate degree, having children, and visiting the site from bother home and work. Alexa characterizes North Melbourne Kangaroos visitors as between 18-24, male, having a college degree, childless and visiting the site from home.

There does not appear to be a demographically homogenous group visiting the websites of all three clubs. The major difference appears to be the racial make up of visitors, with the Western Bulldogs over representing in Hispanics. It would be difficult to make a claim, based on available website demographic data, that the Akermanis situation changed the composition of the fanbase.

43 Things, Blogger and Other Small Networks
While smaller and less influential sites like 43 Things, Blogger and BlackPlanet have tiny populations, they are worth monitoring as they can often be one of the first signs of a major public relations problem online that can no longer be controlled. Twitter and Facebook can often be very temporal: Things happen in the moment and are quickly forgotten. Those sites are not set up to record fan responses. Other sites, either because they are inactive, allow for longer posting, have greater visibility to people outside the network the content exists on or because influential fans from those networks may have greater crossover to a wider selection of sites, can hurt a club or league’s reputation. The content does not go away. There are influential people on some of those sites that can spread the message to a totally different audience with a different demographic profile. Also, when you’re talking to some one in a much smaller group, there tends to be more trust and greater potential for people to believe what their friends are saying. While a person reading one hundred tweets by nominal acquaintances may be able to forget and move on as things move so fast, in a one on one environment, the chances are the smaller group may have bigger problems letting go and moving on.
43things is a goal setting site that is relatively popular in Australia. Prior to the Jason Akermanis controversy, there was one goal related to the Western Bulldogs: See the Western Bulldogs win the grand final. One person was trying to accomplish this goal. Since the controversy, there has been no change in people creating new goals related to the club, nor in the number of people trying to accomplish the existing goal. There have been no goals, either positive or negative, created related to Jason Akermanis. This mirrors the non-action taken by Brisbane Broncos, Israel Folau and Greater Western Sydney fans who added no goals in response to the change in code news for Israel Folau.

BlackPlanet is a small social network marketed at African Americans in the United States. It has a small community of Australians on it. The major sport league that Australians are interested on the site is the NRL. Prior to and after the controversy, no one listed the Western Bulldogs as an interest. After the controversy, no one updated their profiles to include Jason Akermanis as an interest.

Blogger is a blogging site powered by Google. It is one of the more popular free blogging services in Australia. Users can create a profile on the site, which is used to link their different blogs and comments on one page. The profile page includes an interest field that users can fill out. As of January 16, twelve people listed the Western Bulldogs as an interest. This number only changed by one as of June 4 and June 8, 2010, with 13 people listing the team as interest. No one listed Jason Akermanis as an interest on blogger as of June 4, 2010. It is unlikely that the Jason Akermanis situation resulted in any behavioral change in terms of public allegiances shown on profiles for the Western Bulldogs.

Care2 is a small social network marketed at people who want to make the world a better place. It hosts blogs, groups, discussions, personal profiles, petitions and photos. Care2 has a small population of Australian sport fans using it. As the site is geared towards making a difference and addressing social problems, it is a bit surprising that Akermanis does not show up when searching (19) site profiles, discussions, groups or petitions. As of June 11, the Western Bulldogs are only mentioned four times in blogs and only included on one person’s profile. While this data was gathered three weeks after the controversy, it seems unlikely that with no mentions of Akermanis, the small community on Care2 turned against the team. ecademy is a niche social networking site that is an alternative to LinkedIn for professionals. With no earlier benchmarks, a June 11, 2010 profile search (20) turned up similar results to Care2: No one listed the team or Jason Akermanis as an interest on their profile. It is unlikely that the controversy had an impact on the small AFL community on the site.

Wikia is an extremely popular wiki hosting company (21) that allows anyone to freely create a wiki. They are home to three small wikis dedicated to the AFL and Australian rules football. (22) These wikis are small and not very comprehensive. Two were created prior to the controversy and one was created after it. None have had any edits to the Western Bulldogs or Jason Akermanis article. Coincidentally, there have been no edits related to Israel Folau and Greater Western Sydney. The Wikia community for the AFL was clearly not activated in response to the Akermanis or Folau situations. This suggests that the community is either inactive or more interested in historical on field play rather than off field player antics.

Conclusion
Based on fan behavior online, Jason Akermanis’s comments did not help the player build his personal brand. He upset some fans in the short term, and motivated people to create long time reminders of views that they consider problematic. Very few fans rushed to his defense by affiliating with him or creating groups to defend his position. While the controversy may be problematic for Akermanis, the controversy was less problematic for his club, the Western Bulldogs. Fans did not link the club and player on Wikipedia or Twitter. People did not remove their Western Bulldogs interest on sites such as Blogger or change their behavior goals on sites like 43 Things. Inactive Bulldogs fans were not motivated to become active in order to express disgust for the team. The people that had problems with Akermanis were demographically distinct from Bulldogs fans on Facebook. The controversy harmed Akermanis but it did not harm his team’s image.

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Footnotes

  1. Facebook’s advertising page is located at http://www.facebook.com/ads/create/ .  As of June 11, 2010, it said that there were 9,300,240 people from Australia.
  2. The urls for the fan pages in this sample are http://www.facebook.com/adelaidecrows, http://www.facebook.com/AFL, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Lions/21301860172, http://www.facebook.com/OfficialCarltonFC, http://www.facebook.com/collingwoodfc, http://www.facebook.com/Essendon, http://www.facebook.com/fremantlefootballclub, http://www.facebook.com/GeelongCatsInsider, http://www.facebook.com/GoldCoastFC, http://www.facebook.com/teamgws, http://www.facebook.com/hawthornfc, http://www.facebook.com/MELBOURNEfc, http://www.facebook.com/northkangaroos, http://www.facebook.com/portadelaidefootballclub, http://www.facebook.com/Richmond.FC, http://www.facebook.com/stkfc, http://www.facebook.com/sydneyswans, and http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Eagles/38862387223, http://www.facebook.com/Western.Bulldogs
    .
  3. The following is a complete list of URLs for Jason Akermanis related Facebook fan pages and groups that the author looked at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/107712129252191, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/105738419448658, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/373300971735, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/376142636801, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/301148780410, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Biography/106142142741832, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Autobiography/106446502709782, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-you-are-a-MORON/109009685810123, http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Battle-Within-by-Jason-Akermanis/110570445624262, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Homophobe-and-complete-fuckwit/105067262872425, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124872100865630, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118380594866779, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118537708183794, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118573961511057, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=344061166761, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20900401086, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10308061363, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19647855868, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128825660465576, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16522463154, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109095775801131, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18564050741, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21877556009, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123972501889, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=107444465957654, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38642639632, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-slept-with-me/115552025153010, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-is-an-idiot/125326927493237, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-is-a-coward/105337389512086,  and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dont-you-hate-it-when-youre-in-the-shower-and-Jason-Akermanis-comes-in/124465230905493 .
  4. The group can be found at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118380594866779 .
  5. The following table lists the network, the type of network and the total members from the three different groups looked at.

    Network Type Supporters Detractors Bulldogs Total
    Victoria AU University 2 1 15 18
    Monash University 2 8 7 17
    University of Melbourne University 2 1 13 16
    RMIT University 0 0 15 15
    State Government of Victoria Company 0 0 11 11
    Deakin University 0 2 8 10
    La Trobe University University 2 0 7 9
    Westbourne Grammar School Secondary school 0 0 4 4
    Bendigo Senior Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 3 3
    Curtin University 0 2 1 3
    Haileybury College Secondary school 1 0 2 3
    MacKillop College Secondary school 1 0 2 3
    St. Paul’s College Secondary school 0 0 3 3
    University of Sydney University 0 2 1 3
    Catholic College Bendigo Secondary school 0 0 2 2
    Essendon Keilor College Secondary school 0 0 2 2
    Hoppers Crossing Secondary College Secondary school 1 0 1 2
    Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School Secondary school 1 0 1 2
    James Cook University 0 1 1 2
    Methodist Ladies’ College Secondary school 0 0 2 2
    National Australia Bank Company 0 0 2 2
    St. Bernard’s College Secondary school 0 0 2 2
    Sunbury College Secondary school 0 0 2 2
    Swinburne University 0 0 2 2
    Telstra Company 0 1 1 2
    UNSW University 1 1 0 2
    Whitefriars College Secondary school 0 0 2 2
    Academy of Mary Immaculate Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    ANZ Company 0 0 1 1
    Australian National University 0 0 1 1
    Bacchus Marsh College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Ballarat & Clarendon College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Ballarat High School Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    Benedictine IL University 0 0 1 1
    Binghamton University 1 0 0 1
    Bowness High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Box Hill High School Secondary school 0 1 0 1
    Braemar College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Burnside State High School Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    Cairns State High School Secondary school 0 1 0 1
    Catholic Regional College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Central Queensland University 0 0 1 1
    Chairo Christian School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Charles Campbell Secondary School Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    Charles Darwin University 0 0 1 1
    Charles Sturt University University 1 0 0 1
    Chelmer Valley High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Clonard College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Computer Sciences Corporation Company 0 0 1 1
    Copperfield College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    De La Salle College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Elsevier Company 0 0 1 1
    Emmaus College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Esperance Senior High School Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    FedEx Company 0 0 1 1
    Firbank Grammar School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Ford Motor Company Company 0 0 1 1
    FRANCE 24 Company 0 0 1 1
    Geelong Grammar School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Gisborne Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Governor Stirling High School Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    Griffith University 0 1 0 1
    Guilford Young College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Gymnase de Beaulieu Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Heathfield High School Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    Hellyer College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    IESEG School of Management University 0 0 1 1
    Illawarra Sports High School Secondary school 0 1 0 1
    John Willcock Senior High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Jones Lang LaSalle Company 0 0 1 1
    Kantonsschule Büelrain Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Karingal Park Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Keilor Downs College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    KPMG Company 0 0 1 1
    Launceston College Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    Lowther Hall Anglican School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Macquarie University 0 0 1 1
    Melbourne High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Merrimac State High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Metso Company 1 0 0 1
    Mildura Senior College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Mincom Company 0 0 1 1
    Mirrabooka Senior High School Secondary school 1 0 0 1
    Mount Carmel College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Mowbray College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Nazareth College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Newcastle University 0 1 0 1
    Newcomb High Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Northern Beaches Christian School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Norwood Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Nowra Christian School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Nowra High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Optus Company 0 0 1 1
    Padua College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Patterson River Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Presentation College Windsor Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Sacred Heart AU Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Sacred Heart College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Salesian College Rupertswood Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    San Diego State University 0 0 1 1
    Smithfield State High School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    St Albans Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    St. Aloysius College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    St. Thomas University 0 0 1 1
    Star Of The Sea Secondary school 0 1 0 1
    Star of the Sea College Secondary school 0 1 0 1
    Strathmore Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    T. D. Williamson Company 0 0 1 1
    Tasmania University 0 0 1 1
    The British School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    The Friends’ School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    The Peninsula School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Trinity Catholic School Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    University of New England University 0 1 0 1
    University of Peradeniya University 0 0 1 1
    University of Zimbabwe University 1 0 0 1
    UT Arlington University 0 0 1 1
    UWA University 1 0 0 1
    Webber Academy Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Wellesley University 0 1 0 1
    Westpac Banking Company 0 0 1 1
    William Angliss Institute of TAFE University 0 0 1 1
    Wodonga Senior Secondary College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Wycheproof College Secondary school 0 0 1 1
    Total Secondary school 12 5 80 97
    Total University 13 22 82 117
    Total Company 1 1 26 28
    Total 26 28 188 242
    Percentage Secondary school 46.2% 17.9% 42.6% 40.1%
    Percentage University 50.0% 78.6% 43.6% 48.3%
    Percentage Company 3.8% 3.6% 13.8% 11.6%
  6. Data regarding the comparative size of total Twitter followers for the Western Bulldogs was initially gathered on June 1, almost a week after the controversy first started.  Twitter follower counts for other official club accounts were not recorded on that.  This further hampers the ability to make comparisons between teams.
  7. Twitter Venn is located at http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterVenn/view.php .
  8. Article view information is provided by http://stats.grok.se/ .
  9. The correlation between the Brisbane Broncos article and the Israel Folau article is .155.  The relationship between page views for each article is close to random.
  10. http://whatismyipaddress.com/ was used to determine the geolocation of IP addresses.
  11. This number came from visiting http://www.bebo.com/c/search? , clicking on the people tab and searching for “Western Bulldogs.”
  12. Compete is not being looked at here because they have not updated their data to include May.  They also do not provide free demographic details about visitors to sites that they track.
  13. It is important to note that this tool does not measure direct traffic to a site.  Rather, it involves sampling traffic to the site to get an approximate for this his compares to other sites.
  14. The list of Alexa pages checked include: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/afc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/afl.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lions.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/carltonfc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/collingwoodfc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/essendonfc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fremantlefc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gfc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/teamgws.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hawthornfc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/melbournefc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kangaroos.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/portadelaidefc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/richmondfc.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/saints.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sydneyswans.com.au , http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westcoasteagles.com.au , and http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westernbulldogs.com.au .
  15. There are almost certainly cyclical patterns to the checking of AFL club websites: People check them on game and around game day to keep up with the team.  They are unlikely to check club websites when there is no club news and teams are not playing.
  16. The Quantcast information is from http://www.quantcast.com/westernbulldogs.com.au#demographics
  17. The Quantcast information is from http://www.quantcast.com/gfc.com.au#demographics
  18. The Quantcast information is from http://www.quantcast.com/kangaroos.com.au#demographics
  19. The url for the search that was confused is http://www.care2.com/find/site#q=%22Jason+Akermanis%22 .
  20. The ecademy search can be found at http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=member&q=%22Western+Bulldogs%22&op=Search+People
  21. As of June 11, 2010, Alexa ranks Wikia as the 312th most popular site on the Internet.  Compete estimates that the site gets around 3.2 million visitors a month.
  22. The wikis are http://afl.wikia.com/wiki/Australian_Football_League_Wiki , http://aussierules.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page , and  http://aflpedia.wikia.com/wiki/AFL_Wiki .

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]]> http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/the-impact-of-jason-akermaniss-comments-on-the-western-bulldogss-online-fanbase/feed/ 0 A map of Team GWS on Facebook http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/a-map-of-team-gws-on-facebook/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/a-map-of-team-gws-on-facebook/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:32:58 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=637 I love visualizing data.  It can make things so much easier to understand.  If you haven’t heard, there is going to be a new AFL team called Greater Western Sydney or Team GWS.  There are a number of Facebook fanpages and groups dedicated to the team.  I went to http://www.facebook.com/teamgws, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greater-Western-Sydney/110850405598090, http://www.facebook.com/pages/GO-Team-GWS/201507074991 and http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=211851956941.  I created a list of everyone who belonged to those fan pages and groups and the networks that those members were part of.  I then counted the total members of each networks, identified the geographic location of each network, added the total number of people from a city together… and yay! I got the pretty map below.



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People who know Australian geography better than me: Are the fans in New South Wales from western Sydney?

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]]> http://ozziesport.com/2010/07/a-map-of-team-gws-on-facebook/feed/ 3 Socceroos: A creative research data dump (part 2) http://ozziesport.com/2010/06/socceroos-a-creative-research-data-dump-part-2/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/06/socceroos-a-creative-research-data-dump-part-2/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:19:18 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=526 This post was broken up into multiple posts because there was a lot of rows. It should hopefully be easier to find data/information this way.

ecademy
ecademy is an alternative to LinkedIn.

Network League Team Interest Total Checked
ecademy World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos 0 3-Jun-10
ecademy World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos 0 12-Jun-10
ecademy World Cup Soccer All Whites "All Whites" 3 12-Jun-10

Facebook
This first set is based on http://www.facebook.com/ads/create/.

Date collected Keyword Country City Age Sex Education Relation Interested in Estimate State League
15-May-10 Socceroos Australia All All All All All All 0 World Cup Soccer
15-May-10 US national soccer Australia All All All All All All 100 World Cup Soccer
15-May-10 Spain national soccer team Australia All All All All All All < 20 World Cup Soccer
15-May-10 Australia National Football Team Australia All All All All All All < 20 World Cup Soccer
26-May-10 All Whites Australia All All All All All All 1 100 World Cup Soccer
26-May-10 All Whites New Zealand All All All All All All 22 940 World Cup Soccer
26-May-10 Socceroos Australia All All All All All All 0 World Cup Soccer

This table was designed to look at growth of Socceroos related fan pages.

League Team Name Url Total members Type Date checked Included in FB2 Official
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 32 741 Page 15-May-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106019049438817 3 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/112443855448354 4 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/108710262493191 0 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/119664741377244 0 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS :) http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOCCEROOS-/126051170744978 41 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106353142733985 185 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Young Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Young-Socceroos/115695218444154 0 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos fan? get on it!!!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/socceroos-fan-get-on-it/118141831550071 3 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Australian University Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-University-Socceroos/279400107713 197 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Cheering for the Socceroos at the local club in the World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheering-for-the-Socceroos-at-the-local-club-in-the-World-Cup/406886935323 86 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos The Football Supporters’ Pledge: A-League Socceroos & Grassroots http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Football-Supporters-Pledge-A-League-Socceroos-Grassroots/114421618592491 3 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Langerak is a God and will be in the Socceroos one day :) p.s hes HOT http://www.facebook.com/pages/Langerak-is-a-God-and-will-be-in-the-Socceroos-one-day-ps-hes-HOT/103909322982210 82 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos 100 000 Strong Socceroos Supporters To Win 2010 World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/100000-Strong-Socceroos-Supporters-To-Win-2010-World-Cup/362147231671 188 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Change the name of the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Australia/Change-the-name-of-the-Socceroos/206601790281 12 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Brett Holman shouldn’t play for the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brett-Holman-shouldnt-play-for-the-Socceroos/155289433083 84 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos kickoff.com.au: A-League Socceroos Australian and International football http://www.facebook.com/pages/kickoffcomau-A-League-Socceroos-Australian-and-International-football/238919388600 113 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Support for the Socceroos in South Africa http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-the-Socceroos-in-South-Africa/118426448190124 3 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Petition for Israel to come play the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-Israel-to-come-play-the-Socceroos/124315894249250 20 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos to dominate in 2010 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos-to-dominate-in-2010/125877250762609 140 Page 15-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 51 640 Page 28-May-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 59 215 Page 30-May-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106019049438817 14 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/112443855448354 29 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/108710262493191 11 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/119664741377244 2 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS :) http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOCCEROOS-/126051170744978 98 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106353142733985 293 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Young Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Young-Socceroos/115695218444154 1 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos fan? get on it!!!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/socceroos-fan-get-on-it/118141831550071 8 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Australian University Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-University-Socceroos/279400107713 203 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Cheering for the Socceroos at the local club in the World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheering-for-the-Socceroos-at-the-local-club-in-the-World-Cup/406886935323 93 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos The Football Supporters’ Pledge: A-League Socceroos & Grassroots http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Football-Supporters-Pledge-A-League-Socceroos-Grassroots/114421618592491 4 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Langerak is a God and will be in the Socceroos one day :) p.s hes HOT http://www.facebook.com/pages/Langerak-is-a-God-and-will-be-in-the-Socceroos-one-day-ps-hes-HOT/103909322982210 83 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos 100 000 Strong Socceroos Supporters To Win 2010 World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/100000-Strong-Socceroos-Supporters-To-Win-2010-World-Cup/362147231671 246 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Change the name of the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Australia/Change-the-name-of-the-Socceroos/206601790281 12 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Brett Holman shouldn’t play for the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brett-Holman-shouldnt-play-for-the-Socceroos/155289433083 107 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos kickoff.com.au: A-League Socceroos Australian and International football http://www.facebook.com/pages/kickoffcomau-A-League-Socceroos-Australian-and-International-football/238919388600 117 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Support for the Socceroos in South Africa http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-the-Socceroos-in-South-Africa/118426448190124 9 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Petition for Israel to come play the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-Israel-to-come-play-the-Socceroos/124315894249250 24 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos to dominate in 2010 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos-to-dominate-in-2010/125877250762609 291 Page 30-May-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 64 956 Page 1-Jun-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 70 261 Page 5-Jun-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 71 286 Page 7-Jun-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 73 463 Page 10-Jun-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos to dominate in 2010 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos-to-dominate-in-2010/125877250762609 330 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106019049438817 31 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/112443855448354 48 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/108710262493191 52 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/119664741377244 4 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS :) http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOCCEROOS-/126051170744978 110 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106353142733985 448 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Young Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Young-Socceroos/115695218444154 3 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos fan? get on it!!!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/socceroos-fan-get-on-it/118141831550071 9 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Cheering for the Socceroos at the local club in the World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheering-for-the-Socceroos-at-the-local-club-in-the-World-Cup/406886935323 93 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos The Football Supporters’ Pledge: A-League Socceroos & Grassroots http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Football-Supporters-Pledge-A-League-Socceroos-Grassroots/114421618592491 4 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Langerak is a God and will be in the Socceroos one day :) p.s hes HOT http://www.facebook.com/pages/Langerak-is-a-God-and-will-be-in-the-Socceroos-one-day-ps-hes-HOT/103909322982210 86 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos 100 000 Strong Socceroos Supporters To Win 2010 World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/100000-Strong-Socceroos-Supporters-To-Win-2010-World-Cup/362147231671 337 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Change the name of the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Australia/Change-the-name-of-the-Socceroos/206601790281 12 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Brett Holman shouldn’t play for the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brett-Holman-shouldnt-play-for-the-Socceroos/155289433083 113 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos kickoff.com.au: A-League Socceroos Australian and International football http://www.facebook.com/pages/kickoffcomau-A-League-Socceroos-Australian-and-International-football/238919388600 117 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Support for the Socceroos in South Africa http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-the-Socceroos-in-South-Africa/118426448190124 13 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Petition for Israel to come play the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-Israel-to-come-play-the-Socceroos/124315894249250 23 Page 10-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team http://www.facebook.com/Socceroos 74 987 Page 12-Jun-10 No Yes
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos to dominate in 2010 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos-to-dominate-in-2010/125877250762609 335 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106019049438817 33 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/112443855448354 57 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/108710262493191 53 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/119664741377244 5 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS :) http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOCCEROOS-/126051170744978 113 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Socceroos/106353142733985 455 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Young Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Young-Socceroos/115695218444154 3 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos fan? get on it!!!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/socceroos-fan-get-on-it/118141831550071 9 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Cheering for the Socceroos at the local club in the World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheering-for-the-Socceroos-at-the-local-club-in-the-World-Cup/406886935323 95 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos The Football Supporters’ Pledge: A-League Socceroos & Grassroots http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Football-Supporters-Pledge-A-League-Socceroos-Grassroots/114421618592491 4 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Langerak is a God and will be in the Socceroos one day :) p.s hes HOT http://www.facebook.com/pages/Langerak-is-a-God-and-will-be-in-the-Socceroos-one-day-ps-hes-HOT/103909322982210 86 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos 100 000 Strong Socceroos Supporters To Win 2010 World Cup http://www.facebook.com/pages/100000-Strong-Socceroos-Supporters-To-Win-2010-World-Cup/362147231671 342 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Change the name of the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brisbane-Australia/Change-the-name-of-the-Socceroos/206601790281 12 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Brett Holman shouldn’t play for the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brett-Holman-shouldnt-play-for-the-Socceroos/155289433083 113 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos kickoff.com.au: A-League Socceroos Australian and International football http://www.facebook.com/pages/kickoffcomau-A-League-Socceroos-Australian-and-International-football/238919388600 117 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Support for the Socceroos in South Africa http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-the-Socceroos-in-South-Africa/118426448190124 14 Page 12-Jun-10 No No
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Petition for Israel to come play the Socceroos http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-Israel-to-come-play-the-Socceroos/124315894249250 23 Page 12-Jun-10 No No

Foursquare
This is my complete table to date for all venues. It doesn’t necessarily connect to the Socceroos but it is World Cup related data so I’m shoving it in here.

Facility Name Type Link Checkins Unique Visitors Mayor League Date checked City State
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 5 5 World Cup 19-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 11 5 -1226362 World Cup 19-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 30 18 -401429 World Cup 19-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 19-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 12 9 -522247 World Cup 19-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 19-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 19-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 19-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 19-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 0 0 World Cup 19-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 5 5 World Cup 20-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 12 6 -1226362 World Cup 20-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 30 18 -401429 World Cup 20-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 20-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 12 9 -522247 World Cup 20-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 20-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 20-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 20-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 20-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 0 0 World Cup 20-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 6 6 World Cup 21-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 12 6 -1226362 World Cup 21-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 30 18 -401429 World Cup 21-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 21-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 12 9 -522247 World Cup 21-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 21-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 21-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 21-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 21-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 0 0 World Cup 21-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 9 7 World Cup 22-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 13 7 -1226362 World Cup 22-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 33 18 -1173277 World Cup 22-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 22-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 12 9 -522247 World Cup 22-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 22-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 22-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 22-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 22-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 0 0 World Cup 22-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 9 7 World Cup 23-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 14 8 -1226362 World Cup 23-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 35 18 -1173277 World Cup 23-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 23-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 12 9 -522247 World Cup 23-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 23-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 23-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 23-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 23-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 0 0 World Cup 23-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 9 7 World Cup 24-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 14 8 -1226362 World Cup 24-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 36 18 -1173277 World Cup 24-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 24-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 12 9 -522247 World Cup 24-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 24-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 24-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 24-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 24-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 0 0 World Cup 24-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 10 8 World Cup 27-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 14 8 -1226362 World Cup 27-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 36 18 -1173277 World Cup 27-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 27-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 27-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 27-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 27-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 27-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 27-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 1 1 World Cup 27-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 14 10 World Cup 28-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 14 8 -1226362 World Cup 28-May-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 36 18 -1173277 World Cup 28-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 28-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 28-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 28-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 28-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 0 0 World Cup 28-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 28-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 1 1 World Cup 28-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 36 18 -1173277 World Cup 29-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 29-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 14 8 -1226362 World Cup 29-May-10 Durban South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 29-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 29-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 29-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 29-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 1 1 World Cup 29-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 1 1 World Cup 29-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 29-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 37 18 -1173277 World Cup 30-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 30-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 15 9 -1226362 World Cup 30-May-10 Durban South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 30-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 30-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 30-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 30-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 1 1 World Cup 30-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 1 1 World Cup 30-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 30-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 37 18 -1173277 World Cup 31-May-10 Cape Town South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 31-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 15 9 -1226362 World Cup 31-May-10 Durban South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 31-May-10 Pretoria South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 31-May-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 31-May-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 31-May-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 1 1 World Cup 31-May-10 Polokwane South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 1 1 World Cup 31-May-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 31-May-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 38 18 -1173277 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 15 9 -1226362 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 1-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 1 1 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 1 1 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 1-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 39 18 -1173277 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 17 10 -1226362 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 2-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 1 1 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 1 1 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 2-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 39 18 -1173277 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 17 10 -1226362 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 9 6 -1159291 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 3-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 1 1 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 3 1 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 3-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 4-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 17 10 -1226362 World Cup 4-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 41 19 -1173277 World Cup 4-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 10 7 -1159291 World Cup 4-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 4-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 4-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 4-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 4-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 4-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 3 1 rickycatto World Cup 4-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 15 11 World Cup 5-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 17 10 -1226362 World Cup 5-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 42 20 -1173277 World Cup 5-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 10 7 -1159291 World Cup 5-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 5-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 5-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 5-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 5-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 5-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 5 1 rickycatto World Cup 5-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 16 12 World Cup 6-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 17 10 -1226362 World Cup 6-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 43 21 -1173277 World Cup 6-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 10 7 -1159291 World Cup 6-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 6-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 6-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 6-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 6-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 0 0 World Cup 6-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 5 1 rickycatto World Cup 6-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 17 12 macamt83 World Cup 7-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 17 10 -1226362 World Cup 7-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 43 21 -1173277 World Cup 7-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 13 8 -1159291 World Cup 7-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 7-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 7-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 7-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 7-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 1 1 World Cup 7-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 5 1 rickycatto World Cup 7-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 18 12 macamt83 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 17 10 -1226362 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/964020 46 22 -1173277 World Cup 8-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4410404
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 28 15 ardyheijnekamp World Cup 8-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 13 10 -522247 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 6 4 nedend World Cup 8-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 8-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 1 1 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 6 1 rickycatto World Cup 8-Jun-10 Nelspruit South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4408569 0 0 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Durban http://foursquare.com/venue/4570899 0 0 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Durban Stadium Field http://foursquare.com/venue/4454189 1 1 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium KEG – Moses Mabhida Stadium Pub http://foursquare.com/venue/1816495 3 3 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Green Point Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410404 50 24 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Free State Stadium Free State Stadium (Vodacom Park) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410678 3 2 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410289 1 1 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium royal bafokeng stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4668670 0 0 World Cup 8-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Soccer City Soccer City Soccer Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4650733 12 5 ardyheijnekamp World Cup 8-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Soccer City FNB Soccer City http://foursquare.com/venue/593339 67 38 World Cup 9-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4410569
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/1816219 18 11 World Cup 9-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4408569
Ellis Park Stadium Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/278284 40 19 -1159291 World Cup 9-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4410611
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 14 11 -522247 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/655677 7 5 World Cup 9-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4410289
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 9-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 6 3 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3950263 6 1 World Cup 9-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4410484
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4408569 18 11 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Durban http://foursquare.com/venue/4570899 0 0 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Durban Stadium Field http://foursquare.com/venue/4454189 18 11 World Cup 9-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4408569
Moses Mabhida Stadium KEG – Moses Mabhida Stadium Pub http://foursquare.com/venue/1816495 3 3 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Green Point Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410404 56 29 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Free State Stadium Free State Stadium (Vodacom Park) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410678 5 3 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410289 7 5 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium royal bafokeng stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4668670 0 0 World Cup 9-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Soccer City Soccer City Soccer Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4650733 67 36 ardyheijnekamp World Cup 9-Jun-10 MERGED WITH http://foursquare.com/venue/4410569
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 14 11 -522247 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 10-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 8 3 -511308 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4408569 19 12 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Durban http://foursquare.com/venue/4570899 0 0 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium KEG – Moses Mabhida Stadium Pub http://foursquare.com/venue/1816495 3 3 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Green Point Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410404 64 31 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Free State Stadium Free State Stadium (Vodacom Park) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410678 5 3 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410289 9 7 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium royal bafokeng stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4668670 0 0 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Loftus Versfeld Stadium Loftus Versveld Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/593221 21 15 -522247 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Pretoria South Africa
Free State Stadium Vodacom Park http://foursquare.com/venue/2070295 1 1 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949867 2 1 rickycatto World Cup 11-Jun-10 Polokwane South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium Soccer http://foursquare.com/venue/3949992 18 9 -511308 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4408569 23 16 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium Durban http://foursquare.com/venue/4570899 0 0 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Moses Mabhida Stadium KEG – Moses Mabhida Stadium Pub http://foursquare.com/venue/1816495 3 3 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Durban South Africa
Cape Town Stadium Green Point Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410404 188 85 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Cape Town South Africa
Free State Stadium Free State Stadium (Vodacom Park) Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410678 5 3 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Bloemfontein South Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410289 19 11 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Port Elizabeth South Africa
Royal Bafokeng Stadium royal bafokeng stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4668670 0 0 World Cup 11-Jun-10 Rustenburg South Africa
Soccer City Soccer City Soccer Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410569 67 36 World Cup 10-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa
Soccer City Soccer City Soccer Stadium Stadium http://foursquare.com/venue/4410569 402 171 ardyheijnekamp World Cup 11-Jun-10 Johannesburg South Africa

Gaia Online
Another small network…

Service League Team Interest Members Date checked
Gaia Online World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos 0 12-Jun-10
Gaia Online World Cup Soccer All Whites All Whites 0 12-Jun-10

Gowalla
Same deal as Foursquare…

Facility Name Link Checkins Date League City State Date checked
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/127362 World Cup Cape Town South Africa 1-Jun-10
Soccer City Soccer City (1) http://gowalla.com/spots/444814 1 18-May-10 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 1-Jun-10
Soccer City Soccer City (2) http://gowalla.com/spots/653944 1 27-May-10 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 1-Jun-10
Soccer City Soccer City – E Entrance http://gowalla.com/spots/1075717 1 7-May-10 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 1-Jun-10
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida http://gowalla.com/spots/289625 1 24-May-10 World Cup Durban South Africa 1-Jun-10
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1097744 1 11-May-10 World Cup Durban South Africa 1-Jun-10
Loftus Versveld Stadium Loftus Versfeld http://gowalla.com/spots/620475 1 8-May-10 World Cup Pretoria South Africa 1-Jun-10
Loftus Versveld Stadium Loftus Versfeld South http://gowalla.com/spots/1061976 1 4-May-10 World Cup Pretoria South Africa 1-Jun-10
Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Coca-Cola Park http://gowalla.com/spots/960110 1 3-May-10 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 1-Jun-10
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/750428 World Cup Port Elizabeth South Africa 1-Jun-10
Vodacom Park Free State Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/805166 World Cup Bloemfontein South Africa 1-Jun-10
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1067679 1 6-May-10 World Cup Polokwane South Africa 1-Jun-10
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1070814 1 6-May-10 World Cup Nelspruit South Africa 1-Jun-10
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1062400 1 5-May-10 World Cup Rustenburg South Africa 1-Jun-10
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/127362 World Cup Cape Town South Africa 7-Jun-10
Coca-Cola Park (Ellis Park Stadium) Coca-Cola Park http://gowalla.com/spots/960110 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 7-Jun-10
Loftus Versveld Stadium Loftus Versfeld South http://gowalla.com/spots/1061976 World Cup Pretoria South Africa 7-Jun-10
Loftus Versveld Stadium Loftus Versfeld http://gowalla.com/spots/620475 World Cup Pretoria South Africa 7-Jun-10
Mbombela Stadium Mbombela Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1070814 World Cup Nelspruit South Africa 7-Jun-10
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida http://gowalla.com/spots/289625 World Cup Durban South Africa 7-Jun-10
Moses Mabhida Stadium Moses Mabhida Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1097744 World Cup Durban South Africa 7-Jun-10
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Nelson Mandela Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/750428 World Cup Port Elizabeth South Africa 1-Jun-10
Peter Mokaba Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1067679 World Cup Polokwane South Africa 7-Jun-10
Royal Bafokeng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/1062400 World Cup Rustenburg South Africa 7-Jun-10
Soccer City Soccer City (1) http://gowalla.com/spots/444814 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 7-Jun-10
Soccer City Soccer City (2) http://gowalla.com/spots/653944 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 7-Jun-10
Soccer City Soccer City – E Entrance http://gowalla.com/spots/1075717 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 7-Jun-10
Vodacom Park Free State Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/805166 World Cup Bloemfontein South Africa 7-Jun-10
Soccer City Soccer City http://gowalla.com/spots/653944 2 11-Jun-10 World Cup Johannesburg South Africa 12-Jun-10
Cape Town Stadium Cape Town Stadium http://gowalla.com/spots/127362 2 11-Jun-10 World Cup Cape Town South Africa 12-Jun-10

Google
Search results…

SE Date Full search term Search term + City State Total results
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Adelaide Socceroos Adelaide South Australia 161 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Albury Socceroos Albury New South Wales 14 500
google.com.au 15-May-10 Socceroos Alice Springs Socceroos Alice Springs Northern Territory 3 980
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Ballarat Socceroos Ballarat Victoria 103 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Bathurst Socceroos Bathurst New South Wales 46 400
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Bendigo Socceroos Bendigo Victoria 89 400
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Bomaderry Socceroos Bomaderry New South Wales 752
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Boulder Socceroos Boulder Western Australia 9 440
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Brisbane Socceroos Brisbane Queensland 247 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Bunbury Socceroos Bunbury Western Australia 25 100
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Bundaberg Socceroos Bundaberg Queensland 68 600
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Burnie Socceroos Burnie Tasmania 12 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Cairns Socceroos Cairns Queensland 84 600
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Canberra Socceroos Canberra Australian Capital Territory 636 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Coffs Harbour Socceroos Coffs Harbour New South Wales 10 300
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Darwin Socceroos Darwin Northern Territory 94 400
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Devonport Socceroos Devonport Tasmania 10 100
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Dubbo Socceroos Dubbo New South Wales 21 600
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Geelong Socceroos Geelong Victoria 329 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Geraldton Socceroos Geraldton Western Australia 20 100
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Gladstone Socceroos Gladstone Queensland 11 500
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Gold Coast Socceroos Gold Coast Queensland 133 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Hervey Bay Socceroos Hervey Bay Queensland 4 490
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Hobart Socceroos Hobart Tasmania 165 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Kalgoorlie Socceroos Kalgoorlie Western Australia 16 800
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos La Trobe Valley Socceroos La Trobe Valley Victoria 1 340
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Launceston Socceroos Launceston Tasmania 34 900
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Lismore Socceroos Lismore New South Wales 18 500
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Mackay Socceroos Mackay Queensland 51 500
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Mandurah Socceroos Mandurah Western Australia 16 100
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Melbourne Socceroos Melbourne Victoria 396 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Mildura Socceroos Mildura Victoria 14 300
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Newcastle Socceroos Newcastle New South Wales 127 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Nowra Socceroos Nowra New South Wales 6 270
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Orange Socceroos Orange New South Wales 124 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Orange NSW Socceroos Orange New South Wales 7 460
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Perth Socceroos Perth Western Australia 193 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Port Macquarie Socceroos Port Macquarie New South Wales 5 280
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Queanbeyan Socceroos Queanbeyan New South Wales 13 900
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Rockhampton Socceroos Rockhampton Queensland 24 200
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Shepparton Socceroos Shepparton Victoria 12 200
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos "Sunshine Coast" Socceroos Sunshine Coast Queensland 6 680
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Sydney Socceroos Sydney New South Wales 482 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Tamworth Socceroos Tamworth New South Wales 50 300
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Toowoomba Socceroos Toowoomba Queensland 29 100
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Townsville Socceroos Townsville Queensland 158 000
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Tweed Socceroos Tweed New South Wales 32 700
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Wagga Wagga Socceroos Wagga Wagga New South Wales 6 920
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Warrnambool Socceroos Warrnambool Victoria 80 800
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Wodonga Socceroos Wodonga Victoria 19 300
google.com.au 14-May-10 Socceroos Wollongong Socceroos Wollongong New South Wales 106 000
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Adelaide socceroos Adelaide South Australia 111
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Albury socceroos Albury New South Wales 1
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Alice Springs socceroos Alice Springs Northern Territory 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Ballarat socceroos Ballarat Victoria 1
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Bathurst socceroos Bathurst New South Wales 2
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Bendigo socceroos Bendigo Victoria 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Bomaderry socceroos Bomaderry New South Wales 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Boulder socceroos Boulder Western Australia 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Brisbane socceroos Brisbane Queensland 102
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Bunbury socceroos Bunbury Western Australia 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Bundaberg socceroos Bundaberg Queensland 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Burnie socceroos Burnie Tasmania 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Cairns socceroos Cairns Queensland 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Canberra socceroos Canberra Australian Capital Territory 15
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Coffs Harbour socceroos Coffs Harbour New South Wales 1
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Darwin socceroos Darwin Northern Territory 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Devonport socceroos Devonport Tasmania 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Dubbo socceroos Dubbo New South Wales 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Geelong socceroos Geelong Victoria 2
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Geraldton socceroos Geraldton Western Australia 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Gladstone socceroos Gladstone Queensland 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Gold Coast socceroos Gold Coast Queensland 62
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Hervey Bay socceroos Hervey Bay Queensland 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Hobart socceroos Hobart Tasmania 2
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Kalgoorlie socceroos Kalgoorlie Western Australia 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos La Trobe Valley socceroos La Trobe Valley Victoria 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Launceston socceroos Launceston Tasmania 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Lismore socceroos Lismore New South Wales 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Mackay socceroos Mackay Queensland 10
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Mandurah socceroos Mandurah Western Australia 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Melbourne socceroos Melbourne Victoria 237
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Mildura socceroos Mildura Victoria 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Newcastle socceroos Newcastle New South Wales 72
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Nowra socceroos Nowra New South Wales 1
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Orange socceroos Orange New South Wales 6
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Perth socceroos Perth Western Australia 76
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Port Macquarie socceroos Port Macquarie New South Wales 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Queanbeyan socceroos Queanbeyan New South Wales 2
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Rockhampton socceroos Rockhampton Queensland 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Shepparton socceroos Shepparton Victoria 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Sunshine Coast socceroos Sunshine Coast Queensland 7
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Sydney socceroos Sydney New South Wales 281
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Tamworth socceroos Tamworth New South Wales 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Toowoomba socceroos Toowoomba Queensland 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Townsville socceroos Townsville Queensland 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Tweed socceroos Tweed New South Wales 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Wagga Wagga socceroos Wagga Wagga New South Wales 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Warrnambool socceroos Warrnambool Victoria 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Wodonga socceroos Wodonga Victoria 0
video.google.com.au 15-May-10 socceroos Wollongong socceroos Wollongong New South Wales 3

hi5
Need more data overall from this for my other research…

Service League Team Community name url Members Created Category Type Language Country Checked
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS!!! http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/568742–SOCCEROOS%2521%2521%2521–front-html 8 17-Nov-05 Sports and Recreations Public English United States of America 15-May-10
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/631994–socceroos–front-html 28 24-Dec-05 Sports and Recreations Public English Australia 15-May-10
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos are going to the World Cup! http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/569838–Socceroos%2Bare%2Bgoing%2Bto%2Bthe%2BWor–front-html 4 18-Nov-05 Sports and Recreations Public English United States of America 15-May-10
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos THE SOCCEROOS http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/1113808–THE%2BSOCCEROOS–front-html 14 28-Jun-06 Sports and Recreations Public English 15-May-10
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos socceroos well done http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/1127775–socceroos%2Bwell%2Bdone–front-html 34 4-Jul-06 Sports and Recreations Public English 15-May-10
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos Aussie Socceroos http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/1512512–Aussie%2BSocceroos–front-html 43 8-Dec-06 Sports and Recreations Public English Malta 15-May-10
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOCCEROOS http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/567347–%2BSOCCEROOS–front-html 4 17-Nov-05 Sports and Recreations Public English United States of America 15-May-10
hi5 World Cup Soccer Socceroos SOUTH AUSTRALIA _GO http://www.hi5.com/friend/group/1066519–SOUTH%2BAUSTRALIA%2B_GO%2BTHE%2BSOCCER–front-html 1 10-Jun-06 Cultures and Community Moderated English Australia 15-May-10

Icerocket
A blog search engine…

League Team Term Date Category Post total Date checked URL
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 27-May-10 Blogs 22 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F27%2F2010&dh=05%2F27%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 26-May-10 Blogs 29 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F26%2F2010&dh=05%2F26%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 25-May-10 Blogs 31 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F25%2F2010&dh=05%2F25%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 24-May-10 Blogs 51 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F24%2F2010&dh=05%2F24%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 23-May-10 Blogs 19 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F23%2F2010&dh=05%2F23%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 22-May-10 Blogs 8 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F22%2F2010&dh=05%2F22%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 21-May-10 Blogs 14 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F21%2F2010&dh=05%2F21%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 20-May-10 Blogs 19 28-May-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F20%2F2010&dh=05%2F20%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 31-May-10 Blogs 28 2-Jun-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F31%2F2010&dh=05%2F31%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 30-May-10 Blogs 19 2-Jun-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F30%2F2010&dh=05%2F30%2F2010
World Cup Socceroos Socceroos 29-May-10 Blogs 16 2-Jun-10 http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=socceroos&lng=&dl=05%2F29%2F2010&dh=05%2F29%2F2010

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]]> http://ozziesport.com/2010/06/socceroos-a-creative-research-data-dump-part-2/feed/ 0 Most popular official team pages on Facebook http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/most-popular-official-team-pages-on-facebook/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/most-popular-official-team-pages-on-facebook/#comments Sun, 30 May 2010 06:00:26 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=474 I’ve been data collecting again. In this case, I was updating my Facebook group and fan pages member totals. Eventually, this will all be written up and include an analysis of some patterns that exist. In the meantime, I feel the need to share of this data as the results… surprised me.  I was curious as to which Australian team had the most popular official Facebook page.  Bearing in mind that outside the AFL and NRL, my inclusion list is limited and that not every team has an official page… This list should not be considered all comprehensive.  Still, it gives a fairly good idea of what may be going on Facebook:

League Team Name Total members
Rugby League/State of Origin Queensland Maroons Queensland Maroons 96751
World Cup Soccer Socceroos Socceroos – Australian National Football Team 59215
AFL Essendon Bombers Essendon FC 54556
NRL Brisbane Lions Brisbane Broncos 51458
AFL Adelaide Crows Adelaide Crows 42119
AFL West Coast Eagles West Coast Eagles 38541
AFL Collingwood Magpies Collingwood Football Club 35516
AFL St. Kilda Saints St Kilda Football Club 26072
NRL Gold Coast Titans Gold Coast Titans 20975
AFL Fremantle Dockers Fremantle Football Club 19244
AFL Carlton Blues Carlton Football Club 18554
AFL Hawthorn Hawks Hawthorn Football Club 17996
NRL Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 17691
NRL Wests Tigers Wests Tigers – Official National Rugby League Club 16521
NRL Newcastle Knights Newcastle Knights 14337
NRL Sydney Roosters The Official Sydney Roosters Page 13923
AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos North Melbourne Football Club 12682
AFL Port Adelaide Power Port Adelaide Football Club 11906
NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Cronulla Sharks 10416
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond FC 7805
AFL Richmond Tigers Richmond FC 7805
AFL Melbourne Demons Melbourne Football Club 6995
AFL Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs 6383
AFL Geelong Cats Geelong Cats Insider 5264
NRL Melbourne Storm Storm Man 4778
NRL North Queensland Cowboys North Queensland Toyota Cowboys 2948
NRL Canberra Raiders Canberra Raiders 2883
Super 14 ACT Brumbies Official Brumbies Fan Page 2123
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Western Sydney Rollers Western Sydney Rollers 1659
Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues New South Wales Rugby League 1297
SEABL SEABL SEABL 560
WNBL Bendigo Spirit The Official Bendigo Spirit Basketball 174
WNBL Townsville Fire Townsville McCafe Fire 114
WNBL Bendigo Spirit WNBL – Bendigo Spirit 87

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]]> http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/most-popular-official-team-pages-on-facebook/feed/ 0 Jason Akermanis follow up http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/jason-akermanis-follow-up/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/jason-akermanis-follow-up/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 05:41:10 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=467 This isn’t much of a follow up. I was out walking after having read a few chapters in The Australian football business : a spectator’s guide to the VFL / Bob Stewart and I began wondering if there were some geographic pattens in who was condemning Jason Akermanis on Facebook, where condemning equals joining a group or liking a fan page that criticized his comment.

There were two real options to create comparisons: Get information from a few of the smaller groups with 10 or fewer members and declare them representative of each position or find a larger sample and get the network affiliation for all members of the larger group. I decided on the second. Jason Akermanis is a homophobe. is a Facebook group that has gained 281 members since May 20 for a total of 427 members. It appears to have been created directly in response to Jason’s comments and could be seen as condemning them. When scrolling through the membership list, I found 24 people who listed a network they belonged to. We’ll call this the dislike Jason group. As a control group of people who “like” Jason, I chose The Jason Akermanis Appreciation Society. It had 457 members on May 22, up only three from May 20. 24 people in this group also had a network listed. This group should be his fanbase. Their lack of quitting should not be read as supporting his comments: Non-action does not imply support. I’m mostly after the idea of are these two separate groups similar based on location. The following table was generated after tabulating how many people from each group listed specific networks:

Network Dislike Like
Ballarat 1 0
Binghamton 0 1
Box Hill High School 1 0
Burnside State High School 0 1
Cairns State High School 1 0
Charles Sturt University 0 1
Deakin 1 0
Esperance Senior High School 0 1
Essendon Keilor College 0 1
Flinders 0 1
Griffith 1 0
Haileybury College 0 1
Heathfield High School 0 1
iiNet 1 0
Illawarra Sports High School 1 0
Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School 0 1
La Trobe University 1 2
MacKillop College 0 1
Metso 0 1
Mirrabooka Senior High School 0 1
Monash 9 1
Newcastle 1 0
Overnewton Anglican Community College 0 1
Star Of The Sea 1 0
Star of the Sea College 1 0
University of Melbourne 1 2
University of New England 1 0
University of Sydney 2 0
University of Zimbabwe 0 1
UNSW 0 1
UWA 0 1
Victoria AU 0 2
Wesley College 0 1

The simple answer appears to be yes, there is a difference between the two. Fans of Jason appear to be more evenly distributed across various networks. Of the high schools and colleges I could easily identify, 3 were in the dislike Jason group and 7 were in the like Jason group. 18 university students joined the anti-group versus 13 in the like group. (These numbers are probably off. I’m not completely familiar with all the schools involved so some were not counted.) This suggests that university students were more likely to condemned the comments compared to high school students… or at least, university students were more willing to indicate their displeasure on a public profile. That is a bit interesting. It would be nice to have a Facebook data miner so I could see if larger patterns like this existed.

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]]> http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/jason-akermanis-follow-up/feed/ 0 Benchmarking: Jason Akermanis on Facebook and Google http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/benchmarking-jason-akermanis-on-facebook-and-google/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/05/benchmarking-jason-akermanis-on-facebook-and-google/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 09:26:48 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=458 This is a quick data dump post.  I know who Jason Akermanis is because I saw him play this past weekend in Canberra.  I’ve been told he has a tendency to open his mouth and speak frankly in such a way that his previous club didn’t like him.  Thus, it was apparently not that surprising that he opened his mouth and offended people today.  I may or may not be interested in writing about him and the response to his comments at a later date.  It will come down to time and interest.  Still, benchmarks in case I do and data dumping now for those who might want to write an analysis that I’m not keen to write right now.

Google data

This data was retrieved between 6pm and 7pm on May 20, 2010 Canberra time.   It was retrieved using manual screen scraping.  (I visited each page and copy and pasted the number.)  I was not logged in to any account at the time to prevent my previous searches from influencing the numbers.  The API was not used.  The SE stands for search engine that was used to get the number.  (There are sometimes differences between .com and .com.au.) The Jason story is beginning to circulate but doesn’t appear to be widely picked up outside the metro areas so far. I added a by city component because I find geographic patterns interesting.

SE Date Full search term Search term + City State Total results
news.google.com 20-May-10 Jason Akermanis Jason Akermanis 78
news.google.com.au 20-May-10 Jason Akermanis Jason Akermanis 78
google.com.au 20-May-10 Jason Akermanis Jason Akermanis 62500
video.google.com.au 20-May-10 Jason Akermanis Jason Akermanis 148
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Geelong Jason Akermanis Geelong Victoria 269000
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Mackay Jason Akermanis Mackay Queensland 170000
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Melbourne Jason Akermanis Melbourne Victoria 47000
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Brisbane Jason Akermanis Brisbane Queensland 45100
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Sydney Jason Akermanis Sydney New South Wales 42500
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Adelaide Jason Akermanis Adelaide South Australia 37800
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Richmond Jason Akermanis Richmond New South Wales 35200
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Ballarat Jason Akermanis Ballarat Victoria 34500
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Bendigo Jason Akermanis Bendigo Victoria 31400
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Gold Coast Jason Akermanis Gold Coast Queensland 30100
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Perth Jason Akermanis Perth Western Australia 23500
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Bunbury Jason Akermanis Bunbury Western Australia 22300
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Palmerston Jason Akermanis Palmerston Northern Territory 21900
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Mandurah Jason Akermanis Mandurah Western Australia 21400
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Tweed Jason Akermanis Tweed New South Wales 20400
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Warrnambool Jason Akermanis Warrnambool Victoria 18100
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Launceston Jason Akermanis Launceston Tasmania 12600
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Wollongong Jason Akermanis Wollongong New South Wales 12600
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Bathurst Jason Akermanis Bathurst New South Wales 10200
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Toowoomba Jason Akermanis Toowoomba Queensland 9960
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Canberra Jason Akermanis Canberra Australian Capital Territory 9460
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Rockhampton Jason Akermanis Rockhampton Queensland 7030
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Newcastle Jason Akermanis Newcastle New South Wales 6320
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Albury Jason Akermanis Albury New South Wales 6130
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Geraldton Jason Akermanis Geraldton Western Australia 5800
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Murray Bridge Jason Akermanis Murray Bridge South Australia 5760
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Shepparton Jason Akermanis Shepparton Victoria 5190
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Cairns Jason Akermanis Cairns Queensland 5000
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Tamworth Jason Akermanis Tamworth New South Wales 4950
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Melton Jason Akermanis Melton Victoria 4590
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Lismore Jason Akermanis Lismore New South Wales 4570
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Nowra Jason Akermanis Nowra New South Wales 4290
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Gawler Jason Akermanis Gawler South Australia 3610
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Sunshine Coast Jason Akermanis Sunshine Coast Queensland 3210
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Strathalbyn Jason Akermanis Strathalbyn South Australia 3080
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Naracoorte Jason Akermanis Naracoorte South Australia 2930
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Dubbo Jason Akermanis Dubbo New South Wales 2640
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Orange Jason Akermanis Orange New South Wales 2490
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Bundaberg Jason Akermanis Bundaberg Queensland 2370
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Devonport Jason Akermanis Devonport Tasmania 2370
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Kalgoorlie Jason Akermanis Kalgoorlie Western Australia 2250
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Darwin Jason Akermanis Darwin Northern Territory 2160
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Queanbeyan Jason Akermanis Queanbeyan New South Wales 1980
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Mildura Jason Akermanis Mildura Victoria 1800
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Windsor Jason Akermanis Windsor New South Wales 1720
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Hobart Jason Akermanis Hobart Tasmania 1580
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Wodonga Jason Akermanis Wodonga Victoria 1520
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Hervey Bay Jason Akermanis Hervey Bay Queensland 1510
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Maitland Jason Akermanis Maitland New South Wales 1360
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Townsville Jason Akermanis Townsville Queensland 1300
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Port Pirie Jason Akermanis Port Pirie South Australia 988
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Boulder Jason Akermanis Boulder Western Australia 800
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Loxton Jason Akermanis Loxton South Australia 786
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Clare Jason Akermanis Clare South Australia 697
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Burnie Jason Akermanis Burnie Tasmania 650
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Port Augusta Jason Akermanis Port Augusta South Australia 626
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Berri Jason Akermanis Berri South Australia 545
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Gladstone Jason Akermanis Gladstone Queensland 482
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Alice Springs Jason Akermanis Alice Springs Northern Territory 439
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Whyalla Jason Akermanis Whyalla South Australia 348
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Coffs Harbour Jason Akermanis Coffs Harbour New South Wales 273
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Wagga Wagga Jason Akermanis Wagga Wagga New South Wales 253
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Mount Gambier Jason Akermanis Mount Gambier South Australia 246
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Victor Harbor Jason Akermanis Victor Harbor South Australia 245
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Goolwa Jason Akermanis Goolwa South Australia 219
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Port Lincoln Jason Akermanis Port Lincoln South Australia 179
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Millicent Jason Akermanis Millicent South Australia 177
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Renmark Jason Akermanis Renmark South Australia 176
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis La Trobe Valley Jason Akermanis La Trobe Valley Victoria 174
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Port Macquarie Jason Akermanis Port Macquarie New South Wales 135
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Mooroopna Jason Akermanis Mooroopna Victoria 128
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Bordertown Jason Akermanis Bordertown South Australia 117
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Wallaroo Jason Akermanis Wallaroo South Australia 95
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Ceduna Jason Akermanis Ceduna South Australia 85
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Tanunda Jason Akermanis Tanunda South Australia 71
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Roxby Downs Jason Akermanis Roxby Downs South Australia 28
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Moonta Jason Akermanis Moonta South Australia 8
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Nuriootpa Jason Akermanis Nuriootpa South Australia 7
google.com.au 20-May-10 ‘Jason Akermanis Bomaderry Jason Akermanis Bomaderry New South Wales 4

Facebook

Before I did Google, I looked at Facebook.  This was done between 5:30 and 6:00pm Canberra time on May 20, 2010.  The Jason situation had already hit Facebook as there was a Facebook group dedicated to being unhappy with Jason by that time.  I found these fan pages by searching for him.  I did not include people or groups in this sample.  None of these pages appear to be officially connected to either the AFL, the Western Bulldogs or Jason Akermanis.

Name Url Total members Type Date checked
Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/107712129252191 56 Page 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/105738419448658 6 Page 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/373300971735 0 Page 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/376142636801 62 Athlete 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis/301148780410 307 Athlete 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis Biography http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Biography/106142142741832 2 Page 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis Autobiography http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Autobiography/106446502709782 2 Page 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis, you are a MORON! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-you-are-a-MORON/109009685810123 22 Page 20-May-10
The Battle Within by Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Battle-Within-by-Jason-Akermanis/110570445624262 2 Page 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis: Homophobe and complete fuckwit! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Akermanis-Homophobe-and-complete-fuckwit/105067262872425 118 Page 20-May-10

I’m going to speculate that two of those are likely to see an increase in membership over the next couple of days.  How large an increase, I do not yet know and do not feel comfortable speculating about.

After that, it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to benchmark the Facebook groups. These can be easy to create. When I looked, there turned out to be a number of them dedicated to Jason, some of which were created in response to the situation. As I have no previous benchmarks, I can’t tell when some of the larger groups were created. Still, this is where the groups about Jason stand now.

Name Url Total members Type Date checked
Jason Akermanis http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124872100865630 2 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis is a homophobe. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118380594866779 146 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis is a dick http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118537708183794 14 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis Is Totally Gay http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118573961511057 1 Group 20-May-10
jason akermanis is amazing! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=344061166761 12 Group 20-May-10
The Jason Akermanis Appreciation Society http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20900401086 454 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis is a legend http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10308061363 201 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis handstand appreciation society http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19647855868 88 Group 20-May-10
Only Homophobes think Jason Akermanis is a homophobe! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128825660465576 1 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis for Brownlow 2008 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16522463154 9 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis for Brownlow 2008 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16522463154 9 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis should be locked and gagged in a closet! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109095775801131 10 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis is a F*ckwit http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18564050741 26 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis to win the Coleman medal. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21877556009 9 Group 20-May-10
Jason Akermanis Can’t Drive A Race Car http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123972501889 2 Group 20-May-10
JASON AKERMANIS’S IQ OF A PLANT http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=107444465957654 8 Group 20-May-10
Anything To Do With Footy. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46374304132 1041 Group 20-May-10
for people who wanna see Jason Akermanis shove his head up his own Ass http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38642639632 42 Group 20-May-10
Akermaniacs!! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13979751018 87 Group 20-May-10
It’s All Good – in memory of Andrea Louise Bell 11-4-78 to 19-9-03 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33117363124 97 Group 20-May-10

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A copy of this can be found in PDF form at : http://ozziesport.com/storm.pdf .  The pdf version that includes footnotes that explain the methodology used and contain additional links.

Online Activity in the Wake of the Melbourne Storm Controversy

By Laura Hale, University of Canberra

On April 22, 2010, the news of salary cap violations on the part of the Melbourne Storm broke online in such publications as the Fox Sports, on television including ABC news and on multiple social networks including Facebook and Twitter. By April 23, the news was available in various print publications including The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald. During the news coverage, NRL fans learned that the team had been fined $1.8 million, stripped of two premiereships and were not eligible to earn points towards 2010’s premiership. (“Melbourne storm stripped,” 2010) The team was being punished for salary cap violations over the past five years, where the total cap violation in that period was $1.7 million with $400,000 of that total cap violation occurring in 2009. (“Melbourne storm stripped,” 2010)

Early in the coverage of the Melbourne Storm, several issues were discussed including the impact this would have on the fan base for the team, the subsequent economic fallout for Storm and other clubs in the league, and if the players would try to leave the club or lower their performance level. The consequences that people feared have yet to bear out: The fan base for the Melbourne Storm has grown, attendance has not fallen, membership is up and players have not left the team and the team continues to win.

This article will examine the online response to the Melbourne Storm controversy. Specifically, it will look at the interest patterns on several networks, follow patterns on Twitter and Facebook, and activity levels on 43things, wikis and Yahoo!Groups. It will prove that, on the whole, the controversy has not eroded the online fanbase for the team and has resulted in an increased profile for the team in ways can have a net positive for the team and their sponsors.


Profile Interest

One way to quickly gage online interest for a team is to check the number of people who list them as an interest on social networks that include that option. The level of interest on a network will, in general, increase over time. Including an interest is a rather passive activity that most people do at the time that they signup on a service. They may update their interests once a year when they do an overhaul on their profile. Other factors may result in an update of interests, most notably a desire to associate or disassociate with certain people and organizations. The latter can generally require a certain amount of rage and disillusionment and does not happen that often. For adding interests, it can require a certain degree of wanting to stand in solidarity with some one or thing in the face of perceived oppression. Adding or removing an interest will generally require a large emotional response in people to motivate them to change their interests on social networks where an individual has not been active in the past six months. These conditions mean that numbers for interests are relatively stable or increase. A big shift downward is possible but unlikely.

Did the Melbourne Storm controversy result in people being motivated to update their interests to include or exclude the team? Yes and no, many people added them as an interest on Facebook but the numbers remained level across several other networks.

As of January 9, 2010, 17,020 had listed the Melbourne Storm as an interest on Facebook. By May 9, 2010, this number had increased to 41,240, or 24,220 new people. From January 9 to May 9, 2010, there was also an increase of roughly 120 fans within fifty miles of Hobart adding the team as an interest, going from less than 20 to 140. Canberra saw a similar increase in fans, going from 140 on January 9 to 1,020 by May 9, 2010, an increase of 880 new people listing the team as an interest. For fans within fifty miles of Cranbourne, there was an increase of 5,540 fans going from 7,140 fans on January 9 to 12,580 fans on May 9, 2010. Some of this increase on Facebook can be possibly attributed to a change in Facebook in mid-April, where people were encouraged to add their interests as likes of fanpages and vice versa. (Albanesius, 2010) It cannot entirely explain the shift as the official Melbourne Storm page is a user page, not a fan page so the interest to liking will not be automatically converted. At the same time, the number of people listing the team as an interest is roughly ten times as many who follow the Storm’s official Facebook profile and suggests that interest listing is independent of following the official team presence.

In addition to the Melbourne Storm interest on Facebook, there have been two new interests related to the storm created in the wake of the controversy: “Shame On You Melbourne Storm” with fewer than twenty people listing it as an interest, and “Sucked In Melbourne Storm Haha” with 3,240 people listing it as an interest. The latter definitely connects to a Facebook fanpage with the same name, which has 8,432 people who like it.

While Facebook saw an explosion in growth of people listing the team as an interest, other sites allowing interest listing on profiles remained stagnant or saw limited growth. This includes bebo, where there has been no change as of April 28 and May 9 from 402 people that was originally recorded on March 18, 2010. Blogger saw some growth for the number of people listing the team as an interest. As of January 18, 2010, four people had listed the team. By May 9, 2010, six people had listed them as an interest. As the time frame is wider than that of bebo, it might be possible to account for the increase as a pre-season boost, rather than in response to the controversy. Either way, this was an increase of fifty percent for new people listing the team as an interest.

LiveJournal saw no growth in people listing the team as an interest between January 10 and May 9, 2010. Of the 25 LiveJournal accounts listing the Melbourne Storm as an interest, only five have updated since the controversy broke. LiveJournal’s clones including Dreamwidth, Blurty and DeadJournal also saw no growth as of May 9. This contrasts to the Brisbane Broncos on LiveJournal, where one person removed the team as an interest during a similar period. Dreamwidth had two users listing the team as an interest as of January 9, Blurty had one user as of January 9, and DeadJournal had one user as of December 23, 2009. None of the people on LiveJournal’s clones who list the Storm as an interest have updated their journals since the controversy happened. The most recent updates occurred on Dreamwidth, taking place in early March 2010. The other account last updated in April 2009. The Blurty account last updated in November 2005 and the DeadJournal account last updated in January 2006.

One or two smaller niche networks have limited interest for specific teams or where people only list the NRL as an interest. This includes BlackPlanet, generally targeted at African Americans inside the United States. There was one person who listed the NRL as an interest on the network as of February 15, 2010. This has not changed as of May 9. Care2 is a social networked targeted at people who wish to make the world a better place. As of March 20, 2010, no one had listed the Melbourne Storm as an interest. This changed by May 9, when three people listed the team as an interest. Given the names, limited profiles and join dates, it is possible that these accounts are all tied to one individual. Gaia Online is a small, niche network for role players. As of March 11, 2010, no one had listed the Melbourne Storm as an interest. There is interest in the NRL on the network as people listed the Brisbane Lions, Canberra Raiders, Parramatta Eels and Sydney Roosters as interests. There has not been any change for any of these teams as of May 9. The limited growth and lack of pull back could suggest that larger interest in the NRL has not been diminished on smaller networks as a result of the controversy.


Wiki Activity

Wikis are, at their most basic, web sites where visitors can easily edit the content of the site. Sometimes, there are limits to who can edit put in place by the creator of a wiki. These include requiring users to register or confirm an e-mail before they edit, or to get their account approved by the admin before they can edit. Some wikis have policies when breaking news happen or an article gets trolled to lock down the article so only registered users can edit or wiki admins can edit. The culture of editing on specific wikis thus develops around the who can edit process as locking down wikis to prevent edits can effect the frequency that an article is updated.

For comprehensive wiki articles, the ideal is to have to have editors who approach the topic from different perspectives, where there is inherent conflict in the content and perspective being presented. If this situation does not exist, an article can be highjacked by one or two editors who seek to push their own perspective. The more edits and people involved in contributing to the article, the less likely the article will be biased. This also makes vandalism less problematic as people are incentivized to quickly remove that material.

Wikis can be a good tool for gauging interest in a particular topic over time as most wiki software keeps a record of all edits to a page. For some of the big wikis, like Wikipedia, data also exists for how many views an article has over a certain time period. This can help track more passive community interest in a topic.

Wikipedia’s English language article about the Melbourne Storm is probably the most visited wiki article about the team and appears third in Google’s search results for the team. The article, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Storm , was created on May 23, 2004. As of May 9, 2010, the article had 1,732 total edits made to it. The controversy involving the Melbourne Storm broke on April 22, 2010. 1,471 of the edits were made prior to that. In the period between the article’s creation and the day before the controversy broke, an average of .681 edits per day were made to the article. In the eighteen-day period since the controversy broke, an average of 14.5 edits per day were made to the article. The vast majority of these edits were made in the first three days, with 90 edits made on April 22, 56 edits made on April 23 and 69 edits made on April 24. On April 24, in response to repeated vandalism, the article was semi-protected; this meant that only registered users who had confirmed their e-mail could edit the article. The protection had the effect of reducing the total number of daily edits to the article. After that, peak editing days included April 26 and May 3 with seven edits, and April 25 and May 5 with six edits. There were zero edits on April 28, May 6, May 7 and May 9. The controversy certainly caused an increase in the number of edits. If the day that the controversy broke and the next two days are excluded, the average number of daily edits is 3.06 edits per day. This is still higher than the period prior to the controversy and the trend will probably continue at least until the end of the season.

The article views per day mirrors the total edits by day. Based on data provided by Henrick (2010, May 1 and May 9), there is a correlation of .904 between the total daily edits and the total daily page views. According to Henrick (2010, May 1) during April 2010, the article was viewed a total of 49,540 times. Of these views, 40,355 views were between April 22, when the story broke, and April 30. The peak day for visits was on April 22, when the article was viewed 14,800 times. The average page views between April 22 and April 30 was 4,482 views per day. If this period is extended out to include data provided by Henrick (2010, May 9) for May 1 to May 8, the average views per day is 2,700. If the three days around when the controversy first broke are excluded, the average edits per day drops to 1,143. This stands in contrast to the period between April 1 and April 21 where the average page views per day was 438. The above average page views trend appears to be continuing. There has not been a decrease in overall interest in the Melbourne Storm on English Wikipedia.

In addition to the English language article about the Melbourne Storm on Wikipedia, there are articles in two other languages: French and Italian. The French language article, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Storm , was created on March 1, 2006. Since the controversy started on April 22 and May 8, there have been 35 total edits to the article. Unlike the English language article, total edits per day peaked on April 24, 2010 with 19 with the second highest editing day occurring on April 23 with 7. The average total edits per day during this period was 2.1. In April, prior to the controversy, the average edits per day was zero. Also unlike the English language article, it was not locked because of vandalism. According to Henrickhe (2010, May 1) peak views per day happened on April 23 and April 24 with 59. The next day with the greatest number of views in the period between April 22 and May 8 is May 8 with 34. The average viewed per day in the April 22 to May 8 period was 17.4 and the average viewed per day in April prior to the controversy was 3.4. The correlation between the total edits per day and views per day in the period between April 1 and May 8 is .7740. The French Wikipedia article saw an increase that was proportionally bigger than the English article but the total views and edits were much smaller on the French article.

The Italian language Wikipedia article, http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Storm , was created on December 21, 2007. The article had two edits in 2008 and one in 2009. Since the controversy broke on April 22 and May 8, there have two edits to the article. These two edits are the only edits made during 2010. According to Henrickhe (2010, May 1) , the total number of article views from April 1 to April 21 was 30. According to Henrickhe (2010, May 8), the total number of page views per day was 58. The day with the most views was April 23, with 14 views. The next day with the most views was May 3, with 8 views. The Italian Wikipedia article saw an increase in the total number of edits and page views as a result of the controversy. It might have been larger but the Italian interest in the team is much smaller to start with than the French or English language communities.

Outside of Wikipedia, there are a few small wikis that focus on the NRL and Rugby League. These wikis generally lack detailed information on the daily total page views but still provide information on the editing history. One such wiki is the NRL Central Wiki that is hosted on Wikia. It has an article about the Melbourne Storm located at http://nrl.wikia.com/wiki/Melbourne_Storm. The article was created on August 13, 2009 and was last updated on October 10, 2009. It has not been updated since the controversy. The wiki the article is hosted has only had three non-bot edits in the past 30 days so the lack of updates is not surprising. A few other wikis have articles that mention the Melbourne Storm. Most of these are institutional wikis where article histories are not available or where content is posted by its creator and never intended to be edited by a wider audience. There does not appear to be a movement by wikis to create additional content in response to or to try to capitalize on interest in response to the controversy.


Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging service. Users can post 140 character messages , called tweets, that are shared with anyone who chooses to follow them. Twitter is one of the most well known and popular social networks in Australia.

There are two main ways to measure Twitter activity. The first is to keep track of the total followers an account has. The second way is to monitor the total number of daily tweets posted about a topic posted across the whole network and by specific accounts.

The Melbourne Storm have an official Twitter account at @MelbStormRLC . There is an unofficial Melbourne Storm Twitter account run by a fansite at @MelbourneStorm_ . As of March 9, 2010, the official account had 458 followers. This contrasts with @MelbourneStorm_ which had 605 followers as of March 8, 2010. By May 10, about nineteen days after the controversy broke, the official account had 1,037 followers and @ MelbourneStorm_ had 720 followers. That was an increase of 579 and 115 followers respectively. The situation has not hurt growth for either account and people are still interested in keeping up with the team and what they are doing.

When compared to the official Twitter accounts for the NRL, Gold Coast Titans, Manly Sea Eagles, North Queensland Cowboys, Parramatta Eels, Canberra Raiders, South Sydney Rabbitohs and New Zealand Warriors, the follower growth for the Melbourne Storm suggests a potential connection to the controversy creating additional interest or a fanbase that has become much more interested in Twitter in a short period of time. (Table 1) The only account with a greater increase in total number of followers is the NRL, which picked up 942 followers. The Melbourne Storm saw a fifty-five percent increase in the new followers. The next closest team of the aforementioned in the same period was the Canberra Raiders who saw a forty-two percent increase. In this context, it reaffirms that additional interest in the team was likely generated by the controversy.

Table 1

Twitter Follower Counts by Official Club Accounts and Date
Team Account
9-Mar-10
10-May-10
Difference
% increase
Gold Coast Titans GCTitans
1,616
1,950
334
17.13%
Manly Sea Eagles manlyseaeagles
888
1,073
185
17.24%
Melbourne Storm MelbStormRLC
458
1,037
579
55.83%
North Queensland Cowboys northqldcowboys
1,403
1,588
185
11.65%
NRL NRL
4,231
5,173
942
18.21%
Parramatta Eels parramatta_eels
618
780
162
20.77%
Canberra Raiders RaidersCanberra
202
349
147
42.12%
South Sydney Rabbitohs SSFCRABBITOHS
761
1,139
378
33.19%
New Zealand Warriors thenzwarriors
434
507
73
14.40%


Detailed statistics regarding the total number of references for the Melbourne Storm by day on Twitter are not available. It makes it harder to determine the total daily volume of conversation involving the team in the days surrounding the news leaking about the salary cap violations. People were interested in the Melbourne Storm as the team was briefly trending on Twitter when the story broke. Manual counting can be done but Twitter search only goes back around one week What can be more easily tracked is the posting volume per day of specific accounts related to the Melbourne Storm to compare their activities before and after the controversy broke. In the case of the @MelbourneStorm_, the account does not update regularly with about twenty tweets made during the past year. Their last tweet was on March 24, 2010; they have not posted since the news broke. @MelbStormRLC has posted several tweets since the controversy and has mentioned it. From April 22 to May 9, eighteen days after the story broke, the Storm have made eleven total tweets. Prior to that, the team had made thirteen tweets. The difference in tweet totals is inconsequential. Neither account made changes to their Twitter posting in response in to the controversy.

Searching through Twitter, it is very clear that people are still tweeting about the team and, as of May 10, are tweeting about them at a comparatively higher rate than other teams in the league. One popular way of indicating a tweet is about a certain topic is to include a hashtag in front of a word. This makes the whole phrase easily searchable on Twitter. For example, a person who is tweeting about the Melbourne Storm may include #melbournestorm to indicate the tweet is about the team. There generally fewer of these tweets as a great many accounts on Twitter come directly from RSS feeds. These feeds were not originally created for Twitter and are absent some of the cultural practices and do not use coding tools to help make finding posts easier. Thus, tweets tagged with a # are fewer and more readily countable in search. This allows for comparisons to be made between teams over a short period. For the period between May 3 and May 8, 2010, #melbournestorm beat out all the other teams that were sampled for most the most discussed NRL team. (Table 2) There were twenty-one references for the team on May 5. This is sixteen more than #manlyseaeagles on the same date and the only other team with five or more tweets with a hashtag on a single day. The controversy can likely be seen as the cause for the increase in the number of tweets when compared to other teams in the league.

Table 2
Hashtagged Marked NRL Team Tweets
Team Keyword
3-May-10
4-May-10
5-May-10
6-May-10
7-May-10
8-May-10
Brisbane Broncos #brisbanebroncos
0
0
0
0
0
1
Canberra Raiders #canberraraiders
0
0
0
0
0
1
Gold Coast Titans #GCtitans
0
0
0
1
0
0
Gold Coast Titans #goldcoasttitans
0
0
0
1
0
0
Manly Sea Eagles #manlyseaeagles
0
0
5
0
0
0
Melbourne Storm #melbournestorm
0
2
21
2
3
1
Newcastle Knights #NewcastleKnights
0
0
0
0
0
0
North Queensland Cowboys #NQCowboys
0
0
0
0
0
0
North Queensland Cowboys #NQldCowboys
0
0
0
0
0
0
North Queensland Cowboys #NorthQldCowboys
0
0
0
0
0
0
North Queensland Cowboys #NorthQueenslandCowboys
0
0
0
0
0
0
Parramatta Eels #ParramattaEels
0
0
0
0
0
0
Penrith Panthers #PenrithPanthers
0
0
0
0
0
0
Sydney Roosters #SydneyRoosters
1
0
0
0
0
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Wests Tigers #WestsTigers
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Facebook is one of the largest social networks in Australia and it arguably has the largest population of Melbourne Storm fans online. Outside of interest monitoring, the easiest way to monitor the activities of fans is to examine the fan community’s growth on official pages and groups, and activity levels on these groups.

The Melbourne Storm has an official user profile on Facebook. The profile is for their mascot, Storm Man. It has a limited profile view so only people who have friended the account can view posts and interact with content posted by Storm Man. When the profile was checked on April 6, 2010, the account had 3,203 friends. Checked again on April 28, the account had 4,154. On May 9, the account had 4,401 friends and on May 10, it had 4,494 friends. While the total new friends for their account was fewer than other clubs such as the Brisbane Lions over the same period (Table 3), the team had the largest percentage increase in: 28.7% versus 13.5% for the next closest team, the North Queensland Cowboys. The controversy did not cost the team any friends and resulted in a higher percentage gain when compared to other teams. It has resulted in a net momentum gain that continues almost three weeks after the controversy first broke out.

Table 3
Facebook Fan Counts by Club and Date
Official Facebook account
6-Apr-10
10-May-10
Difference
% increase
Melbourne Storm
3,203
4,494
1,291
28.7%
North Queensland Cowboys
2,428
2,806
378
13.5%
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
14,895
17,044
2,149
12.6%
Wests Tigers
14,078
15,911
1,833
11.5%
Gold Coast Titans
18,032
20,204
2,172
10.8%
Sydney Roosters
12,204
13,570
1,366
10.1%
Newcastle Knights
12,766
13,774
1,008
7.3%
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
9,502
10,229
727
7.1%
Canberra Raiders
2,583
2,775
192
6.9%
Brisbane Lions
45,327
48,228
2,901
6.0%


Facebook Fan Pages are created by teams and by fans. The person who created the Fan Page can post to the wall, control else who can post to the wall, control the type of content posted to the Fan Page and create a unique landing page. Members of a Fan Page can comment on wall posts and indicate they like the post. There are many Melbourne Storm fans that have created Fan Pages and many more have joined, commented and liked posts made to these Fan Pages. A quick search on Facebook for Fan Pages dedicated to the team using the keywords “Melbourne Storm” results in over 500 pages about the team. By looking at a sample of the individual Fan Pages to check the daily posting volume of wall posts and the number of likes and comments to those posts, an idea of how the controversy effected fan interests can be determined.

For this, three Fan Pages were chosen. These were the top three Fan Pages in search that were not created in response to the controversy. They are Melbourne Storm, Best team in NRL.. Melbourne Storm ! and melbourne storm :) . The total posts per day by the person who runs the Fan Page, and comments and likes per post associated with the post for the day were recorded for the period between April 1 and May 10, 2010. (Table 4) When comparing the total posts in the period between April 1 and April 22, 2010 to the period between April 23 to May 10, two of the three Fan Pages had more posts made by the maintainers before the controversy. (Graph 1) Two of the three groups saw an increase in the total comments made after the controversy. For Melbourne Storm, a Fan Page with over 40,000 members, the increase was massive going from 54 comments to 803 comments. The increase for Best team in NRL.. Melbourne Storm !, a group with 281 members as of May 10, was much smaller. It went from 252 to 257 comments. For all three groups, there was an increase in the number of likes after the controversy took place. While posting levels by Fan Page maintainers may not have increased, the level of engagement and interest in the team for the fan population did. The controversy has created a climate where fans are more engaged with posts.




Mailing lists

During much of the 1990s, mailing lists were one of the most popular tools for fans to use in order to communicate with each other. The creation of mailing lists became much easier when sites like egroups, coollists, topica, Yahoo!Groups and Google groups were created. They largely automated the process of creating mailing lists, provided web based archives and removed barriers of having to understand majordomo syntax in order to join a list.

Australian sports fans actively used these services to participate in their team’s fandom. Some leagues and teams were more popular than other leagues and teams. Amongst the fan communities utilizing mailing lists were Melbourne Storm fans. Most of the lists dedicated to team were on Yahoo!Groups, where there are currently eight lists. These eight lists include melbournestorm2, melbournestormrugbyleague, melbournestormsupportersclub, Storm_Squad, StormSupporters, MSSC-Storm-Mailouts and melbourne_storm_supporters. Many of these lists are no longer active. There are a variety of reasons for this including absent list owners, large volumes of spam content posted on list, people switching to different services in order to express their fondness for the team or fans losing interest in a team. If spam content is not counted in total posting volume by month, the peak posting month was February 2001 with 59 total posts across all eight lists. January 2001 had the next highest posting volume by month with 50 posts. Given the always small and inactive community, it is not surprising that there have been zero posts on these lists since the controversy broke out. These lists have also seen zero growth in membership since their totals were last checked on February 20, 2010. The controversy had no effect on the Storm’s mailing list community.


43things

According to Robot Co-op (2010), 43things “is the world’s largest goal-setting community.” Members of the site set goals for themselves that are published on their profiles and on lists of others who share the same goal. Members are also encouraged to blog about their efforts in trying to complete their goals. Other members are encouraged to cheer people on as they work to complete a goal. When a goal has been completed, people change the goal status to “I did this” and it appears as completed on their profile. This site is relatively popular; according to Alexa Internet, Inc. (2010), the site is ranked the 2,549th most popular website in Australia.

There are a number of people who have set Australia related sports goals on 43thing. This includes playing for certain clubs to attending the finals to seeing the team they barrack for play. On April 1, 2010, the site was searched for any goals that connected to the Melbourne Storm. Only one goal related to the Melbourne Storm was found. It is “Go to a Melbourne Storm Game.” Two people, erynne and mmcpharlane, had listed this as a goal they were working towards completing. When checked again on May 10, no one had added any additional goals related to the Melbourne Storm. No movement had been made towards completing the existing goal: Both individuals still listed themselves as working towards it and neither had updated their blog to indicate they were any closer to accomplishing this goal. The controversy has not had any measurable impact on people’s goal setting and efforts towards accomplishing their goals as they pertain to the Melbourne Storm.


Conclusion

The controversy involving the Melbourne Storm’s salary cap violations and the subsequent punishment of rewarding them zero points for the season has not resulted in a loss of people interested in the team or resulted in a drop in activity level on the part of fans. Across smaller and less popular services and web sites, there has been no behavior change; the controversy has had a null effect in that no one removed content or interests, nor created content and added interests. For larger sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, there has been a gain in followers, viewers and interactions. Eighteen days out from the initial incident, a long tail increase in views and interactions exists when compared to the period prior to the controversy. While some of the initial burst of activity and interest could be a consequence of negativity publicity, the long tail interest two to three weeks out is much harder to attribute to solely to wanting to watch a controversy for the sake of entertainment. If interest continue to stay elevated, the club should be able to leverage to increase club membership and sponsorship deals, especially as they apply to their online presence, because they have successfully used the controversy to grow their fanbase. The behaviors of fans demonstrate that have been incentized to express their loyalty and solidarity with the team.

References

Albanesius, C. (2010, April 19). Facebook makes ‘connections,’ adds community pages. PC Magazine, Retrieved from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362825,00.asp

Alexa Internet, Inc. (2010, May 10). 43things.com – site info from alexa. Retrieved from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/43things.com

Henrik, Initials. (2010, May 1). Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Melbourne_Storm has been viewed 49377 times in 201004 . Retrieved from http://stats.grok.se/en/201004/Melbourne_Storm

Henrik, Initials. (2010, May 1). Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Melbourne_Storm has been viewed 276 times in 201004. Retrieved from http://stats.grok.se/fr/201004/Melbourne_Storm

Henrik, Initials. (2010, May 1). Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Melbourne_Storm has been viewed 276 times in 201004. Retrieved from http://stats.grok.se/it/201004/Melbourne_Storm

Henrik, Initials. (2010, May 9). Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Melbourne_Storm has been viewed 5561 times in 201005. Retrieved from http://stats.grok.se/en/201005/Melbourne_Storm

Henrik, Initials. (2010, May 9). Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Melbourne_Storm has been viewed 91 times in 201005. Retrieved from http://stats.grok.se/fr/201005/Melbourne_Storm

Henrik, Initials. (2010, May 9). Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Melbourne_Storm has been viewed 19 times in 201005. Retrieved from http://stats.grok.se/it/201005/Melbourne_Storm

Melbourne storm stripped of two premierships for salary cap breach. (2010, April 22). Fox Sports, Retrieved from http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,27022196-5018866,00.html

Robot Co-op. (2010, May 10). List your goals on 43 things. Retrieved from http://www.43things.com/


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Team Url 25-Mar-10 3-May-10 Difference
AFL http://www.facebook.com/AFL 88,546 99,722 11,176
Essendon Bombers http://www.facebook.com/Essendon 44,511 52,126 7,615
Collingwood Magpies http://www.facebook.com/collingwoodfc 26,314 31,366 5,052
Western Bulldogs http://www.facebook.com/Western.Bulldogs 0 4,930 4,930
Fremantle Dockers http://www.facebook.com/fremantlefootballclub 12,939 17,513 4,574
St. Kilda Saints http://www.facebook.com/stkfc 21,310 25,106 3,796
Melbourne Demons http://www.facebook.com/MELBOURNEfc 3,159 6,278 3,119
Geelong Cats http://www.facebook.com/GeelongCatsInsider 1,632 4,745 3,113
West Coast Eagles http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Eagles/38862387223 33,501 36,559 3,058
Port Adelaide Power http://www.facebook.com/portadelaidefootballclub 7,892 10,815 2,923
Carlton Blues http://www.facebook.com/OfficialCarltonFC 12,693 14,932 2,239
Richmond Tigers http://www.facebook.com/Richmond.FC 4,798 6,626 1,828
North Melbourne Kangaroos http://www.facebook.com/northkangaroos 9,866 11,678 1,812
Hawthorn Hawks http://www.facebook.com/hawthornfc 14,342 16,129 1,787
Adelaide Crows http://www.facebook.com/adelaidecrows 39,546 41,246 1,700

Is there a correlation between a team’s performance so far this season based on their ladder position and the number of new fans?  No, the correlation is -0.04002 where the Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions get zero new fans as they do not have a fan page.   If those two teams are removed, -0.10666.  That still is completely random.  The cause for the big increase in fans is not dependent on team performance; other factors must explain the increase in fans.

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  • Queensland Maroons – Queensland Maroons(Fan): 76,807
  • Brisbane Lions – Brisbane Broncos(Fan): 45,327
  • Gold Coast Titans – Gold Coast Titans(Fan): 18,032
  • Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles – Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles(Fan): 14,895
  • Wests Tigers – Wests Tigers – Official National Rugby League Club(Fan): 14,078
  • Newcastle Knights – Newcastle Knights (Fan): 12,766
  • Sydney Roosters – The Official Sydney Roosters Page(Fan): 12,204
  • Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks – Cronulla Sharks(Fan): 9,502
  • Melbourne Storm – Storm Man(User): 3,203
  • Canberra Raiders – Canberra Raiders(User): 2,583
  • North Queensland Cowboys – North Queensland Toyota Cowboys(Fan): 2,428
  • New South Wales Blues – New South Wales Rugby League(Fan): 886

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    • The South Sydney Rabbitohs site links to the Facebook page for the Canberra Raiders.
    • The St. George Illawarra Dragons and New Zealand Warriors sites links to Facebook.com, not to their fanpages.
    • Several teams do not have Facebook fanpages.
    • The Melbourne Storm and Canberra Raiders have user pages with limited public profiles.
    • The Melbourne Storm user profile is for the team’s mascot.

    These patterns suggest that the NRL is behind the ball with their use of social networking.  Social networking is important tool for building a fanbase, selling merchandise, etc.  There is a correlation between attendance at matches and the size of a team’s online social networking fan base.  I’m not certain what factors lead to this and the variables could be totally independent but either way, they need to improve their fan engagement.

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    The problem is that Facebook does not make getting this information easy.  I manually go through the lists.  I copy/paste to notepad, format it and copy it to Excel.  Facebook drops people.  An example of this? Western Force.  It has 3,128 fans.  When I copied and pasted everything, the total people on my list was 1,927.  There is a lot of dropping going on here and I’m not certain what effect it has on the results.

    These issues regarding totals are one of the most problematic aspects of trying to do any sort of demographic study of online sports fandom that is in any way accurate and capable of duplication.

    If you’re interested, based on the following groups and fan pages… The NAB Northern Bullants appreciation society, Townsville McDonald’s Crocodiles, Waikato/BOP Magic Netball, 1,000 people for Tassie Tigers to offer Rana Naved-Ul-Hasan a full Contract, 10,000 people for the tassie tigers to offer Michael Hogan a contract , Aaron Edwards Fan page, ACT Brumbies, act brumbies, Adelaide 36ers, Adelaide 36ers are the greatest team of ANY kind EVER!!, Adelaide 36ers Fan Zone, Adelaide 36ers National Basketball Team, Adelaide Thunderbirds , Barbagallo Perth Heat Baseball Club, Bendigo Bombers Football Club, Bentleigh Cricket Club, Borough Boys, Borough Supporters Club, Bring Allen Iverson to the Adelaide 36ers!, Bring Dusty Rychart back to the Adelaide 36ers ~ beg, plead, grovel ;p, Cairns Taipans , Canberra Raiders, Canterbury Tactix, Carlton Blues FC, Croc Nation, Crocs to take the NBL title, Daniel Jackson – TIGER TUFF!, Eaglehawk Football Netball Club, Early 90′s Perth Wildcats appreciation group, Fire Roster, Fitzroy Reds Football Club, Frankston Dolphins Football club, FRANKSTON DOLPHINS FOOTBALL CLUB, Fremantle Dockers : Rebuilding since 1995, Fremantle Dockers : Rebuilding since 1995, Geelong Cats, Go the Perth wildcats , Gold Coast Blaze,  Gold Coast Football Club, Greeks who support Richmond F.C the Tigers, I’m a Fitzroy Reds Premiership hero, Law Hawks, Matt Johns to coach the Newcastle Knights in 2010! , Melbourne Tigers, Melbourne Tigers, Melbourne Tigers – Big V Basketball, melbourne tigers all the way in 2008, Melbourne Tigers Basketball Club, Melbourne Tigers cheer squeda east and south ends , Melbourne Tigers NBL HUMMER CHAMPIONS 2007/08, Melbourne Tigers NBL supporters, Melbourne Vixens, Melbourne Vixens, Melbourne-based Wests Tigers Fanatics, New South Wales Patriots , New Zealand Breakers, No matter how bad they are, I will still barrack for the Richmond Tigers! , North Ballarat Cricket Club, North Melbourne Football Club, North Melbourne Football Club, Northern Bullants Football Club, Northern Bullants Under 18′s, Northern Mystics, Northern Mystics Fans, Official Gold Coast Blaze, Official Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats (Catties Fans), perth wildcats fans, Perth Wildcats Wildkidz! (:, Port Melbourne Football Club, port melbourne the mighty borough fan club, Pulse Netball, Queensland Bulls, Queensland Bulls Supporters, Queensland Firebirds, Queensland Rams (ABL) Baseball, Queensland Rams Baseball, Sandringham Football Club (Zebras), SAVE OUR MELBOURNE TIGERS NBL TEAM , THIS SEASON., Save Our South Dragons:www. saveourdragons.com, SCONE THOROUGHBREDS RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB, SEABL, Selkirk Roosters – North Ballarat Football Club, South Dragons 2008/09 Nbl Champions, South Melbourne Dragons, Southern Steel, Southern Steel, SUPPORT THE CANTERBURY TACTIX WITH TIC TACS, Sydney Swifts, Tassie Tigers Hockey – Top 4 three years in a row, the fitzroy reds convention for headaches and regrets., The Melbourne Tigers Fan Group, The Official Adelaide 36ers Page, The Official Bendigo Spirit Basketball, Thunderbirds Adelaide Netball Club Appreciation Community, Thunderbirds are GO in the 2009 grand final!, TOWNSVILLE FIRE, Townsville McCafe Fire, Trent Cotchin, Victoria Aces ABL Baseball, Waratahs 2008, Werribee Amateur Football Club, Werribee Football Club , Werribee Tigers FC, West Coast Fever, West Coast Fever, Western Force, Wests Tigers NYC, WNBL – Bendigo Spirit, WNBL – Canberra Capitals, Wollongong Hawks, Wllongong Hawks, Wollongong Roller Hawks, and XXXX gold Queensland bulls!.

    All told, there are 3,297 people of the 34,057 people included list a network.  There are 1,078 unique networks. If Facebook wasn’t dropping things, the total people included would be 61,340. Given that, the following networks are the most popular:

    Network Total members
    Monash 83
    University of Melbourne 74
    Deakin 67
    James Cook 65
    State Government of Victoria 56
    La Trobe University 50
    UWA 49
    Australian National 46
    RMIT 41
    Edith Cowan 40
    Curtin 39
    Adelaide 35
    Canberra Grammar School 33
    Kardinia International College 31
    Queensland Tech 29
    Victoria AU 28
    Swinburne 28
    Notre Dame AU 26
    Canberra 26
    Tasmania 25
    Christian College 25
    Queensland 24
    Flinders 24
    Belmont High School 24
    South Australia 23
    Scotch College 22
    Griffith 19
    Bond 19
    UOW 18
    The Geelong College 17
    Telstra 17
    Murdoch 16
    Xavier College 14
    Marist College Canberra 14
    Scone High School 13
    Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College 13
    Geelong Grammar School 13
    Ballarat 13
    Wesley College 12
    Willetton Senior High School 11
    University of Sydney 11
    The Friends’ School 11
    Presbyterian Ladies’ College 11
    Parade College 11
    Grovedale College 11
    Daramalan College 11
    Broadford Secondary College 11
    Vermont Secondary College 10
    National Australia Bank 10
    Catholic College Bendigo 10
    Whittlesea Secondary College 9
    UNSW 9
    University High School 9
    Marcellin College 9
    John Paul College 9
    Charles Sturt University 9
    Western Heights College 8
    Unley High School 8
    Taroona High School 8
    St Edmund’s College Canberra 8
    Sacred Heart College 8
    Pulteney Grammar School 8
    Newman College 8
    Newcastle 8
    Lilydale High School 8
    AU Catholic 8
    Woodvale Senior High School 7
    University of New England 7
    The Heights School 7
    St Clare’s College 7
    Salesian College Rupertswood 7
    Sacred Heart AU 7
    Padua College 7
    Otago 7
    Loyola College 7
    Frankston High School 7
    Emmaus College 7
    Cornerstone College 7
    Carey Baptist Grammar School 7
    BHP Billiton 7
    Bendigo Senior Secondary College 7
    Balaklava High School 7
    Aquinas College 7
    UTS 6
    St Mary’s Catholic College 6
    St Ignatius College, Riverview 6
    St Helena Secondary College 6
    Saint Louis 6
    Oberon High School 6
    Mount Scopus College 6
    Mount Lawley Sr. High School 6
    Mordialloc College 6
    IBM 6
    Hoppers Crossing Secondary College 6
    Deloitte 6
    Clonard College 6
    Churchlands Senior High School 6
    Brentwood Secondary College 6
    Birmingham UK 6
    Ballarat High School 6
    Avila College 6
    A N Myer 6
    Williamstown High School 5
    Whitefriars College 5
    Westpac Banking 5
    Werribee Secondary College 5
    University of Auckland 5
    The King’s School 5
    The Hutchins School 5
    St Norbert College 5
    St Francis Xavier College 5
    South Fremantle Senior High School 5
    Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School 5
    Patterson River Secondary College 5
    North Albany Senior High School 5
    Modbury High School 5
    Loreto College 5
    Lake Ginninderra College 5
    La Salle College 5
    Kolbe Catholic College 5
    Kirwan State School 5
    Kent Street Senior High School 5
    Horsham College 5
    Hale School 5
    Glenunga International High School 5
    Gingin District High School 5
    General Electric 5
    Geelong High School 5
    Essendon Keilor College 5
    Ernst & Young 5
    Emerald Secondary College 5
    Cheltenham Secondary College 5
    Caulfield Grammar School 5
    Castlemaine Secondary College 5
    Casterton Secondary College 5
    Canberra College 5
    Calvary Christian College 5
    Bacchus Marsh College 5
    All Saints’ College 5
    Academy of Mary Immaculate 5
    Wantirna College 4
    Waikato 4
    Viewbank College 4
    UWS 4
    Trinity Grammar School 4
    The Don College 4
    Strathmore Secondary College 4
    St Monica’s College 4
    St Brendan – Shaw College 4
    Salisbury East High School 4
    Saint Ignatius College Geelong 4
    Ruyton Girls School 4
    Redbank Plains State High School 4
    PricewaterhouseCoopers, Australia 4
    Newton Moore Senior High School 4
    Narrabundah College 4
    Montmorency Secondary College 4
    Mirrabooka Senior High School 4
    Methodist Ladies’ College 4
    Mercy Regional College 4
    Mercer 4
    Melville Senior High School 4
    Melbourne Grammar School 4
    King�s Christian College 4
    Kambrya College 4
    John XXIII College 4
    Indiana 4
    Ho�r Volkskool Heidelberg 4
    Hewlett-Packard 4
    Haileybury College 4
    Greenwood Senior High School 4
    Golden Grove High School 4
    Gleeson College 4
    Fahan School 4
    Craigmore High School 4
    Concordia Lutheran College 4
    Collie Senior High School 4
    Clare High School 4
    Charles Campbell Secondary School 4
    Catholic Regional College 4
    Bunbury Senior High School 4
    Bunbury Catholic College 4
    Brighton Secondary College 4
    Brauer College 4
    Birkenhead College 4
    Ballarat Secondary College 4
    Bairnsdale Secondary College 4
    Australia 4
    Adelaide High School 4
    William Ross State High School 3
    Victoria Wellington 3
    USC 3
    University Senior College 3
    UIllinois 3
    Trinity Christian School 3
    Trinity Anglican School 3
    The Scots College 3
    Sunbury College 3
    Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School 3
    St. Rose 3
    St. Joseph’s College 3
    St. Bede’s College 3
    St Kevin’s College Toorak 3
    St Columba’s College 3
    Rutherglen High School 3
    Rowville Secondary College 3
    Reynella East High School 3
    Purdue 3
    Pimlico State High School 3
    Peterhouse School 3
    Oregon 3
    Optus 3
    Nuriootpa High School 3
    Nunawading Christian College 3
    Nova Southeastern University 3
    Notre Dame College 3
    Northcote High School 3
    Murray Bridge High School 3
    Mount Waverley Secondary College 3
    Mornington Secondary College 3
    Morley Senior High School 3
    Monivae College 3
    Melbourne High School 3
    Melbourne Girls’ College 3
    Melbourne Business School 3
    Mandurah Baptist College 3
    Macquarie Group 3
    Macquarie 3
    MacKillop College 3
    Lyc�e Jean Monnet 3
    Loxton High School 3
    Levi Strauss & Co. 3
    Leeton High School 3
    Lake Tuggeranong College 3
    KPMG 3
    King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang 3
    Karabar High School 3
    John Forrest Senior High School 3
    Immanuel College 3
    Illawarra Sports High School 3
    Hutt Valley High School 3
    Highvale Secondary College 3
    Hallett Cove School 3
    Goulburn High School 3
    Gladstone Park Secondary College 3
    Forrestfield Senior High School 3
    Faith Lutheran School 3
    Emmanuel College 3
    Edmund Rice College 3
    Doncaster Secondary College 3
    Denmark High School 3
    Curtin Bentley 3
    Coastal Carolina 3
    Chisholm Catholic College 3
    Central Queensland 3
    Camberwell High School 3
    Burdekin Catholic High School 3
    Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School 3
    Brighton Secondary School 3
    Braemar College 3
    Boronia Heights College 3
    Bellarine Secondary College 3
    Beaconhills College 3
    Bayswater Secondary College 3
    Baylor 3
    Balwyn High School 3
    Ballarat Grammar School 3
    Avonside Girls’ High School 3
    Avondale College 3
    Ave Maria College 3
    Auckland Grammar School 3
    Aberfoyle Park High School 3
    Wynyard Composite High School 2
    Woodcroft College 2
    Westville Boys’ High School 2
    Westminster School 2
    Western Port Secondary College 2
    Wellington Secondary College 2
    UVA 2
    USF 2
    University of Victoria 2
    University of Toronto 2
    University of Limerick 2
    Universidad Aut�noma de Chile 2
    Uni. Reading 2
    UGA 2
    Tyndale Christian School 2
    Trinity College 2
    Townsville State High School 2
    Toorak College 2
    The Peninsula School 2
    The Kilmore International School 2
    The Cathedral School, Townsville 2
    The Armidale School 2
    Templestowe College 2
    Temple Christian College 2
    Takapuna Grammar School 2
    Taieri College 2
    Swan Hills School 2
    Swan Christian College 2
    St. Philip’s College 2
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    ]]>     http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/facebook-groups-and-fanpages-redux/feed/ 5     AFL on Facebook http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/afl-on-facebook/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/afl-on-facebook/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:14:41 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=322 What’s the most popular AFL team on Facebook?  That really does depend on how you measure it.

    The following table has a column for total people listing a team as an interest, total number of members of the largest fan page dedicated to a team, total number of fans of the largest page dedicated to a team and the grand total.  This information was collected in the past three days.

    AFL on Facebook

    Team Interest Page Group Total
    Collingwood Magpies 59800 80 7969 67849
    West Coast Eagles 26020 33501 5094 64615
    Carlton Blues 58120 317 1626 60063
    Adelaide Crows 50020 1579 5827 57426
    Fremantle Dockers 43660 96 3625 47381
    Sydney Swans 21260 18094 4737 44091
    Hawthorn Hawks 21220 2602 6595 30417
    Essendon Bombers 27920 248 1989 30157
    Richmond Tigers 13960 11727 2782 28469
    Geelong Cats 15760 5092 3976 24828
    Brisbane Lions 10940 10556 2302 23798
    St. Kilda Saints 15480 317 4281 20078
    Port Adelaide Power 6100 9766 3157 19023
    North Melbourne Kangaroos 9120 4314 2420 15854
    Western Bulldogs 2740 4745 7295 14780
    Melbourne Demons 5940 4057 4003 14000
    Gold Coast Football Club 1200 1720 66 2986

    And then I completed this and realized the biggest fan pages I had?  They weren’t the official ones.   Time to get the official ones, where the total fans are much bigger, and then update.

    Green: Indicates official Facebook fanpage has the most fans.
    Blue: Indicates a page not linked on the official page has the most fans.
    Red: Indicates an official Facebook fanpage was not found to be linked to on the Club’s official site.
    Black: AFL does not link to an official page for the team.

    Fixed. As an American, I’m used to professional team names being City Mascot. When I search, this tends to be my default mode of searching. It can screw up results and I have to remember to search all variations to make sure this doesn’t happen. When I was just looking for biggest, I didn’t. Woe. But anyway, these results should hopefully be a bit more accurate. I went to every team’s official site that was linked on the AFL’s site. On the official site, I looked for their official Facebook fanpage accounts. Then I took that information and added it to the above table to get a more accurate picture. If an unofficial fanpage had more fans than the official one? I left the unofficial one. I’ve color coded that chart to make easy to see where I did that.

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    ]]>     http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/afl-on-facebook/feed/ 1     Distribution of Australian sports fans by league and location http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/distribution-of-australian-sports-fans-by-location/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/distribution-of-australian-sports-fans-by-location/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:53:41 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=316 Distribution of Australian sports fans by league and location map

    I’m trying to make a map of Australian sports fandom across various social networks.  This is going to take a long time and require a long explanation to understand exactly what you’re seeing.  This map isn’t intended to be all comprehensive.  I’m still collecting data and will likely continue to collecting data for a long time.    That’s why a long explanation is needed.

    Country League Rugby: Group 21 is represented exclusively by the Facebook group SCONE THOROUGHBREDS RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB. Location was identified the location of the school network members listed themselves as belonging to.

    For the NWBL, amongst the social networks I’ve checked so far, only You!Tube had people who listed the league.  And that was one person.  There were several people on Facebook who belonged the Wollongong Roller Hawks group and listed a network which I could affiliate with a city.

    The AHL is represented by a Facebook group for the Tassie Tigers and three people on bebo. There were no fans on LiveJournal’s clones or blogger.

    The AFL includes full data from 43things, bebo, blogger, eacademy, Daniel Jackson – TIGER TUFF!, Law Hawks and No matter how bad they are, I will still barrack for the Richmond Tigers! groups on Facebook, Gaia Online (but no one was an AFL fan who listed a city), LiveJournal and its clones, only Collingwood from MySpace profile search, only Brisbane Lions, Collingwood Magpies and Carlton Blues from orkut, only the scrapheap_afl mailing list on Yahoo!groups, and only the Geelong Cats on YouTube.

    For the NRL, the following Facebook groups were included: Matt Johns to coach the Newcastle Knights in 2010! , Wests Tigers NYC and Melbourne-based Wests Tigers Fanatics. Only the Brisbane Broncos were looked at on 43things. Every team was searched for on bebo, blogger, Gaia Online, LiveJournal and its clones. The sample is much smaller than the AFL. (Though the community on bebo is much larger than AFL community on bebo. It might sort of make up for that.)

    WNBL totals came from YouTube, MySpace, eacademy, bebo and LiveJournal clones.

    For the NBL, only the Brisbane Bullets were looked at on 43 things. On Facebook for the NBL, unlike for most leagues looked at, an attempt was made to find every group connected to the team. Thus, the following groups and fanpages are represented: Townsville McDonald’s Crocodiles, Adelaide 36ers, Adelaide 36ers are the greatest team of ANY kind EVER!!, Adelaide 36ers Fan Zone, Bring Allen Iverson to the Adelaide 36ers!, Bring Dusty Rychart back to the Adelaide 36ers ~ beg, plead, grovel ;p, Cairns Taipans , Croc Nation, Early 90′s Perth Wildcats appreciation group, Gold Coast Blaze, Melbourne Tigers, melbourne tigers are the best team, Melbourne Tigers Basketball Club, Melbourne Tigers cheer squeda east and south ends , Melbourne Tigers NBL HUMMER CHAMPIONS 2007/08, Melbourne Tigers NBL supporters, New Zealand Breakers, Official Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats, Perth Wildcats (Catties Fans), SAVE OUR MELBOURNE TIGERS NBL TEAM , THIS SEASON., Save Our South Dragons:www. saveourdragons.com, South Dragons 2008/09 Nbl Champions, South Melbourne Dragons, The Melbourne Tigers Fan Group, The Official Adelaide 36ers Page, Townsville McDonald’s Crocodiles and Wollongong Hawks. If this was done with other clubs and leagues, the representation for the AFL and NRL would probably be much, much bigger. Every team was looked at on bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and its clones. It also includes members of melbournetigers on Yahoo!Groups.

    For the VFL, only the Geelong Cats and Coburg Tigers were checked. On MySpace, Frankston Dolphins , Sandringham Zebras , Werribee Tigers , Collingwood Magpies and Geelong Cats were checked. All teams were checked on LiveJournal and its clones, blogger and bebo.

    A-League is represented by a search of all teams on bebo, blogger, LiveJournal and its clones. Orkut was searched for Melbourne Victory fans. It might not show up on the first version of this map because after about seven layers, the mapping software gets slow.

    Distribution of Australian sports fans by league and location map

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    ]]>     http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/distribution-of-australian-sports-fans-by-location/feed/ 1     Popularity of Australian sports leagues across various social networks http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/popularity-of-australian-sports-leagues-across-various-social-networks/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/popularity-of-australian-sports-leagues-across-various-social-networks/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:39:13 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=306 I’ve been checking the number of people who list a team as an interest across a number of social networks.  Yesterday, for networks where I had information on 215 teams I have on my list, I added together the number of people who listed a team as an interest in various leagues.  I got the following table.

    League Total DW DJ JF IJ Blurty Inksome CrazyLife LiveJournal Blogger Facebook Twitter Gaia Online
    AFL 266883 7 3 4 13 7 1 5 613 168 239480 26582 1
    AFL Canberra 2 1 1
    A-League 73559 90 44 69060 4363 2
    ANZ Championship 2200 5 860 1335
    Australia Athletics 83 83
    Basketball Australia 326 326
    Brisbane Netball Association 21 21
    Claxton Shield 1615 1580 35
    Commonwealth Bank Trophy 3 2 1
    First class cricket 34573 1 1 3 29 22400 12140
    Gridiron Australia Nationals 66 66
    NBL 7899 1 1 1 30 5 4220 3641
    Netball Australia 1651 1580 71
    Netball New South Wales 22 22
    NRL 180242 7 7 2 8 411 78 167585 12138 6
    NSW Premier League 316 1 4 311
    Plenty Valley Netball Association 20 20
    Rugby League/State of Origin 61519 1 1 18 61320 179
    Super 14 49838 1 1 1 85 5 37460 12284 1
    VFL 208 3 1 204
    Victorian Amateur Football Association 1 1
    WNBL 38 9 29
    Women’s Flat Track Derby Association 760 760

    Interesting to see what networks have what populations.  The WNBL is only really an interest on 2 networks while the AFL is present on every network.  These networks all have different population sizes so total numbers is really apple to oranges in some ways.  I then decided to rank the leagues by how popular they were on each network.  The most popular league ranks 1, the next most popular league ranks 2.  If there is a tie, they share the same rank.  The results of that are in the following table:

    League Blogger Blurty Crazy
    Life    		 Dreamwidth Dead
    Journal    		 Facebook Gaia Online Inksome Insane
    Journal    		 Journal
    Fen    		 Inksome Live
    Journal    		 Twitter Average
    rank    		 Total people
    AFL 1 2 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.30 266884
    NRL 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 4 1.77 180242
    First class cricket 3 2 6 1 1 6 3 3.14 34574
    A-League 3 3 2 3 5 3.2 73559
    Super 14 4 3 3 3 5 3 4 2 3.37 49838
    NBL 4 3 3 3 7 5 6 4.42 7899
    Rugby League/State of Origin 3 4 2 7 11 5.4 61519
    NSW Premier League 3 10 9 7.33 316
    AFL Canberra 2 13 7.5 2
    Basketball Australia 8 8 326
    ANZ Championship 10 9 7 8.66 2200
    Commonwealth Bank Trophy 6 12 9 3
    VFL 6 11 10 9 208
    Netball Australia 8 13 10.5 1651
    Women’s Flat Track Derby Association 11 11 760
    WNBL 8 16 12 38
    Claxton Shield 9 15 12 1615
    Australia Athletics 12 12 83
    Victorian Amateur Football Association 13 13 1
    Gridiron Australia Nationals 14 14 66
    Netball New South Wales 17 17 22
    Brisbane Netball Association 18 18 21
    Plenty Valley Netball Association 19 19 20

    This table is a bit more interesting.  Across most networks, the AFL is the most popular league.  The NRL is the second most popular league.  First class cricket, compromising state cricket teams, is the third most popular.  The A-League and Super 14 are close behind.  When you get down near the bottom, patterns become interesting.  The WNBL is not as popular as Women’s Flat Track Derby Association.  This is largely a result of the large number of fans on Facebook.  AFL Canberra is also more popular than the VFL.  This is because of the high rank on JournalFen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attendance_figures_at_domestic_professional_sports_leagues lists the attendance by league for six Australian sports leagues in 2009.  I cannot find a better list of attendance data for Australian sports league, especially the minor leagues.  That makes the rest of this analysis a bit problematic but moving forward anyway… This data is then put into the following table:

    League Average rank Total people Total attendance 2009 Average attendance 2009
    AFL 1.30 266884 6370350 36195
    NRL 1.77 180242 3084481 16065
    Super 14 3.2 49838 2021376 21504
    A-League 3.37 73559 1166966 12966
    NBL 3.14 7899 644976 3665
    First class cricket 4.42 34574 308590 18153

    For total number of people attending during the course of a season, it certainly seems to track with the average league rank on the social networks in this sample.  Total people and total attendance seems to track some too.  I ran the correlation to confirm these observations:

    Total attendance 2009 Average attendance 2009
    Average rank -0.892632665 -0.511836009
    Total people 0.949552518 0.769754845

    Total attendance does correlate meaningfully.  Average attendance isn’t as meaningful but the correlation is still relatively strong.  There is a relationship there.

    I’ve found that similar relationships exist with American baseball teams.  The issue of course is: Cause and effect.  Does high fan attendance lead to more fans listing their teams as an interest on social media? Or does becoming interested in a team on social media sites lead people to attending games?  It feels like the first but I have no evidence either way.

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    ]]>     http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/popularity-of-australian-sports-leagues-across-various-social-networks/feed/ 0     WNBL on LiveJournal and bebo http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/wnbl-on-livejournal-and-bebo/ http://ozziesport.com/2010/03/wnbl-on-livejournal-and-bebo/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:58:18 +0000 Laura http://ozziesport.com/?p=274 After I finished with my Yahoo!Groups look at the WNBL, I decided to look at the WNBL on other services.  They included LiveJournal, bebo, orkut, blogger, Facebook, Dreamwidth Studios, InsaneJournal, Crazylife, scribbled, JournalFen, blurty,  and DeadJournal.   Only LiveJournal and bebo had people listing a WNBL team as an interest.  Some of these teams have corporate names and possibly spelling variations.    We tried to use those variations to make sure that everyone who included them as an interest was included.  With the Australian Institute of Sports WNBL team, it is possible that some individuals aren’t interested in the team but rather the Institute itself.  (Which is pretty cool based.) The following table was produced when the search was completed:

    WNBL fans on bebo and LiveJournal

    Service Team Username Last updated Gender Age Year of Birth City State Country  
    bebo Adelaide Lightning Olivia Smith   Female 31   Adelaide South Australia Australia  
    LiveJournal Adelaide Lightning t2incorporated 171 weeks ago     1988 Brisbane Queensland Australia  
    LiveJournal Adelaide Lightning abster7 265 weeks ago       Adelaide South Australia Australia  
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Rayno Ellis                
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Chris Roper   Male 22   Sydney New South Wales Australia  
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Blair H   Male 21   Bendigo Victoria Australia  
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Sam Pickett   Male 25   Noosa Queensland Australia  
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Lieke Schaap   Female 18          
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Daniel Walker                
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Ben Hall   Male 25   Adelaide South Australia Australia  
    bebo Australian Institute of Sport Lauren Jackson   Female 28   Albury New South Wales Australia  
    LiveJournal Australian Institute of Sport erg_grrl 183 weeks ago       Los Gatos California United States  
    LiveJournal Australian Institute of Sport x_roxysnow82_x 282 weeks ago       Dundee Illinois United States  
    bebo Bendigo Spirit Lisa Clark                
    bebo Canberra Capitals Lauren Jackson   Female 28   Albury New South Wales Australia  
    LiveJournal Canberra Capitals beloved_zara 1 week ago           Australia  
    LiveJournal Canberra Capitals amyfoxyfox 2 weeks ago     1990        
    LiveJournal Canberra Capitals the_seether_is 130 weeks ago     1984 Brisbane Queensland Australia  
    LiveJournal Canberra Capitals kristenvealfan 176 weeks ago     1982 Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia  
    bebo Dandenong Jayco Rangers Vanessa Lacey                
    bebo Dandenong Jayco Rangers J-E-S-S                
    bebo Logan Thunder Loganthunderisda   Male     Logan Victoria Australia  
    bebo Logan Thunder Logan Thunder - Mens DLeague   Male            
    bebo Logan Thunder Laura Mc Dermott   Female 22   Lismore New South Wales Australia  
    bebo Logan Thunder Patty                
    bebo Logan Thunder Scotty   Male     Logan Victoria Australia  
    bebo Logan Thunder Emmyy                
    bebo Logan Thunder Leisa C                
    bebo Perth Lynx Tash Nichols   Female 18   Perth Western Australia Australia  
    bebo Perth Lynx Liam Dunn Kellock   Male     Perth Western Australia Australia  
    bebo Sydney Uni Flames Vlad Alava   Male            
    LiveJournal Sydney Uni Flames lelak 8 weeks ago     1975 Sydney New South Wales Australia  
    bebo Townsville Fire Rebecca   Female 20   Townsville Queensland Australia  
    bebo Townsville Fire Reece Dowleans   Male 21   Townsville Queensland Australia  

    The places were then put on a map.  The only hiccup was Noosa, Queensland.  It was skipped.  The United States was also left off because it seemed likely that those fans were not fans of the team, but rather the Institute itself.   The map seems to reinforce the idea from earlier posts that Australian sports teams largely come out of a regional fan base.

    WNBL on Bebo and LiveJournal by Australian city
    WNBL on Bebo and LiveJournal by Australian city
    Overview map

    WNBL on Bebo and LiveJournal by Australian city

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    Adelaide Lightning
    Australian Institute of Sport
    Canberra Capitals
    Logan Thunder
    Perth Lynx
    Sydney Uni Flames
    Townsville Fire

    Regarding Facebook, I did check them using their advertising data that pulls from people’