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Growth of @HawthornFC related accounts on Twitter

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 13 November, 2010

A number of times, I’ve posted most popular lists.  This table takes the data found on those charts and looks at the historical growth forHawthorn  Hawks related Twitter accounts.  (If any of these players are no longer with Hawthorn, please let me know. Conversely, if you know of any Hawthorn accounts I’m missing, let me know.) If a cell is empty, it just means that I did not collect data for that account on that date.

bmsew Hawks_AFL HawthornFC LanceFranklin lehmo23 hawkaDT BrendanWhiteX
30-Dec-09 823
9-Mar-10 100 1,336 250
30-May-10 113 1,396 2,031 SUSPENDED
16-Jun-10 110 1,402 2,151
19-Jun-10 109 1,403 2,174
24-Jun-10 2,204
25-Jun-10 2,208
26-Jun-10 3,698
29-Jul-10 132 1,446 2,597 4,010
26-Aug-10 2,919
13-Sep-10 216 1,500 3,159 4,748 89
15-Sep-10 224 1,503 3,196 4,779 90
2-Oct-10 5,092
4-Oct-10 284 1,541 3,397 5,114 88
11-Oct-10 320 1,566 3,527 5,241 86
13-Oct-10 325 1,566 3,534 5,256 89
7-Nov-10 358 1,612 3,687 5,491 88 446
11-Nov-10 363 1,618 3,713 5,548 88 466

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Growth of @Collingwood_FC related accounts on Twitter

Posted by Laura on Saturday, 13 November, 2010

A number of times, I’ve posted most popular lists.  This table takes the data found on those charts and looks at the historical growth for Collingwood Magpies related Twitter accounts.  (If any of these players are no longer with Collingwood, please let me know. Conversely, if you know of any Collingwood accounts I’m missing, let me know.) If a cell is empty, it just means that I did not collect data for that account on that date.

bigdyman Collingwood_FC collingwoodnews DT_13 harry_o mickmalthouse NicksBB PeterDaicos SP_10 SharrodW_21 VictoriaParkHC
30-Dec-09 3,506
8-Mar-10 376 3,980 545 2,703 838 42
9-Mar-10 2,712
30-May-10 568 5,183 649 4,174 903 49
16-Jun-10 630 5,448 674 4,328 910 52
19-Jun-10 669 5,484 677 4,384 910 51
24-Jun-10 682 5,536 682 4,424 912 51
25-Jun-10 5,547 4,426 51
7-Jul-10 5,745
9-Jul-10 1,060 1,528
29-Jul-10 810 6,205 729 1,751 5,329 2,297 964 50
13-Sep-10 983 7331 815 2862 6948 3902 1072 2315 1904 52
15-Sep-10 987 7380 819 2972 7111 3976 1080 2434 1950 52
2-Oct-10 5468
4-Oct-10 1250 8734 914 5135 9415 5740 1211 4706 3247 53
11-Oct-10 1361 9178 956 5936 10123 6270 1278 5366 3742 55
13-Oct-10 1378 9234 960 6009 10190 6303 1293 5415 3792 56
7-Nov-10 1602 9585 988 6504 10756 6741 46 1374 5901 4117 57
11-Nov-10 1614 9640 991 6541 10802 6802 46 1396 5953 4141 57

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Where do followers of Australian sport on Twitter come from?

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 20 October, 2010

For the past two, almost three months, I’ve been focused on Twitter to the exclusion of almost all other social networks. This is because of the size of the Twitter audience and because of the complexities of trying to determine the location of those Twitter followers. I’d really like to move on but I’ve ended up in a perfectionist loop where I can’t seem to find the command for breaking it.

My over riding goal of sorts, in regards to Australian sport on Twitter, is to determine the size and location of the Australian sport community on Twitter as expressed by following Australian sport athletes, clubs, leagues and organizations. The methodology is relatively simple: 1) Develop a list of the major Australian sport related Twitter accounts. 2) Get a list of all the followers for those accounts. The list should include as much profile information as possible, including the user inputted location and time zone. 3) Translate user inputted locations into actual locations. When no user inputted location exists, attempt to use the time zone field to get this location.

The first step is a manual step. I’ve got to look around at other people’s lists, check follow lists and develop that list. My current list is around 450. It is constantly in a state of flux as people and organizations occassionally delete their accounts or get new ones with new names. (This leads to massive drop offs that I can’t always explain or notice in the moment. Sources to document the disappearance of accounts don’t always exist. Asking a month or two after the fact means that people can’t always recall what happened.)

The second step is automated. I’ve had a friend (@Hawkeye7) develop a tool that pulls that information for me. It is relatively simple once executed but its success largely depends on the input from step one. From October 14 to October 18, we got the follower list for every single account on that list of 450 people. It took four days because there are API limits on Twitter. We’d run across them, wait an hour and then get the next page of followers or next person’s followers. In the case of @warne888, this took at least 8 hours.

The third step relies both on manual input and automation. I’ve spent probably in the neighborhood of 60 hours working on creating a list of about 85,000 variants of user inputted locations. The tasks for doing this included reverse geocoding, creating lists of city/state/country patterns for Australia based on observations for patterns that I saw as repeating, individually evaluating user inputted locations to try to make an accurate guess as to what the user meant in terms of their location. My focus was on getting as much of the city/state/country information for Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Ireland. For countries other than those listed, I just tried to identify that the account came from a country. The selection of countries for most specific location data was based on where I saw Australian sport followers as coming from and my own understanding of a country’s geography. I don’t understand the geography of South Africa and Costa Rice as much as I could. I didn’t want to spend the time to completely understand it to better label those accounts. The time to overcome my learning curve felt better used by continuing to improve the list of unknowns to relatively known. Despite the huge amount of time spent on this, I have a list of over 50,000 user inputted locations that I haven’t begun to look at. As a perfectionist, this drives me absolutely nutters. I can’t possibly translate every user inputted location into a usable location. (I’m still working on improving it anyway.) The more accurate this list, the better my results. (And given the size of the data sets involved, I have my own user input errors that I don’t always find until I run the locations.)

To give this perspective, let’s look at @warne888. He had over 198,000 followers. I found over 50,000 user inputted locations which did not have a location I had appended to that variant. This, when it was pulling from a list of 65,000 variants. India turned out to be the big problem in that I didn’t have that many variants for cities in the country. Out of a list of 50,000 followers for @warne888, 17,000 of those followers listed neither a user inputted location nor a useable time zone for determining their location. Roughly 34% of his followers I’m never going to determine where they are from.

That said, understanding the conditions of this data set, let me get to the actual results. These were found by combining all the follower results from all 450+ different accounts. By combine, only the UserID (A unique number Twitter has assigned for every account) and the country were put in the new file. The duplicate rows were then removed to insure that people who followed multiple accounts were only counted once. This should begin to give an idea as to the comparative distribution globally of Australian sport fans.

Country Count
Australia 77682
India 46174
United States 26515
Unknown 19717
United Kingdom 17547
South Africa 8456
New Zealand 4806
Canada 2004
Ecuador 1819
United Arab Emirates 1325
Ireland 1318
Brazil 1139
Chile 1101
Bangladesh 1085
Pakistan 1062
Argentina 909
Singapore 850
Germany 760
France 712
Japan 670
Indonesia 579
Philippines 535
Spain 430
Netherlands 413
China 310
Sri Lanka 280
Thailand 275
Malaysia 257
Hong Kong 230
Mexico 214
Italy 190
Portugal 159
Qatar 156
Belgium 152
Sweden 140
Kuwait 139
Saudi Arabia 136
Nepal 132
Switzerland 124
Iran 121
Bahrain 119
Norway 119
Venezuela 119
Turkey 108
Colombia 105
Israel 96
Denmark 90
Peru 90
Egypt 73
Costa Rica 72
Romania 67
Russia 62
Greece 61
Puerto Rico 59
Poland 56
Austria 54
Uruguay 48
Finland 44
Jersey 41
Vietnam 38
Serbia 33
Oman 32
South Korea 32
Barbados 30
Cyprus 29
Taiwan 28
Malta 26
Fiji 24
Kenya 24
Mauritius 22
Paraguay 22
Slovenia 22
Panama 21
Vatican City State 21
Nigeria 20
Maldives 19
Morocco 19
Croatia 18
Ghana 18
Guatemala 18
Ukraine 18
Czech Republic 17
Jamaica 17
Jordan 17
Latvia 17
Papua New Guinea 16
Gibraltar 15
Guernsey 14
Guyana 14
Bermuda 13
Botswana 13
Brunei 13
El Salvador 13
Hungary 13
Namibia 12
Dominican Republic 11
Bulgaria 10
Macedonia 10
Mongolia 10
Lebanon 9
Lithuania 9
Luxembourg 9
Honduras 8
Iceland 8
Monaco 8
Tonga 8
Afghanistan 7
Slovakia 7
Tanzania 7
Tunisia 7
Zimbabwe 7
Bolivia 6
Estonia 6
Iraq 6
Kazakhstan 6
Mozambique 6
Nicaragua 6
Trinidad and Tobago 6
Uganda 6
Algeria 5
Cayman Islands 5
New Caledonia 5
Swaziland 5
Antarctica 4
Aruba 4
Bosnia and Herzegovi 4
Cambodia 4
Haiti 4
Isle of Man 4
Samoa 4
Sudan 4
Zambia 4
Andorra 3
Armenia 3
Cameroon 3
French Polynesia 3
Guam 3
Laos 3
London 3
Seychelles 3
Albania 2
Azerbaijan 2
Belarus 2
Bhutan 2
Djibouti 2
Guadeloupe 2
Malawi 2
Marshall Islands 2
Solomon Islands 2
Suriname 2
Angola 1
Ballarat 1
Belize 1
Bendigo 1
Benin 1
Burkina Faso 1
Chad 1
Christmas Island 1
Congo 1
Cook Islands 1
Cuba 1
Ethiopia 1
Faroe Islands 1
Georgia 1
Greenland 1
Grenada 1
Ivory Coast 1
Kyrgyzstan 1
Liberia 1
Libya 1
Liechtenstein 1
Madagascar 1
Moldova 1
Nauru 1
Norfolk Island 1
Northcote 1
Reunion 1
Rwanda 1
Senegal 1
Sierra Leone 1
Somalia 1
Syria 1
Turks and Caicos Isl 1
United Kindom 1
Vanuatu 1
Virgin Islands 1
Western Sahara 1

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Most popular female Australian athletes and teams on Twitter

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 13 October, 2010

I spent an hour or two looking to improve this list with an eye for female Australian athletes. They’ve been doing so well during the Commonwealth Games, the Matildas are doing awesome, the W-League and WNBL seasons are upon us. It seems like a great time to spotlight female athletes and teams. Of course, after I ran this list, I found another five or so female Australian athletes (cricketers) so this isn’t as comprehensive as I’d like. If you know of any Australian female athletes, clubs or leagues I am missing… let me know so that future lists can be improved.


Account League Team Description Followers Statuses Listed Friends
ItsStephRice Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice athlete 11805 2824 398 45
watsonjessica Yachting Australia Jessica Watson sailor 5156 256 184 9
libby_trickett Swimming Australia Libby Trickett athlete 4204 1344 149 111
LayneCBeachley Surf Life Saving Australia Layne Beachley surfer 2405 187 119 33
MelbourneVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens official team 1640 693 66 25
SharelleVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player 1523 262 64 42
caseydellacqua Tennis Australia Casey Dellacqua player 1521 13 207 8
_Moffy Triathlon Australia Emma Moffatt triathlete 1300 69 91 12
arodionova Tennis Australia Anastasia Rodionova player 1259 259 225 15
katehollywood10 Hockey Australia Hockeyroos player 1168 656 52 80
RochelleGilmore Cycling Australia Rochelle Gilmore biker 1103 99 73 85
TorahBright Ski and Snowboard Australia Torah Bright snowboarder 1077 160 69 1
NetballAust Netball Australia Netball Australia 997 349 48 129
rebekahkeat Triathlon Australia Rebekah Keat triathlete 979 41 80 38
NicLiv Swimming Australia Nicole Livingstone retired athlete, former Olympian 858 72 35 21
AussieDiamonds Netball Australia Australian Diamonds national team 844 485 44 79
biancachatfield ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (Bianca Chatfield) 732 561 37 106
laurafirebirds ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds player 676 43 38 11
Soph_Edington Swimming Australia Soph Edington athlete 664 305 47 172
meagen_nay Swimming Australia Meagen Nay athlete 661 1196 39 94
JulieCorletto ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens Julie Corletto 656 255 24 101
Renaehallinan ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (Renae Hallinan) 648 351 31 44
SophieSmith86 Cycling Australia Cycling Australia sport journalist for Geelong Advertisers 643 2047 51 261
NatTbirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds 621 51 40 24
amberhalliday Cycling Australia Amber Halliday rower, biker 610 1512 62 305
SusanSwifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts player 570 462 35 27
ash_delaney Swimming Australia Ashley Delaney athlete 535 1342 40 77
rachneylan Australian Cycling Federation Rachel Neylan athlete 482 648 46 241
flickabram Triathlon Australia Felicity Abram triathlete 481 570 30 125
AliciaMolik Tennis Australia Alicia Molik player 466 22 57 8
snowygrl Triathlon Australia MacBeth Kingsbury Watson triathlete 466 2199 28 703
Kimmygee8 Netball Australia Aussie Diamonds player 426 454 23 94
NikButterfield Cycling Australia Nikki Butterfield biker 425 1668 44 99
netballvic Netball Victoria Netball Victoria 422 40 28 625
Jade_Sutcliffe Triathlon Australia Jade Sutcliffe triathlete 403 610 10 67
saracarrigan Cycling Australia Sara Carrigan coach 403 10 29 17
Bridie_OD Cycling Australia Bridie O’Donnell biker (Cyclones) 392 680 36 37
madibrowne ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (Madison Browne) 341 121 18 24
AnnaMeares Cycling Australia Anna Meares biker 338 42 24 172
KateBevNetball ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds player (Kate Beveridge) 336 152 19 22
nswswifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts official team 311 5 24 8
SarahLWall ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player (Sarah L Wall) 300 156 12 58
SusanWCFever ANZ Championship West Coast Fever player 293 116 23 23
kristy_giteau Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player (Kristy Giteau) 279 193 23 20
AdelaideTBirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds official team 273 149 18 0
TheFirebirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds team 259 88 14 32
WNBL WNBL WNBL 228 376 28 44
katebevilaqua Triathlon Australia Kate Bevilaqua triathlete 227 999 19 52
SportingSheilas Australian Olympic Committee Australian Olympic Committee fansite 223 488 20 103
petrinaprice Athletics Australia Petrina Price athlete, high jumper 222 896 13 140
Mengelsman Swimming Australia Michelle Engelsman athlete 215 799 6 446
sallypeers3 Tennis Australia Sally Peers player 199 7 25 8
sarahkent90 Cycling Australia Sarah Kent biker 189 458 23 53
AustralianOpals Basketball Australia Australian Opals national team 180 19 3 469
AusWomensGame W-League W-League fansite 138 593 9 41
MelissaBreen_ Athletics Australia Melissa Breen athlete 130 192 9 48
kateporter83 Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player 127 173 16 28
LDevanna_dc Football Federation Australia Matildas player (Lisa De Vanna) 125 0 16 1
LaurenBoden Athletics Australia Lauren Boden athlete 116 119 8 53
LisaWeightman Athletics Australia Lisa Weightman Marathon runner, Olympian 96 197 11 18
Sydney_Netball Netball New South Wales Netball New South Wales Organization 95 164 6 64
Debby_H_Rugby Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player (Debby Hodgkinson) 86 8 11 14
SportForWomen Australian Olympic Committee Australian Olympic Committee fansite 82 176 6 177
bendigospirit WNBL Bendio Spirit 80 219 8 64
KirstyBroun Cycling Australia Kirsty Broun biker 80 39 18 39
mariekeguehrer Swimming Australia Marieke Guehrer swimmer 70 30 7 52
muirsop Skate Australia Sophie Muir speed skater 57 29 9 23
shellwu Triathlon Australia Shelly Wu triathlete 51 471 3 277
samikennedy Ski and Snowboard Australia Sami Kennedy Australian National Ski Cross Team Athlete 50 117 4 96
JaycoRangers WNBL Dandenong Jayco Rangers 46 101 7 24
PetershamNetbal Netball New South Wales Petersham RUFC Netball Club 43 9 6 13
Shannon_McCann Athletics Australia Shannon McCann athlete, one hundred meter hurdles 39 176 1 63
becdomange Cycling Australia Bec Domange biker 33 31 11 42
abcwleague W-League W-League media outlet 21 31 3 15
loganthunder WNBL Logan Thunder 20 3 6 2
cheltz333 Skate Australia Cheltzie Breanna Lee figure skater 9 0 2 2
SelenaJW Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player (Selena Tranter) 4 2 4 5

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Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter (October 11)

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 12 October, 2010

This is an updated version of Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter (version 2) and Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter (October 4). If I’m missing anyone or anything, let me know.


Unlike previous posts where I showed the total followers, I’ve decided to show just the top 25. After that, I have a table which shows the total difference in followers. The most recent columns may be a bit inaccurate in that a couple of new accounts were added to that list and a few either weren’t counted for some reason or were deleted. This accounts for a few of the people on the extremes.

25 most popular Australian sport related accounts as of October 11

Account League Team Followers
warne888 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers 190641
MClarke23 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues 50296
AndrewMBogut Basketball Australia Australian Boombers 28101
Mick_Fanning Surf Life Saving Australia Mick Fanning 22606
dmartyn30 Cricket Australia Western Warriors 17949
JohnSmit123 Super 14 Natal Sharks 17846
AFL AFL AFL 15876
VictorMatfield Super 14 Pretoria Bulls (Northern Bulls) 15856
PH408 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues 13399
LoteTuqiri NRL Wests Tigers 13341
australianopen Tennis Australia Tennis Australia 12462
ItsStephRice Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice 11709
CricketAus Cricket Australia Cricket Australia 10772
RealBigDell NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons 10739
LionsRugbyTeam Rugby World Cup South Africa Lions 10378
QuadeCooper Super 14 Queensland Reds 10168
harry_o AFL Collingwood Magpies 10123
SamBurgess8 NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs 9419
NRL NRL NRL 9362
Collingwood_FC AFL Collingwood Magpies 9178
jarrydhayne_1 NRL Parramatta Eels 8862
jimstynes AFL Melbourne Demons 8668
karmichaelhunt AFL Gold Coast Football Club 8261
mornesteyn Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders 7153
mat_rogers6 NRL Gold Coast Titans 7149

Difference in Twitter Followers over time

Account League Followers Difference Between September 15 and October 4 Difference Between September 15 and October 11 Difference Between October 4 and October 11
australianopen Tennis Australia 185173 12462 12462
CricketAus Cricket Australia 48853 10772 10772
bokrugby South Africa Rugby Union 27747 5613 5613
warne888 Cricket Australia 22015 15055 20523 5468
SpidaEveritt AFL 17486 325 1872 1547
MClarke23 Cricket Australia 17295 3381 4824 1443
DT_13 AFL 15433 2163 2964 801
harry_o AFL 15236 2304 3012 708
SP_10 AFL 13247 2272 2932 660
ItsStephRice Swimming Australia 13012 987 1641 654
AFL AFL 11055 1594 2234 640
Mick_Fanning Surf Life Saving Australia 10436 1098 1689 591
JohnSmit123 Super 14 10309 1301 1852 551
GaryAblettJnr AFL 9785 1698 2244 546
mickmalthouse AFL 9415 1764 2294 530
SharrodW_21 AFL 9168 1297 1792 495
dmartyn30 Cricket Australia 9065 881 1344 463
karmichaelhunt AFL 8734 846 1294 448
Collingwood_FC AFL 8506 1354 1798 444
VictorMatfield Super 14 8275 1158 1581 423
libby_trickett Swimming Australia 7813 418 840 422
giteau_rugby Super 14 6922 844 1247 403
jimstynes AFL 6867 1844 2237 393
QuadeCooper Super 14 6565 749 1132 383
The_Man_Mundine NRL 6332 665 1034 369
jarrydhayne_1 NRL 6050 711 1067 356
AndrewMBogut Basketball Australia 5956 859 1213 354
SamBurgess8 NRL 5855 994 1348 354
AFL_JenWitham AFL 5740 88 432 344
JamesOConnor832 Super 14 5737 532 871 339
LoteTuqiri NRL 5628 1017 1346 329
BrendanFevola05 AFL 5137 568 882 314
RealBigDell NRL 5135 1040 1343 303
scottprince7 NRL 5114 823 1126 303
craiglowndes888 V8 Supercars 4983 177 478 301
mornesteyn Super 14 4955 564 850 286
sgrigg88 AFL 4733 270 549 279
bigfootynews AFL 4706 268 268
robbiefarah NRL 4675 844 1100 256
NBRACKEN142 Cricket Australia 4460 388 628 240
drew_mitchell Super 14 4416 491 725 234
mat_rogers6 NRL 4352 689 916 227
marcmurphy3 AFL 4333 496 722 226
AdamCoopy Super 14 4254 370 592 222
katehollywood10 Hockey Australia 4223 216 437 221
NRL NRL 4046 674 868 194
Richmond_FC AFL 3956 232 417 185
kurtley_beale Super 14 3934 302 486 184
Carlton_FC AFL 3781 369 549 180
NathanHiney NRL 3749 354 528 174
GoldCoastFC AFL 3728 312 479 167
stevenbaker10 AFL 3706 523 689 166
AFLInsider AFL 3654 182 337 155
AndrewMcDonald4 Cricket Australia 3423 299 454 155
PH408 Cricket Australia 3397 411 563 152
tim_mannah NRL 3346 219 369 150
chooka_86 AFL 3282 327 475 148
JobeWatson AFL 3274 400 546 146
socceroos World Cup 3249 156 302 146
kadesimpson6 AFL 3247 289 424 135
Adam0017 AFL 3208 320 452 132
samjacobs32 AFL 2757 224 356 132
geoffhuegill Swimming Australia 2751 91 222 131
HawthornFC AFL 2645 201 331 130
wolfmanwilliams NRL 2615 160 290 130
Adelaide_FC AFL 2611 139 268 129
lehmo23 AFL 2512 335 462 127
stkildafc AFL 2396 639 766 127
adam_gilly Cricket Australia 2365 418 542 124
SharelleVixens ANZ Championship 2339 160 283 123
CyclingAus Cycling Australia 2315 207 324 117
zacd_6 AFL 2306 357 473 116
Fremantle_FC AFL 2280 180 294 114
markMGgeyer NRL 2263 352 466 114
bigdyman AFL 2222 263 374 111
QantasWallabies Rugby World Cup 2192 215 326 111
AngusMonfries AFL 2185 230 340 110
nathan2jones AFL 2152 192 302 110
northkangaroos AFL 2123 167 277 110
ash_delaney Swimming Australia 2045 57 166 109
bigjstevens NRL 2024 430 539 109
meagen_nay Swimming Australia 2009 40 148 108
sydneyswans AFL 2001 211 319 108
AFL_Shifter AFL 1883 263 368 105
AndrewMackieGFC AFL 1846 255 360 105
andrewswallow AFL 1842 211 316 105
NicLiv Swimming Australia 1824 100 205 105
M_Jennings_03 NRL 1738 183 286 103
westernbulldogs AFL 1737 166 267 101
DemonsHQ AFL 1726 179 278 99
kennymonk Swimming Australia 1697 -3 96 99
Real_ColSylvia AFL 1673 216 315 99
AussieDiamonds Netball Australia 1673 92 190 98
PAFC AFL 1660 121 219 98
Bushrangers Cricket Australia 1625 197 292 95
warrentredrea AFL 1593 211 305 94
clintmckay27 Cricket Australia 1568 181 273 92
NeemiaTialata Super 14 1541 180 270 90
benross23 NRL 1491 157 246 89
eddiecowan Cricket Australia 1471 28 116 88
KeeganDaniel Super 14 1468 188 273 85
Wests_Tigers NRL 1456 309 393 84
BlairEvans Swimming Australia 1431 43 126 83
WCEofficial AFL 1384 130 213 83
CaleMorton AFL 1383 135 217 82
team_gws AFL 1371 154 236 82
GCTitans NRL 1318 238 319 81
NetballAust Netball Australia 1311 100 180 80
BradMilzy AFL 1293 183 262 79
AthsAust Athletics Australia 1282 67 145 78
Beamdogg AFL 1280 171 248 77
MelbStormRLC NRL 1267 239 316 77
Rickypetterd15 AFL 1260 130 206 76
Soph_Edington Swimming Australia 1253 90 166 76
NRLNEWS NRL 1250 187 261 74
TennisAustralia Tennis Australia 1239 159 232 73
EricGrotheJnr NRL 1211 182 254 72
CamSchwab AFL 1186 126 197 71
njbrown17 AFL 1153 101 172 71
Renaehallinan ANZ Championship 1127 72 143 71
Robeddy40 AFL 1127 155 226 71
LionsRugbyTeam Rugby World Cup 1107 144 213 69
sharksrugby Super 14 1085 165 234 69
bater06 AFL 1078 94 162 68
PeterDaicos AFL 1073 131 198 67
SSFCRABBITOHS NRL 1068 119 186 67
gorgeousgrose NRL 1050 109 174 65
kevin_gordon1 NRL 1047 195 260 65
snorkymortlock Super 14 1044 175 240 65
troychaplin30 AFL 1029 130 195 65
JulieCorletto ANZ Championship 1010 91 154 63
SteveAlessio AFL 1003 108 170 62
gomvfc A-League 1001 106 166 60
ssalopek3 AFL 997 148 208 60
rgray17 AFL 995 141 199 58
MCC_Members AFL 987 577 633 56
milkandco Swimming Australia 983 89 145 56
AFLphotos AFL 970 118 172 54
JasonJohnson14 AFL 960 103 157 54
alauterstein Swimming Australia 957 69 116 47
nzwarriors NRL 949 126 173 47
ALFbrisbane AFL 941 81 127 46
thefootballsack A-League 927 47 93 46
Joeingles7 NBL 923 103 147 44
Rivshouse AFL 916 60 104 44
Clintontoopi NRL 914 180 223 43
MelbourneVixens ANZ Championship 911 72 115 43
collingwoodnews AFL 910 95 137 42
ryanmcrowley AFL 904 52 94 42
Sam_Blease AFL 904 53 95 42
AusComGamesTeam Australian Commonwealth Games Team 901 52 93 41
NRLTweet NRL 890 100 141 41
SusanSwifts ANZ Championship 884 53 94 41
SusanWCFever ANZ Championship 877 27 68 41
AUSOlympicTeam International Olympic Committee 877 86 126 40
ccaallward AFL 877 43 83 40
THESTORMERS Super 14 857 50 90 40
RaidersCanberra NRL 856 76 115 39
TalkingCarlton AFL 823 57 96 39
AshHarrison1 NRL 821 82 120 38
manlyseaeagles NRL 817 116 154 38
RTTF_AU AFL 816 45 83 38
samstosurnews Tennis Australia 814 14 51 37
AFLBrisbaneFC AFL 814 66 102 36
bmsew AFL 804 60 96 36
laurafirebirds ANZ Championship 802 37 73 36
NBLhoops NBL 794 122 158 36
tamsynlewis Athletics Australia 787 88 123 35
WilliamstownFC VFL 766 29 64 35
APWelsh AFL 744 152 186 34
MitchJbrown17 AFL 744 44 78 34
Adelaide36ers NBL 740 44 77 33
Blueseum AFL 722 81 114 33
essendonfc AFL 715 52 85 33
MitchellWatt Athletics Australia 713 63 96 33
NatTbirds ANZ Championship 706 41 74 33
SydneyFC1011 A-League 691 65 98 33
therabbitohs NRL 687 76 109 33
Carltonfc AFL 683 29 61 32
JaredCrouch AFL 679 88 120 32
BrumbiesRugby Super 14 671 83 114 31
qldcricket Cricket Australia 652 53 84 31
thesydneykings NBL 631 62 93 31
Follow24Hodge NBL 629 203 233 30
PirtekParraEels NRL 623 31 61 30
Reds_Rugby Super 14 614 40 70 30
hughesy_53 AFL 609 60 89 29
crickettas Cricket Australia 596 50 77 27
Israel_Folau NRL 592 45 72 27
Maverick_weller AFL 590 51 78 27
melbournerebels Super 14 588 37 64 27
adrianleijer A-League 588 50 76 26
crusadersrugby Super 14 582 48 74 26
MarkBosnich NSW Premier League 580 38 64 26
penrithpanthers NRL 577 76 102 26
SuperCoachAFL AFL 576 89 115 26
thenzwarriors NRL 561 51 77 26
wgtnphoenixfc A-League 558 81 107 26
Hawks_AFL AFL 558 38 63 25
newto29 AFL 556 55 80 25
Brogsy5 AFL 551 61 84 23
CyclonesHQ Cycling Australia 547 127 150 23
Fergo1990 NRL 543 62 85 23
NSWRL Rugby League/State of Origin 542 52 75 23
TsvCrocs NBL 540 31 54 23
lukeodwyer NRL 539 114 136 22
briansham AFL 524 25 46 21
go_saints AFL 519 48 69 21
rabbitohs NRL 517 29 50 21
TWiLeague NRL 516 59 80 21
hayden_stoeckel Swimming Australia 507 14 34 20
howcroft AFL 505 79 99 20
MelbourneStorm_ NRL 499 38 58 20
perthwildcats NBL 495 48 68 20
Hurricanesrugby Super 14 480 23 42 19
andrew_symonds Cricket Australia 479 44 62 18
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theNSWIS AIS 476 42 60 18
Wortho33 NBL 474 38 56 18
L_Weeks Super 14 467 29 46 17
PerthGlory_FC A-League 465 53 70 17
SydAFLFan AFL 462 15 32 17
ABLeague Australian Baseball League 449 14 30 16
joe_tomane29 NRL 445 46 62 16
RedsRugby Super 14 436 59 75 16
ryannapoleon Swimming Australia 435 4 20 16
aussieboomers Basketball Australia 421 48 63 15
BNERoar A-League 418 38 53 15
Freo_Dockers AFL 410 11 26 15
petrinaprice Athletics Australia 403 23 38 15
AdelaideTBirds ANZ Championship 398 14 28 14
AUSParalympics Australia Paralympics 379 33 47 14
CaseyScorpions VFL 377 27 41 14
Dusty_Rychart NBL 376 21 35 14
NB_Roosters VFL 372 43 57 14
nswswifts ANZ Championship 371 16 30 14
NZBreakers NBL 367 20 34 14
rachneylan Australian Cycling Federation 360 12 26 14
ultimatealeague A-League 356 24 38 14
unicanberra AIS 354 36 50 14
wollongonghawks NBL 353 31 45 14
adelaideunited A-League 351 29 42 13
Dockerland AFL 350 15 28 13
GGArmy World Cup 346 14 27 13
yellow_n_black AFL 342 3 16 13
Bridie_OD Cycling Australia 341 76 88 12
brisbaneroar A-League 339 38 50 12
CF_Demons AFL 335 12 24 12
gymaustralia Gymnastics Australia 324 10 22 12
netballvic Netball Victoria 312 22 34 12
oscarforman NBL 310 8 20 12
PencilsCase AFL 300 31 43 12
wceaglesfc AFL 292 5 17 12
MelissaBreen_ Athletics Australia 292 32 43 11
mhfcsupporters A-League 288 13 24 11
nqfuryfc A-League 286 24 35 11
CCMarinersFC A-League 285 20 30 10
Demonblog AFL 284 1 11 10
fakebrycegibbs NRL 283 52 62 10
GCUSC A-League 276 21 31 10
LawrieMcKinna A-League 273 33 43 10
newcastle_jets A-League 270 19 29 10
jsaffy NRL 269 21 30 9
pattmurphy Swimming Australia 269 14 23 9
PlanetEels NRL 268 19 28 9
TasU18s U18 National Championships 260 13 22 9
_the_kennel_ AFL 259 20 28 8
BionicSwan AFL 256 12 20 8
jgovereasy NBL 254 9 17 8
mvfcfanzone A-League 253 11 19 8
parramatta_eels NRL 250 14 22 8
RWBFooty AFL 250 7 15 8
tigers1908 NRL 246 20 28 8
WA_U18s U18 National Championships 242 9 17 8
wingsofperth AFL 241 10 18 8
blueandgoldarmy NRL 241 13 20 7
JoshJenkins24 NBL 236 5 12 7
LaurenBoden Athletics Australia 232 27 34 7
MattAbood Swimming Australia 231 10 17 7
milisimic NBL 227 14 21 7
NABCup AFL 226 10 17 7
RowingAust Rowing Australia 222 38 45 7
SFCNews A-League 222 10 17 7
SophieSmith86 Cycling Australia 218 101 108 7
sydneybears AIHL 217 3 10 7
adelaidereds A-League 216 29 35 6
broncosbigfan NRL 216 24 30 6
JoeyDaye AFL 215 12 18 6
johnrillie NBL 214 18 24 6
MelbourneFC AFL 213 12 18 6
mighty_dragons NRL 208 18 24 6
Shannon_McCann Athletics Australia 208 9 15 6
SwansPerthCrew AFL 206 6 12 6
swansreserves AFL Canberra 206 13 19 6
sydneykings NBL 203 17 23 6
VicCountryU18s U18 National Championships 203 12 18 6
VicMetroU18s U18 National Championships 200 12 18 6
victoryinmelb A-League 192 9 15 6
womeninleague NRL 191 24 30 6
1eyedeel NRL 188 13 18 5
bendigospirit WNBL 188 8 13 5
DarrenNg8 NBL 186 15 20 5
NT_U18s U18 National Championships 184 8 13 5
PerthHeat Claxton Shield 182 5 10 5
QLD_Maroons Rugby League/State of Origin 181 14 19 5
QldU18s U18 National Championships 177 11 16 5
TheMelbourneIce AIHL 174 7 12 5
AUS_XC Australian Cross Country Ski Team 164 0 4 4
AusWomensGame W-League 162 1 5 4
canberracyclist Cycling ACT 161 9 13 4
Cats_Coach NBL 158 11 15 4
Cats_Media NBL 156 21 25 4
chomicide NBL 155 23 27 4
danjackson9 NBL 148 19 23 4
demonland AFL 146 7 11 4
fake_EssendonFC AFL 145 7 11 4
ftscrazy AFL 143 12 16 4
LisaWeightman Athletics Australia 142 16 20 4
nunawading_sc Swimming Australia 142 0 4 4
socceroos_news World Cup 140 4 8 4
TheRealSchensh NBL 140 20 24 4
WNBL WNBL 134 14 18 4
ACT4GWS AFL 133 10 13 3
AIHL AIHL 128 1 4 3
ausvolley Volleyball Australia 127 15 18 3
CatsWagstaff NBL 124 11 14 3
JaycoRangers WNBL 122 6 9 3
Marcus__White AFL 116 5 8 3
matesOmelbourne AFL 115 12 15 3
rustyhinder NBL 112 23 26 3
s14_force Super 14 112 9 12 3
s14_queensland Super 14 111 3 6 3
SA_U18s U18 National Championships 111 16 19 3
teamjaycoskins UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) 110 24 27 3
WestCoastEagles AFL 105 1 4 3
Aaron_Cannings NRL 104 12 14 2
ACENetball Brisbane Netball Association 102 3 5 2
adelaidefc AFL 102 4 6 2
bulldogsnews NRL 100 19 21 2
CanberraCycling Cycling ACT 97 5 7 2
CatsCommunity NBL 95 6 8 2
CatsGM NBL 93 25 27 2
catslisch NBL 93 24 26 2
kateporter83 Australian Rugby Union 92 5 7 2
loganthunder WNBL 90 2 4 2
nickmarvin NBL 88 9 11 2
NSWACT_Rams U18 National Championships 88 10 12 2
Sydney_Netball Netball New South Wales 87 3 5 2
SydneyFC A-League 86 3 5 2
velocanberra Cycling Australia 85 3 5 2
VictoriaParkHC AFL 85 1 3 2
36ers NBL 82 8 9 1
abcwleague W-League 80 0 1 1
AFL_Aus AFL 80 7 8 1
BenFitz NBL 78 1 2 1
BoroughBoy VFL 77 2 3 1
CatsGear NBL 76 5 6 1
CatsTickets NBL 76 7 8 1
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demonwiki AFL 75 0 1 1
FremantleFC AFL 73 7 8 1
hnim AIHL 73 3 4 1
hockeypulse AIHL 71 1 2 1
ManlyUnited NSW Premier League 70 1 2 1
Mengelsman Swimming Australia 67 23 24 1
mmurpha Volleyball Australia 61 5 6 1
Orcas_Netball Plenty Valley Netball Association 60 3 4 1
perthblitz Gridiron Australia Nationals 59 0 1 1
PetershamNetbal Netball New South Wales 54 2 3 1
SEABL Semi Professional Basketball League 53 5 6 1
ucniss AIS 51 0 1 1
victorytwit A-League 46 0 1 1
520507 AIS 46 0 0 0
AustralianOpals Basketball Australia 45 4 4 0
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sashpet Handball Australia 38 -3 -3 0
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thecattery AFL 21 8 8 0
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willo43 NBL 17 3 3 0
bc8977 AFL 16 4 3 -1
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CatmanForever AFL 12 0 -1 -1
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jreynojreyno AFL 4 0 -1 -1
Kegs42 NBL 226 7 6 -1
Saints_FC AFL 836 9 8 -1
AlexCarver91 UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) 1024 4 2 -2
hawkaDT AFL 108 -2 -4 -2
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Geelong_FC AFL 1076 161 107 -54

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Twitter: A Solution to the Follow Spammers

Posted by Laura on Tuesday, 5 October, 2010

I’m having another period of annoyance with Twitter. I really feel like I should probably turn off alerts for followers again because right now? I’m pretty much putting people on a spammer list if they have 2,000 people they already follow. I’m also sending out cranky DMs blasting people for doing this sort of following.

For the past two months, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at Twitter. I’ve looked at follower counts. I’ve looked at follower geographic patterns. I’ve looked at people’s descriptions. I’ve looked at people’s geographic locations. The point of this is often to determine the geographic location of Australian sport fandom. I’ve read a fair bit on technology blogs about Twitter to help further my own understanding of Twitter to help me with intended mini-literature review in my Twitter chapter of my dissertation. I’ve basically been ODing on Twitter. There is a lot of interesting stuff out there.

But as a user? I’m getting pretty cranky. Seriously cranky. Every day, it feels like I’m getting 2 to 10 follows (across about 3 different accounts) from people who I don’t know, who are not geographically close to where I’m writing about, who don’t appear interested in professional sports, who have low interaction rates, who have 2,000+ people they follow. As part of my research, I constantly ask: What is the ROI for a team on Twitter in terms of where their audience is located? How can they best leverage their network? What can they provide for their fans to induce them to follow them? How can their fans help them? As a user, I can’t see how the people like I describe who follow me gain any benefit from that. (They can’t read me. I can barely keep up with 350. I function more or less because Americans get neglected as they post while I sleep.) (In one case, I got followed and unfollowed by about 5 times by the same user with 4,000 followers. ) As a user, I can’t see what they offer me. They rarely bother to explain.

And this is killing my desire to stay on Twitter. Seriously killing my desire to stay on Twitter. I just can’t. There are people I want and need to keep track of on Twitter for professional reasons. (The personal ones are almost exclusively on Facebook these days. On that level, I don’t feel the need to stay.) If you’re not active on Twitter and you cover social media, people sometimes doubt your legitimacy because you’re not using the product you’re discussing.

What I’d really like is for Twitter to make the following reforms:

1. Add a field for follow philosophy. It can be selecting from a list. It can be freeform writing. This way, when people follow others, they can see if they have a mutual philosophy. “I follow back people everyone.” “I follow friends, family and professional acquaintances.” “I follow celebrities.” “I follow only people with less than 1,000 followers.”
2. Allow people to block people with certain follow totals unless you follow them first. (I want to block anyone with 1,500 people they follow from following me first. If you want to follow me, interact with me first. Otherwise, add me to a list.) This way, spam following by power users is cut back.

The two following methods would help to kill off the Twitter spam following (and yes, your unwanted e-mail notification that you followed me to never read me is spam. It is unwanted and unsolicited and you didn’t indicate any mutual interest.) and help prevent my own fatigue. I use and prefer Facebook more than Twitter precisely because I’m not inundated with unwanted announcements like that.

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Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter (October 4)

Posted by Laura on Monday, 4 October, 2010

This is an updated version of Most popular Australian athletes, clubs, leagues and sport organizations on Twitter (version 2). If I’m missing anyone or anything, let me know.

The top 10 are unchanged since the last time I ran this. Stephanie Rice gained one place, going from 12 to 11. RealBigDell moved from 13 to 12. LionsRugbyTeam dropped from 11 to 13.  harry_o moved from 19 to 15. NRL and SamBurgess8 both dropped one. jarrydhayne_1 moved from 17 to 19. karmichaelhunt and jimstynes swapped places with jimstynes going up one and karmichaelhunt going down one. Of the top 20, warne888 gained the most total new followers with 15,055. LionsRugbyTeam gained the least with 144. harry_o, who had the biggest gain, had 2304 new followers. The biggest overall loser is BENJI_MARSHALL6 who lost 33 followers.

Account League Team Description Followers Statuses Listed Friends
warne888 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers 185173 1552 3979 82
MClarke23 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 48853 514 1392 58
AndrewMBogut Basketball Australia Australian Boombers Andrew Bogut 27747 5821 1468 149
Mick_Fanning Surf Life Saving Australia Mick Fanning surfer 22015 2113 857 252
dmartyn30 Cricket Australia Western Warriors former player 17486 2785 753 755
JohnSmit123 Super 14 Natal Sharks player 17295 387 566 25
VictorMatfield Super 14 Pretoria Bulls (Northern Bulls) player 15433 422 530 50
AFL AFL AFL official 15236 4937 537 530
PH408 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 13247 15 487 0
LoteTuqiri NRL Wests Tigers player 13012 3936 554 82
ItsStephRice Swimming Australia Stephanie Rice athlete 11055 2815 383 43
RealBigDell NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial 10436 5091 308 165
LionsRugbyTeam Rugby World Cup South Africa Lions 10309 4568 330 11296
QuadeCooper Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial 9785 6619 347 51
harry_o AFL Collingwood Magpies player 9415 2106 285 526
NRL NRL NRL 9168 4990 300 52
SamBurgess8 NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs player 9065 1806 203 98
Collingwood_FC AFL Collingwood Magpies official 8734 1976 279 5552
jarrydhayne_1 NRL Parramatta Eels player 8506 1114 176 112
jimstynes AFL Melbourne Demons player 8275 144 211 13
karmichaelhunt AFL Gold Coast Football Club Karmichael Hunt (player) 7813 4705 278 157
mat_rogers6 NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 6922 2245 309 121
mornesteyn Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders unofficial 6867 71 274 6
giteau_rugby Super 14 ACT Brumbies player 6565 353 219 34
Adelaide_FC AFL Adelaide Crows official 6332 3109 227 6002
JamesOConnor832 Super 14 Western Force player 6050 1061 210 46
JobeWatson AFL Essendon Bombers player 5956 134 186 4
sydneyswans AFL Sydney Swans official 5855 2746 240 2445
mickmalthouse AFL Collingwood Magpies Mick Malthouse 5740 76 166 15
adam_gilly Cricket Australia Western Warriors former player 5737 12 137 1
NeemiaTialata Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes Neemia Tialata 5628 2148 344 1705
stkildafc AFL St. Kilda Saints official 5137 2836 199 5116
DT_13 AFL Collingwood Magpies Dale Thomas 5135 169 127 16
lehmo23 AFL Hawthorn Hawks player 5114 1723 202 540
GaryAblettJnr AFL Geelong Cats player 4983 77 95 16
AngusMonfries AFL Essendon Bombers player 4955 262 181 18
Carlton_FC AFL Carlton Blues official 4733 2411 222 3960
SP_10 AFL Collingwood Magpies player 4706 216 113 33
socceroos World Cup Socceroos official 4675 511 213 1671
robbiefarah NRL Wests Tigers player 4460 535 89 30
drew_mitchell Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs player 4416 201 174 37
QantasWallabies Rugby World Cup Wallabies 4352 2191 238 421
BrendanFevola05 AFL Brisbane Lions player 4333 201 131 28
NathanHiney NRL Parramatta Eels player 4254 70 113 11
NBRACKEN142 Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 4223 2402 237 189
AdamCoopy Super 14 ACT Brumbies player 4046 140 162 34
markMGgeyer NRL Penrith Panthers former player 3956 1359 171 90
Hurricanesrugby Super 14 Wellington Hurricanes 3934 689 173 3299
northkangaroos AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos official 3781 1824 150 3983
Geelong_FC AFL Geelong Cats fansite 3749 3708 155 1956
libby_trickett Swimming Australia Libby Trickett athlete 3728 1275 141 110
BENJI_MARSHALL6 NRL Wests Tigers player 3706 123 66 56
scottprince7 NRL Gold Coast Titans player 3654 349 78 82
Richmond_FC AFL Richmond Tigers official 3423 872 146 572
HawthornFC AFL Hawthorn Hawks official 3397 956 165 9
SuperCoachAFL AFL AFL fansite 3346 219 149 2322
The_Man_Mundine NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons former player 3282 500 57 48
GCTitans NRL Gold Coast Titans 3274 377 137 19
kurtley_beale Super 14 New South Wales Waratahs player 3249 224 122 24
SharrodW_21 AFL Collingwood Magpies player 3247 65 98 25
nathan2jones AFL Melbourne Demons player 3208 1250 138 289
nzwarriors NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) unofficial 2757 259 90 377
tim_mannah NRL Parramatta Eels player 2751 178 70 49
gomvfc A-League Melbourne Victory 2645 1267 160 1415
Wests_Tigers NRL Wests Tigers official 2615 698 105 823
DemonsHQ AFL Melbourne Demons official 2611 2014 146 537
bigjstevens NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks former player 2512 550 61 52
CyclingAus Cycling Australia Cycling Australia official 2396 1316 163 40
GoldCoastFC AFL Gold Coast Football Club official 2365 879 141 582
CamSchwab AFL Melbourne Demons ceo 2339 1988 102 444
sharksrugby Super 14 Durban Sharks (Coastal Sharks)(Natal Sharks) 2315 250 109 36
Fremantle_FC AFL Fremantle Dockers official 2306 633 133 160
WCEofficial AFL West Coast Eagles 2280 1304 134 4
PAFC AFL Port Adelaide Power official 2263 1170 151 72
MelbStormRLC NRL Melbourne Storm official 2222 747 123 1788
stevenbaker10 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 2192 618 65 125
SSFCRABBITOHS NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs 2185 1568 121 1040
Follow24Hodge NBL Melbourne Tigers player 2152 2319 120 50
TennisAustralia Tennis Australia Tennis Australia official 2123 1963 207 76
THESTORMERS Super 14 Cape Town Stormers (Western Stormers) 2045 385 85 213
craiglowndes888 V8 Supercars TeamVodafone driver 2024 85 130 42
marcmurphy3 AFL Carlton Blues player 2009 66 73 21
AndrewMackieGFC AFL Geelong Cats player 2001 33 91 3
Bushrangers Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers official 1883 2024 130 982
socceroos_news World Cup Socceroos unofficial 1846 11324 82 1712
manlyseaeagles NRL Manly Sea Eagles 1842 865 104 1756
Rickypetterd15 AFL Melbourne Demons unofficial 1824 260 87 86
M_Jennings_03 NRL Penrith Panthers player 1738 16 53 11
MCC_Members AFL Melbourne Demons 1737 732 43 1396
westernbulldogs AFL Western Bulldogs official 1726 285 92 11
Beamdogg AFL Melbourne Demons player 1697 147 60 112
andrewswallow AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos unofficial 1673 321 81 13
chooka_86 AFL Carlton Blues player 1673 950 67 200
howcroft AFL Melbourne Demons player 1660 264 68 74
Adam0017 AFL Western Bulldogs player 1625 220 52 51
MelbourneVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens 1593 644 65 24
benross23 NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs unofficial 1568 935 68 75
Hawks_AFL AFL Hawthorn Hawks unofficial 1541 1014 29 1961
BradMilzy AFL Melbourne Demons player 1491 111 51 52
NRLNEWS NRL NRL unofficial 1471 2613 45 362
AUSOlympicTeam International Olympic Committee Australian Olympic Committee official 1468 481 106 45
penrithpanthers NRL Penrith Panthers unofficial 1456 1341 87 87
Real_ColSylvia AFL Melbourne Demons player 1431 20 50 32
SteveAlessio AFL Essendon Bombers former Essendon AFL player 1384 741 78 221
SharelleVixens ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player 1383 252 60 42
SpidaEveritt AFL AFL former player 1371 162 47 1412
KeeganDaniel Super 14 Natal Sharks unofficial 1318 79 57 10
ALFbrisbane AFL Brisbane Lions fansite 1311 18 54 3
Adelaide36ers NBL Adelaide 36ers 1293 740 75 828
crusadersrugby Super 14 Canterbury Crusaders 1282 125 86 2
Joeingles7 NBL South Dragons unofficial 1280 742 76 52
ClarkeVC Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 1267 16 43 33
warrentredrea AFL Port Adelaide Power player 1260 402 50 82
SydneyFC1011 A-League Sydney FC 1253 2761 97 1062
bigdyman AFL Collingwood Magpies player 1250 529 78 22
snorkymortlock Super 14 ACT Brumbies player 1239 67 86 12
PeterDaicos AFL Collingwood Magpies unofficial 1211 59 73 681
mitchlangerak A-League Melbourne Victory player 1186 40 60 14
BrumbiesRugby Super 14 ACT Brumbies official 1153 873 84 135
adrianleijer A-League Melbourne Victory player, Adrian Leijer 1127 155 75 59
kevin_gordon1 NRL Gold Coast Titans player 1127 31 35 18
therabbitohs NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs official 1107 210 72 10
parramatta_eels NRL Parramatta Eels 1085 17 39 1076
wgtnphoenixfc A-League Wellington Phoenix 1078 521 58 69
kadesimpson6 AFL Carlton Blues player 1073 27 38 11
LawrieMcKinna A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club coach 1068 1704 79 1
AFLphotos AFL AFL official 1050 375 54 89
team_gws AFL Greater Western Sydney official 1047 219 71 162
NRLTweet NRL NRL unofficial 1044 6477 63 213
EricGrotheJnr NRL Parramatta Eels player 1029 20 22 0
wollongonghawks NBL Wollongong Hawks 1010 1656 73 1669
Reds_Rugby Super 14 Queensland Reds 1003 211 66 27
RedsRugby Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial 1001 184 51 176
gorgeousgrose NRL Manly Sea Eagles unofficial 997 363 54 68
CaleMorton AFL Melbourne Demons player 995 151 42 42
sgrigg88 AFL Carlton Blues player 987 46 33 13
NBLhoops NBL NBL 983 709 65 86
sba_ Skateboarding Australia Skateboarding Australia official 970 651 17 1897
zacd_6 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 960 109 29 53
aussieboomers Basketball Australia Australian Boomers official 957 242 67 0
RaidersCanberra NRL Canberra Raiders 949 193 81 5
MelbourneStorm_ NRL Melbourne Storm unofficial 941 14 36 12
AFL_Shifter AFL AFL talent scout Kevin Sheehan 927 105 31 11
PirtekParraEels NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 923 57 56 7
katehollywood10 Hockey Australia Hockeyroos player 916 549 45 78
collingwoodnews AFL Collingwood Magpies unofficial 914 6 34 1
rabbitohs NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs unofficial 911 1286 45 671
NetballAust Netball Australia Netball Australia 910 263 44 128
AshHarrison1 NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 904 216 56 25
Rivshouse AFL Melbourne Demons player 904 10 46 8
nqfuryfc A-League North Queensland Fury FC 901 2268 65 1781
alauterstein Swimming Australia Andrew Lauterstein athlete 890 611 56 122
AndrewMcDonald4 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers Andrew McDonald 884 159 64 40
lukeodwyer NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 877 692 57 51
melbournerebels Super 14 Melbourne Rebels 877 149 49 752
perthwildcats NBL Perth Wildcats 877 246 60 68
samjacobs32 AFL Carlton Blues player 857 33 30 20
MarkBosnich NSW Premier League Sydney Olympic unofficial 856 29 53 16
andrew_symonds Cricket Australia Queensland Bulls player 823 2 30 5
AFLInsider AFL AFL official 821 54 46 84
thefootballsack A-League A-League fansite 817 4478 55 1534
unicanberra AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies 816 117 52 125
bater06 AFL Melbourne Demons Matthew Bate 814 84 33 57
thenzwarriors NRL New Zealand Warriors (Auckland Warriors) 814 183 65 72
PerthGlory_FC A-League Perth Glory 804 85 77 27
troychaplin30 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 802 286 32 82
tamsynlewis Athletics Australia Tamsyn Lewis athlete, media personality 794 1535 42 143
JasonJohnson14 AFL Essendon Bombers former Essendon AFL player 787 52 33 22
njbrown17 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 766 43 47 19
L_Weeks Super 14 Queensland Reds player 744 581 52 117
NicLiv Swimming Australia Nicole Livingstone retired athlete, former Olympian 744 72 32 21
Clintontoopi NRL Gold Coast Titans player 740 190 24 25
milkandco Swimming Australia Michael Klim athlete 722 221 17 113
AFLBrisbaneFC AFL Brisbane Lions fansite 715 1056 32 24
AussieDiamonds Netball Australia Australian Diamonds (national team) 713 328 42 68
wolfmanwilliams NRL Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles player 706 31 22 9
BNERoar A-League Brisbane Roar unofficial 691 838 52 217
ssalopek3 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 687 133 27 45
geoffhuegill Swimming Australia Geoff Huegill retired athlete, former Olympian 683 15 41 17
victoryinmelb A-League Melbourne Victory 679 1876 52 90
johnrillie NBL New Zealand Breakers unofficial 671 2939 52 370
TWiLeague NRL NRL show 652 2120 42 1408
SophieSmith86 Cycling Australia Cycling Australia sport journalist for Geelong Advertisers 631 2000 47 257
laurafirebirds ANZ Championship Queensland Firebirds player 629 43 34 11
JaredCrouch AFL Sydney Swans former player 623 596 40 111
Freo_Dockers AFL Fremantle Dockers fansite 614 2220 42 346
APWelsh AFL Essendon Bombers player 609 45 23 40
newcastle_jets A-League Newcastle Jets 596 8 39 14
adelaideunited A-League Adelaide United 592 125 51 133
MitchellWatt Athletics Australia Mitchell Watt athlete 590 1307 38 127
Robeddy40 AFL St. Kilda Saints player 588 67 21 52
wingsofperth AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial 588 798 9 8
JulieCorletto ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens Julie Corletto 582 237 23 92
NatTbirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds 580 50 38 15
Soph_Edington Swimming Australia Soph Edington athlete 577 299 43 171
thesydneykings NBL Sydney Kings official 576 325 40 17
brisbaneroar A-League Brisbane Roar 561 381 63 14
RowingAust Rowing Australia Rowing Australia official 558 153 20 18
newto29 AFL Melbourne Demons player 558 178 29 94
Renaehallinan ANZ Championship Melbourne Vixens player 556 324 29 43
GGArmy World Cup Socceroos unofficial 551 481 29 620
RTTF_AU AFL Sydney Swans fansite 547 1190 35 956
AFL_JenWitham AFL AFL 543 539 43 224
meagen_nay Swimming Australia Meagen Nay athlete 542 1172 33 101
PencilsCase AFL Melbourne Demons Jake Spencer 540 36 34 40
hughesy_53 AFL Melbourne Demons player 539 76 22 43
SusanSwifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts player 524 444 33 28
PlanetEels NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 519 2678 32 596
NSWRL Rugby League/State of Origin New South Wales Blues 517 629 34 69
SFCNews A-League Sydney FC unofficial 516 864 61 135
clintmckay27 Cricket Australia Victorian Bushrangers Clint Mckay 507 59 40 18
Wortho33 NBL Melbourne Tigers player 505 454 32 100
CatsGM NBL Perth Wildcats 499 2633 59 65
Fergo1990 NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks unofficial 495 47 29 16
FremantleFC AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial 480 1 13 0
milisimic NBL Wollongong Hawks player 479 3484 35 817
adelaidereds A-League Adelaide United 476 1226 58 284
fakebrycegibbs NRL Wests Tigers unofficial 476 420 23 384
TsvCrocs NBL Townsville Crocodiles 474 1900 39 371
crickettas Cricket Australia Tassie Tigers 467 203 33 1
rachneylan Australian Cycling Federation rachel neylan athlete 465 627 45 237
Carltonfc AFL Carlton Blues fansite 462 597 17 46
broncosbigfan NRL Brisbane Broncos unofficial 449 917 28 469
ultimatealeague A-League A-League fansite 445 2756 40 78
TalkingCarlton AFL Carlton Blues fansite 436 2083 31 30
Maverick_weller AFL Gold Coast Football Club player 435 457 28 63
chomicide NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 421 572 29 340
ash_delaney Swimming Australia Ashley Delaney athlete 418 1333 36 78
netballvic Netball Victoria Netball Victoria 410 40 27 626
Sam_Blease AFL Melbourne Demons player 403 56 12 62
MitchJbrown17 AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial 398 13 38 6
Bridie_OD Cycling Australia Cyclones athlete 379 650 35 36
Dusty_Rychart NBL Cairns Taipans player 377 1591 26 55
mighty_dragons NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial 376 3 16 7
essendonfc AFL Essendon Bombers unofficial 372 1 10 0
NRLlivebetting NRL NRL unofficial 371 1996 5 18
WilliamstownFC VFL Williamstown Football Club 367 425 15 297
NZBreakers NBL New Zealand Breakers 360 106 35 13
GCUSC A-League Gold Coast United unofficial supporter club 356 947 31 353
HalfTimeHeroes World Cup Socceroos soccer fansite 354 336 18 1067
blueandgoldarmy NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 353 2652 18 82
_the_kennel_ AFL Western Bulldogs fansite 351 2624 20 37
samstosurnews Tennis Australia Sam Stosur official 350 2849 39 73
Israel_Folau NRL Brisbane Broncos player 346 194 9 10
ryanmcrowley AFL Fremantle Dockers player 342 31 25 17
eddiecowan Cricket Australia New South Wales Blues player 341 994 41 150
AthsAust Athletics Australia Athletics Australia organization 339 472 25 87
teamjaycoskins UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) Team Jayco Skins / Cycling Australia official 335 133 24 22
rgray17 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 324 22 14 31
MelbourneFC AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 312 1 9 0
WestCoastEagles AFL West Coast Eagles unofficial 310 2 2 0
CaseyScorpions VFL Casey Scorpions 300 84 13 5
CCMarinersFC A-League Central Coast Mariners Football Club unofficial 292 589 36 119
nswswifts ANZ Championship New South Wales Swifts official 292 5 22 8
BlairEvans Swimming Australia Blair Evans athlete 288 342 12 167
TheMelbourneIce AIHL Melbourne Ice 286 512 19 1
mhfcsupporters A-League Melbourne Heart 285 594 27 55
bmsew AFL Hawthorn Hawks unofficial 284 0 22 53
520507 AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies Keith Lyons 283 883 14 346
demonland AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 276 489 11 190
Demonblog AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 273 3170 12 58
qldcricket Cricket Australia Queensland Bulls official 270 183 19 22
Dockerland AFL Fremantle Dockers fansite 269 378 12 0
oscarforman NBL New Zealand Breakers unofficial 269 469 25 40
TheRealSchensh NBL Perth Wildcats player 268 41 22 51
rustyhinder NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 260 487 27 117
go_saints AFL St. Kilda Saints fansite 259 63 11 161
ausvolley Volleyball Australia Volleyball Australia 256 317 14 9
AdelaideTBirds ANZ Championship Adelaide Thunderbirds 254 143 18 0
NB_Roosters VFL North Ballarat Roosters 253 50 13 16
SusanWCFever ANZ Championship West Coast Fever player 250 114 21 23
sydneybears AIHL Sydney Bears 250 541 5 475
broncobasher NRL Brisbane Broncos unofficial 246 531 7 290
joe_tomane29 NRL Gold Coast Titans player 242 145 5 28
Blueseum AFL Carlton Blues fansite 241 131 13 83
MattAbood Swimming Australia Matt Abood athlete 241 271 24 27
AusComGamesTeam Australian Commonwealth Games Team Australian Commonwealth Games Team organization 236 33 13 39
ccaallward AFL Western Bulldogs player 232 1 27 0
1eyedeel NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 231 1565 15 639
gymaustralia Gymnastics Australia Gymnastics Australia official 227 416 3 11
sashpet Handball Australia Canberra Handball Club player 226 578 8 919
DarrenNg8 NBL Adelaide 36ers player 222 202 17 74
WNBL WNBL WNBL 222 376 28 44
s14_force Super 14 Western Australia Force (Western Force) 218 77 12 2
AUSParalympics Australia Paralympics Australia Paralympics organization 217 152 16 72
catslisch NBL Perth Wildcats 216 134 13 16
jsaffy NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons unofficial 216 9 21 11
BionicSwan AFL Sydney Swans unofficial 215 207 27 20
Mengelsman Swimming Australia Michelle Engelsman athlete 214 784 6 441
Brogsy5 AFL Port Adelaide Power player 213 13 13 34
bulldogsnews NRL Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs unofficial 208 818 8 124
jgovereasy NBL Adelaide 36ers player 208 162 13 222
JoeyDaye AFL Gold Coast Football Club player 206 262 23 101
kennymonk Swimming Australia Kenrick Monk athlete 206 292 7 88
QLD_Maroons Rugby League/State of Origin Queensland Maroons 203 1 4 1
petrinaprice Athletics Australia Petrina Price athlete, high jumper 203 818 11 137
CyclonesHQ Cycling Australia Cyclones 2010 Road World Championships (national team) 200 433 12 236
Saints_FC AFL St. Kilda Saints fansite 192 86 14 8
s14_queensland Super 14 Queensland Reds unofficial 191 86 10 2
NABCup AFL AFL fansite 188 2079 20 217
tigers1908 NRL Balmain Tigers unofficial 188 75 14 7
matesOmelbourne AFL Melbourne Demons unofficial 186 25 13 22
theNSWIS AIS New South Wales Institute of Sport official 184 267 2 324
pattmurphy Swimming Australia Patrick Murphy athlete 182 483 4 99
AustralianOpals Basketball Australia Australian Opals official 181 19 3 465
SydAFLFan AFL Sydney Swans fan account 177 605 8 522
mvfcfanzone A-League Melbourne Victory 174 85 23 148
Marcus__White AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos player 164 33 21 27
hayden_stoeckel Swimming Australia Hayden Stoeckel athlete 162 22 12 38
CF_Demons AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 161 323 7 102
briansham AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial 158 38 16 12
victorytwit A-League Melbourne Victory unofficial 156 586 12 49
CanberraCycling Cycling ACT Canberra Cycling Club organizational website 155 292 6 3
CaulfieldBears SFL Caulfield Bears 148 572 4 235
sydneykings NBL Sydney Kings 146 85 14 60
wceaglesfc AFL West Coast Eagles fansite 145 55 5 55
AIHL AIHL AIHL 143 313 4 33
adelaidefc AFL Adelaide Crows fansite 142 93 5 0
swansreserves AFL Canberra Sydney Swans Reserves 142 1531 8 118
AFL_Aus AFL AFL fansite 140 154 9 0
danjackson9 NBL Wollongong Hawks player 140 258 13 76
AusWomensGame W-League W-League fansite 134 575 9 39
ftscrazy AFL Western Bulldogs fansite 133 316 11 29
ABLeague Australian Baseball League Australian Baseball League official 128 0 6 5
RWBFooty AFL St. Kilda Saints unofficial 127 532 7 78
kateporter83 Australian Rugby Union Wallaroos player 124 166 16 25
Aaron_Cannings NRL Gold Coast Titans unofficial 122 1 15 3
MelissaBreen_ Athletics Australia Melissa Breen athlete 116 187 8 48
BF_Lions AFL Brisbane Lions fansite 115 416 5 46
CatsTM NBL Perth Wildcats 112 93 12 32
Cats_Coach NBL Perth Wildcats 112 59 9 11
fatloaf Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz player 111 755 5 217
thecattery AFL Geelong Cats unofficial 111 227 5 25
CatsWagstaff NBL Perth Wildcats 110 118 7 16
gcbluetongues AIHL Gold Coast Bluetongues 105 693 2 47
WA_U18s U18 National Championships Western Australia U18s team 104 2 3 10
TasU18s U18 National Championships Tasmania U18s team 102 9 3 7
womeninleague NRL NRL 102 25 10 15
LaurenBoden Athletics Australia Lauren Boden athlete 100 111 6 52
SA_U18s U18 National Championships South Australia U18s team 97 2 4 8
SEABL Semi Professional Basketball League Semi Professional Basketball League 95 412 10 28
Sydney_Netball Netball New South Wales Netball New South Wales Organization 93 160 6 64
yellow_n_black AFL Richmond Tigers unofficial 93 1043 9 5
LisaWeightman Athletics Australia Lisa Weightman Marathon runner, Olympian 92 195 10 16
36ers NBL Adelaide 36ers unofficial 90 1 11 16
hawkaDT AFL Hawthorn Hawks fansite 88 12 4 474
mmurpha Volleyball Australia Volleyball SA unofficial 88 74 3 157
QldU18s U18 National Championships Queensland U18s team 87 1 2 5
VicMetroU18s U18 National Championships Victoria U18s team 86 0 5 4
JoshJenkins24 NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 85 1951 8 99
PerthHeat Claxton Shield Barbagallo Perth Heat official 85 186 6 26
SydneyFC A-League Sydney FC 82 1 5 0
demonwiki AFL Melbourne Demons fansite 80 195 2 76
nunawading_sc Swimming Australia Nunawading Swimming Club Swimming club/school 80 215 2 12
CatsTickets NBL Perth Wildcats 78 8 7 7
ACT4GWS AFL Greater Western Sydney 77 201 2 55
BenFitz NBL Adelaide 36ers player 76 72 9 54
VicCountryU18s U18 National Championships Victoria U18s team 76 0 4 5
CatsGear NBL Perth Wildcats 75 91 5 54
NT_U18s U18 National Championships Northern Territory U18s team 75 40 2 16
bendigospirit WNBL Bendio Spirit 75 210 7 55
AlexCarver91 UCI Continental Team (Oceania Region) Team Jayco Skins / Cycling Australia athlete 73 35 5 72
Cats_Media NBL Perth Wildcats 73 75 7 98
NSWACT_Rams U18 National Championships New South Wales U18s team 71 3 3 7
CatmanForever AFL Geelong Cats fansite 70 350 7 6
nthmelbourne AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos fansite 67 27 2 92
CatsCommunity NBL Perth Wildcats 61 81 7 98
willo43 NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 60 2 8 24
ManlyUnited NSW Premier League Manly United 59 473 6 39
SAVEOURDRAGONS NBL South (Melbourne) Dragons unofficial 54 40 3 54
VictoriaParkHC AFL Collingwood Magpies grounds 53 49 2 23
Kegs42 NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 51 99 7 54
AUS_XC Australian Cross Country Ski Team Australian Cross Country Ski Team official 46 60 8 9
hockeypulse AIHL AIHL unofficial 46 185 2 19
hnim AIHL AIHL unofficial 45 37 4 2
fake_EssendonFC AFL Essendon Bombers fansite 44 64 4 80
Chippa39 AFLNT AFLNT official 43 609 0 107
JaycoRangers WNBL Dandenong Jayco Rangers 43 84 7 1
ryannapoleon Swimming Australia Ryan Napoleon athlete 42 13 2 49
ACENetball Brisbane Netball Association ACE Netball Club official 41 21 5 3
PetershamNetbal Netball New South Wales Petersham RUFC Netball Club 41 9 6 13
parraeels NRL Parramatta Eels unofficial 41 4 4 0
bomberblitz AFL Essendon Bombers player 40 117 1 20
nickmarvin NBL Perth Wildcats CEO 40 17 3 10
Orcas_Netball Plenty Valley Netball Association Orcas Netball 39 46 8 2
Vandy21 NBL Gold Coast Blaze player 38 0 8 8
bc8977 AFL Fremantle Dockers unofficial 38 8 8 10
velocanberra Cycling Australia Velo Canberra official 35 49 1 31
Shannon_McCann Athletics Australia Shannon McCann athlete, one hundred meter hurdles 31 129 1 63
BoroughBoy VFL Port Melbourne Borough unofficial 30 0 12 2
canberracyclist Cycling ACT Cycling ACT fansite 21 23 1 150
abcwleague W-League W-League media outlet 20 31 3 15
VFL Williamstown FC WilliamstownFC official 19 2 0 54
jreynojreyno AFL Essendon Bombers player 18 11 1 25
ucniss AIS University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies official 18 67 2 20
ToffCedar NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 17 1 5 39
loganthunder WNBL Logan Thunder 17 3 6 2
cameronwhiting NBL Townsville Crocodiles player 16 2 7 12
SwansPerthCrew AFL Sydney Swans fan group 13 130 3 90
TriathlonTSO Triathlon TriathlonTSO 12 23 1 39
brad_393 NBL Adelaide 36ers player 11 3 3 10
tenniscanberra Tennis Australia Tennis Canberra official 10 153 0 10
perthblitz Gridiron Australia Nationals Perth Blitz 4 10 2 5

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

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 15 September, 2010

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

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

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 15 September, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Which AFL team do Canberrans support in the Grand Final?

Posted by Laura on Wednesday, 15 September, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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