By Paul Nicholson
June 5 – In the last week of the Premier League the Insideworldfootball twitter stats showed Manchester United yet again leading the table of most new followers over the week. Liverpool, who had a desperate end to the season, came in second, followed by Arsenal and Chelsea who were close together.
At the bottom of the new followers table were Burnley, despite brave efforts to change their fortunes by taking things into their own hands with an aggressive final week of Twitter activity. The scale of the gap between the bottom and top club was almost 58,000 new followers
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The scatter graph shows a very high correlation of r = 0.8 between Twitter followers and points at end of the Premier League season. Very clearly more points correlates with more followers. Man City is the one club that bucks the trend, with Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool who fill the top four spots of teams with most followers. Tottenham leads the way for the rest who almost follow a vertical pathway.
New tweets for the week told a different story. Southampton were king of the tweets and no doubt very happy with the results of the following weekend’s FA Cup final result where Arsenal’s win ensured Saints a place in next season’s Europa League, and the opportunity to take the club to a wider football fan base.
West Ham were second and Everton third. Not too surprisingly Newcastle were at the bottom of the table – human misery doesn’t tweet well even if it is more often than not the football fan’s condition – but they did manage to escape the humiliation of relegation. A noisy fan base at matches does not seem to translate to such a noisy fan base on social media.
However the final league table of Twitter Followers shows Arsenal just ahead of Chelsea with Man U a reasonably close and closing third.
Liverpool is some way behind (750,00) followed by Man City and Spurs who are still away ahead of the rest. But Man City is less than half the number of Man Utd who are in third place, and to put that into perspective, Tottenham are less than half of Man City.
Trend charts show just how consistent Man U have been over the last 14 weeks of the PL in gaining the most new followers each week.
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