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50 Most Influential UK Football Tweeters 50 Most Influential UK Football Tweeters Published: 13 Jun 2017, 07:04
Here at Coral, we’ve unveiled a definitive list of the 50 most influential tweeters in UK football.
To create our list, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Followerwonk and have looked at around 10bn tweets across more than 100m Twitter accounts.
Each influencer has been given a Social Authority score – a 1 to 100-point scale that measures and analyses a tweeter’s influential content (the closer to 100, the better).
The score doesn’t just take into account the number of followers – it also considers the retweet rate of users’ last few hundred tweets and how many years they’ve been on Twitter. Then consider other factors such as engagement rate and average number of tweets per week and you can quickly gauge just how influential someone is when it comes to the beautiful game.
We’ve also excluded corporate accounts and those belonging to current football players. The result? A list of 50 of the most influential tweeters in the world of football.
Think you know who will be included? Check out our list below:
Followers – 26.1K Time on Twitter – 7.79 years Retweets – 5% Social Authority Score – 84
General Editor, ESPN. Published author.
Followers – 34.8K Time on Twitter – 3.53 years Retweets – 0% Social Authority Score – 82
Followers – 34K Time on Twitter – 5.17 years Retweets – 5% Social Authority Score – 82
Followers – 1.08M Time on Twitter – 6.98 years Retweets – 5% Social Authority Score – 82
Followers – 484K Time on Twitter – 1.99 years Retweets – 0% Social Authority Score – 81
YouTube’s biggest and best channel for Manchester United fans. 100% unofficial.
Followers – 148K Time on Twitter – 4.32 years Retweets – 5% Social Authority Score – 81
#LDN. Create one-off pieces of clothing inspired by the icons, moments, fans, stadiums and just about everything that makes the beautiful game.
Followers – 103K Time on Twitter – 7.13 years Retweets – 5% Social Authority Score – 81
Adrian Durham – official talkSPORT account
Followers – 299K Time on Twitter – 6.68 years Retweets – 0% Social Authority Score – 81
Followers – 40.6K Time on Twitter – 6.63 years Retweets – 9% Social Authority Score – 80
Works for FourFourTwo, ESPN, The National, M.E.N, @br_uk , GQ, Sunday Times, BBC, Daily Post et al. Also author of 11 books.
Followers – 96.3K Time on Twitter – 6.49 years Retweets – 5% Social Authority Score – 80
Football and Fußball. All channels.
Followers – 413K Time on Twitter – 7.11 years Retweets – 18% Social Authority Score – 80
Followers – 129K Time on Twitter – 7.54 years Retweets – 6% Social Authority Score – 80
Yorkshire Evenings Post’s chief football writer, covering Leeds United.
Followers – 104K Time on Twitter – 5.59 years Retweets – 0% Social Authority Score – 79
Freelance Press and Agency Photographer in Manchester, UK.
Followers – 133K Time on Twitter – 8.15 years Retweets – 50% Social Authority Score – 79
YouTube video maker and FIFA video producer.
Followers – 696K Time on Twitter – 8.15 years Retweets – 70% Social Authority Score – 78
Arsenal. European football.
Followers – 67.8K Time on Twitter – 7.79 years Retweets – 26.0% Social Authority Score – 78
Followers – 61.7K Time on Twitter – 6.48 years Retweets – 14.0% Social Authority Score – 77
Followers – 149K Time on Twitter – 5.64 years Retweets – 21.0% Social Authority Score – 77
Daily Mirror Chief Football writer and author.
Followers – 259K Time on Twitter – 8.01 years Retweets – 0% Social Authority Score – 85
Football commentator for BT Sport in UK and for USA international games on ESPN in America.
Followers – 133K Time on Twitter – 6.34 years Retweets – 11.5% Social Authority Score – 77
Football writer for The Guardian and Observer.
Followers – 71.4K Time on Twitter – 4.39 years Retweets – 4.0% Social Authority Score – 77
Followers – 25.4K Time on Twitter – 6.30 years Retweets – 4.0% Social Authority Score – 77
Editor/writer for Republik of Mancunia. Writes about Manchester United for @ESPNFC and @FourFourTwo .
Followers – 72.4K Time on Twitter – 8.18 years Retweets – 22.0% Social Authority Score – 76
London Sports Correspondent for @AFP , mainly reporting on English football.
Followers – 39.4K Time on Twitter – 7.38 years Retweets – 2.5% Social Authority Score – 76
Darren Randolph fanboy. Kidnapped Savio Nsereko in Thailand once. Featured on the Wikipedia page for Carlton Cole under “controversies”.
Followers – 29.3K Time on Twitter – 4.82 years Retweets – 10.0% Social Authority Score – 76
Sports Report & Commentator for 25 years.
Followers – 209K Time on Twitter – 7.10 years Retweets – 12.5% Social Authority Score – 76
Followers – 33.9K Time on Twitter – 3.41 years Retweets – 28.6% Social Authority Score – 75
Followers – 8,160 Time on Twitter – 8.25 years Retweets – 17.0% Social Authority Score – 75
The Chronicle’s Chief Sports Writer and NUFC multimedia journo.
Followers – 87.7K Time on Twitter – 8.19 years Retweets – 6.0% Social Authority Score – 74
@ESPNFC football writer and author.
Followers – 93.7K Time on Twitter – 7.43 years Retweets – 20.5% Social Authority Score – 73
Sports communications for work. Also tweets own views on Arsenal’s ownership, finances & governance; custodianship matters:
Followers – 51.1K Time on Twitter – 8.07 years Retweets – 13.0% Social Authority Score – 73
Followers – 170K Time on Twitter – 7.30 years Retweets – 11.5% Social Authority Score – 72
100% Arsenal Game of opinions.
Followers – 81K Time on Twitter – 7.67 years Retweets – 10.0% Social Authority Score – 72
French football expert and consultant based in London.
Followers – 51K Time on Twitter – 6.27 years Retweets – 7.0% Social Authority Score – 72
Chronicler of Misery for The Times (North East football, mainly) and a Patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
Followers – 63.2K Time on Twitter – 7.49 years Retweets – 6% Social Authority Score – 71
Followers – 71.8K Time on Twitter – 8.11 years Retweets – 22.0% Social Authority Score – 70
Followers – 44.4K Time on Twitter – 8.18 years Retweets 19.0% Social Authority Score – 70
Anything and everything related to the beautiful game.
Followers – 5.9K Time on Twitter – 7.33 years Retweets – 12.5% Social Authority Score – 69
Manchester City reporter at the Manchester Evening News.
Followers – 28.8K Time on Twitter – 8.18 years Retweets – 8.5% Social Authority Score – 69
Followers – 49.1K Time on Twitter – 9.31 years Retweets – 38.0% Social Authority Score – 69
Followers – 320K Time on Twitter – 3.43 years Retweets – 21.5% Social Authority Score – 68
Sky Sports News HQ journalist and writer of the Official Tottenham Hotspur Annuals
Followers – 23.3K Time on Twitter – 6.30 years Retweets – 2.0% Social Authority Score – 68
Chelsea FC Torres and JMac.
Followers – 16.4K Time on Twitter – 4.92 years Retweets – 27.1% Social Authority Score – 67
European football writer/ talker for the likes of the BBC, Guardian, BT Sport and @brfootball . Also co-host of European Football Show on @talkSPORT2 .
Followers – 49.3K Time on Twitter – 7.62 years Retweets – 29.5% Social Authority Score – 66
Followers – 30.8K Time on Twitter – 8.49 years Retweets – 10.0% Social Authority Score – 64
Followers – 9.7K Time on Twitter – 7.79 years Retweets – 27.5% Social Authority Score – 62
Followers – 19.4K Time on Twitter – 8.65 years Retweets – 7.0% Social Authority Score – 61
Deputy managing editor at http://Eurosport.co.uk Formerly ESPN, Setanta, Sky Sports. Have written for The Blizzard and others too.
Followers – 18.8K Time on Twitter – 8.12 years Retweets – 19% Social Authority Score – 60
Chief Sports Writer, The Northern Echo
Followers – 21.1K Time on Twitter – 7.49 years Retweets – 1.0% Social Authority Score – 59
A project to build all 92 English league and Scottish Premier League grounds from Lego bricks.
Followers – 10.5K Time on Twitter – 3.20 years Retweets – 23.5% Social Authority Score – 58
50 Most Influential UK Football Tweeters
