Super League Twitter

The inspiration for this inaugral blog came from a couple of things: Firstly: This blog that identifies that NFL teams attract, on average, 427 followers per week on Twitter. Secondly: It occured to me yesterday how much I rely on Twitter for following my non-league football team of choice Farsley AFC, and how much of my Rugby League news and gossip I hear from Twitter.

Of course, Twitter is great for the number of different people: fans, journos and others who keep the Rugby League rumour mill doing good business. But I decided to take a look at the official Twitter feeds of Super League clubs. Catalans Dragons are the only Super League team yet to dip their toe into the twitter water.

The chart below shows how Super League clubs are doing out in the Twittersphere:

Leeds Rhinos were the first club on Twitter, shortly before Salford City Reds back in 2008. The Rhinos can also boast the most followers, though Wigan are not that far behind them. Wigan have the most followers per-week, with almost 30 - Warrinton and Leeds are the only other two clubs with figures in the 20s. Most active tweeters are Hull KR with an impressive 76 tweets a week! Huddersfield have only 1.6, but it might be the case that they joined Twitter and didn't do anything with it for a while. It is bad enough that Catalans appear to have no Twitter presence but it is a 'could do better' for the four teams accruing less than 10 followers a week.

It'll be interesting to see how clubs continue to use Twitter over the coming season. I think the Super League Licensing D-Day will be Twitter gold!