50 Most Influential UK Football Tweeters
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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:
Italian football writer @beINSPORTSUSA @FourFourTwo @Sport360 & author of ‘Juventus: A History in Black & White’.
- 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
The tweets James Forrest has read to him at bedtime. Jokes in @Daily_Record. Columns for @Glasgow_Live every Monday and Friday.
- Followers – 34K
- Time on Twitter – 5.17 years
- Retweets – 5%
Social Authority Score – 82
Rebel FC and Youtuber.
- 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
@MENNewsdesk and @ManUtdMEN football writer.
- 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
The King in the North.
- 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
Freelance football writer for @Telegraph, @ESPNFC and beyond.
- Followers – 61.7K
- Time on Twitter – 6.48 years
- Retweets – 14.0%
Social Authority Score – 77
Arsenal.
- 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
Football365’s deputy editor. One quarter of @FtblFivesPod.
- 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
Scott Parker enthusiast.
- Followers – 33.9K
- Time on Twitter – 3.41 years
- Retweets – 28.6%
Social Authority Score – 75
Social Media Editor for football.london
- 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
Listen on @talkSPORT weekdays from 6am.
- 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
Football writer, mainly #LFC, for @MirrorFootball, @AnfieldRoad, @5TimesCo & elsewhere.
- Followers – 71.8K
- Time on Twitter – 8.11 years
- Retweets – 22.0%
Social Authority Score – 70
Broadcaster @footballon5 @bbc5liveambassador @StevePrescott1 @josephsgoal
- 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
Guardian head of sport.
- Followers – 49.1K
- Time on Twitter – 9.31 years
- Retweets – 38.0%
Social Authority Score – 69
Sports broadcaster @SkySportsNewsHQ @talkSPORT
- 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
@citysquarelive presenter, Event host, fundraiser, @xsmanchester Football Social host, talking football on YouTube.
- Followers – 30.8K
- Time on Twitter – 8.49 years
- Retweets – 10.0%
Social Authority Score – 64
Sunderland AFC fan, football writer. @TEAMtalk, @FoxSoccer, @FoxSportsAsia, @RokerReport.
- Followers – 9.7K
- Time on Twitter – 7.79 years
- Retweets – 27.5%
Social Authority Score – 62
Football fanatic. All things @PalmersFC
- 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
For more information on how Followerwonk’s Social Authority score works, visit their website: https://moz.com/followerwonk/
