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Twitter Unveils English Premier League Football Follower Interactive Map

Twitter Unveils English Premier League Football Follower Interactive Map

By NDTV Correspondent | Updated: 22 April 2015 19:07 IST

English Premier League football fans can now check if their clubs are the most followed on Twitter. The social network unveiled an interactive map that shows the density of supporters of EPL clubs by country. Of course this map isn't representative of the total fan base of any club, but only the percentage of supporters who follow their clubs on Twitter.

In a blog post, Twitter wrote, "The map was created by looking at the official Twitter accounts for each team, using their followers as an indicator of allegiance (as opposed to, say, instances in which people mention a team while watching an interesting matchup or talking about a team's rival)."

This means that a large number of fans who aren't on Twitter or don't follow the club's official Twitter account, get excluded. The interactive map also shows you the three most supported clubs on Twitter in any country. The map uses colour blocks to highlight the number of supporters across the world, but the colour cues may not always be accurate.

For example, the map shows that India is dominated by Manchester United supporters but hovering your mouse over the region will show that 26.6 percent of football fans in India support the club. The number doesn't seem so big when you see that Arsenal (23.02 percent) and Liverpool (20.04 percent) are the next most followed clubs in the country.

The map doesn't tell which clubs have the widest following on a global scale but a casual glance hints that Arsenal and Chelsea are the most widely supported clubs on Twitter. The map lets you compare any two clubs' following on the social network so you can go ahead and see if your favourite Premier League team has a global fan following.

United Kingdom, being the home of the English Premier League, gets a feature that no other region does. You can zoom in to the country and see the most supported club on a district by district basis. That reveals an overwhelming majority of Liverpool supporters. Twitter's blog post also attempts to explore why clubs are popular in certain regions and the reasons range from it being from a region to certain high-profile players belonging to the region. You can check out the map here.

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