Ever wanted to know which sport is the social media king on the internet? After some research I got the results and NBA is killing it online. Being a big baseball fan, I was very surprised to see MLB so low. They need to beef up their social media departments. Originally I was only going to do nba, mlb, nfl then someone on twitter mentioned “what about NHL” which I often don’t include in sports talk just because I’m not that big of a fan of hockey. Anyways, I decided to not only add NHL but other sports.
MLB tweeted me a while ago when I first started noticing the results of each sport and they said it’s not necessary about just @mlb but the ecosystem of MLB throughout the internet. It would take an overwhelming time to figure out every account associated with that sport to determine that actual number, so here is the data I put together.
| Sport | TOTAL | ||
| NBA | 11,115,711 | 3,881,752 | 14,997,463 |
| WWE | 7,494,558 | 834,331 | 8,328,889 |
| UFC | 7,453,275 | 495,114 | 7,948,389 |
| NFL | 4,458,033 | 2,792,068 | 7,250,101 |
| NHL | 2,031,626 | 909,739 | 2,941,365 |
| MLB | 895,130 | 1,717,242 | 2,612,372 |
| Rugby | 1,495,007 | 111,622 | 1,606,629 |
| Soccer | 720,466 | 309,727 | 1,030,193 |
| Tennis | 755,711 | 184,331 | 940,042 |
| Golf | 249,320 | 110,807 | 360,127 |
results are refreshed hourly to stay up-to-date
I got playing around with Google charts api and made a 3d pie chart.
Twitter Sports leaders
Facebook like Sports leaders
3d pie chart of the Facebook like leaders below:
