http://loopaxles.blogspot.com/2011/07/twitter-tops.htmlSaturday, July 02, 2011Twitter TopsLast October I looked at the who was the Top Figure Skating Tweeps out there:
http://loopaxles.blogspot.com/2010/10/twitter-wars.html With a season now behind us...I decided to take another look to see where things currently stand in the skating "Twitterverse."
Things having changed that much...based on followers at time of post:
#10 Jeremy Abbott (14,125)
#9 Patrick Chan (14,341)
#8 Mirai Nagasu (15,568)
#7 Miki Ando (22,363)
#6 Evgeny Plushenko (22,841)#5 Kristi Yamaguchi (25,464)
#4 Joannie Rochette (26,868)
#3 Evan Lysacek (63,752)
#2 Johnny Weir (95,794)
#1 Kim Yu-Na (356,355)
The results have stayed almost the same accept Miki Ando joined Twitter since then and has made her way to the top 10. Abbott, Chan, and Nagasu held their ground to stay in the top 10 and it was Tanith Belbin who was ousted (she sits 11th). Past Ando the placements are unchanged. There is still an equal balance of men and women. Kristi remains the only "Pro" skater to be in the field. Now, all the skaters are single skaters (with Belbin's exit). And the Queen (Kim) is still queen...in a huge way.
Since things didn't change that much, I decided to look at the numbers in a different way. Rather than looking at # of followers,
I looked at % increase in followers which painted a different story. How do they rank (excpet Ando who I didn't have info on last Oct.) by percent increase of followers?#9 Evan Lysacek + 8%
#8 Patrick Chan + 31%
#7 Kim Yu-Na + 34%
#6 Mirai Nagasu + 34.5%
#5 Johnny Weir + 37%
#4 Jeremy Abbott + 41%
#3 Joannie Rochette + 44%
#2 Kristi Yamaguchi + 66%
#1 Evgeny Plushenko + 91% https://twitter.com/EvgeniPlushenkoWow! The Olympic Champ is struggling! In a more and more socially connected world he was only able to increase his Twitter following by 8%...yikes. The bright-lights of Vancouver are fading
...might explain his recent indication that he may be returning to competition.
I feel like that was a poor quarterly earnings report.
The rest of the field has made nice gains...
but one crushes them all...Plushenko! He's almost doubled his Twitter following. This shows he has a dedicated social core and with his subsequent return to competition I suspect this number will continue to rise as well. Why has Kristi Yamaguchi gained so many followers? Does someone know something I don't?