B1G teams by Twitter followers

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

Just a stupid little study I did. 

Obviously this isn't the best way to judge a fanbase because not everyone uses Twitter.

However, the whole #Footprint thing Delany used as a reason to justify adding Maryland and Rutgers.......Rutgers in particular has some ridiculously low numbers.

Don't pay attention to their follower number in football. It's bunk. I did a Twitter Audit and only 27% of their followers are real. 

 

     Football
Rank Team Followers Account
1. Michigan 352,000 LINK
2. Ohio State 217,000 LINK
3. Wisconsin 134,000 LINK
4. Penn State 131,000 LINK
5. Michigan State 124,000 LINK
6. Iowa 96,000 LINK
7. Minnesota 49,300 LINK
8. Rutgers 43,800 LINK
9. Nebraska 43,400 LINK
  Illinois 43,000 LINK
11. Purdue 39,200 LINK
12. Indiana 23,300 LINK
13. Maryland 16,900 LINK
14. Northwestern 14,400 LINK

 

    Men's Basketball
Rank Team Followers Account
1. Michigan 169,000 LINK
2. Wisconsin 145,000 LINK
3. Michigan State 105,000 LINK
4. Indiana 70,800 LINK
5. Iowa 66,300 LINK
6. Ohio State 57,500 LINK
7. Illinois 57,000 LINK
8. Nebraska 47,200 LINK
9. Maryland 29,400 LINK
10. Purdue 28,400 LINK
11. Minnesota 24,400 LINK
12. Penn State 11,300 LINK
13. Northwestern 7,112 LINK
14. Rutgers 5,336 LINK

 

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Gil From Omaha

November 17th, 2015 at 10:13 PM ^

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Wolverheel

November 17th, 2015 at 9:28 PM ^

"You need to get laid" always makes me laugh. Many people that do get laid are cynical bastards themselves, and most people who use that phrase haven't actually gotten laid or they'd know it doesn't magically make you not make graphs of Twitter followers.

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Wolverine Devotee

November 17th, 2015 at 9:33 PM ^

There's ways to do it. I'm not familiar with it, but you can do it. It's the same way people get a ridiculous subscriber count on YouTube when they have videos that obviously aren't drawing those kinds of numbers based on views.

Jeff Moss, the guy who made up that crap about Harbaugh during the summer, had a 15%(!) audit score. MGoBlog writer Alex Cook pointed it out and that's how I found out that you could buy followers and, in turn, expose fakes.

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DreisbachToHayes

November 17th, 2015 at 9:39 PM ^

I watched a mini-documentary about it once. Interesting actually. It involves low-paid workers in Asia crammed into little apartments that are lined with tables and chairs, one PC each, one old crap phone each, and tons and tons of sim cards. One worker can pump out hundreds of fake profiles per shift. Also uses proprietary software that matches up random photos of real people pulled from the net with fictional believable names, ages, locations, etc. Wish I could provide a link or whatever of what I saw.

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Wolverine Devotee

November 17th, 2015 at 9:42 PM ^

Everyone has fake followers. I have some.

Twitter is littered with porn bots and stuff like that that randomly follow you. 

But a score that bad is a clear case of paying for followers. There aren't 31,000 porn bots following one account.

I was going to do this a week ago and got sidetracked with something else. They had about half of their current total, as I remember. There's no way they doubled in a week or two.

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drjaws

November 17th, 2015 at 9:46 PM ^

This is a fact. Oddly enough, I saw that too. I was pretty stoned but I remember a dude sitting by a dump truck size pile of phones and SIM cards wrapped in rubber bands like stacks of cash.

I find it disturbingly odd that it is a "business." To create fake interwebz people.



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