How many more people will now become City fans?

[jrb]

Remember a couple of weeks back when Liverpool fans were all over social media because Liverpool FC has made history by becoming the first Premier League club to amass 10 million subscribers on YouTube.

You won’t see this or the link posted by any Liverpool fans on social media. ;-)

As I keep on pointing out, the Rags and Liverpool fans are all over X/Twitter, especially since the 115 charges surfaced.

Look at City’s overall jump since 2023, 27.5mill!

The 467th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs in the world with the most followers on four social media: Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok.

Number of followers on X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Official accounts, June 2024, million followers.

Clubs with the most followers on social networks - CIES Football Observatory

The 467th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs in the world with the most followers on four social media: Facebook, X, (...)

football-observatory.com

 

[flapjack]

Remember a couple of weeks back when Liverpool fans were all over social media because Liverpool FC has made history by becoming the first Premier League club to amass 10 million subscribers on YouTube.

You won’t see this or the link posted by any Liverpool fans on social media. ;-)

As I keep on pointing out, the Rags and Liverpool fans are all over X/Twitter, especially since the 115 charges surfaced.

Look at City’s overall jump since 2023, 27.5mill!

The 467th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs in the world with the most followers on four social media: Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok.

Number of followers on X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Official accounts, June 2024, million followers.

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Clubs with the most followers on social networks - CIES Football Observatory

The 467th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs in the world with the most followers on four social media: Facebook, X, (...)

football-observatory.com

Not sure where they are getting the X following from, says17.5 million on the account....the Instagram one is the correct

 

[Irlamblue]

My dad was a Wolves supporter from Shropshire. The family moved to the Manchester area in the late 1940s. Over the next ten years Wolves had their greatest era with three league titles and two FA Cups.

He remained a Wolves supporter although he did have a season ticket in the North Stand at City for a couple of years in the mid 1970s before his death.

Wolves were the biggest team of that era along with newcastle. It was only the munich aircrash that catapulted united into number 1 uk household choice

 

[Ourman]

While I was in Marseille there was a taxi driver of Algerian descent who asked me where I was from, I said Manchester, it's easier than the whole conversation about the tiny hamlet in France where I live, he replied "Mahrez" then he shocked me cos he then said " Before that Ali Benarbia" so there's a taxi driver in Marseille who knows us when we were shit!

 

[IOWBlue]

While I was in Marseille there was a taxi driver of Algerian descent who asked me where I was from, I said Manchester, it's easier than the whole conversation about the tiny hamlet in France where I live, he replied "Mahrez" then he shocked me cos he then said " Before that Ali Benarbia" so there's a taxi driver in Marseille who knows us when we were shit!

i lived between Poitiers and Niort. One lad in my hamlet, in his late twenties had never heard of Mohammed Ali.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Remember a couple of weeks back when Liverpool fans were all over social media because Liverpool FC has made history by becoming the first Premier League club to amass 10 million subscribers on YouTube.

You won’t see this or the link posted by any Liverpool fans on social media. ;-)

As I keep on pointing out, the Rags and Liverpool fans are all over X/Twitter, especially since the 115 charges surfaced.

Look at City’s overall jump since 2023, 27.5mill!

The 467th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs in the world with the most followers on four social media: Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok.

Number of followers on X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Official accounts, June 2024, million followers.

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Clubs with the most followers on social networks - CIES Football Observatory

The 467th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs in the world with the most followers on four social media: Facebook, X, (...)

football-observatory.com

If we’d not handed the rag twats the FA Cup they’d have a lot less.

 

[Ourman]

i lived between Poitiers and Niort. One lad in my hamlet, in his late twenties had never heard of Mohammed Ali.

Relatively speaking you're quite close to me, I live near Bellac

 

[citymad]

If we’d not handed the rag twats the FA Cup they’d have a lot less.

I know, it still bugs me too! We handed it to them on an effing plate!

 

[Metalartin]

Not sure where they are getting the X following from, says 17.5 million on the account....the Instagram one is the correct

At a guess, it's probably because there are separate official accounts for different languages.

The order for official English language twitter account followers is:

Real Madrid: 50.8m
Barca: 48.7m
ManUre: 37.7m
Chelsea: 25.6m
Liverpool: 24.4m
Arsenal: 22.3m
Manchester City: 17.5m
PSG: 15m

You can order the CIES figures by platform too. Arsenal's figures are probably the ones making me second guess whether it is just about different language versions. To go from 22.3m to 22.8m, is a pretty small jump, or maybe they they haven't bothered with different language versions much on Twitter?

I wouldn't make too much of the X followers in isolation, as popular as it is. Chelsea definitely aren't bigger than Liverpool or Arsenal and I doubt they are bigger than City anymore overall. It's just one social media platform and social media counts are just one of many metrics you can use to estimate a club's popularity. All we can get is a rough idea of fanbase size, but taking all the different metrics available these days in, it shows how stupid/deluded/ignorant some of the opinions pushed out in the media, about City's fanbase size, are.

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So just for our cretinous haters over at talkSPORT and on the wanna be Twitter journalist sphere, who can't stop lying about which clubs are 'still' (not getting into that again) bigger than City.

English speaking Twitter followers continued:

Spurs: 8.8m
Newcastle: 2.7m
Leeds: 1m
Celtic: 975k
Rangers: 805k

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Loads of Mahrez fanboys on social media when we signed him. I suspect they’d have marketed the European Super League to them for the subscription rates.