Twitter #DeadlineDay trends, tweets

Sport360 staff 16:24 03/02/2015
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    • Unearthed stats: Victor Valdes and Juan Cuadrado both saw their Twitter followings increase by over 100k in January.

    Football’s bi-annual transfer window has become something of a global phenomenon that provokes online debate over rumoured and confirmed bids from around the world. With the window now shut until summer Twitter has correlated the highlights all of their user’s tweets and formatted them into an easily-digestible set of pictures and graphs.

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    Most-Discussed Players:
    Below are the 10 January signings that have generated the highest volume of Tweets:

    And here are 10 rumours that have cause the most speculation on Twitter throughout the January window:


     

    Most-Discussed Clubs:
    The five Premier League clubs that generated the most transfer-related conversation on Twitter throughout January were:

    Greatest Follower Growth:

    The five players who saw the greatest spike in follower numbers on Twitter following their January moves were:

    1) Victor Valdes – Up 145K Followers

    2) Juan Cuadrado – Up 100K Followers

    3) Lukas Podolski – Up 95K Followers

    4) Lucas Silva – Up 55K Followers

    5) Xherdan Shaqiri – Up 52K Followers
     

    On #DeadlineDay Itself

    These heat maps visualise Twitter conversation throughout the 24 hour window of Deadline Day:

    Global View  /  UK View

    The moment that Juan Cuadrado signed for Chelsea saw the greatest peak in conversation throughout #DeadlineDay.

    Great Tweets:

    On #DeadlineDay, Twitter is home to a blend official breaking news, speculation, humour and more. Here are a selection of great moments:

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