Julian Price

Twitter Celebrities and Soccer Stars - Rooney Tweets and Footballers Retweet



Posted: Sunday, May 01, 2011

by Julian Price
http://www.uk-freelance-content-writer.co.uk/

Wayne Rooney on Twitter! The Manchester United and England star striker is just one of a host of football players that have signed up to Twitter. It’s clearly a great way for them to get in touch with their often massive fan base as Rooney amassed over 300,000 followers in just a few days.

Celebrities on Twitter are not a new phenomenon but there does seem to be massive influx of soccer players and sports stars now using the social network to share their thoughts and feelings, often with mixed results.

I suppose like most things, there are pro and cons, especially when you are a figure in the public eye. For some football players, it may be a chance to show the tweeting public a different side to the one that is often portrayed in the tabloid newspapers and by the paparazzi. For others it may another opportunity to get themselves into a bit of hot water, with reckless and badly thought out comments being send out into the public forum.

The early signs for Wayne Rooney are good. To the cynical it could look like a very cleverly thought out PR exercise, especially after the Man United star has had to endure torrid headlines for the past 12 months, but during the his first week of tweeting, Rooney appears to have been very amenable with both sporting friends and others.

However, it appears to be celebrities away from the world of sport that seem to grab the most Twitter followers. For quite some time Britney Spears led the way and at the time of writing has more than 7 million followers. She has been overtaken though, with both Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber boasting more than 9 million followers with Gaga leading by a few hundred thousand.

Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres, Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey complete the current “most followed” top 10 list.

We have to drop down to 26thposition to find our first sports celebrity in the form of basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal with cyclist Lance Armstrong in 49th, extreme sports hero Tony Hawk in 64thand tennis star Serena Williams in 90th.

With more and more football players joining the Twitter ranks though, one wonders how long it will be before a star of the world game can challenge the top twitter celebrities and knock them of their tweeting perch. I am pretty sure an active David Beckham twitter account would challenge the leaders!
Julian has diplomas in freelance journalism (with distinction), copywriting and proofreading. He is also a creative writer and poet who writes both professionally and for pleasure. Julian has written articles for an internet marketing company and although this medium is often restricted by topic, his writing still maintains a unique and often humourous style, with many of his articles achieving good results on search engines. He has found the discipline involved with this kind of work to be a great writing exercise and believes it enhances and improves other areas of his writing. Julian is becoming an established freelance writer and many of his articles here at searchwarp are a showcase of the variety and quality of his work.

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