Who are the Best Athletes to Follow on Twitter?

Out of pure curiosity, I decided to Google search, “who are the best athletes to follow on twitter?”, and I found many results. I clicked the first link since it was the most recent (January 10th, 2013), which brought me to an article titled, “Power Rankings: The Best 100 Athletes to Follow on Twitter.” The article emphasized the top 10 athletes by showing an example of their tweets, then it merely listed the other 90 athletes. One of the first thing I noticed was that under each athlete’s name read the words, “Follow for…”, providing a reason to follow them, which made me think of how different athletes use Twitter in different ways.

For instance, one of the top 10 athletes Chris Kluwe, kicker for the Minnesota Vikings (I know, I didn’t expect that either) said to be followed for “activism, nerdiness, entertainment from an NFL punter,” while Tom Crabtree of the Green Bay Packers said to be followed for “live-tweets when he watches House Hunters.” Jose Conseco is followed for “deep thoughts.” Michael Strahan is followed for “a positive outlook,” and Mike Tyson is followed for being “one of the greatest tweets ever,” and so on and so on. I think it’s interesting that these athletes, whether still active or retired, are able to be categorized as certain type of “tweeters”, helping them reach specific target audiences that other athletes might not connect with. As Twitter continues to grow, it will be interesting to see whether these “top athletes” change or remain the same.

Article: http://www.dme-direct.com/blog/2013/01/10/best-100-athletes-twitter/