Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech hosts Google+ Hangout
Following on from the success of Manchester City’s Google+ Hangout with Patrick Viera two weeks ago, Chelsea FC are the latest club to use the ailing social network as a way to engage with...
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Should Football Chairmen use Twitter to engage with fans?
It’s a bit like knowing your Dad is on Facebook really, you don’t think they should be there and they look a bit out of place, but they’re there. Anyway, it’s a fact of...
Why are Manchester United happy to ignore Twitter?
Poor handling of social media campaigns has seen a number of high profile organisations exposed to viral internet complaints, attracting hundreds of thousands of responses in each case, and causing the company in question...
Arsenal release match day programme on the iPad
Arsenal have taken a huge step for Digital Football with the development of an iPad app for their matchday programme. The app is available in the App Store and the first issue is free...
The FA issues further Social Media warnings to clubs
Less than a week after the Premier League issued Social Media guidelines, it has been revealed that the Football Association of England (The FA) have given member clubs further warnings about “social networking sites”....
Premier League issues Social Media guidelines to clubs
In a breakthrough for Football Social Media in the UK, the Premier League this week issued clubs with Social Media guidelines in order to help protect players and clubs, as well as ensure clubs...
Arsenal use Social Media to welcome new signing Olivier Giroud
The latest addition to Arsenal’s frontline last month was highly rated French striker Olivier Giroud, so to welcome the signing (and capitalise on social media), the North London team launched a #WelcomeOlivier Twitter competition....
Premier League clubs failing to respond to Twitter users
English Premier League clubs are massively failing to respond to their followers tweets according to new data. Mashable recently called the 2011/12 season the “Social Media Season” due to the significant growth and engagement...
Kenny Dalglish sacking generates 3k tweets per minute on Twitter
Twitter exploded yesterday at the news of Kenny Dalglish’s sacking by Liverpool FC. The Liverpool stream on FootyTwits was flooded with football fans commenting the news. Although FootyTwits was not able to record the “incident” at the moment it...
Tunnel Cam: Manchester City celebrate on YouTube
Very recently we blogged about the value and effectiveness of behind the scenes video content for Football Social Media. We also specifically mentioned the excellent work of Manchester City and talked at great length about...
