Twitter is growing strong in Sweden – fast. In the last six months the number of account registered have doubled. There are now approximately 300,000 Swedish accounts on Twitter. The population in Sweden is around 9.4 million, so whilst 3% of the population isn’t a huge stat – the growth is huge.<\/p>\n
With this explosion, Digital-Football.com takes a look at what Swedish football clubs are doing to engage with these early adopters?<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n Of the sixteen teams in Allsvenskan (the Premier League of Sweden), fifteen of these are present on Twitter with a official account. The sixteen clubs in Allsvenskan attract a total of 25,696 followers. Meaning that 8.5% of the Swedish Twitter accounts are now following a football club.<\/p>\n Of these fifteen teams, eight have over 1,000 followers. Eleven of these clubs post more than one (1) tweet per day.<\/p>\n The largest club on Twitter (based on numbers of followers) is AIK (@aikfotboll<\/a>) with a total of 6,453 followers. Second is Djurg\u00e5rdens IF (@DIF_Fotboll<\/a>) with 3,802 followers. AIK and Djurg\u00e5rdens IF are two of the largest football clubs in Sweden based on fan engagement overall<\/a>. The two clubs, both from the nations capital – Stockholm, have together 22 league trophies and 12 cup trophies on the pitch.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n AIK updates there account with news, ticket info, media updates (web-tv etc.), match updates and training updates. Also, they respond to P2P tweets and retweet mentions of the club account -giving there fans a much richer and\u00a0authentic\u00a0experience of following the club. The average number of tweets per day however is still fairly low at 2.78.<\/p>\n Djurg\u00e5rdens IF – updates there account with news, ticket info, media updates (web-tv etc.), match updates and training updates. Compared to AIK they tweet less\u00a0frequently. The average number of tweets per day is 1.64.<\/p>\n However, size isn’t everything and the number of tweets per day should not be the goal. The number of followers (volume) has no value if they are not activated or getting any value back from following.<\/p>\nPresence<\/h3>\n
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