Twitter: 61.25 million followers in total for the 20 LaLiga Santander clubs (October 2017)

The 20 clubs in the 2017-18 LaLiga Santander season have a cumulative total of 61.25 million followers on the social network Twitter, according to data recorded by News Tank Football on 01/10/2017. This result makes LaLiga Santander the second most popular European Top 5 league on Twitter, with an average of 3.06 million followers per club, behind the Premier League (3.15 million).

Real Madrid CF is the most followed club in LaLiga Santander, with 26.46 million followers, an increase of 839,873 (+3.3%) compared to the beginning of September 2017. The club is the only one in Europe to exceed 25 million followers on its main account.

FC Barcelona recorded the second largest increase in followers in Europe (+928,501 followers) in September, behind Manchester United (+1,016,938 followers). Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, which together account for 82.9% of the followers of the LaLiga Santander clubs (only the main account is taken into consideration), have more followers between them than the 58 clubs of Serie A TIM, Ligue 1 Conforama, and Bundesliga put together (50.75 million followers…